Session 3 - The Fight for Dul'Dumar

5/12/16

• A minor temporal disturbance rippled through Abeir-Toril’s crystal sphere in the Prime Material Plane as the laws of the multiverse reached a new balance. This was unnoticed by the player characters. (Pathfinder → 5th Edition D&D)
• Mira and Vurt proceeded out of the flooded chamber into a straight hallway flanked by four doors, with a large door on the opposite end. Notably, torches were lit there. The party approached each door quietly, listening for activity.
• They explored a rotten bedroom, finding nothing of interest.
• They explored a long-abandoned smithy, with signs of a cookfire and rotten meat. Vurt looted some smithing supplies. On the way out of the smithy, Vurt spotted a key on the ground and pocketed it.
• Vurt spotted a pit trap hidden in the center of the hallway, which was easily jumped over by both party members.
• They explored an office, largely containing scraps of parchment. Vurt looted a ledger written in dwarvish, detailing Dol’Dumar’s commerce.
• They explored a supply room, with abandoned mine carts, picks, and other supplies. Vurt spotted a silver ingot, long forgotten beneath a toppled cart.
• The party proceeded to the large door, which opened easily with the key Vurt had found.
• It revealed a dwarven dining hall, with two tables toppled over for cover. A collapsed passage was visible, and a freshly dug tunnel - the kobold nest.
• Vurt spotted a kobold tail briefly behind a table, and motioned it to Mira.
• As Vurt stepped forward, the largest kobold either had ever seen charged into view, wearing an oversized chain shirt and whirling a morningstar above his head. Eadol was soon joined by his hidden companion.
• Nearly felled, but with his ancestor’s strength stirring within, Vurt survived repeated blows as Mira destroyed the kobolds with her eldritch might.
• Vurt and Mira took a short rest, eating rations and drinking from their waterskins.
• They proceeded into the kobold hive, immediately spotting a dead man, impaled on a spear that burst from the ground.
• Using the butt-end of a spear, Vurt led the way, prodding at the ground. This revealed and triggered a crossbow trap.
• A kobold clumsily stumbled out of his den while trying to peek out of a corner. He and his companion were quickly felled.
• The party came upon a tri-fork in the road. An open passage, a passage sealed by an iron gate that had been dragged in, and an open passage that smelled of decay. They took the latter path first, finding a midden heap of kobold excrement, both kobold and human corpses, and a gnome skull with a candle, signifying the unholy symbol of Kurtulmak. Mira knocked it over with a puff of wind and aired out the chamber, while they both searched for signs of the innkeeper’s husband and his locket.
• The party then chose the path barred by the iron gate. It was pushed open after some effort, revealing a white dragon wyrmling. It had many of its white scales ripped off, with smaller red scales embedded into its flesh forcefully. One eye was ice blue, and the other molten red. It was shacked by a series of manacles, and after some deliberation, the party freed him.
• The room contained two glass jars: one with white dragonscales, and the other with red kobold scales. Also in the room were various parchments and notes detailing dragon and kobold anatomy, schematics for a dragon-head-topped staff.
• With the dragon’s attempts to bolt forward assuaged smoothly by Mira, the party proceeded to the final passage, where Kurrikkik, the kobold sorcerer, awaited them standing atop a circular stone table, dragon staff in hand. His eyes shone with blue flame, echoed by the gem centered above his head in the Diadem he wore. It felt as if he were seeing through the party members.
• He raised the staff and immediately rendered the white dragon unconscious. After a flurry of spells, including magic missiles, a shield, and burning hands, Kurrikik fell to the might of Vurt’s axe. His dragon staff was split in two at its top.
• He was promptly decapitated and looted, as is tradition; Mira received a magic scroll, recovered the two pieces of the staff, and prodded two urns on a stone table with Mage Hand. Both contained hatched dragon eggs: one black and green, and the other blue and yellow.
• Vurt was overcome with the urge to put the Diadem atop his head, and Mira was unable to stop him. He noted it read “Hailskorn” in dwarven runes.
• He gained supernatural sight, his new clairvoyance revealing a gem hidden within the gnome skull, the presence of mineral veins deeper in the mines, and most critically, two heartbeats remaining in a hidden cavern in the flooded chamber: one fast, one slow.
• The party proceeded to the flooded chamber, the dragon too weakened to enter the water.
• Just as the party discovered the unconscious body of the innkeeper’s husband, including the locket, a spider descended from below.
• Vurt easily fended its attacks and slew it with a mighty blow, unseaming its abdomen.
• Carrying the unconscious man over his shoulder, the party proceeded outside. Once Vurt crossed the threshold, the power of his Diadem faded.
• There were signs of a fight between the two horses and a dead kobold, with Mira’s horse looking particularly proud.
• The white dragonling surged into the sky, flew around the party once, and bolted toward the Spine of the World to the north.
• The party mounted their horses after securing the innkeeper’s husband, and wheeled their horses toward Respite. There are several hours of daylight remaining.