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So the party repulsed the giant army attacking Sandpoint. They also drove off Longtooth. I decided on his way back home Longtooth landed at some farm house outside of town and interrogated the farmers for as much info as he could get about these "Heros of Sandpoint".
Anyways fast forward to Jorgenfist. The party uses an invisible flying sorcerer to fly to all of the caves and study them. They pick a cave at random and teleport the party to.... Longtooths cave.
Longtooth is dissatisfied with Mokmurian and wants to parley with the party. He specifically names the paladin to talk to.
Longtooth and the paladin are discussing terms, how much treasure for his betrayal as well as some info on Jorgenfist when the LG fighter who thinks parleying with an evil beast is ..well evil
Corax the LG fighter Leroy Jenkins into said Longtooth. Which surprised everyone not just me and also led to some great RP.
Longtooth who had a readied action fires off his frightful presence. Next round he breathes on the party and leaves the cave telling the party " You will now be known throughout Jorgenfist".
Longtooth flies to Jorgenfist. One of the PC says "Oh they can't get up here" thats when they see two rocs, Longtooth, the two other younger dragons, three wevryns and some harpy monks lifting off from Jorgenfist with as many giants aboard as possible.
The party says "F This" and teleports back to Sandpoint. Where they rest up for a day and then teleport to Deathweb cave. They find the secret entrance to the small tunnels and plan on going forward into Jorgenfist.
Now the obvious thing is the fortress is on high alert and also poor Gavin Deverin is doomed to die a sacrifice. The not so obvious thing is what is Longtooth gonna do.
I'm sure he wants to hurt the party. I'm looking for something nasty that a pissed off Red Dragon would do. The obvious would be to fly to Sandpoint and raze it to the ground.
So lets hear em....
Yeah. Except he also knows the PCs know where his lair is and his treasure. He knows he can't take them single-handed. He's alerted his "boss" to the presence of the heroes and may have even given information on their effectiveness.
At this point I'd say he's going to request a new lair and get a few giants to move his treasure. He'll legitimately say that if the PCs attack from below, he can't do much in that situation. So he moves his lair and waits... and if the PCs prevail, his new lair is not known to them and he can get the spoils of what's left.
After all, he's evil, but he's also pragmatic. Attack Sandpoint alone? If the PCs show up unexpectedly then he's toast (and it'll take a couple days to reach Sandpoint). But if he moves his lair and waits? He was honest to the Big M, if M survives then he may get more treasure out of the deal. If M dies, the PCs will move on (in Longtooth's view) and he gets to loot what's left or drive off the giants and take THEIR treasure.
Finally, he can wait for the PCs to emerge; if they look hurt? Attack then. Otherwise... revenge can be best served cold. Maybe even with a certain White Dragon's help... ;)
Yeah good points. I've decided that when a dragon almost dies when it heals it has a growth spurt. Even with that he can't take the party unless he can single them out and get surprise. So good idea... he will play the long game.
Incidentally X was killed by the party but, she had charmed one party member (player didn't want to play a very unoptimized rogue). So the old party member stole the parties gold and had X raised. hmmm There might be an anti party forming?
Finally, he can wait for the PCs to emerge; if they look hurt? Attack then. Otherwise... revenge can be best served cold. Maybe even with a certain White Dragon's help... ;)
Waiting for them to emerge victorious but injured is a good plan, but I don't see why he would even consider hiding anywhere near the area. He would be well aware that the party is very interested in hunting him down and killing him and he's only a divination spell away from being found. Waiting it out only works if he's waiting it out in an area really far away.
I've decided that when a dragon almost dies when it heals it has a growth spurt.
I would highly recommend against this, it doesn't make a great deal of sense and if I were one of your players I would find it extremely puzzling.
A much better plan would be to create an older relative to use.
In my case I now have 7 players, All 20 point buy (yeesh that was a mistake), All optimized and very experienced gamers so they've got their tactics down. So I've actually had to do this.
Corax the LG fighter Leroy Jenkins into said Longtooth. Which surprised everyone not just me and also led to some great RP.
'Leroy Jenkins'?
It's a term from an MMORPG in which they were going to attack a high-level monster. Leroy Jenkins ran in first before everyone was prepared. Everyone else ran in after him rather than let him get massacred and wait a little bit. Result: Total Party Kill.
So to Leroy Jenkins something nowadays means attacking without warning the rest of the group and causing a TPK or otherwise unfortunate situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU