Joined by Shieldbiter the Dragonborn, the group fight down to the next level, reaching the door to the Therassic Library.
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22-Oct Journal]
Summary:
- An ally Dragonborn "Shieldbiter" gets sent by his Dragon Gods to assist us in freeing the two dragons
- Free Econtredor and Sulaminga
- Kill 2 Lamia
- Kill 2 Trolls Hurek and Durek
- Defeat Giant (it runs away on very low health)
- Fight 4 stone giants. Kill 1 and the other eventually flee.
- Kill Fat Giant in the psychic attack room
- Slip past Stone Golem guard because all of group is as tall as Giants (Clank hidden behind Q).
- Kill the 4 Iron zombies and the Headless Lord.
- Kill ForgeFiend.
- Affected by Calm Emotion spell by Great Library doors. Go take a short rest.
Journal
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I was somewhat surprised by the sudden appearance of a Dragonborn, who appeared to be surprised by his own appearance (still holding a mug of ale).
We challenge him and he identifies himself as a friend, nicknamed Shieldbiter, send by his Dragon Gods to assist and free the mentally enslaved dragons. I decide to watch him carefully but as we are outnumbered, any assistance, however unexpected, is currently welcome.
Koriah, Yukiko, and Conna are able to hold off the Stone Giants in a narrow pass, allowing the rest of us to concentrate on the mind controlled dragons and the Lamia.
Before being engaged by the Stone Giants, Yukiko managed to cast Dispel Magic on one of the Dragons, Econtredor, and he is mentally freed. Shieldbiter shouts to the Dragon and he decides to assist us while he gets revenge and goes to attack the Lamia that enslaved it.
I cast Dispel Magic on the other Dragon, Sulamina, and she also listens to the Dragonborn, moving to attack the Lamia.
Claw killed one of the Lamia and the other called for Hurek and Durek, two trolls, who appeared from the next room, before she cast Charm Monster on Sulaminga again. The Lamia then tried to run.
Econtredor gave chase, taking a hit from his enslaved sister but continues his attack on the Lamia.
I decide that destroying the Lamia is better than another dispel and cast Wall of Fire on her and the Trolls. Unfortunately, it doesn't do enough damage and so Sulaminga attacks her brother and the Trolls roar an alert. I can hear some very enormous Giant approaching.
Shieldbiter flies up and kills the Lamia with his crossbow, which frees Sulaminga from the Charm. Claw attacks one of the Trolls and I send Clank flying on his wings towards the approaching Giant.
Econtredor decides he is done and retreats while the Trolls continue to attack Claw. The Trolls tries to run and Claw pins one. I mount the broom and take to the air for a clear shot with a flames cantrip at a Troll then follow Clank towards the approaching Giant to hold it off. Sulaminga decides to run and follows her brother, leaving Claw and Shieldbiter to the Trolls.
An enormous Giant covered in glowing Thesselonian runes steps around the corner. He does an Earthquake Roar, which knocks over Yukiko, Koriah, and Conna as well as all the Giants they were fighting. Luckily Clank and I were in the air and the others were too far to be affected.
Shieldbiter kills a Troll with his family sword while Clank dives in against the Giant. The Econtredor and Sulaminga escape past the Giant while the Troll continued to attack Claw. The Giant struck Clank and I doing a great deal of damage. I shape changed into an Adult Red Dragon for additional health, strength, and to prevent the Giant getting past me to our allies. The Giant struck Clank and I again, damaging Clank severely.
Shieldbiter and Claw continue their fight against the Troll with Claw landing the fatal blow. Clank disengages from the Giant at my command and I attack in fury. The Giant runs.
Shieldbiter and Claw slip past me to head out to the other fight with the Stone Giants. I hesitated but then followed them instead of giving chase to the other Giant.
I roared a frightening roar and two were caught in the fear of it. Shieldbiter killed a Stone Giant before one of the Stone Giants decided to run. Conna takes advantage of the situation and shouts at them in Giantish to try to convince them to give up. She is very convincing and they disengage and flee at her words.
We spend a brief moment looting the corpses before we follow Conna through a tunnel towards the South East that descends deep. We guess we are about 800 feet underground and are possibly below the Black Tower.
The workmanship looks very familiar suddenly - no corners or cracks, which puts me in mind of the Hounds of Tanderus - the demon dogs which can enter the realm through a sharp edge. Luckily, there are no cracks in these walls. I also notice an abstract pattern, which reminds me of the Thorassic Spire, where Sepheria was entranced at the Library. This area had obviously used to be inhabited by Librarians. I encourage the group to move quickly past this area.
There is talk that deep somewhere there is a clockwork servant Librarian, of a similar look to Clank.
The halls became too small for my Dragon form, so I shifted to a Goristo. We stepped into a room and were attacked psychically. We all avoided the mental attacks and the odd shinking spell. We looked over to see a fat Giant, looking surprised that we were unaffected.
I charged him and knocked him prone and Claw landed the killing blow. We looted his breastplate and continued forward. Since Clank was still badly damaged, I carried him on my back.
In the next room was a RuneSlave Cauldron, which would be used to enslave Giants. It released a noxious gas which poisoned anyone that identified as Good Alignment. I managed to avoid being poisoned and as we started forward, a large Stone Golem stepped into the room and stated "Destroy all non-Giants". It scans us and allows us to pass since we were all extremely tall and Clank was hidden behind me. We sneak Clank past it.
The next room was very cold and a Headless Lord stood covered in blood but unmoving in front of a line of Ogres and Hill Giant iron statues, encased in plate-mail. We considered the Headless Lord could possibly be a statue, but when Shieldbiter started to discuss about attacking them, the statues came to life and instead attacked us.
Shieldbiter and Claw engaged the Headless Lord. I put Clank in a safe spot and charged one of the Iron Zombies, destroying it.
While the zombies attack, the room seems to be getting darker. Shieldbiter lands the destroying blow on the Headless Lord and the darkness fades away. We continue to attack the zombies, with Shieldbiter landing another kill and I took out the last two.
I could sense the Headless Lord's empty neck was some sort of scrying screen and that we were being watched. There was nothing to be done about that but move on to the next room.
The next room contained a Forge Fiend, a mechanical monster that spewed fire. Again, I left Clank outside to continue his repairs. The room was hugely tall - at least 100' high. Claw attacked the Forgefiend and I switched to a Baby Red Dragon form to be fireproof. The Forgefiend tried Flesh-to-Stone on me, but I was able to avoid it. Claw killed the Forgefiend, which spewed out lava, burning Claw and Shieldbiter a little.
We moved onto the next area, which was marked as the Great Library (in Thesselonian). Written on the door are meditative prayer to the Peacock spirit, which we had come across once before I was affected by a Calm Emotions spell.
We decided to take a short rest before we tackled the door again.
While we rested, Shieldbiter was suddenly swept away by the same magic that had deposited him earlier. We assumed that the Dragons must have made it somewhere safe and his task was complete so his Gods had called him back.
We had no time to puzzle over his disappearance as we had to focus. We turned our attention back to the double doors of the Great Library and were able to open the doors. We could see that there were doors to the North and South and a single door on the far end of the room.
We waited for the others to catch up.
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