20030531 DayDragon1

<H1> Day of the Dragon, Part 1 </H1>
<H2> Roll Call </H2>
<TABLE>
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 <TD> Fingle </TD>
 <TD> 3rd/17th Gnome Cleric/Wizard </TD>
 <TD> Richard Jacobsen </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Grackle </TD>
 <TD> 6th/10th/4th Half-Elf Fighter/Rogue/Templar </TD>
 <TD> Mark Whisler </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Kill'Dar </TD>
 <TD> 17th/3rd Elf Wizard/Fighter </TD>
 <TD> Rick DiRicco </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Borgar </TD>
 <TD> 10th/6rd Dwarf Cleric/Warpriest </TD>
 <TD> Matt Miller </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Prince Donner </TD>
 <TD> 6th/13th/2nd Human Fighter/Wizard/Fatespinner </TD>
 <TD> John Speck </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Travian </TD>
 <TD> 19th Human Paladin </TD>
 <TD> Robert Giedt </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Estus </TD>
 <TD> 17th Human Cleric </TD>
 <TD> Ray Chiang </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Colin </TD>
 <TD> 16th/4th Human Fighter/Hospitaler </TD>
 <TD> Jim Yonemura </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Auric </TD>
 <TD> 13th (20th CL) Wemic Druid </TD>
 <TD> Keith Farrar </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<H2> Session Summary </H2>
Donner announces that the group will take the test together, so Kalfnir says that one dragon will challenge each member of the party, each Pretender must face his challenger twice since one victory might be a fluke. The challenger will have time to prepare for each contest.
<H2> Grackle's Challenge </H2>
Grackle is chosen to face the first challenger, a small red dragon. He presents a riddle: "If cannot give me you can not keep me, if you cannot keep me I have no value." Answer: Word. Grackle blurts out Love. WRONG. That was the challenge of the mind. Next is the challenge of Strength. The party buffs up Grackle with magic items and when he is prepared, a Xorn appears and points at Grackle and grabs him.
He is taken to a cave with a river, the dragon on the other side: "You must find her and save her before others do"
Grackle listens and hears a dragon and dripping water. He searches and finds a concealed opening on the other side of the cavern along with the tunnels the water comes in and out. Using True Seeing, Grackle determines that the dragon is an illusion and there are 2 invisible trolls by the concealed opening.
Grackle goes past the trolls ethereally, and gets to an iron door, and tries to look through it and it takes a couple rounds and he gives up, and then just goes around the door ethereally, he makes a save, and finds himself on WhiteKing1 on a chessboard. He searches the Queen square and finds nothing. He materializes on the square and nothing happens.
He uses True Seeing to see a door hidden by an illusion on the other side of the room. The chessboard fills the room.
Grackle goes ethereal and UNDER the chessboard. He comes up on the other side and goes through the secret door. He fails a save and is Held. The dragon is in this room and says KEEL HER, the rested his head on his claws and smirked. A while later the a voice says "It's done" and the dragon chuckles.
<H2> Travian's Challenge </H2>
Travian goes next and his judge is the bronze dragon. I challenge you to prove the power of your god. A contest of divine power and arcana. Divine magic and arcane spells. His first test is the duel of magic where he and the bronze dragon must use spell or item until one or the other concedes. He says: "I ask you to concede for the best interests of the Kingdom of the West, as well as to reunite the bond between mankind and dragonkind. This reuniting of efforts between our kingdom and the great kingdom of dragons would be of ultimate benefit to both our kind. I ask this in my name, the name of my leader, Donner, and upon the great goodness of my patron mother, Athena." The Bronze ponders, then says, "I concede this test. Now you say that Athena calls upon me to concede for the good of the Westmarch, I say to you that Bahamut calls upon you to leave these lands, for your presence is what causes the troubles between man and dragon. Before your kind came, we ruled these lands." <P> Travian wins the test of religious wisdom and answers the riddle of : "I was born when the world was born, I will live until the world ends, But I never survive 5 weeks." With the answer of "the light of the moon" (which was way too much information, the real answer was "the moon" but the dragon lets him slide.
I challenge you to prove the power of your god. A contest of divine power and arcana. Divine magic and arcane spells. Ten rounds to make the other guy stop.
Bronze dragon flies paladin to chasm with water. Travian one side, dragon other. Travien rolls 19 dragon rolls 16. Travien pleads for the dragon to concede for the good of the Kingdom of the West. The dragon doesn't cast a spell, and it says, "Well, it looks like neither of us cast a spell, we both failed and must move on."
The bronze dragon then begins a lecture about how this land is the land of the dragons and engages the paladin in a theological debate. They roll off on a theological debate, dragon rolls a 15, Travian rolls a 17 and wins.
The test of the mind. A riddle that was something about lasting 5 weeks. Answered light of the moon, dragon told him it was really the moon but he'd let it pass.
<H2> Colin's Challenge </H2>
The next was a huge white. Colin stepped up. Colin's test was to track down and slay a beast. Estus did a divination about Colin's test and was told: "The answer lies below the surface." The dragon summoned a pegasus for Colin to ride to the test. Colin flew to a snowy area. There were some strange creatures walking around the snow. Remembering the divination, Colin activated the boots of etherealness and moved down into a round tunnel through the ice.
Colin found a room with a dead remorhaz. He continued flying down the tunnel until he found a great white worm. He tried for a coup de grace and only succeeded in surprising it and couldn't do the coup de grace. He engaged the worm in battle, and when he was winning the white dragon appeared and cast haste and bull strength on the worm. Colin got hit for 72 in one critical and was down to 5 hp. Colin went ethereal and cast some minor healing spells on himself. The white dragon disappeared when he did this. Colin debated his next action and whether he should use the fireseed arrow that Kill'Dar gave him. Colin died when the worm exploded. Fingle teleported there and Estus did a True Resurrection on Colin.
After being resurrected, the dragon says, you must now answer this riddle: Mouthless fangs that never bite Sparkling spears that never rust
Colin says ice stalactite and they accept that. Grackle rolls his eyes.
<H2> Borgar's Challenge </H2>
Borgar goes next and squares off against Auric. Auric works him over at the waterfall in a spell vs spell contest. Auric then gives Borgar a riddle and Travian figures it out. Auric then says the final test is for Borgar to go defeat the grandmother shadow dragon down in the Underdark.
Auric as judge, decided that Borgar should get some help for the fight and pointed out where a dragonslaying axe was near a nearby tree.
Borgar spelled up and Auric teleported him down to the dragon's lair. Borgar attacked with a fireseed from Oric but didn't penetrate the dragon's SR. There were like 40 shadows. Borgar wades into the shadow dragon, while the shadows try to swarm him, but have trouble hitting him very often. Arik casts a spell or two, purely for defensive purposes against the shadows, one of them is Anti-magic shell. It just so happens that most of the shadow dragon is inside the antimagic shell. Borgar eventually prevails.
<H3> Foes Fought </H3>