Session 65

=June 17th, 2021 - The Return of Vorag=

The Return of Vorag
Our session began the day after the second Lord’s Accord Council session. The party had gathered supplies and met with Elia in the courtyard of High Lady Silverhand. There, the apparent half-elf transformed into her natural ancient silver dragon form. She expanded and took up the entire courtyard, knocking over bushes and destroying a fountain. The party then clambered up onto her back. They did their best to lodge themselves between her large metal-like scales, holding on for dear life. They could hear the crowds of the city below as the large dragon flew up into the sky and headed northwest towards the Nether Mountains and their dragon summit.

The trip was more nerve wracking than when they rode on the giant Rocs across the province, as at least those birds had lots of fur that was easy to hold onto. They flew high above the cloud layer, and after a few hours around mid-day Elia called out they had company. From the northeast, flying directly towards them, were two large black dragons. Elia roared and tried to circle around as the two black dragons split in the air and circled her. There were two riders clinging to the backs of each of the dragons, and things happened very fast. As one of the dragons flew across the side, he called out,

“It’s you! Where is my book and ring!!”, roared Voraghamanthar, displaying his frightful presence. This happened to be the same black dragon the party ‘assisted’ in the past at Castle Naerytar.

The second dragon was none other than Vorag’s twin, Waervaerendor. While broadsiding Elia, the beast sprayed his acid breath all along her back, drenching the party members in the caustic, melting liquid. Burning with acid, Rachen called out to Elia to get them onto one of the dragons. As Elia flew around Vorag, she twisted and flung some of the party members towards him, with Rachen acrobatically gliding right into one of the cultists members on its back. After slamming into this cultist, Rachen grappled with him until the cultist lost it’s footing. The battle master expertly dodged to the side, and grabbed the cultist by his leg and flung him off the back of the dragon.

Cadmus too had let go and let himself be flung onto the back of the black dragon, but he did not land as gracefully. Instead, the warrior priest cast a gust of wind spell to try and control his fall, which he then blasted at the other cultist on the dragon’s back, knocking the cultist off to plummet to the ground below. Vorag violently performed an aileron roll, causing Cadmus and Rachen to be flung towards the ground.

At the same time, other party members had decided this wasn’t the best place for them, Lachlan jumped off Elia and casted a levitate spell, slowing his plummet. Thia, after shooting some arrows also leapt off Elia, telepathically coordinating with her dragon Maximus to catch her. While the dragon wasn’t quite large and strong enough to carry her fully as a mount (he was also exhausted), he was able to control his descent, making large arcing circles allowing Thia to keep firing as they fell.

Alburt had let go and while falling through the air polymorphed himself into a giant Roc, and tried to catch Cadmus and Rachen, but missed them both! Rufus was the last party member desperately trying to cling to Elia’s back as she grappled with Waervaerendor mid-air.

Lachlan, slowly falling with his levitation spell, concentrated and unleashed a powerful disintegrate spell targeting one of Voraghamanthar’s wing arms. The wing arm evaporated at the joint, causing the whole wing to sever and the large adult dragon to scream in agony. Vorag plummeted from the air uncontrollably in a spin.

Cadmus fell through the trees and landed hard in the ground, making a small crater and causing massive injuries. In addition, his plate armor was damaged beyond use as he lay on the ground gasping for air, severely wounded. Rachen also came plummeting fast through the trees, but luck had it such that his fall was slowed greatly by his backpack getting caught, torn, and shredded to pieces as he slammed into the earth. His belongings were destroyed or scattered across the trees, and he had sustained massive damage, but was alive and breathing staring up at the sky.

Vorag slammed hard into the earth, throwing up a huge cloud of stone and dirt. Diving hard after him was Elia, with her claws out she was going to land forcefully onto the enemy dragon. Rufus yelled as he desperately clung to her scales, but with the ground the quickly approaching and the sight Roc-Alburt swooping down towards them, Rufus let go. Alburt once again failed to catch his party member, and Rufus went hard through the trees into the earth. He could barely breathe and was bruised, but alive. Elia landed on top of Vorag, and immediately latched onto his neck with her massive jaw and ripped out a large portion of the dragon’s throat. Blood and gore sprayed around as Elia roared in victory.

The still flying twin, Waervaerendor, took the opportunity to fly away southwestward, visibly injured but well enough to flee. Thia and Lachlan lastly returned to the ground safely, and the whole group took stock. Although some were massively hurt and would need Cadmus to magically heal them, none had perished. There was still over a day’s flying to the Nether Mountains, but the party would need to heal and rest the remainder of the day.

And that is where the short session ended, it was the two hundred and sixty sixth day since the raid on Greenest.

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