After running this session all I can say is: Epic dragon aerial battle encounters are HARD to choreograph!
Clutched in the massive claws of Chorgallon, the party ascends higher and higher into the sky. From the dragon well below, they see a stream of Huge Black Dragons spewing forth. Each has a cultist of some form riding them - except for 5 that appear riderless. They also see 2 red, 2 blue and 2 green dragons flying in from over the mountain from different directions to join them. Ahead over the horizon they can make out the rapidly closing group of metallic dragons approaching.
Chorgallon places the party members gently onto the backs of the riderless black dragons, where they find a makeshift harness/saddle in place that they can fix themselves to, and a large quiver filled with various colours of Javelins. Red, Blue, White, Green and a single Gold. It is clear what all Javelines represent with the exception of the Gold one, Edgar detects conjuration magic on it, and whilst contemplating Joe says "Hey, big wormy dude! Whats the gold one for!" to which Chorgallon responds: "Its for healing. Hit a target with it and it will restore them to full health. He informs them to be cautious with their selection to use in combat as they can only conjure a specific number of them at a time, and there may be benefits of using certain javelines on certain dragons, or in certain combinations for extra damage.
Edgar starts buffing party members up. Rapidly approaching they can make out 6 Bronze Dragons, and 3 Silver, copper, Brass and Gold Dragons. One Gold Dragon is significantly larger than the others and parts off to the flank from the rest of the force. Chorgallon splits off to intercept: One of one combat will commence.
The party advances towards the enemy, throwing javelines of Fire, Lightening, Cold and Acid at the enemy - starting with a gold dragon, between them and the rest of their force, they manage to kill it, and their combined energy rays and javelines from the metallic dragons forces takes out two of the Black Dragons, who start to desintegrate with the energies hitting them and fall from the sky, to impact with a hefty squelchy thud into the swampland a mile below. The party advances once more, Evictus raising his sword up and decapitating a dragon as his mount bites, claws, and lashes at it with its tail and wings, and the dragon cohorts charge forth into an aerial Melee, tearing a couple of the Bronze Dragons out of the sky. One by one dragons are falling from the sky on both sides, as our party guides their dragons around the aerial battlescape. They gang up on anyone loose from the pack tearing them to shreds.
Off to the side the Great Wyrms do battle - behind them, silhouetted against the clouds two ghostly visages can be made out. Behind the black dragon is the 5-headed dragon: Tiamat the chromatic dragon Godess, and behind the gold dragon there is Behamut, the Platinum Dragon god, and father of Tiamat. The Colossal Gold Dragon grips Chorgallon in its claws and rips its wings from its body, discarding them as the great Black Dragon plummets towards the earth. Joe steers his mount into a dive and hurls his Golden Javeline of healing at Chorgallon, healing him as he impacts the ground. He stands up having survived the impact to survey the swamp. In the clouds above, the Metallic Dragons retreat at the site of Chorgallons body plummeting towards the swamp. As the Great Wyrm gold dragon ascends into the cloudline there is a colossal crack of thunder and hissing as the sky lights up with an array of lightening forks, cascading through the cloudline, and a red fiery glow... a moment later the Gold Dragon falls, body broken, scales and wings blasted clean off.
Ceinwen attempts to hit the dragon with a Golden Spear to try to allow for the opportunity for negotiations, but it is already dead, obliterated by whatever force was out of site in the cloudline. She dismounts as she does so, and impacts with the ground hard enough to break her vampiric body into a puff of smoke, and start drifting downwind.
The remaining dragon forces disperse, 3 surviving metallic dragons and 6 surviving Chromatic plus their riding mounts, and the party fly down on their dragons to investigate the swamp where 2 great wyrms and a vampire have hit the dirt. Well, I say they fly down on their dragons: Edgar BECAME a red dragon using a polymorph spell, although he is dwarfed by the dragons he descends alongside.
End of session.
This campaign will resume after a few sessions of other games have been played, I want some fun gaming not as DM :p. I need a break!
-V
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