Expedition 125: Vanquish Volkang

## Summary

The party teleports into a dungeon full of necromancers in Centuria get accosted by bandits and finally they slay the dragon.

## Details

The Party gathers in a teleportation circle provide by Uzmir prepared for a creepy but safe trek through a dungeon full of skeletons. The party appears on a platform above a large dark chamber. Our entrance disturbs a skull that ignites with flame and asks in dwarfish if we are visitors. Gonerton says yes and the skull gets exited because visitors become new friends. The skull switches to common and starts inviting its friend's -an army of skeletons- to come greet us. Passion convinces the Skull that we are from the boss and are here to inspect their friend's. with a 26 persuasion passion gets all the skeletons lined up in fireball formation and begins inspecting the skeletons commenting on their crude and nonfunctional weapon. Two more flaming skulls enter the room and Passion announces that we will go and retrieve proper weapons so their friends are equip to better make new friends. the flame skulls agree if two people stay behind. Gonerton and Valorie stay behind while one flame skull leads the the rest of the party out. The two flame skulls decided to turn Valorie and Gonerton into friends and have the skeletons attack the two. only two skeletons hit Valorie before Gonerton and Valerie teleport out. the other group quickly destroy the Skull leading them and we escape the dungeon.

The party gathers outside the dudgeon and we meet Paige Tirdak a goliath man who was sent to lead us to the lair of Volkang. Tirdk gives us each a horse to ride and we make our way past many destroyed towns as we grow closer to the dwarven citadel that Volkang takes residence in. As we benign climbing Mount Iradi and are accosted by bandits. The party is genuinely amused by the concept of being robbed. We ask if they are trying to rob us and they just want us to turn around. We try for a while to convince them that they cant possibly beat us and that we just want to kill the dragon thats terrorizing the country. They say they are the original inhabitance of the land and prefer an honest tyrant like the dragon to the king. Valorie trys to summon an angel to prove our cause as just and they all shoot her. Gonerton empowers Finns hypnotic pattern and all but one of the five bandits who shot Valorie got caught. Bea and ranag run ahead across a bridge to try to get to the dwarves. As Ranag crosses the dwarves destroys the bridge but Ranag jumps to the other side. Valorie mounts Ellue and teleports jumps to the other side of the ambush and mocks the remaining dwarf. Bea knocks one dwarf hidden in a cave out with glort then throws away the swords and decides to use her hands for the next one. The Dwarves surrender and we take their weapons. Passion and valorie then scheme on how to get the dwarves to help disable the defense. We tell Paige Tirdak that we will be using the dwarves to get through the citadel defenses. Tirdak agrees and we part ways.

The dwarves get us pass the bolt throwers that guard the citadel by talking the the guards and convincing them to open the gates. The party leaves the dwarves behind and advance to the throne room where the dragon resides. As we push open the door the dragons breath weapon washes over the party. Bea pushes through sees a dwarf in full palate with a crown and a dragon flying in the air. The party enters the chamber fighting the dwarves with gonerton and Passion staying behind. The dragon decides to go after the squishy wizard first. Gonerton survives the first couple rounds with the dragon as the party knocks out most of the dwarves. The dragon tries to flee as Bea and Ranag focus on it. Passion catches up and lets lose a synaptic static that finish off the dragon and cases a cave in. The party gathers up the dragons loot and takes the crown and armor from the dwarf king. The Dwarves bandits from before ask that w don't say we killed Volkang so that they can hide in the citadel for some time longer the party agrees and we teleport back with dragon body and loot in hand.