8/3 session recap and xp awards

The iron doors opened onto a wide hallway that ran about a hundred feet long. Siala started checking for traps, and once again Hrir lost his patience immediately. He strode forward and was nearly instantly crushed by the floor as it rose to meet the ceiling. As it lowered back to floor level, Hrir rolled his battered body off on the other side from the party. Thinking perhaps the trap was triggered on the floor, Enli flew over to assist Hrir. He was also smashed against the ceiling. Siala merely looked at them, and then continued her search of the area. She eventually found the trigger for the trap, and was able to jam it so that the other could pass. Starting at the edge of the wall, she continued her search forward and immediately found spring-loaded spikes in the floor coated with dragon bile. She found two of these on one side of the hallway, and then came to the center section that was flanked by two huge doors. She checked one, and could find no traps, despite Rockaneeshoo's assertion that it was magical. As she checked the other one, Enli came traipsing up the hallway and stepped on a spike trap on the side that Siala hadn't checked yet. He came away limping a little, and the rest of the party avoided the edges of the hallway from that point on.

Siala attempted to pick the lock on the magical door, and the hallway behind her was hit with Dispel Magic. Heroes Feast seemed to be the only casualty for most people. Furthermore, the door was completely fake, only there to trick invaders into dispelling themselves a little.

The second doorway was strongly locked, but Siala jimmied it with her dagger and opened it onto a corridor that bent to the right about 45 feet ahead. Once again, Siala went forward to search for traps, and once again Hrir ran forward ahead of her. He found an ambush of three juvenile dragons.

While he battled the dragons, the rest of the party ran up against a wall of force that had sprung up in the corridor behind Hrir. Rockaneeshoo disintegrated it, and Urgmob started putting arrows into dragonflesh. The dragons commented to each other in draconic that it was a good thing someone had come along because mom had been starving them for a week or more. Rhin and Enli responded by taunting the dragons in their own language, saying that they'd killed their mommy, which put the young drakes into a fury. The fight didn't last long, though. As soon as two of them went down, the third fled through a tunnel in the ceiling. Finding nothing but refuse in the room, and unwilling to pursue their prey through a vertical cave, the party moved back into the main corridor.

Hrir once again sprung a trap. This time it was the twin of the one at the front of the hall. After being smashed against the ceiling, Siala came forward and disabled it deftly. There were two doors at the corners of the hallway. One had a magical ray trap that Siala discovered and disabled. Behind it was a small sleeping chamber with a minor amount of money and a gem. It also had a few low-level spellbooks and history books.

The other doorway led to a hallway with an extremely secure, solid adamantine door. Siala was able to pick it's lock after a few moments, and the party entered a circular hallway while Hrir stayed behind to drool over the block of solid metal. Three doors were found, two facing out from the hallway, and the other facing inward. Being very careful, Siala detected that the handle to the inner doorway was covered with dragon bile. After carefully wiping it down, she picked the lock and opened the door.

Inside was a small pile of treasure with a large red egg on top. The pile radiated heat, and Rockaneeshoo detected magic items imbedded in the pile of silver. Hrir made an appearance, and picked up the egg, revealing a fist-sized glowing red stone. In order to get all of the treasure, someone had to pick up the stone, and Enli decided he'd do it. His hands immediately started to smolder and burn, but his protective spells kept him from harm. For 12 seconds, that is. After that, he started to burn for real. Hrir decided to take the stone from him, and Enli wouldn't let him. Anger flared in Enli, and a scuffle broke out between the half-dragon-dwarf and the halfling-angel. Both had Freedom of Movement, and thus grappling had no effect. Hrir was finally able to disarm Enli, however, and the Iron Bands of Bilarro were applied to Enli. Hrir appeared to have no problems with the stone, and once the rest of the treasure was loaded (and a few items taken out of the rug of holding) he put the stone in and closed it back up.

The party tried dispelling and breaking the enchantment on Enli, but neither worked. Siala checked the rest of the doors and found only traps, no rooms of treasure or monsters. The party retreated and went back to Oriv. Enli was finally freed from his state of irrationality, and all was well with the world.

For retrieving the Heart of Fire, and for defeating some dragon fledglings, everyone gets 3000xp.