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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JediSoth" data-source="post: 2703492" data-attributes="member: 13882">So this is what happened today on Session 18 of my WLD Campaign:Ovak is a half-orc barbarian (7), Kuaka is a goliath barbarian/cleric (9), Merck is a ranger/order of the bow initiate (9), and Pyiro is a pseudo-dragon rogue (8, replacing a sorcerer killed in the Pyrefaust when the ogre-mage turned into a divine elder fire elemental and immolated all of Region J. 3 players didn't show up, robbing the party of a rogue/warlock, a sorcerer, and a fighter. They had just entered Region K, and hadn't had a chance to heal up.Ovak, Kuaka, and Merck started exploring the area around the underground lake searching for a place to hole up and rest. They were ambushed by a couple of thoqquas which they dispatched quickly. They noticed what appeared to be a sleeping dragon in a swamp area on the far side of the lake. It didn't notice them, so they explored some and took some pot shots at a small house-cat sized dragon-like creature that was flying towards them. This creature turned out to be Pyiro, a potential new ally. He tried to help them find a safe area once they stopped attacking him.About this time, the dragon noticed them and started to fly lazily towards them. The group fled to the southeast and they went into a room covered in copper plates. There were doors on each of the four sides of the room. This is where things got crazy and went downhill, so I'll just sum up. Through the south door of that room there was a short hallway ending in a locked door (this actually led to Region G, G43). Pyiro found the trap easily but failed the disarm roll by 10, setting off the trap. Ovak, Pyiro, and Merck failed their saving throws and were striken permanently insane. Between the rounds of acting normal and babbling incoherently, this is what transpired: Pyiro stung Kuaka, knocking him out. Ovak cut Merck down. She started to chop up Kuaka, but he eventually came to. Merck never stabilized and Ovak wasn't able to stabilize him with heal checks during the few rounds when she wasn't aggressively insane. Merck bled to death. Ovak and Pyiro spent a lot of time alternating between fleeing the caster (the trap) and attacking the nearest creature. All the coming and going aroused the suspicion of the dragon again and he came to put an end to the noisy intruders in his domain.At some point Pyiro attacked the dragon and eventually was crushed and devoured by him. The dragon breathed in the the rooms, melting the flesh off of Kuaka's bones. Ovak, though severly injured attacked the dragon, but was bitten in half and devoured. The dragon's toadies recovered Merck's and Kuaka's bodies and devoured them as well. He added all the trinkets and treasure to his own hoards and lives fat and happy and still the master of his domain.It was the first time I'd ever had a 3rd edition dragon attack a group, and it was immensely satisfying to have him kill a character I haven't liked for the last 6 months (it was WAY over powered, the player immediately produced a Saint Dwarf replacement from the BoED). There's really only one regular player left, so here endeth my WLD campaign.It was worth the money, especially this last session. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />JediSoth</blockquote>

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