Dungeons and Dragons: Mythania Campaign: Session 13

 Session 13: The Dragon's Lair

The Party:

lvl 4 Kyle Contairo the Human Fighter

lvl 4 Shavae Oakwood the Elven Bard

lvl 4 Reginald Buford Jameson Jr. Esquire III the Great the Human Cleric

lvl 3 Ronin the Dragonborn Paladin

lvl 3 Juan Juan the Elven Ranger (absent)

lvl 2 Bean the Half-Orc Barbarian (absent)

lvl 2 Sylvain Ellwood the Human Paladin (absent)

Larry the Goat

Fred the Human Servant

Donkey the Shy Talking Pony

Note: Bean and Juan are still on their quests. Sylvain was meditating.

The Red Dragon

    First, the party reported the Demon's Maw's existence to the Queen. Then, she sent them to investigate a supposedly abandoned dragon lair, which was a cave in a mountain. She wanted them to retrieve a flying sword. Upon getting there, Larry refused to go inside a dragon's lair. Fred and Donkey were also told to stay outside. They fought a couple animated armors. They avoided a tripwire. At the end of the tunnel, they ran into a tall suit of armor with wings and a longsword and two dragon statues. The party pushed over the statues. Shavae took one of the wings off of the suit of armor. The wing was heavy and crashed down on top of her. That got the armor's attention. It turned out to be a Helmed Horror. They destroyed it in the end, and Ronin took its armor. The party all got new weapons while searching around. Reginald found a pink bow which he put in his hair, making him absolutely fabulous.

    When Ronin went to grab the flying sword, he saw a (15 ft. in diameter) tunnel. A large creature was coming, shaking the cave, and it was getting increasingly hotter the closer it got. Reginald rushed forward and grabbed the flying sword. The flying sword didn't fight him. The red dragon wormed it's way into the cave and flew across the cave to the other entrance as the party tried to run away. It cut off Reginald and Ronin. Shavae made absolutely horrible attempts to win over the dragon by professing her love for him and asking him to marry her. Luckily, Ronin's bronze dragonborn heritage piqued the dragon's interest. (In Mythania, dragonborns are rare and all known metallic dragons are dead.) 

    In the end, the discovered his name was Bralzrog. He let them keep the stuff they were going to steal in exchange for them helping him get rid of the pesky Demon's Maw cultists that were bothering him. He revealed that there are multiple leaders of the Demon's Maw. The leader who originally approached him was called the Archmage. Bralzrog revealed that the cult was summoning fiends and aberrations from other realms. He also said that they could use his lair as a base provided they don't take anything without his express permission. Then, Bralzrog left to go get a suit of armor he'd had his eyes on to add to his hoard of treasures. They went and got Fred, Donkey, and Larry and brought them in. Apparently, Larry had been gone, searching for some elusive berry.

End of Session

DM's note: The party was ridiculously scared of the dragon, upon his approach (before they ever actually saw him), when they were running and being cut off, and when they were talking to him. I was very satisfied to have put them in a situation that terrified the crap out of them without ever planning to actually kill them. Plus, despite being terrified, the party really enjoyed this session, so that's the best reward I could have gotten.