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title: Tales from the Crypt (Dragon), S5E09
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## Current Objectives
- ~~Investigate the ethereal plane room at the Giant's keep~~
- ~~Enter Stormheim~~
- **[COMPLETE]** Join Kaldur and seek the Mantles of the Heroes
- **[COMPLETE]** Aid the merfolk in attacking the Cthulu cults
- Defeat the Dracolich to earn the Run from Nuripites

## Events
- The party stands on the precipice of destruction, ready at the portal to the
  dracolich's realm!
  - The party hurls their forms through a dank, turbulant conveyance, appearing
    in a desert landscape battlefield. Nearby are several skeletal formations
    (covered in sand, evidently standing here for a long while), and there are
    whirlwinds of undead creatures in the dunes. There are double-doors leading
    into a partially buried building; one winch to open the doors is broken in
    half. COMBAT!!
    - With our surprise round, we decimate the skeletal troop!
    - The bonestorms move in.

- We move into the building. We are set-upon by a skeletal hound archon!
  COMBAT!!
  - It charges at us, but as Sheila G mentions we're here to talk to the
    dracolich, it pauses and tries to _teleport_ away. Stackor counters the
    attempt! The rest of the party wails on it, shattering it! However, it will
    reform in an hour, unless we pour holy water upon it. We take the skull with
    us and continue!

- We have three options, and move straight. We come to a locked door with an
  impression for a claw-shaped key. Stackor _knocks_ it open. Behind, we find a
  staircase which descends for an excessive distance. At the landing, we move
  straight along a corridor. Moving forward, we trigger a trap and Gartug and
  Harvey get smushed in a wall! We maneuver around the trap, and continue to a
  large, elegant room with several large urns with ashes in them. Harvey digs
  in, and finds a Ring of Mind Shielding.

- We call it here for the night, with combat looming!

## Player Characters
- Gartug Ironfist, a dwarven brawler (Bill)
- Sheila G, a half-elf cleric of Cayden Calien (Thans)
- Stackor, a dwarven wizard (James)
- Harvey, a tengu-ish monk (Mike)
- Randy Van Peoples, a human cleric of Gozreh (Dan)

## Locations
- Rime

## NPCs and Notable Characters
- Nuripites, a crypt dragon in the Boneyard
- Naynay, a human pervert with some martial arts training
- Rickvis, a bralini azata representing Crius
- Porthos, a psychopomp guarding the portal back to the crypt dragon's domain
- Runewl (spelled all cool), a skeletal champion hound archon in Dracotown

## Other Notes
- You know - Porthos!
- This isn't an amusement park, this is a house.

## Upcoming Events
