Evil!Party: Jormungand the Elder Wyrm

The Ancient Wyrm Gold Dragon Jormungand – hereafter referred to as Georgie – favors his weakening gas; he is a superb spellcaster - we should expect two or three spells from him each round. And basically, after that he just fell on Maodeus and kicked his ass. 

Chuck will be going into battle on the back of his enslaved Pit Fiend, Balaam. We start setting buffs on Jenny, who’s probably going to have to do most of the damage. One way or another, all of us will be flying. 

We lure the dragon in, then we all take to the air… and run straight into Georgie’s Aura of Fear. Georgie then hits us with weakening gas, and follows up with a mass hold person. The hierophant is not scared, and casts Remove Fear on Jenny and summons an insect plague. He is also, himself, an insect plague at the moment. Jenny, no longer afraid, charges in and attacks with her massive spiked chain. She gets bitten on the way in, but she’s sharing her life force with Durest and the Hierophant and so the damage is split among the three of them. Jenny manages to hit the dragon by lining up a careful shot. 

Durest heads over and cures Maodeus of Fear, then heals himself a bit. Balaam has summoned an ice devil, and Georgie has added a quickened Mirror Image spell. Georgie takes damage from the hierophant’s swarm; he then uses Restoration to get rid of his negative levels. The hierophant adds another insect plague, and also strips Georgie of his Shield and Mirror Image spells. 

Jenny, furious, hits him twice and does some serious damage. Durest catches up with Chuck and cures him of fear. Unfortunately, Georgie drops Irresistible Dance on Jenny. Georgie also casts True Seeing on himself. Balaam attacks, and Chuck uses a quickened Dimension Door to place himself above the dragon’s head and blasts him in the back of the skull with Polar Ray. Which is cold damage. Which the gold dragon is vulnerable to. Chuck: “Suck it.”

Maodeus moves in and attacks, adding some damage. 

Georgie casts Time Stop and lays down three Delayed Blast Fireballs. There’s a lot of destruction. The Hierophant casts a quickened Inflict Critical to heal himself, then drops a Cure Critical on Jenny. Then he drops more swarms of locusts on the dragon. Durest drops a Dispel Magic on Jenny, removing the Irresistible Dance. Georgie moves out of the swarms, and when Jenny tries to swing at him she drops her chain. He then casts a quickened Shield on himself. 

Chuck heals a bit. The swarms follow the dragon. He adds his Shield spell back, and tags Jenny with a Quickened Irresistible Dance. Balaam heads down to grab Jenny’s chain and bring it back to her. Chuck fires down another Polar Ray, but doesn’t get through Spell Resistance. He then uses quickened Protection from Energy to restore his fire protection. Maodeus comes up behind Georgie, who snaps at him on his way in; Maodeus takes his first damage of this combat. So he does a quickened True Strike and a huge power attack… but misses. 

Georgie casts Displace on himself (quickened). The Hierophant drops a quickened Protection from Energy on Jenny to restore her fire protection, then cures her almost back to undamaged. Then he adds a few more spell immunities: Otto’s Irresistable Dance, Delayed Blast Fireball, and two others. 

Durest tries to dispel the irresistible dance, and then tries to cast Destruction on the dragon – but fails on both accounts. Georgie moves, then uses his weakening gas breath weapon on Maodeus and Jenny. Balaam returns with Jenny’s chain: “Why are you dancing? This is EMBARRASSING!”

CHuck tries his polar ray again, but fails to get through Spell Resistance. Maodeus tries to cast Otto’s Irresistable Dance on Georgie, but also fails to get through Spell Resistance. Then he casts Restoration on Jenny, whose physical strength is now restored. 

Georgie attacks Jenny, but she’s resistant to damage and sharing any damage she takes with Durest and the Hierophant. The Hierophant drops Restoration Maodeus, restoring his strength. Durest throws Greater Dispel Magic at Georgie, and strips off some of his protections, then heals himself a bit. The swarms move over to Georgie, who casts Time Stop and casts Heal three times to restore himself nearly back to full health. Balaam teleports behind the dragon, so that he and Jenny are flanking it. Chuck moves back, and again fails to get through spell resistance… then pushes a fleabite of a Ray of Frost past his guard. 

Maodeus fails to disintegrate Georgie, but does some damage and moves in. Georgie likes this idea and tries a quickened Disentegrate on Jenny, who isn’t disintegrated but takes some damage that she shares with Durest and the Hierophant. 

The Hierophant heals himself, then drops a quickened True Seeing on Jenny. Jenny attacks, hitting twice, and taking damage herself to do a ton of extra damage. Durest hits him with another Dispel magic, then heals himself a bit more. The elder wyrm breaths fire, annihilating the insect swarms and Jenny, who still has her fire protection up. 

Balaam makes a full attack and actually hits him. Three times. The poison and disease effects don’t bother the dragon, but Balaam still does a respectable amount of damage. Chuck tries again, but fails to get through spell resistance… again. Maodeus moves in, looking to Jenny for tactical advice. Then he attacks.

Two of his attacks get through, and do some damage. 

Georgie casts Irresistible Dance on Durest, who is helpless against it. Jenny attacks and hits the dragon three times, still doing her extra damage that also damages her. She does what we used to refer to as “a metric fuck-ton” of damage. The Hierophant does some damage as a swarm of insects. Georgie does yet another time stop and heals himself again. Chuck fails a couple of attacks, and hits him with a quickened Enervate… which should help. Maodeus moves in like an angry cat, all claws and teeth and tails and wings (cats have wings, right?) and does a decent chunk of damage. ‘

Georgie sets Chuck to dancing. 

The Hierophant drops Fire Protection on Jenny and Fire Resistance on Durest, who is still dancing. Jenny attacks and hits him three times. Durest is still dancing. 

Georgie uses his weakening gas breath weapon, and Jenny and Maodeus lose some physical strength. 

Maodeus tries to cure Chuck of dancing, but fails. Georgie puts a quickened shield back on himself after Balaam removed it. The Hierophant quickened Heals himself, then Heals Durest and throws an Inflict Serious on Chuck to restore him. Jenny runs through another set of attacks, and hits three times. Durest prays for a miracle, that his next spell will work and take full effect. 

Maodeus restores his strength, and Jenny’s. Then he drops a Cure Serious on Durest, 

Jenny attacks, focusing on hitting as much as possible. Durest, riding on that prayer, turns him into a newt. 

Unfortunately, he’s still a newt with wings and spellcasting. And also, he’s really kind of pissed off. He tries to disintegrate Durest, fails, but does a bit of damage. 

He stops time again and heals, but Balaam goes in for a full-round attack, and just… rips into him with a bunch of attacks and a critical tail slap. Chuck tries to attack, fails. Maodeus moves up and goes to attack the no-longer-dragon-now-flying-lizard, and claws the heck out of him. 

Georgie pulls his last Time Stop, and manages three Heals and two Delayed Blast Fireballs on Jenny. The Hierophant cures Durest, then drops Dimensional Anchor to make sure that this ends here and now. Jenny tears into him. Durest casts Destruction and fails to destroy him, but again does some damage. He casts another Heal on himself. Chuck, meanwhile, has been regenerating. Georgie casts Maze on the Hierophant, taking him out of the fight for the moment. Balaam goes for another full attack, but misses. 

Maodeus asks for Jenny’s advice; she suggests a modest attack. He rips into the lizard, and does some damage. Georgie manages to cast Maze on Durest as well; he’s out of the fight. Jenny, meanwhile, rips into Georgie again. 

Durest pops right back out of the maze, thanks to his luckstone. 

Georgie attempts to use Sunburst as a spell-like ability. Then he tries to use his breath weapon, but at his current size he’s got about a fifteen-inch range. He drops a quickened Shield on himself yet again, because apparently he lacks the grace to just die; Balaam immediately dispels it. Chuck immediately tags him with a Polar Ray, doing a bunch of damage. Georgie does a Cure Critical on himself, but Jenny immediately attacks him and hits him three times. Durest tries to finish him with a spell, but fails to get past his resistance. Georgie heals himself but takes swarm damage. 

Georgie disengages and flies like hell. Balaam grabs Jenny and teleports after him. The rest of us try to follow, but Jenny’s the only one in a position to successfully attack. She lays into him and finishes him.