Realms S2E18 Death from Above

The groups plans to start trying to figure out how to deal with Pyriel and the Rime are put on an immediate hold as an enormous Rezarium Dragon now looms ominously above Trevak!

Player Characters Present
Eclipse, Naphako, Keywynn, Kyrealle, Kerrick

Synopsis
The party watches in horror as a strange mechanical dragon flies toward the town. Kyrealle begins casting Leomund’s tiny hut as a safe haven for the coming battle. As the Dragon swoops in blasting the town with a beam of radiant energy, Keywynn quickly assesses the situation, tells her brother Roland she loves him, and uses dimension door to hop on the dragon’s back. Kerrick takes position to fire his crossbow while Naphako and Eclipse wait for their chance to strike without range weapons.

Balancing on the back of this dragon, hundreds of feet in the air, Keywynn see’s steam coming from the dragon and casts destroy water. The dragon quickly begins losing altitude and crashes to the ground now near the party. Eclipse is paralyzed for a moment at the size of the beast while Naphako charges out to hit the dragon. Keywynn blasts it from above and Kerrick fires. Kyrealle maintains her position and the hut, but sends out honkers to channel spells for her.

The dragon’s eyes shift and the radiant damage it was casting switches to fire, it blasts both Naphako and the town. Eclipse seeing others in combat charges in and up the dragons back attempting to stab it, while Keywynn hastily attempts to retreat to the safety of Kyrealle’s tiny hut. Before she can get too far, the dragon asserts its influence, controlling the minds of Kerrick, Naphako and Roland compelling Kerrick to attack the townspeople and Naphako and Roland to attack Keywynn while it burns the buildings of the town.

Both Roland and Naphako attack Keywynn to their horror, Roland unable to break his compulsion continues hitting his sister while Naphako breaks it after seeing the damage she has done to her friend. Eclipse attempts to stab into the dragon, and while the Dragon takes the opportunity to blast the three of them with fire. In penance for her attacks on Keywynn, Naphako calls on her goddess to take all the damage that would have gone to Keywynn keeping them both standing. Keywynn runs to the safety of the bubble, while Eclipse continues to attack the dragon on its back, and Kyrealle continues to attack through honkers. Villagers begin to mob Naphako and Roland and he, still under control of the dragon, runs Naphako through and she collapses to the ground.

Eclipse runs to the dragon's head and stabs it through the eye, but his weapons still not helping. He jumps down and turns his attention to Roland and Naphako instead. The dragon starts attacking the ground under Kyrealle’s tiny hut collapsing and the earth collapses beneath Kyrealle and Keywynn’s feet. Kywynn crawls out and blasts the dragon with fire and Kyrealle drops the bubble attacking directly with Shatter. The shatter seems to break something within the Dragon and the mind-controlling effects are lost. Enraged the dragon once again blasts the battlefield dropping Roland and Kerrick as well.

The battle devolves into confusion as the party tries to keep each other standing through a deluge of the dragons attacks, healing and falling, and occasionally being able to strike as more of the town begins to burn. Gwyndolin begins attacking from her tower, and after a powerful fireball from Keywynn and barrage of magic missiles from Kyrealle the dragon begins to retreat. Near death, it manages to ungracefully fly away returning to its mountain.

The party pulls themselves up out of the snow, all somehow still alive, barely. They decide they must follow it and strike it down before it has a chance to fully heal, though they will need all the time to rest that they can. They decide to talk to the blacksmith, Hektor, to see if he has any tips on fighting or destroying resarium only to find he was destroyed in the initial blast. Naphako, runs to Janice’s home and finds her house untouched though next to a row of devastated homes. Naphako asks to borrow her magical healing teapot to help the town. The party regroups at the Honka Truck ready to rest and give chase.