The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Fifth

A previous dangling plot hook... I mean, group of people what we interacted with before, contacted us to ask us to go and get a big crystal ball they wanted for their fire-burning device. A crystal that just so happens to be in a dimension maze and guarded by a big dragon, in a kobold cave...

What's in it for us? was our thoughts, and with promises of magic items dancing in our heads we set off. There was one item in particular I've been wanting, and have been expressing this time and again, is a Lifedrinker sword. It sounds nasty, and does indeed deal in necrotic damage, but since I am often taking many hits, being on the front line, this weapon would prove very useful as each death temporarily boosted me up to survive longer.

With that firmly in mind, we set off into said cave, and took on the kobolds, who didn't stand up to be too hard a challenge. For once, I wasn't even hit! Underneath their entrance, we found a small passage to a larger room containing an even larger... DRAGON! Woo! Now that took some fighting, all of us piling on the hurting until we finally managed to defeat it. Now, somehow all these creatures managed to grab some loot before taking us on, and the loot this... a Lifedrinker longsword! (Honest, it really was!) I grabbed it, without even discussing it with the others (although, to be honest, only really I could use it effectively anyway), and while this did change some of my perspective on why we were here, we all continued on for the crystal and into the maze.

The maze consisted of large rooms that moved around, with the rooms being very regular and containing traps, but any similarities to one of them moving pictures was purely intentional. The first one featured such exciting creatures as a rat swarm, some marauders, and even a displacer beast! Battle went on long and hard, but fortunately while we missed the trap, the beasts didn't, which was probably the saving grace.

The next room was more creatures, with two rat rock scorpion swarm thingies which proved to be very nasty indeed. And the fire blasts didn't help either. The paladin actually dropped dead, but this was merely a transitory... er... transition. Those two things gave me the most trouble, but once again we eventually victoried. (Rather amusing that these battles only lasted about a minute, and yet that was us wiped out and taking eight hour rests...)

While we had yet to reach our goal, I feel a cast of Outoftown-eritis and so will not be around to see how they face the final challenges, nor find out what ultimately happens with the crystal.

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