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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 1144358" data-attributes="member: 743">Having fled and left Farlight and Toshiro to die at the hands of the pair of dragons, Bumtin and Rikus regroup with Greyhawk and then head to Greyhawk City, where they get Farlight resurrected. Farlight quickly resurrects Toshiro, and the group gates to Union city to get their newly revived members some arms and armor. Rikus also purchases a dragon bane short sword, in case he finds himself trapped in a dragon's mouth again.While speaking to Derrick Montague, their new arms supplier, they learn about a dragon-slayer who is always looking to find dragons to kill. A meeting is arranged, and the party is shortly united with Sovemil, an elven ranger specialized in hunting dragons and fiends.Five days later their new replacement gear is ready, and they purchase a covered wagon and two mules, in the hopes of luring the dragon into an ambush. They gate to the road and journey forward, but when they see the dragon in the skies hurtling towards them, they know the jig is up as it veers off and starts to circle idly, watching them. Mules are spurred to greater speed, but the beast swoops in and unleashes its hellish breath, turning the wagon and its pulling team to ash in an instant. The prayers to Corellon leave the group unscathed though, and the fight is on!Sovemil rapidly fires several arrows from his large longbow, which is molded out of dragon horn. The first one plunks satisfyingly between two scales, but only manages to put a tiny tear in the jet black necromantic life shield surrounding the dragon. Farlight creates a whirling wall of blades right where the dragon is, but it quickly pulls out of it. It fails to dodge the black bolt of negative energy that he hurls at it though, and the Energy Drain sucks a small portion of the dragon's strength. Rikus charges, and only his first attack strikes the beast's shield, the rest being deflected before they even reach it. Bumtin grants flight to his party members, and takes tot he air himself.The dragon whips around and flies off a short way, having now realized that these are the same foes that fought it earlier. It prepares itself even more for battle, calling upon the magic in its draconic blood to enhance itself. Farlight fires forth a green ray, and encases the creature in a shimmering emerald dimensional anchor, hoping to prevent if from teleporting away for aid. Rikus again moves forward and slashes away large chunks of the dragon's life shield, easily seeing past its shadow images thanks to the True Sight cast upon the group previously by the priest of Corellon. When Sovemil's arrows also strike home, and Bumtin's barrage of three energy drains saps his strength even more, the great beast flexes its powerful wings and hurtles to the North, getting almost 300 yards away before it disappears, invisible. Although the party follows, they cannot catch up to the creature, and are forced to regroup.Sovemil draws an amulet out from inside his shirt, which can be heard to hum faintly in his hands. Concentrating upon it, he draws the party towards the dragon's lair, unerringly tracking it with his amulet of enemy detection. It is a long four hour trek though, and all of their precious spells have faded away, before they reach a tall cliff face. Eighty feet up the wall is a huge cave entrance, and the amulet points to there as being the closest dragon within one mile.As Bumtin starts to cast flight on people, sounds of a deep throaty voice casting a spell can be heard, and the party sees the gnome's eyes glaze over. The next thing out of his mouth is, "Pretty flying man". This is followed by inane laughter, and Farlight is quick to recognize a feeblemind when he sees it.Th group gathers together, and Sovemil's bow sings. Unfortunately he has no  idea where the dragon is, and is only hoping to get lucky with a shot in its general direction. Farlight casts heal on Bumtin, and invisibility purge on himself, but the dragon is apparently out of its range. Again the voice is heard, but this time Bumtin fights off the enchantment, and finishes casting flight on his friends. Rikus downs a potion of True Seeing, and Toshiro heads to the cave entrance.Still hidden and too far from the purge to be revealed, the female dragon yet again attempts to feeblemind the wizard, knowing that to do so will greatly aid their side in the battle. At the very least it will waste a heal spell by the cleric, but once those are gone, it will remove a powerful damage dealer from the fray. She would simply try to hit the priest, but they are notoriously difficult to affect with mental attacks.Farlight flies upward, and Toshiro reaches the entrance to the cave and moves in. As he does, he hears spellcasting directly in front of him and moments later when Rikus attempts to join him, he is rebuffed by an invisible wall of force. Farlight calls forth a miracle from Corellon and destroys it, but not before Toshiro is badly hurt by the weakened but still fearsome male. With the wall dropped, Rikus's true sight reveals the great wyrm, and he charges it, striking deeply into its hide. Sovemil also flies into the cave entrance, and Bumtin teleports himself and Farlight in. The dragon lashes out again, killing Toshiro and wounding Rikus. But a karmic strike from Toshiro also wounds him greatly, and the follow-up attacks from Rikus and Sovemil send the dragon fleeing deeper into its lair.When the party follows into the darkness, they arrive at the entrance of a vast central chamber just in time to see the smaller of the two dragons teleporting away with large piles of treasure. Moments later the larger one also disappears, again with a large portion of its hoard. But not all is taken, and the group begins to explore the chamber, finding great amounts of money and many magic items. Unfortunately, the vast amount of wealth they had hope to find, that which was taken from Toshiro and Farlight's bodies, is nowhere to be found. It appears that all three portable holes have been taken by the dragons.Standing upright in a corner of the room, slightly away from the main hoard, is a full suit of jet black armor. It does not detect as magical, but when Sovemil proclaims, "dibs!" the suit walks towards him and stares him straight in the face. Bumtin, busily shoveling treasure into his portable hole, looks over to the suit of armor and says, "You could help get the treasure."The armor looks at him, looks at the hole, looks back at him, and then starts shoveling treasure into the hole with its two adamantine gauntlets. After it is finished, it leaps down into the hole, and simply looks straight up as the gnome lifts it off the ground.The party, now mildly confused but not overly worried, returns to Greyhawk City to divvy up the treasure. When Bumtin opens the hole, the armor makes a standing leap straight up out of the ten foot deep hole and lands with  aloud clang right next to Bumtin. Toshiro is raised, and the group decides they must travel immediately to the village of Bloodstone if they're going to get there in time to meet the Bandits as they arrive for their tribute in two days' time.</blockquote>

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