Text by Paul O'Connor, Dungeon Master
After six weeks (real time) in the Castle of the Blue Hills, King Gut finally makes his appearance. He's 22 feet tall! He has icicles for beards! He's got two heads, and a sword so sharp it can cut the sky. He's got Jenny Agutter tied to one forearm, and Farrah Fawcett on the other!!
But all this was not before the lads had another stellar night, faking out an ogre punishment squad set to execute the remaining slaves when Blah masqueraded as the orcish cheiftan, Hakkon. Sending most of the ogres to reinforce the south gate against an imaginary attack divided the enemies in two, where Murderball, Sompher, and a raging Blah could make short work of the ogres that remained behind. They even freed the slaves (sort of), though an attempt to convince the ogre's dim-witted wolfpack to flip sides didn't amount to much.
And what was Sarkagan up to through all this? Biding his time, mostly, but when Gut appeared from his castle the wizard was quickly into action, blasting a magical gust of wind through the signal horn atop the citadel, ringing it out well above OSHA safe decibel standards, rocking the very earth and unleashing ... a massive avalanche bearing down on the castle!
Things began to move fast. The heroes piled on King Gut. You could almost feel sorry for the old blue bastard as he was held in place, hamstrung, had one of his girls cut free, and eviscerated by not one but TWO convincing magical illusions of a dragon attack. But no sooner did the wicked frost giant collapse to the snow than Jenny pointed to the sky, did her best Faye Wray scream, and shouted DRAGON!
That's right, our old friend Codoroth the Longtail is back! Summoned by the horn, this is no illusory dragon ... this is a pissed off an hungry dragon, alerted by the dinner bell, and seeing before him prey that escaped and shamed him once before -- the cleric Sompher. He's swooping in for the kill ...!
(and happy birthday to Paul)
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