Days with a dragon part 2

Back in sandpoint I decided to let the party known that I have access to arcane eye but we would have to teleport back to the site to activate the eye. Trask and I teleported back to the site, I started the arcane eye, and teleported back to sandpoint. The arcane eye worked must better then I had expected. I was able to follow the path that we needed to travel and found the dragon drinking healing potions while sitting on his horde of treasure. Looking around the room I also found columns that looked to have key holes for the keys that apparently disappeared when we teleported out. The arcane eye expired but we also decided that if we can get Trask down to this area then we could be able to directly teleport to the dragon horde to take on the dragon. Takkad, Sabin, Trask teleported back to the site, Takkad placed true seeing on Trask so that he could see in the dark and also be able find anything hidden. We went back into wind walk form and I lead Trask to the dragon horde. It was very tempting to materialize and deplete the dragons stash but it was not right to choose this for Trask and Takkad. Wind walk is such as cool spell I only wish that this was available to wizards. Anyway with the dragon away his/her horde we was able to scout out a little bit before heading back. The trip back to sandpoint was uneventful.

Being back a sandpoint the only thing left to do was spend the time to learn fireball for the next day. But first I had to get the full experience from wind walk. With a little experimentation I have figured out how much altitude is required to transition back to physical form without going splat. On my first attempted I am pretty sure that I had enough altitude to transition back to wind walk form before hitting the ground but no reason to tempt fate, All of the feather fall experimentation helped make this fairly easy to figure out. Play time is over and now it time to get back to the books and ale. After re-reading the fireball spell I have come to accept that in the future this could become a very useful spell. As I set the pen down upon completely the task of learning fireball the realization hit me that fireball is the perfect spell for attacking the despicable village of my youth . My people have been attacking caravans passing near for generations and I bet Takkad’s people would be happy to see them gone. Anyway a decent hot meal, a few drinks, and good nights sleep is all that I need to get ready to take on this dragon.

The next morning we gather ourselves together to teleport to the dragon’s horde. Just before we left Nolin handed me a scroll of locate creature to be used if the dragon is not there. As we appeared in front of the dragon’s horde it was clear to everyone that the dragon is not here, must be out finding food or loking for us. I cast the locate creature to find the dragon but nothing shows up, at the same time Avia is scanning for evil. The rest of the party begins to pick up the magic items off the pile focusing on potions and scrolls as the dragon could use these to heal again. Avia and I continued to scan and scan the area looking for the dragon while there other continued to pick up magical items. Just as I was beginning to wonder if the dragon was not going to show up he/she suddenly became within range of the locate creature. The dragon appeared down one of the side caves and I pointed out to the party the location of the dragon. Trask put up a wall of force over the entrance to that cave just before the dragon cast some type of icy storm, it looks like one of those glass globes that you shake up to make it snow. Good thing the wall was in place. If not for the danger this would have been a cool effect to just sit back with a couple of mugs of Ale watching the ice bounce off the clear wall.

We started to position ourselves and cast the remaining buffs when I noticed that my teleport buddies were on the other side of the middle pillar. I was getting ready to move other to them when the dragon appeared on top of them, so I used dimension door to move both me and Nolin over to the dragon. By the time I was able to move back and send out a fireball Takkad and Kane were able effectively cast dispel magic on the dragon and reduce its defenses. Fireballs by me and Trask plus some excellent hit by Avia and Nolin quickly started piling up the damage on the dragon. The dragon retreated back to where I had located her before so Trask dropped the wall of force as I watch Takkad sprint down towards the dragon, Takkad helled out that he found the dragon so I used my remaining dimension door to move Nolin, Avia, Trask, and my self over to the dragon.  Takkad’s dimensional anchor ensured that the dragon would not be able to repeat that trick again. As Avia moved into range to attack the dragon grabbed her in its mouth but Avia was able to quickly get out of its grasp. From behind me Trask spit out a breath of fire towards the dragon. Not really any affect so I it looked as if resist/protection from fire buff is back on the dragon. I stepped back next to Takkad and let lose a lightning bolt that appeared to be very effective as the dragon cried out in pain. The next moment Avia finished off the dragon.

Standing there after the death of the dragon I felt odd about not being in the middle of melee combat. My armor and my axe were both clean after the battle; it feels a little weird standing outside the threat zone. I went over and assisted in the removal of the head which made me feel a little bit better and at least now my axe and armor are no longer clean. I filled a couple of bottles with white dragon’s blood, labeled them so that I would not mix them up with the red dragon’s blood. On the head I pulled off a few small dragon scales, teeth, and dragon claws. These will go nicely with the ones I already have from the red dragon, at this rate I should have a full set by the time I put my adventuring days behind me.

Nolin has asked me to further enchant his sword into a +2 sword. I will have to trust that I will get my share of the dragon loot, with Nolin and Avia around it shouldn’t be an issue. There is a lot of satisfaction working with fine weapons and making them even better. The great sword is a nice weapon with good balance but I still prefer the feel of the greataxe. I completed the first day of work on enchanting Nolin’s sword. Walked over to the dock area after dinner and just kept walking until I found a comfortable looking rock that would give me a good view of the fish swimming past. They were never close enough to touch but I putted out the Ransuer and quickly had a stack of fish. . I considered using mud to rock to create a well formed chair but decided in the end that that was too domesticated. I took my time and enjoyed the walk back to the shoreline. In the moon light I spotted a ship heading out of Sandpoint and I considered popping over to the ship to see if they would like some fresh fish. But in the end I did not want to put them in a situation where they thought that they would have to defend there ship, I really didn’t want any of them to get hurt. Instead I went over to the city guards and handed out the fresh fish to those poor unfortunate guards. Then back to the tavern for a tankard of Ale.

Another day of working with Nolin’s sword, I wonder if he feels a little lost without his trusty black sword, at least I have a couple of backup weapons including my spare cold-iron greataxe. A simple flip of the coin decided this evening activities will consist of spending time learning a new spell. With so many options I let fate decide what my new spell. On one of the tables in the tavern a group was betting on a simple dice game. I totaled up the dice on one of the rolls which added up to 5. Back in my room with a couple of mugs of ale I used the 5^th book pulled from the bag, opened to the 5^th page of the book and proceeded to find the 5^th spell that I was capable of learn and that I did not already have. Fate must have had a hand in all of this because it was also a 5^th level spell.

I sat back for a minute on the third day after completing the work to enchant Nolins weapon and started wondering what it would take to make a magic weapon have some other minor affect other then shed light. I had to get up and hit something with Nolin’s sword just to check. I am not sure if Nolin would forgive me if butterflies appeared on critical hits. Oh well I can always claim that it was Gorum’s will to influence his favored weapon. If it was up to Gorum I suspect the weapon would more then likely spray blood on anyone near by. Well if I was a god that seems like a good affect for my followers weapons. Maybe some brain bits thrown in for affect.

Now that Nolin has his black sword in possession we are ready to find the way to the runeforge. It has been a few days since I have been back here up here but know the secret to getting the keys we made sure that we only used cantrips this time to get the keys. As we began to climb the stairs three giant earth elementals blocked our way. Luckily for us Avia was wearing of the sihedron star’s and she quickly discovered that they would obey anyone holding showing this sihedron luckily we still had two of them so we were able to get everyone past the earth elementals without expecting any effort.

With the keys each of us took a key to put into the columns in the same room that dragon had been calling home. Some in the party wanted to make sure that they received the right key, I did not really care so I received sloth. In the end turning each key more then once opened a portal. We stepped through the portal. Hopefully there is a way back or lots of food and beer on the other side.