Episode 166

## Summary

A dragon breathes her dying gasp and destiny, even so far up north, calls for the heroes who may yet save their world.

## Recap

* Boulder, finding herself in the lava before Daggerspine, scrambles up the rock face behind her and launches after Godfrey who's stuck where the dragon's breath will quickly destroy him if left where he is. On her way she also picks up Barkley who's in a similar predicament.
* Lucius overchannels a lightning bolt to strike Daggerspine's claw and tail at once, sculpting around the party. Even if both appendages look fairly damaged, they still haven't technically wounded them enough to retreat. Adamant loses Haste after a claw attack and is stunned. Godfrey finally scatters the party in order to preserve the struggling health of the most hurt among them.
* Boulder once again starts backflipping off Daggerspine's appendages, while Vahlka gets grabbed by the other.
* Lucius and Boulder find themselves in the line of fire when Daggerspine spews magma at them, causing both to take a massive amount of damage as a result shared between them. Boulder collapses, but is able to get back up again because barbarians are great.
* Adamant deals the final blow to the tail and it disappears back into the fiery depths. Vahlka gets tossed into the lava, but is picked up again and healed by Lucius who flies down to retrieve her. Unfortunately, Daggerspine summons her breath weapon once again and knocks Lucius out of dragon form as well as seriously wounding Boulder (with another nat 20 dex save) and Vahlka.
* Godfrey does more time magic, causing everyone to have advantage to attack a claw. Immediately following, Godfrey steps over and hands Vahlka a potion. Vahlka, drinking the potion, makes quick work of the nearest of Daggerspine's claws. Lucius sets up for a quick Wall of Force, summoning Barkley close to the grouped-up party before they're hit with yet another onslaught of fire.
* Everyone just barely gets together for some last-minute healing inside the wall. The last claw emerges, but scrapes helplessly against the surface of the impenetrable barrier between it and the rest of the party. At the end of all the chaos, Godfrey summons a... friend, Loyal, who's another tiefling and very confused why he's even here.
* Lucius drops the Wall of Force while everyone prepares to share damage with what little health they have left. The party endures being pelted with yet another line of magma and survive, somehow. Godfrey pops off, hitting Vahlka with an Eldritch Blast to give her advantage... and slows himself *again*. He tries to cast Crown of Stars anyway and succeeds despite nerfing himself.
* Vahlka cuts down the last claw which causes Daggerspine to roar in pain. She threatens the party and the people who sent them there, rising out of the lava and unfurling her wings.
* The party has a moment to evaluate the situation, but they don't have long. Without a second thought, Vahlka jumps upon the back of Daggerspine followed Lucius and the rest. They all have a moment to react or heal, but Vahlka has the clever thought to send for Skysquad for use of their airship's siege weapons.
* On the back of Daggerspine, Lucius casts Disintegrate in the approximate location of her heart and burns away the thick scale into flesh. Barkley strikes the newly exposed wound and Daggerspine does a barrel roll, forcing Barkley off into the open sky. Thankfully, Lucius thinks quick and casts Featherfall, while Godfrey casts Telekinesis to get her back up onto the dragon's back. Vahlka wails away at her body and neck.
* The airship appears, sending cannonfire to pelt into Daggerspine's heavily wounded body. She strafes to attack the airship as well, doing an exactly equal amount of damage in turn. Vahlka continues to carve chunks of flesh away, but it's Adamant who inevitably deals the killing blow by breaking her colossal spine.
* Daggerspine's corpse begins to descend from the sky. Lucius has to cast Featherfall on the whole of the party as they start to go into freefall. The dragon lands somewhere in a valley, while the Arsonists catch themselves on the side of a mountain. They celebrate, in disbelief and relief.
* Godfrey is introduced to the rest of their friends since he's been separated and, once safely off the cliff, he attempts to explain everything that's happened to him. It's all a bit much for everyone to absorb, however. Thankfully he's aware of the situation with his former patron and has since severed ties ( and also retrieved a document).
* After meeting with Mysa'aor and objecting to him, Godfrey and Tenebrous who also stood in opposition were cast off into the maw of a gigantic beast (an "astral juggernaut"). From there, he was confronted by a strange, extradimensional being of light called the Traveler who wishes to stop the "usurper". Since then, Godfrey has since traveled to multiple locations in order to do the entity's wishes. It was in one of those places that he met Sahar (?). This explanation is enough to satisfy Vahlka's uncertainty.
* Godfrey explains that he was initially headed to the Soulforge to chronicle its existence, while the rest of them explain that they're headed to the same location in order to free the souls trapped in the dragonblades and potentially destroy it if possible.
* The session ends with the mostly complete Arsonist team sitting around in Godfrey's extradimensional room, resting for a moment after an exceedingly long day...

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