(G277 03/06/2016 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira)

(G277 03/06/2016 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF, Mira)

DAY 248 (14 Uktar)(November) continued...

We spend the rest of the day in our 'Dragon Proof Cave'.

I spent some time today talking over old adventures with Shump, back when we were on the Sea Wyvern. For lack of anything better to do, the others listened.

The funniest part of the story was when we were on the island that had Fort Greenock on it. We'd split the party and Shump and the people he were with had get back to the ship really quickly. Back then half the crew were gnomes though, with very short legs! So to get them to where they needed to be Shump had to pick two of them up. So he arrived at the battle with a gnome under each arm!

I had thought it was Eriss and Meree, but Shump corrected me, it had been Eriss and Nobby. Meree was already up in the rigging, fighting pirates with the rest of us.

I tell you what, dear reader, I think I would be back fighting pirates, just to get out of the Plane of Shadows.

DAY 249 (15 Uktar)(November) 

In the morning I remembered to check on the dragon again. He was in his lair twiddling with the weave as he so frequently did.

So, we returned to the floating steps and using a sort if Giant Owl shuttle service we got everyone across to the other side of the pit. We startled and were attacked by two Vargouilles (sort of flying skull creatures), but Yli and Drashnag shot them out of the sky pretty promptly.

For some reason, perhaps my current pre-occupation with dragons, and despite all logic and sense being against it I became irrationally convinced there was a red dragon at the bottom of the pit. When the others looked there was nothing though and I realised my foolishness.

Well, anyway, we all made it across and taking the western most bridge we headed for the next craggy tower in the rift.

We entered a room that looked like a library, and certainly a magic one. Books floated about from shelf to shelf and green skull lamps illuminated the area.

I returned to human form and went to look at a book lying on one of the reading tables. I remember thinking to myself, 'I would wager a hundred gold that as soon as I touch this book those skulls will come to life' and I wish I had said that, because as soon as I touched the book the skulls came to life. Needless to say, they attacked us.

Drashnag charged right in, but found they were too high off the ground for him to swat down with his axe so he had to get his bow out.

Basil (who seemed to have become a lot more useful these days!) cast a Wind Wall spell that held back half of the skulls and let is tackle them in two parts.

The skulls were wizards or something though and attacked us with fireballs and magic missiles. Badly singed we retreated back to the entrance and cast our spells from there.

The skulls were quite resistant to magic though, which was a dashed nuisance and add to that the interference of the dragon, magic was becoming rapidly useless to us. Still, I could cast Avoid Planar Effects to help us a bit and I did so.

Basil, who is much more versed in Spell Craft than I, managed to Earthbind one of the skulls and Mr B mauled it while it lay on the ground.

The skulls though, had some sort of defence whereby they projected copies of themselves, so for each skull we saw four or five in total. It was hard to say, basically the library was now full of flaming skulls. We just let rip with everything we had, magic missiles, summoned critters, more Earth Bind spells, arrows, just everything!

The skulls returned more fireballs, which did us a lot of damage. Another one landed on the floor from an Earthbind spell so I swallowed it into the floor with stone shape. Sylvia got one with a Searing Light spell.

Basil summoned some dire bats and Irritator summoned some Giant Fiendish Wasps. They all piled into the battle. With the magic missiles, arrows, fireballs and magical rays flying back and forth as well part of me was thinking, 'This would make a really good fireworks display!'