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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Advilaar" data-source="post: 5999431" data-attributes="member: 6698911">...but would I? Later I would find it harder to challenge them without personally tweaking NPCs and Monsters more than I had before. The power arms race had begun. Slow now, but as the final years would roll on it would get insane. Harsh lesson indeed. But anyways, a DM tends to rant. The Rogue sprinkled one of the 10 vails of dust he found (no, I would never automatically put a curse on that even though it was meta gaming. I had the list of what was in the hoard) on himself. "Wait here and let me see where this leads." the Rouge said. "Wait!" said the Wizard. This portal needs a key to get back. Looking at the magic with read magic, it is a shared portal. "What do you mean by that?" the Druid asked. "It means this portal on this end only goes there. But the destination portal is shared. You need to remember the images to come back to this place. There are other portals other places that lead to where this one goes.", the Wizard noted. Since the Wizard was the only one who could see the images, therefore get them back from the other side, he would go with the rogue. When safe, they would call for the rest. So, both using dust of disappearence, they went through the gate.They appeared in a long large hallway hundreds of feet across and three times as tall. Painted murals were all over the walls depicting dragons of every color eating, breathing, and destroying various horrified beings. At the far end was closed huge double doors simular to the ones that required all the party members to move in the lair. Depicted in the most glorius yet vile manner was that of a 5 headed dragon. "Talk in your mind, Rogue. That is Tiamat. I am no theologean, but I was told it was a dead god.", the Wizard said looking very worried. "So, they grow them 5 headed now? Great.", the Rouge quipped in his mind. "No. Probably not. I think Tiamat is more of a symbol.", the Wizard noted. "Behind us! Against the wall!", the Rogue yelled in his mind. The portal activated and 5 mature adult green dragons stepped through. These dragons wore bracers specially made that glowed a purple-white. they spoke in Draconic as they strode through. Thier mass slightly shaking the ground. The talk in draconic, the Wizard and rogue could kind of understand. They had picked up books in the Flame gaurd library. But hearing it versus mere lists of pronounciations and meanings are two different stories. Something about another dragon's hoard and being envious followed by slaying this dragon followed by "true envy having patience". then laughing. One of the dragons stopped. Something about smelling human. Then started sniffing. Then another mentioning it is probably something he ate. The dragons continued to sander toward the double doors as both the Wizard and the Rogue's heats where about to beat through thier chests! The double doors were opened revealing around 20 dragons no younger than adult with the oldest and tallest holding a huge sceptor that must have been 20 feet long. The 5 did not close the double doors and took thier place in a circle. "Oh this is great!" the Rouge thought in his mind  The largest of the 25 with the sceptor stopped.  "WHO BROUGHT HUMANS INTO THIS UNHOLY OF UNHOLY SANCTUMS!!! HIDING IN THE HALL!! THE INTERLOPERS IN THE HALL SHALL SEE THIER LAST DAYS!" "Crap!", the Wizard was scared. "Through the portal now. I have the images in my head to go back!" They ran through the portal as 6 or 7 came down the extremely wide hallway towards them. Two started casting spells, but the PCs did not hang around to find out what. They were back in the five portal room of the lair with the Druid and the Archer waiting. "Quick, we must destroy this portal! NOW!!", the Wizard yelled. "How?" the Archer asked. "The stones... the stones around this portal must be smashed..." the wizard said frantically! "None of us have hammers...', the Archer noticed. "Then use anything.. only one stone smashed will close it! Quickly before they read the image that will bring them here!!!" "Who are THEM?", the Druid was puzled. The wizard launched an acid bolt at one of the stones and was preparing to cast more. "DO IT!!" With whatever they could find they started banging and battering on one of the stones until one cracked.  "REMOVE IT!" The head of a large old green dragon, a bit bigger than the Taskmaster came through with claws then an arm with a purplish glowing bracer. "NOW! There are MORE like that coming!" the wizard was frantic! The pieces of stone where thrown out of the way.  The portal closed and the Dragon screamed the most horrible bloodculing gurgling warble ever heard. Acid blood splashed from where the portal was and one full arm leg and a head as big as a man fell with a sickening thud.</blockquote>

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