Orhan 4 Day 67 TE 6065

We go to the rescue. Oathar identifies the kidnappers as pawns of house Gugulon. The thugs get captured, and the house guys escape. Oathar spreads some disinformation trying to start a gang war between Gugulon and Alaxatan, and then they all teleport out before the red cloaks arrive.

Orhan 4 Day 68 TE 6065

We get a little note that says, "Please stop bringing drug dealers into the city. -KM"

OK, it's clearly time to get our native guide out of here.

Orhan 4 Day 69 TE 6065

We teleport back to the swamp via the town.

We head out to the southwest over the swamp. Mostly flying. After a couple of hours, Eku thinks their lair is nearby.

We cast our water breathing spells and head down into the swampy tunnel in the ground. As we head down, we find three passages. The passage to the right has an illusionary pile of gold in it. We head to the left. It comes to a cavern. Inside, are illusionary shipwrecks with piles of gold everywhere. Lot's of pointy bits and tripwires.

Alynna finds a trap door under the traps and uses controtions to get herself under there to where it is. She listens at the door and hears nothing. She finds the trap on the trap door. She removes the traps on the trapped trap door. She unlocks the locked trapped trap door. Inside is a store hold of a small ship. There are a number of crates and things. On one side near teh front is a faintly glowing porcelin vase charged with Essense and not cursed. It's trapped. She thinks she diarms the trap. She takes the vase. It glows with a blue dragon motif.

Oathar identifies the vase as a dragon whelpling summoning vase. It also allows the holder to command the whelpling. It also Dispels Essence 100' radius once a day. It's also remotely triggerable. In fact, it goes off and we lose many of our buffs. We retreat for the moment. We hide the vase in a concealced cache up top.

We head back down in and take the center passage this time. Alynna has no time for Unpresense, so scouts ahead. The center passage branches into left and right. There a glow from the left hand passage. We go right instead. Heading further down we eventually come to a seaweed curtin. Imre thinks it's stranglekelp. On the other side of the strangle kelp is a large shark as Alynna finds when she teleports through. She teleports back to us. Haeraan sees a bunch of sharks in tehre with a stone ruin in the center. The sharks seems to be guarding it.

Haeraan long doors right past the whole shark/ghost town filled cavern beyond the second kelp curtain. He pops right back with a tried to teleport into a wall effect. Kyrik does a quick scouting mission into the place and see an altar with a number of shiny objects on it, surrounded by skeletons. Then he teleports back.

We scout some more heading down the other passage. There's a faint light which gets brighter, and it opens into another big cavern. Oathar sees a magical underwater kindom. Everyone else sees an abandoned city of shell-like things. Oathar argues with some mermaids and the like. Haeraan detects a single presense down in one of the shell thingys. Haeraan does a remote mind typing somehow and detects a level 50 gas drake.

Oathar gets rid of the illusions for himself and starts heading down towards the gas drake. Again there's an altar with shiny's on it. And a single coin in the center of the altar. We sense the altar. It has essence-mentalism on the coin. The coin is dispel essense 100' radius, and casts awaken when triggered.

Oathar casts teleport on the coin, it vanishes, takes out his sight, and teleports away to the cache. The drake erupts from beneath the surface of the ground and the battle commences. We fight!

It casts Weapon Alteration on everyone, subtly altering our weapons so that specific skills no longer matter. Haeraan attacks, Alynna attacks, we all attack. Smite smite smite.

Then the dragon bellows and his call echoes throughout the cavern. We worry about what's coming and fight on. Oh wait, another dragon appears! The existing dragon casts again. All of our buffs go down again. Sigh.

We fight on. One dragon goes invisible, and then breathes on us and we have poison issues.

Oathar gets frustrated and starts doing crazy things like pretending to cast mentalism spells and saying "Inform Sulthon N'Shang that one of the targets has left the blast area."

We fight one. Oathar gets aflicted with a fight your evil twin illusion.

They start tag teaming out with one healing and the other fighting. Sadly for them, we do get the upper hand. So the fools retreat. Yes, that's right, a pair of dragons retreated from our might after activating the self-destruct rune on his secret lair. The whole place collapses as we teleport out.