September 3, 2005 Session
I forgot to write up a session log for last game.
The PCs camped out, buffed up, and returned to face the wraiths. This time the wraiths had support from a sibbecai archer with an impressive bow. Once again, the magic user was nearly killed - this time on the last round of combat. Fortunately, they got a healing potion to her in time. She then used telekenisis to grab the dead sibbecai’s bow. They then went into the castle and were ambused by a dread wraith sovereign (based off of a magic user they had met last time they were here), a magic user, and the Keep’s former military commander. They managed to break the compulsion on the commander, but he got blasted by a wave of death the next round. The PC warmain broke through an eldertich wall and grappled the magic user and pounded on him. The other two PCs kept the wraith sovereign busy.
The PCs went down to the Ebonring chamber and used its scrying capabilities to look around. They spotted a human looking creature to the south and a black winged humanoid to the north. The diplomatic archer went out and chatted with them. The human looked feral and didn’t seem too sharp, the winged humanoid seemed sharp enough. She then killed the feral human. Thanks to an amazing roll on the archer’s part, boosted with her extremely high diplomacy score, she talked the winged humanoid into coming with her back to the keep, at which point the rest of the party ambushed him and peppered him with compelling questions. They found out that he was working for a shadow dragon who lives in a canyon to the north.
The PCs rested up overnight after using the Ebonring’s powers to seal up the Keep. They identified the sibbecai archer’s bow (they’d been very nervous about using it unidentified). In the early morning a shadow dragon came tearing in with a group of those winged humanoids. The archer and magic user went to the roof and stated blating at them. The warmain sat down in the Ebonring room and watched. They managed to get a few good shots in before retrating into the keep. The dragon summoned a gargantuan nightcrawler into the foyer of the keep and that started eating through walls left and right. The archer and magic user used murder holes and arrow slits to great advantage. The warmain finally game up and started fighting the nightcrawler. He was swallowed for his efforts, but hacked his way out. Once the nightcrawler was dead, the fight was pretty much over - the dragon got trapped in a narrow corridor, had his staff taken away, and was grappled when he shrunk in attempt to escape out a window.