Stonehell: Ethereal Dragon Hunting

Session 186 was played on 1/16.

Karl, Dwarf 8 (Julia)
Morgana, Mage 8 (Reggie
Joho, Mystic, 7 (Chris)
Koltic, Cleric 6 (NPC)
Biffin, Fighter 7 (NPC)
Aroon, Fighter 4 (NPC)
Jameth, Fighter 4 (NPC)
Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)

Karl creates a set of “dragon hunting hats” for the party in anticipation of going after the ethereal dragon. Koltic spends the week making healing potions.

Heading down through the caves into the lost level, Karl gets himself covered in bubbles while Joho holds onto him with a rope, pulling him along like a balloon. On the way to where the dragon is laired, they run across a troll. Joho uses Karl to swing himself into the fight with it. Thankfully the troll is rather dumb, and alone, and in spite of it’s regenerative powers, they manage to hack it apart and burn the body. They find a nice stash of treasure, including some gems and a fancy fur coat (in need of a cleaning).

Approaching the dragon's lair, the party splits up to come at the dragon from 2 directions. Karl comes in through the upper bridge area, while the rest of the party attacks from the stairs. Koltic blesses the party, protection from evil spells are cast, and Morgana drops invisibility on the squishy members of the party. Biffin drinks his potion of heroism, and Karl inserts his Buttplug of Protection.

The dragon hears Karl, and breathes a weird oily rainbow at him, which hurts and pops the bubbles. Biffin, from behind, hits the dragon with oil. Morgana attempts to Dimension Lock the dragon, but the dragon saves, this time turning to breathe on the rest of the party. More attacks are launched at the dragon, most miss, those that hit don’t do full damage due to the dragon's ethereal nature.

Morgana uses her second Dimensional Lock, and this time the dragon fails. It roars in anger and rather than again breathing on the party, it charges in. (they’re lucky it was a young and stupid dragon, and the dice favored them. Had it breathed for the 3rd time, most of them would have dropped, even if they made their saves.) Once in melee, and vulnerable to the party’s weapons, the dragon was quickly slaughtered, the final blow coming from Karl as he ran up the creature’s back and hacked into its spine.

Sadly the dragon’s hoard was all sitting in the ethereal plane. On the positive side, there was a crack between the ethereal plane and the dungeon where the dragon came through and a silvery fog emanated from. Morgana thought she could work something out to get at the treasure. THe dragon’s body was slaughtered for interesting bits.

Poking around the lair, the party disturbed 4 angry shadows, but they’re quickly destroyed.

Returning home, Morgana spends a week developing a potion of ethereal travel based on the dragon’s bits they came back with. Making a speed run back into the dungeon, Borumar gives Joho his elephant, and Joho takes the potion, and retrieves the treasure.

For reference: https://towerofthearchmage.blogspot.com/2022/01/new-monster-ethereal-dragon.html

Gains: The dragon’s treasure!
Kills: 1 troll, 4 shadows, 1 young ethereal dragon
Losses: