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For Christmas, Percy shows up mounted on a two-headed dragon. A spell effect causes a hallucinatory dream sequence. A battle royale commences amidst Castle Rend as the party members battle for supremacy! . . |
Setup
Percy arrives on the back of a two-headed dragon and lands atop Castle Rend. He gives a lengthy villain speech with the following highlights:
He’s a badass.
He knows the party is full of dangerous, important people.
He senses treachery afoot within the party.
And now so super cool spell effect is going to cause the party to fight to the virtual death in a hallucinatory dream sequence.
The party battles with the following highlights:
Nymeria seems to do the most damage in any round with a fireball that hits four combatants with its area of effect, but she is ultimately felled by Cal.
Cal uses the single vorpal charge in his blade (dream style) to dispatch Nymeria, but goes down as Ser Shadow continually knives him from behind.
Ser Shadow is seemingly teamed with Yornan, and - after killing Cal - spends much of his time stalking Rhagal.
Rhagal plays sniper on top of one of the guard towers before flying from tower to tower to remain safe. He duels Ser Shadow in an epic slap fight but is ultimately forced from the tower by Hurodash and winds up in a scrum surrounding Yornan.
Yornan, surrounded by enemies, heals himself a lot, but is ultimately felled by Hurodash who finally gets his revenge.
Hurodash - who had spent much of the contents either banished or held by Yornan - rages, chases people, and is ultimately felled at the very end by Corliss.
Corliss, relying on Improved Invisibility to stay hidden for most of the fight, gets last licks and kills Hurodash to win.