The party guards the governor's mansion in Mistmeadow. A shifter paladin named Kevros has joined them to protect the city from the advancing evil fey army. Kevros fought with Ilmak and Triel at the battle of Marshgate and knows Hotspur from SummerSpring.
They evil fey army surrounds the building at attacks. Several blood scarabs drain the heroes' strength. Ilmak and Kevros fend off some undead a harpy, and a cyclops. Brock and Hotspur engage some foulspawn, and Triel takes on Hektiss, the Witch Queen Lamia and her pet the displacer beast lord.
As the battle begins to turn in the party's favor, a shadow of a dragon appears overhead. The evil fey lord Graceothantis, son of Gracothantis guardian of the world tree, swoops down to attack. Garrick helps to stun the green dragon while Kevros lops off one of its wings. Garrett junps on its back and tries to behead it.
During the struggle, the dragon has chased down Garrick and taken the hand of storath from him. He clutches it protectively in his claw but is unable to escape now that his wing is missing.
Graceothantis was banished two hundred years ago from Mistmeadow by King Quotomal Gladomain who bore the hand in battle and beat him, so he wished to seize the artifact for himself, but now he wishes to deprive it from the party. He consumes the hand and ring and chomps on it powerfully, crushing the magical hand and concealing the invisible ring somewhere in his gut. Hotspur takes out the dragon with a powerful magical strike. The dragon dies in his ancestral home.
Brock Mez'gar picks through the dragon's remains through the night while the party rests, but the ring appears to be lost. The next day a group of trolls approaches on the road south of town and the city guard says they are asking for the heroes of mistmeadow. When the party arrives the trolls advise that King Skalamad the Greenest has arrived to escort them to the court of the Goblin King in the Western Ruins. He says that there's a 50,000 gold per person bounty that he intends to collect, dead or alive.
The party resists and in the melee Ilmak is incapacitated and the Troll King uses his Amulet of the Planes to take him to the Goblin King. He returns a few minutes later to call off the attack by the rest of the trolls and tells the party they may join him in his court along with the Goblin King if they travel to his hall.
The party rests and contemplates their next move. They learn that the battle for Lighthedge Point went favorably for their allies and that Vicmorn Shieldheart and several defectors from SummerSpring now guard the city from Baron Redspawn's Imperial loyalists.
Word is sent from the Eastern Ruins that Ilmak is doing well and that he's enjoying the hospitality of the Goblin Lord and the Troll King in King Skalamad's hall under the Eastern Ruins.
Monday, March 8, 2010
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