Another week, another victory for the Holy Rollers.
Our goal this session was to explore west of our domain and scout the route to a valuable treasure map that we had from way back. Historically, these types of things are plagued by distractions and various other adventure hooks and we rarely actually make it to where we want to be. This was not that.
The party of June, Cassian, Garth, and Percival struck west through the Dreadwood, missing our mage Sanji and assassin/bounty hunter Zimon. I was not confident in our ability to really engage with anything super tough so we aimed to scout, maybe pick off some smaller lairs, and develop a plan to engage with whatever uber guardian there was to this hoard.
We met some elves and offered them safety at our fire. Cassian healed their ailments and sent them off with a prayer and blessing of Pelor. My insistence that elves aren't people just does not hold water in this campaign that's heavily influenced by Tolkien. DM loves elves so elves are just awesome all the time. I've seen this show before and will adjust play accordingly. They are now uber allies in the battle against Chaos and we're gonna win.
The land near to our target was inhabited by enormous celestial or divine or otherwise blessed feline creatures with long reptilian tails. They guarded an ancient monument to Ehlonna, Lawful goddess of the woodlands and nature, so we felt safe to stage the rest of our activity out of there. The creatures recognized our intention and welcomed us in their way, responding well to Garth's songs and our offerings at the altar there. June even converted to Law, finally.
Our treasure map indicated a central location and a hidden trail or route around it. It bore the lines, "_____ on the mountain, lightning in the air, gold in them hills and it's waiting for me there." June spotted a scorched part on a nearby peak and we narrowed our search to that location. Garth communicated with some of the local critters and found a sealed sekrit door. I suggested that he sing the song, which opened the door, and in we went down the stairs.
We had no details from the map and the DM dropped on us that oh yeah it's a big blue dragon that lives here. Ok great timing. We'll scope it out and fall back with the real party later. We overheard some gnolls planning a revenge raid against elves and figured we could take some beastmen. Charge!
Unfortunately the dragon was leading them in an inspiring speech disguised as a Viking warrior, planning to kill elves and get revenge for you know, something. It was too late to change our minds so we started blasting. The gnolls were cleared out pretty easily by a Seismic Horn (Horn of Blasting) and June's basilisk mask. The dragon was much tougher but we weathered a few breath weapons and were able to put him down after some serious magical buffing from Cassian.
We freed some captive elves who led us further west into the territory of the elven empire. We renewed our relationship with the Emperor, sold off some goods, and took his offer of teleportation home where we start our downtime after about a week. It was a good session, surprisingly successful given our habit of "ooh squirrel" moments in the wilderness. The dice were with us.
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