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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8233158" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Session 37: We Killed a Freakin’ Dragon, Y’all!!</p><p></p><p>Dramatis Personae:</p><p>Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant)/Wizard</p><p>Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore)</p><p>Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge)</p><p>Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger (Horizon Walker)</p><p>Joybell - Forest Gnome Paladin (Oath of the Ancients)</p><p>Thneed - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave)</p><p></p><p>GM - Everyone Else</p><p></p><p></p><p>7 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 98) (immediately after)</p><p></p><p>While we were hanging out in the cavern, Fiona got contacted by Barnett via a sending spell. “The Gellyan got back to Auriqua. Captain says he dropped you off to fight a dragon. Are you okay?”</p><p></p><p>Fiona thought for a moment then responded: “Going to fight a dragon, yes. If you don’t hear from us in the next couple of days, assume the worst.”</p><p></p><p>Before we settled down to rest, we talked to Suutha, the cap of water breathing, about the fight that its previous party had with the dragon. Suutha gave a detailed after-action report that basically boiled down to -- they died quickly and horribly. The two that survived to escape swam through the cenote and found that the water had piranhas in it that were attracted to blood. And the dragon can cast something like an entangle spell, though it seemed more powerful than that and perhaps to be connected to it being his lair.</p><p></p><p>We decided to use a pass without trace spell to try and sneak into the cavern -- having some element of surprise seemed like it would serve us well.</p><p></p><p>We speculated a bit as to whether Tallyxtillon could see through the eyes of the piranhas in the cenote. Someone (maybe Fiona?) remembered some research done on dragons that said that as forest creatures, green dragons can see through the eyes of forest animals, mammals and birds, but not fish.</p><p></p><p>Joybell decided to dismiss Scooby, on the grounds that he would inevitably die to the first poison breath attack and why put him through that. To keep her from being locked down and unable to move, she borrowed Mo’s broom of flying.</p><p></p><p>Mo taught her the command word for the broom (the dwarven word for “dick”).</p><p></p><p>We decided to give Taman the potion of invulnerability, because he’s prone to rushing into things and a little fragile. (Note: Also because John arrived late and we were playing Taman by committee -- we didn’t want him dying on our watch.) We gave Orryk the potion of frost giant strength.</p><p></p><p>Joybell suggested that Mo’s polymorph could be a rescue option -- if anyone got really beat up and said the code word “Banana” Mo could turn them into a giant ape and they’d get a huge supply of hit points.</p><p></p><p>Ssythrov, the lizardman shaman we’d been traveling with for several days at this point, said that he could cast protection from poison on all of us -- some while we were sleeping and the rest as soon as we woke up.</p><p></p><p>Mo, to Ssythrov: When we take this dragon out, how long do you think it’ll take your people to get here to back us up against the kobolds?</p><p>Ssythrov, pointing into the cenote: We won’t be able to get here at all.</p><p></p><p>Thneed and Taman looked at where Ssythrov was pointing and saw that the high water mark on the inside of the cenote was quite a lot higher than the top of this cavern. He told us that the dragon kept the water level exactly where he wanted it to protect the entrance to his cave. If Tallyxtillon dies, the water level will begin to rise to its natural high water mark.</p><p></p><p>Oh.</p><p></p><p>Then we rested for the night. We all took watches, with Joybell and Ssythrov taking the last watch so we could cast spells on people just before waking up and beginning the new day. Joybell cast Aid on everyone at the end of the last watch and then dismissed Scooby with a big hug and a promise that she’d see him again. Ssythrov got half the party with protection from poison.</p><p></p><p></p><p>8 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 99)</p><p></p><p>First thing in the morning, Ssythrov cast protection from poison on the other half of the party. Suutha cast waterbreathing on all of us. And Thneed cast pass without trace.</p><p></p><p>Ssythrov turned into a small lizard and scuttled up and away out the top of the cenote.</p><p></p><p>Then we jumped down into the water and began to swim toward Tallyxtillon’s lair, guided by Suutha’s memory of how to get there.</p><p></p><p>As we were swimming, just before we emerged into the cavern, Mo inspired all of us.</p><p></p><p>We sneaked up out of the water, grateful for the pass without trace, because it didn’t appear that any of them had seen us.</p><p></p><p>There was a ledge near the water that had two winged kobolds on it -- one with leather armor and some weapons at his belt, the other with a wand held lightly in one hand. Looking around the room, we saw another couple of winged kobolds off on the distant other side of the cavern, and a few of the Shield and Steroid kobolds on the ground between the raised “mesa” in the middle of the cavern and the ledge Tallyxtillon was on.</p><p></p><p>Thneed came up out of the water as sneakily as possible and shot one of the winged kobolds that was holding a wand, dropping it. Then she moved to a position near the wall of the cavern. Orryk shot the other winged kobold on the ledge near us - dropping it.</p><p></p><p>Joybell, on the broom of flying, flew out of the water and threw her javelin of lightning at the dragon. The lightning blasted one of the Shield kobolds along the way. Then she turned the broom around and flew back under the water.</p><p></p><p>Mo stepped out of the water and started playing 10 Little Indians on his flute -- as he did so, ten gems from the hoard animated and started flying in a cloud around Tallyxtillon. Then they dove in and attacked, getting many small hits that all added up. Then Mo lay back down in the water.</p><p></p><p>Taman walked out of the water and took a shot at the other wand-carrying winged kobold, far on the other side of the room, then he moved forward and hunkered down behind the “mesa” in the middle of the chamber.</p><p></p><p>They were all, including Tallyxtillon, surprised by our sudden arrrival and just gaped for a second or two.</p><p></p><p>Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the Steroid kobold nearest us and shot him twice, then she went back into the water. Orryk went to the Shield kobold that had been hit by the lightning, and by an acid splash from Fiona, and hit it with the mace of smiting. He dropped the Shield with a follow up punch to the temple. Then Orryk moved into cover behind the mesa with Taman.</p><p></p><p>Joybell flew out of the water and unloaded the wand of magic missile, using all of its charges -- three on each of the two Steroid kobolds in the room.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon flapped his mighty wings, buffeting most of the animated gemstones Mo had created to the ground, and flew into the air toward us.</p><p></p><p>Fiona, in the water, stood up and cast a storm sphere spell centered on Tallyxtillon. He was shaken up by the howling wind blowing within the sphere, then she called out a bolt of lightning that hit him for even more. Then she got back into the water.</p><p></p><p>Mo sent the animated objects after the Steroid kobolds, Tallyxtillon having gone too far for them to follow him immediately. Then he drew a fuzzy object out of his bag of tricks and threw it out into the cave -- a baboon appeared.</p><p></p><p>Taman, concerned about us being too concentrated in a dragon breath formation, shot an arrow through the winged kobold sorcerer on the other side of the room, then moved some distance away from Orryk around the base of the “mesa” -- to spread out and keep out of dragon breath formation. Doing so he noticed some of the Steroids going around the back of the “mesa” to get to us that way and avoid the storm.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon moved right near Joybell and Orryk and breathed a cloud of poison gas that got almost everyone in the party, including those who were trying to hide in the water for safety. Only Taman was out of the area of the dragon breath -- everyone else, including Checkers and the baboon from the bag of tricks were caught in it. Fortunately, the protection from poison spell kept any of us (except Checkers and the baboon, who died horribly) from dropping to the poison gas, even those who were unable to save against the effect of the poison</p><p></p><p>Thneed got a critical hit against the Green Lord, which seemed like a victory.</p><p></p><p>The remaining Shield kobold moved up close to Orryk, which worked out well for us, because Orryk was able to proceed to punch it, doing a stunning strike, with the deathtouch (vampiric) gloves and healed himself up some. Then he moved away from the dragonshield.</p><p></p><p>Joybell, on the broom of flying, flew around to Tallyxtillon’s back and attacked him, trying to find a sensitive spot behind his ear or somewhere. Somewhere less armored than the rest of the dragon. She did her most powerful divine smites with both of her attacks, and getting a critical hit with one of them. (Which reminded her to save her strongest smites for critical hits.)</p><p></p><p>In response, Tallyxtillon smacked her with his tail, but she’d still done a lot more damage to him than he did to her.</p><p></p><p>Fiona sent another lightning bolt from the storm sphere into the dragon and hit him with that. Then Mo got out of the water and moved to a more spread out position before he cast shatter on the Shield and on Tallyxtillon. The Shield dropped. Tallyxtillon took some damage but did not drop.</p><p></p><p>Taman took a shot at the last winged kobold, which had been moving across the cavern toward us. He hit it slightly and it decided to bail out -- leaving the cavern through the U-trap entrance we’d entered and left through the day before.</p><p></p><p>The Green Lord moved away from Joybell, going to attack Fiona. Joybell hit him as he left but couldn’t stop him from biting Fiona and hurting her. But the storm sphere stayed up. Then he tried to claw at her, but both of the claws skittered off her shield spell.</p><p></p><p>Thneed climbed up onto one of the ledges and shot Tallyxtillon from that vantage point, hitting twice. Then she called him a “pot roast”.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon took a tail swipe at Thneed in response but missed.</p><p></p><p>Orryk took on the Steroid kobolds circling around the mesa, hitting one of them twice before Omnath cast a sleep spell on them, knocking one of them out.</p><p></p><p>A puff of smoke came out of the wall of the cavern near Thneed and she became charmed by the dragon for a round -- unable to attack him, but still free to take other actions beneficial to the party.</p><p></p><p>Joybell circled around and got right up in Tallyxtillon’s face and attacked him twice, smiting him both times.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon, in response, flapped his leathery wings, buffeting both Joybell and Fiona to the ground with them, and then flew over toward Mo. Fiona hit him with a lightning bolt from the storm sphere then she cured herself. Mo also healed Fiona, with a powerful healing word. Then he drew his rapier and stabbed the dragon in the face with it.</p><p></p><p>Taman moved and dashed to get into a position where he could shoot the dragon while its attention was on Mo, getting a really good hit.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon bit Mo, not expecting that his Goliath heritage would give him special endurance to shake off the damage from the bite. The poison just woke him up. The two claw attacks both hit, but Mo was able to withstand the damage.</p><p></p><p>Thneed took out one of the Steroids that Orryk was fighting. Orryk punched the one that Omnath had put to sleep, waking him up, then dropped him with his second punch. He’d managed to heal most of the damage he suffered from the dragon breath by punching on the steroids with the deathtouch gloves. Then he moved up onto the mesa.</p><p></p><p>At about that moment, thick ropy vines emerged out of the ground, wrapping up Joybell and Taman. Fiona, fortunately, managed to stay out of the vines.</p><p></p><p>Joybell cast misty step, with the broom still active and between her legs, so she appeared at a point behind Tallyxtillon’s head and stabbed him in that sensitive place she’d found behind his jaw again.</p><p></p><p>Mo slapped himself on the cheeks, healing himself as he did so, then stabbed the dragon in the face again.</p><p></p><p>Taman put his hunters’ mark on the dragon then used the cape of the mountebank to get right up behind him, but was then unable to attack. As soon as Taman appeared, Tallyxtillon flapped his wings, knocking Joybell prone on the broom again, but didn’t fly away anywhere.</p><p></p><p>Tallyxtillon tried to cast a dimension door spell, but Fiona said “Stop that!” and cast counterspell at a high enough level to cancel to spell. When he tried to fly away, Mo, Joybell and Taman all got to take opportunity attacks against him. Only Taman hit, but that hit was enough to drop him!!</p><p></p><p>Orryk, Taman and Joybell immediately moved toward the horde. Mo turned into MOgilla Gorilla and began ripping the dragon’s head off. Omnath waited by the U-trap entrance for kobolds to come in.</p><p></p><p>Of course, any kobold coming in would see a group of people looting the treasure pile and a giant ape ripping the head off their god.</p><p></p><p>The hoard consisted of:</p><p></p><p>A set of dwarven splint armor with a shield and a hammer -- this belonged to one of the members of Suutha’s former party. Mo recognized some of the runes as connecting it to a clan in Tash.</p><p>A mithral chain shirt (+1) [elven chain]</p><p>Potion of Animal Friendship</p><p>Potion of Necrotic Resistance</p><p>Oil of Etherealness</p><p>Driftglobe</p><p>A scroll of Sending</p><p>6 sheets of Dragon Paper</p><p>A Ring of Fire Resistance -- later identify spells would reveal this to actually be a ring of Fire Elemental Command (Orryk)</p><p></p><p>1096 pp</p><p>1936 gp</p><p>16 x 1000 gp gems (5 blue sapphires, 5 star sapphires, and 6 opals)</p><p></p><p>As Orryk, Taman, and Joybell were scooping coins into the bags of holding, Giant Ape Mo finished ripping the head off of Tallxtillon. Then he dragged the body over and shoved it into the U-trap entrance to the cavern as far as it would go. We took a couple of claws and scales off of it as trophies.</p><p></p><p>As this was happening, Taman noticed that the water level was rising, so we took that as our cue to leave. We all swam out through the cenote, with Mo in the lead with the dragon head.</p><p></p><p>The water level was 150 feet below the top of the cenote. Joybell flew up on the broom of flying to the top, then sent it back down to pick up someone else.</p><p></p><p>While the broom was shuttling people up out of the cenote, Joybell sat down on the edge of it and began casting find steed to bring Scooby back. The broom had gotten everyone up and out (except Mo, who, still a giant Ape, clambered up the side of the cenote cave with the head) well before the spell was done. No one was willing to wait for her to finish, so she abandoned the spell.</p><p></p><p>Thneed cast another pass without trace and we proceeded for a while away from the cenote. We hoped to see some lizardpeople so that we could tell them that the dragon was dead, but we saw none. We also didn’t see any kobolds, but that was expected, because kobolds don’t like to go out in the daytime. Also, with the water rising in the cenote, they were soon going to have other problems.</p><p></p><p>We stopped and made camp, with a Tiny Hut to keep us safe. Once safe in the hut, Fiona used sending to check in with Barnett.</p><p></p><p>Fiona: It wasn’t easy, but dragon is dead. We have stuff. We’re taking a rest.</p><p>Barnett: Well done.</p><p></p><p>Joybell put the dwarven armor and hammer into her bag of holding. We’ll return them to the family of the dwarf from Suutha’s former party when we’re in Tash at some point. Then she cast Find Scooby -- once she had Scooby back, they cuddled up together off on the side of the hut and she told him everything that had happened, including that Checkers had died.</p><p></p><p>Mo pulled himself another pet from the Bag of Tricks - getting a tiger. Cool!</p><p></p><p>We ended in the safety and comfort of the tiny hut, with the dragon head just outside of it.</p><p></p><p>Treasure division:</p><p></p><p>4 people get: Three 1000 gp gems</p><p>2 people get: Two 1000 gp gems and 100 pp</p><p></p><p>Everyone also gets:</p><p>149 pp, 3227 gp</p><p></p><p>Leftover for party funds: 2 pp, 5 gp</p><p></p><p>Items:</p><p></p><p>Scroll of Sending (Fiona)</p><p>Drift Globe</p><p>Potion of Necrotic Resistance</p><p>Potion of Animal Friendship (this feels like a Joybell thing)</p><p>Oil of Etherealness</p><p>Ring of Fire Elemental Command (Orryk would probably fight anyone/everyone for this)</p><p>Elven Chain (assuming a DEX of at least 2, this would give AC 16. What's Mo's AC right now?)</p><p>6 sheets of DragonPaper (added by GM in Meetups)(in the bag of holding for party use)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8233158, member: 7016699"] Session 37: We Killed a Freakin’ Dragon, Y’all!! Dramatis Personae: Orryk - Forest Gnome Monk (Way of the Four Elements, variant)/Wizard Mo - Goliath Bard (College of Lore) Fiona - Half-Elf Wizard (Evoker)/Cleric (Knowledge) Taman - Human (variant) Rogue (Inquisitive)/Ranger (Horizon Walker) Joybell - Forest Gnome Paladin (Oath of the Ancients) Thneed - Wood Elf Ranger (Hunter Conclave) GM - Everyone Else 7 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 98) (immediately after) While we were hanging out in the cavern, Fiona got contacted by Barnett via a sending spell. “The Gellyan got back to Auriqua. Captain says he dropped you off to fight a dragon. Are you okay?” Fiona thought for a moment then responded: “Going to fight a dragon, yes. If you don’t hear from us in the next couple of days, assume the worst.” Before we settled down to rest, we talked to Suutha, the cap of water breathing, about the fight that its previous party had with the dragon. Suutha gave a detailed after-action report that basically boiled down to -- they died quickly and horribly. The two that survived to escape swam through the cenote and found that the water had piranhas in it that were attracted to blood. And the dragon can cast something like an entangle spell, though it seemed more powerful than that and perhaps to be connected to it being his lair. We decided to use a pass without trace spell to try and sneak into the cavern -- having some element of surprise seemed like it would serve us well. We speculated a bit as to whether Tallyxtillon could see through the eyes of the piranhas in the cenote. Someone (maybe Fiona?) remembered some research done on dragons that said that as forest creatures, green dragons can see through the eyes of forest animals, mammals and birds, but not fish. Joybell decided to dismiss Scooby, on the grounds that he would inevitably die to the first poison breath attack and why put him through that. To keep her from being locked down and unable to move, she borrowed Mo’s broom of flying. Mo taught her the command word for the broom (the dwarven word for “dick”). We decided to give Taman the potion of invulnerability, because he’s prone to rushing into things and a little fragile. (Note: Also because John arrived late and we were playing Taman by committee -- we didn’t want him dying on our watch.) We gave Orryk the potion of frost giant strength. Joybell suggested that Mo’s polymorph could be a rescue option -- if anyone got really beat up and said the code word “Banana” Mo could turn them into a giant ape and they’d get a huge supply of hit points. Ssythrov, the lizardman shaman we’d been traveling with for several days at this point, said that he could cast protection from poison on all of us -- some while we were sleeping and the rest as soon as we woke up. Mo, to Ssythrov: When we take this dragon out, how long do you think it’ll take your people to get here to back us up against the kobolds? Ssythrov, pointing into the cenote: We won’t be able to get here at all. Thneed and Taman looked at where Ssythrov was pointing and saw that the high water mark on the inside of the cenote was quite a lot higher than the top of this cavern. He told us that the dragon kept the water level exactly where he wanted it to protect the entrance to his cave. If Tallyxtillon dies, the water level will begin to rise to its natural high water mark. Oh. Then we rested for the night. We all took watches, with Joybell and Ssythrov taking the last watch so we could cast spells on people just before waking up and beginning the new day. Joybell cast Aid on everyone at the end of the last watch and then dismissed Scooby with a big hug and a promise that she’d see him again. Ssythrov got half the party with protection from poison. 8 Harfastin 748 (Campaign day 99) First thing in the morning, Ssythrov cast protection from poison on the other half of the party. Suutha cast waterbreathing on all of us. And Thneed cast pass without trace. Ssythrov turned into a small lizard and scuttled up and away out the top of the cenote. Then we jumped down into the water and began to swim toward Tallyxtillon’s lair, guided by Suutha’s memory of how to get there. As we were swimming, just before we emerged into the cavern, Mo inspired all of us. We sneaked up out of the water, grateful for the pass without trace, because it didn’t appear that any of them had seen us. There was a ledge near the water that had two winged kobolds on it -- one with leather armor and some weapons at his belt, the other with a wand held lightly in one hand. Looking around the room, we saw another couple of winged kobolds off on the distant other side of the cavern, and a few of the Shield and Steroid kobolds on the ground between the raised “mesa” in the middle of the cavern and the ledge Tallyxtillon was on. Thneed came up out of the water as sneakily as possible and shot one of the winged kobolds that was holding a wand, dropping it. Then she moved to a position near the wall of the cavern. Orryk shot the other winged kobold on the ledge near us - dropping it. Joybell, on the broom of flying, flew out of the water and threw her javelin of lightning at the dragon. The lightning blasted one of the Shield kobolds along the way. Then she turned the broom around and flew back under the water. Mo stepped out of the water and started playing 10 Little Indians on his flute -- as he did so, ten gems from the hoard animated and started flying in a cloud around Tallyxtillon. Then they dove in and attacked, getting many small hits that all added up. Then Mo lay back down in the water. Taman walked out of the water and took a shot at the other wand-carrying winged kobold, far on the other side of the room, then he moved forward and hunkered down behind the “mesa” in the middle of the chamber. They were all, including Tallyxtillon, surprised by our sudden arrrival and just gaped for a second or two. Thneed moved her hunter’s mark to the Steroid kobold nearest us and shot him twice, then she went back into the water. Orryk went to the Shield kobold that had been hit by the lightning, and by an acid splash from Fiona, and hit it with the mace of smiting. He dropped the Shield with a follow up punch to the temple. Then Orryk moved into cover behind the mesa with Taman. Joybell flew out of the water and unloaded the wand of magic missile, using all of its charges -- three on each of the two Steroid kobolds in the room. Tallyxtillon flapped his mighty wings, buffeting most of the animated gemstones Mo had created to the ground, and flew into the air toward us. Fiona, in the water, stood up and cast a storm sphere spell centered on Tallyxtillon. He was shaken up by the howling wind blowing within the sphere, then she called out a bolt of lightning that hit him for even more. Then she got back into the water. Mo sent the animated objects after the Steroid kobolds, Tallyxtillon having gone too far for them to follow him immediately. Then he drew a fuzzy object out of his bag of tricks and threw it out into the cave -- a baboon appeared. Taman, concerned about us being too concentrated in a dragon breath formation, shot an arrow through the winged kobold sorcerer on the other side of the room, then moved some distance away from Orryk around the base of the “mesa” -- to spread out and keep out of dragon breath formation. Doing so he noticed some of the Steroids going around the back of the “mesa” to get to us that way and avoid the storm. Tallyxtillon moved right near Joybell and Orryk and breathed a cloud of poison gas that got almost everyone in the party, including those who were trying to hide in the water for safety. Only Taman was out of the area of the dragon breath -- everyone else, including Checkers and the baboon from the bag of tricks were caught in it. Fortunately, the protection from poison spell kept any of us (except Checkers and the baboon, who died horribly) from dropping to the poison gas, even those who were unable to save against the effect of the poison Thneed got a critical hit against the Green Lord, which seemed like a victory. The remaining Shield kobold moved up close to Orryk, which worked out well for us, because Orryk was able to proceed to punch it, doing a stunning strike, with the deathtouch (vampiric) gloves and healed himself up some. Then he moved away from the dragonshield. Joybell, on the broom of flying, flew around to Tallyxtillon’s back and attacked him, trying to find a sensitive spot behind his ear or somewhere. Somewhere less armored than the rest of the dragon. She did her most powerful divine smites with both of her attacks, and getting a critical hit with one of them. (Which reminded her to save her strongest smites for critical hits.) In response, Tallyxtillon smacked her with his tail, but she’d still done a lot more damage to him than he did to her. Fiona sent another lightning bolt from the storm sphere into the dragon and hit him with that. Then Mo got out of the water and moved to a more spread out position before he cast shatter on the Shield and on Tallyxtillon. The Shield dropped. Tallyxtillon took some damage but did not drop. Taman took a shot at the last winged kobold, which had been moving across the cavern toward us. He hit it slightly and it decided to bail out -- leaving the cavern through the U-trap entrance we’d entered and left through the day before. The Green Lord moved away from Joybell, going to attack Fiona. Joybell hit him as he left but couldn’t stop him from biting Fiona and hurting her. But the storm sphere stayed up. Then he tried to claw at her, but both of the claws skittered off her shield spell. Thneed climbed up onto one of the ledges and shot Tallyxtillon from that vantage point, hitting twice. Then she called him a “pot roast”. Tallyxtillon took a tail swipe at Thneed in response but missed. Orryk took on the Steroid kobolds circling around the mesa, hitting one of them twice before Omnath cast a sleep spell on them, knocking one of them out. A puff of smoke came out of the wall of the cavern near Thneed and she became charmed by the dragon for a round -- unable to attack him, but still free to take other actions beneficial to the party. Joybell circled around and got right up in Tallyxtillon’s face and attacked him twice, smiting him both times. Tallyxtillon, in response, flapped his leathery wings, buffeting both Joybell and Fiona to the ground with them, and then flew over toward Mo. Fiona hit him with a lightning bolt from the storm sphere then she cured herself. Mo also healed Fiona, with a powerful healing word. Then he drew his rapier and stabbed the dragon in the face with it. Taman moved and dashed to get into a position where he could shoot the dragon while its attention was on Mo, getting a really good hit. Tallyxtillon bit Mo, not expecting that his Goliath heritage would give him special endurance to shake off the damage from the bite. The poison just woke him up. The two claw attacks both hit, but Mo was able to withstand the damage. Thneed took out one of the Steroids that Orryk was fighting. Orryk punched the one that Omnath had put to sleep, waking him up, then dropped him with his second punch. He’d managed to heal most of the damage he suffered from the dragon breath by punching on the steroids with the deathtouch gloves. Then he moved up onto the mesa. At about that moment, thick ropy vines emerged out of the ground, wrapping up Joybell and Taman. Fiona, fortunately, managed to stay out of the vines. Joybell cast misty step, with the broom still active and between her legs, so she appeared at a point behind Tallyxtillon’s head and stabbed him in that sensitive place she’d found behind his jaw again. Mo slapped himself on the cheeks, healing himself as he did so, then stabbed the dragon in the face again. Taman put his hunters’ mark on the dragon then used the cape of the mountebank to get right up behind him, but was then unable to attack. As soon as Taman appeared, Tallyxtillon flapped his wings, knocking Joybell prone on the broom again, but didn’t fly away anywhere. Tallyxtillon tried to cast a dimension door spell, but Fiona said “Stop that!” and cast counterspell at a high enough level to cancel to spell. When he tried to fly away, Mo, Joybell and Taman all got to take opportunity attacks against him. Only Taman hit, but that hit was enough to drop him!! Orryk, Taman and Joybell immediately moved toward the horde. Mo turned into MOgilla Gorilla and began ripping the dragon’s head off. Omnath waited by the U-trap entrance for kobolds to come in. Of course, any kobold coming in would see a group of people looting the treasure pile and a giant ape ripping the head off their god. The hoard consisted of: A set of dwarven splint armor with a shield and a hammer -- this belonged to one of the members of Suutha’s former party. Mo recognized some of the runes as connecting it to a clan in Tash. A mithral chain shirt (+1) [elven chain] Potion of Animal Friendship Potion of Necrotic Resistance Oil of Etherealness Driftglobe A scroll of Sending 6 sheets of Dragon Paper A Ring of Fire Resistance -- later identify spells would reveal this to actually be a ring of Fire Elemental Command (Orryk) 1096 pp 1936 gp 16 x 1000 gp gems (5 blue sapphires, 5 star sapphires, and 6 opals) As Orryk, Taman, and Joybell were scooping coins into the bags of holding, Giant Ape Mo finished ripping the head off of Tallxtillon. Then he dragged the body over and shoved it into the U-trap entrance to the cavern as far as it would go. We took a couple of claws and scales off of it as trophies. As this was happening, Taman noticed that the water level was rising, so we took that as our cue to leave. We all swam out through the cenote, with Mo in the lead with the dragon head. The water level was 150 feet below the top of the cenote. Joybell flew up on the broom of flying to the top, then sent it back down to pick up someone else. While the broom was shuttling people up out of the cenote, Joybell sat down on the edge of it and began casting find steed to bring Scooby back. The broom had gotten everyone up and out (except Mo, who, still a giant Ape, clambered up the side of the cenote cave with the head) well before the spell was done. No one was willing to wait for her to finish, so she abandoned the spell. Thneed cast another pass without trace and we proceeded for a while away from the cenote. We hoped to see some lizardpeople so that we could tell them that the dragon was dead, but we saw none. We also didn’t see any kobolds, but that was expected, because kobolds don’t like to go out in the daytime. Also, with the water rising in the cenote, they were soon going to have other problems. We stopped and made camp, with a Tiny Hut to keep us safe. Once safe in the hut, Fiona used sending to check in with Barnett. Fiona: It wasn’t easy, but dragon is dead. We have stuff. We’re taking a rest. Barnett: Well done. Joybell put the dwarven armor and hammer into her bag of holding. We’ll return them to the family of the dwarf from Suutha’s former party when we’re in Tash at some point. Then she cast Find Scooby -- once she had Scooby back, they cuddled up together off on the side of the hut and she told him everything that had happened, including that Checkers had died. Mo pulled himself another pet from the Bag of Tricks - getting a tiger. Cool! We ended in the safety and comfort of the tiny hut, with the dragon head just outside of it. Treasure division: 4 people get: Three 1000 gp gems 2 people get: Two 1000 gp gems and 100 pp Everyone also gets: 149 pp, 3227 gp Leftover for party funds: 2 pp, 5 gp Items: Scroll of Sending (Fiona) Drift Globe Potion of Necrotic Resistance Potion of Animal Friendship (this feels like a Joybell thing) Oil of Etherealness Ring of Fire Elemental Command (Orryk would probably fight anyone/everyone for this) Elven Chain (assuming a DEX of at least 2, this would give AC 16. What's Mo's AC right now?) 6 sheets of DragonPaper (added by GM in Meetups)(in the bag of holding for party use) [/QUOTE]
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