I could try to summon a celestial maid.
Sebastian hits the gargoyle twice with his crossbow bolts.
Iolana has the clever idea to cast glitterdust into the air. Unfortunately the spell fades under the dragon's spell resistance.
Gargoyle (1) leaps up with a pump of its wings and bites at the nearest hovering archon. It bites as hard as it can but is unable to harm the archon with its damage resistance.
The two gargoyles near the well lumber up to Sebastian and bite and claw at him with their stony limbs. Sebastian takes a claw and a gore from one of them.
Laori summons two shadows that reach into the gargoyles' backs and begin draining their strength away. She then casts a spell to dispel the darkness. "I'd love to play poke in the dark but there's a time and a place for that."
With the darkness gone and the wyrm still invisible, Tyrandro keeps shooting gargoyles.
The archon that was being meleed floats back 5' and they focus their pew-pews on the one gargoyle
Meanwhile the two down below focus on gargoyle 4
Lacking the ability to search out the dragon, Ayako tries eliminating a gargoyle by whispering maddening whispers at it.
Gargoyle (1) and (4) each get blasted with two more rays.
The gargoyle tageted by gift of madness rebukes Ayako's madness once again.
Tyrandro shoots up at the gargoyle in the air. Chunks of stone-like flesh rain down onto the courtyard as the gargoyle is flensed by arrows.
Now glowing with glitter, the dragon simply stops flapping its wings and drops hard to the ground cracking more of the courtyard underneath its feet. It snaps its head at Sebastian in a single powerful bite. Sebastian feels his bones being crushed by the dragon's dagger-like teeth.
Seb takes a step into the room. "I could use some healing. Mushu you around?" He drops his crossbow and pulls his rapier as eh moves.
Opportune Parry and Riposte
There is a -2 attack penalty for each size category larger than Seb is on this attack.
Iolana steps to where she can see the dragon and casts confusion on him. She uses her Piercing Metamagic rod on the spell.
Mushu looks around the corner and squeals in alarm after seeing Sebastion bleed all over the floor and sends his wand out to tap the wounds.
Iolana's confusion spell had little chance of succeeding against the dragon's iron will but it came very close.
Determined not to go out without a fight, the gargoyle engaged with the lantern archons tries a different tactic. It grabs the small creature with its four arms and then drops like a stone (literally) and both creatures fall 60 feet and smash into the unyielding floor. The archon is smashed to a bloody pulp and the already injured gargoyle looks like it nearly killed itself in the process as well.
The two other gargoyle proceed to file into the hallway, preferring fleshy targets to shadows. One continues to attack Sebastian while the other turns its attention on Iolana. The one on Sebastian only comes close to hitting once and Sebastian parries and turns the attack back on it causing the gargoyle to be the only one injured in the exchange. The second gargoyle has an easier time hitting Iolana but with its drained strength, its attacks are not that hard.
The shadows continue to attack their targets. One passes through the walls to flank. That one manages a glancing touch that drains a bit more strength.
Meanwhile Laori moves up to help heal Sebastian along with Ayako.
Tyrandro changes his target. Someone needs to take out that flying nuissance and Sebastian seems indisposed.
If still alive, the archon that was bodyslammed teleports away to a new location and fires a light beam at the dragon
The bottom left Archon zips further to left to spread out and fires it's ray at the dragon
The right most bottom archon switches targets to the dragon
If still alive...
The lantern archons begin pinging the umbral dragon with light rays. Although not vulnerable to light, the dragon made of shadows does not like it at all.
The umbral dragon's scaled hide makes it hard to hit despite its size but Tyrandro still manages to injure it with two arrows.
The umbral dragons whips its head around to look angrily at Tyrandro and growls in frustration that it can't reach through the arrow slit. The dragon instead reaches out to Sebastian with a claw glowing with dark energy. He drains away some of Sebastian's life while healing his own wounds. He then takes off into the air again and lands on the roof above you. "Come out cowards. I will not suffer you cowering in your hole."
I prefer the term, prudent. I can always summon more of these glowing little friends of mine, how about you just fly away?
Ayako tapes Sebastion with the healing wand
Seb attacks the gargoyle in front of him.
Iolana takes a step to the side, and sends three cold rays at the gargoyle.
Ayako will take her action now that I am back home
I can always summon more of these glowing little friends of mine, how about you just fly away?
You hear the dragon reply between gritted teeth, "I can't!"
Sebastian gets into his groove and stabs the gargoyle four times in quick succession. Afterwards, the gargoyle crumbles to the floor dead.
Iolana blasts the next nearest gargoyle with rays of frost.
The gargoyle engaged with Sebastian continues to fearlessly attack Sebastian despite its injuries and being outnumbered. It catches Sebastian with a claw and horn. It then sidesteps for the second gargoyle to move in to join the fray. That gargoyle rushes up and bites at Sebastian but only gets a mouthful of stone when it clips the edge of the doorway.
The shadows gang up on gargoyle (3) but fair poorly with their attacks this time.
"Let's clear a path. I don't like how these gargoyles are getting all handsy with Sebastian and not me. I don't smell, do I? I'm pretty sure I haven't contracted ghoul touch again."
With a burst of light, a 40 ft. column of fire and unholy flame sear away everything standing in the doorway, leaving behind only burnt piles of ash. Laori is unconcerned that she burned away some of her summoned allies in the process.
Maybe we can cut off the gargoyle hands and make them into backscratchers for you
Ayako holds her action for now.
"This is rather inconvenient. Can you magically move me into a room on the other side of the yard, so I get an aim again on that dragon?" Tyrandro asks Iolana.
"I've got you." She grabs Tyrando, and grabs his arm as she taps him herself with her wand of Dimension Door. "This could be a really bad idea."
Seb watches for any other enemies to appear rapier at the ready.
The remaining archons outside will open fire when Iolana and Tyrando restart the fight.
"Get us out if it comes here. Tyrandro states, before shooting lots of arrows again.
Tyrandro and Ayako hold until after the dragon.
The umbral dragon shifts on the roof and unleashes its negative energy breath weapon upon the remaining lantern archons. Both are overwhelmed and violently forced back to the plane from whence they came.
Iolana grabs Tyrandro and dimensionally jumps them through the open door to the north.
This large chamber, perhaps once a stable or kennel, has been gutted. Wooden partitions that may have been stalls lie shattered and burned, leaving only divots in the walls, floor, ceiling, and a few stone support pillars. The floor is a tangle of broken beams, dung heaps crawling with vermin, and the occasional gleam of polished bone. The whole chamber is shadowy and dim, the darkness an almost palpable thing.
From the doorway, Tyrandro fires his arrow and hits the umbral dragon twice.
Ayako is startled by the sheer destruction the breath unleashes and begins summoning a Large Air Elemental
Ayako begins summoning and Sebastian switches back to his crossbow.
Laori cures Sebastian again with a wand and her remaining shadow floats up through the ceiling to attack the dragon. However, the dragon is immune to the shadow's strength drain.
The dragon leaps back down into the courtyard and grabs at Tyrandro through the broken doors with his claw. He grabs Tyrandro and drags him out into the open.
"Enough of that bow! Let's see you use it while I crush you in my grip."
"Why don't you let him go?" Iolana points a finger and tries to disintegrate the dragon. She uses her Piercing Metamagic Rod again, and decides to use a harrow point to bump up her chance to get through the dragons spell resistance. She curses with everything she has when her spell doesn't get past the creatures resistance.
Seb fires the crossbow at the dragon, and loads it again, and fires. He misses both times as if there wasn't an enemy in the courtyard.
Ayako keeps summoning and opens a rift that shows an endless sky and a wave of wind forms above and behind the dragon and lashes out.
XP 1,600
N Large outsider (air, elemental, extraplanar)
Init +11; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Perception +11
DEFENSE
AC 21, touch 17, flat-footed 13 (+7 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 natural, –1 size)
hp 68 (8d10+24)
Fort +9, Ref +13, Will +2
Defensive Abilities air mastery; DR 5/—; Immune elemental traits
OFFENSE
Speed fly 100 ft. (perfect)
Melee 2 slams +14 (1d8+4)
Space 10 ft.; Reach 10 ft.
Special Attacks whirlwind (DC 18, 10–40 ft.)
STATISTICS
Str 18, Dex 25, Con 16, Int 6, Wis 11, Cha 11
Base Atk +8, CMB +13; CMD 31
Feats Combat Reflexes, Dodge, Flyby Attack, Improved InitiativeB, Mobility, Weapon FinesseB
Skills Acrobatics +15, Escape Artist +15, Fly +21, Knowledge (planes) +5, Perception +11, Stealth +11
Languages Auran
Fluffy! Save your master! Ayako then speaks a greasy sounding word that seems to repel everything from it and sends it out to encase Tyrando
Tyrandro winds himself out of the dragons grip, takes a step back and continues shooting at the wyrm.
Fluffy does as told and goes for saving Tyrandro, biting him into the tail and dragging it away. At least that's the plan.
Iolana tries to disintegrate the beast but it fails.
Ayako's air elemental hits the dragon in the back of the head once. However, the elemental's fists aren't as magical as your enchanted weapons and doesn't hurt the dragon fully.
Then Tyrandro slips free of the dragon's grip and plants the final two arrows into the dragon. It can take no more and collapses to the ground.
"Finally free..." the dragon exclaims with its dying breath.
With the dragon dead, the overwhelming feeling of evil within the castle, seems to lessen some more.
Mushu runs out, scrambles atop the dragon and gives a victory oink.
Ugh..How is everyone? Whos till has injuries?
"That was unpleasant. I'm glad we could free him. Do you think this was one of the beings in the Harrow Reading or was it like the orc just a poor creature captured and held here? I wonder if it had a hoard." Iolana leans against the wall and waits for the others to be healed up.
It might have been snared, yes. Although anything that could bind a dragon here would be fearsome indeed.
Tyrandro stands in front of the dead wyrm confused "If it wanted to die, why didn't it hold still. This could have been done much easier."
Well...Maybe it wanted to eat us as a last meal? We can check that building it came out of.
The stable that Tyrandro and Iolana teleported into certainly seems like the dragon's lair. Looking around, you find the dragon's hoard in the room in the northeast corner, which may have once been the stable master's quarters.
Battered weapons, breastplates, helms, shields, and a large number of skulls lie heaped on this chamber’s floor. More importantly, chests overflowing with gold and silver coins occupy the center of the room.
The treasure here includes 7,030 gp, 18,445 sp, and 39,800 cp. Scattered among the coins are various gemstones worth a total of 5,800 gp, and among the battered gear are three masterwork greatswords, a masterwork halberd, a mithral breastplate, an adamantine battleaxe, a +1 lawful outsider-bane greatsword, a Small suit of +3 chainmail, and a staff of necromancy (5 charges).
We seem to have a surplus of greatswords for Tyrando if he wants to use them.
"Yeah, sure. What's the difference in them?" Tyrandro asks while putting the most ornate of the swords in his golf bag. Then he picks up the adamantine axe. "That is special." he comments.
That greatsword we found is especially damaging against out outsiders aligned with law. Such as angels and devils. I suspect that we might be facing off against more beings like that in the future.
Perhaps Laori would like the staff. She can get more skulls that way.
"That's a lot of coins, and stuff. Laori any of the skulls of interest to you?"
Iolana picks through everything. She tries to snag the rod before Ayako can hand it to Laori. "Those spells are more of the sorcerer bent then a cleric. I'll let Laori have the skulls if she wants. "
"Sure, I'll hold onto the staff. I could probably put it to use. As cool as the dragon skull is, it's ok to leave it here. If only this staff animated dead. He'd make quite the skeleton or zombie."
Ayako taps Iolana and Sebastion with the healing wand
Sebastion
So if we are up to it, the doors tot he west of Iolana?
Fluffy finds that dead dragon doesn't offer itself for food. The hard skin is bad for the teeth.
Mushu claims the dragon horns! He shall become the boar he was always ment to be!
Iolana heads toward the doors laughing under her breath at Mushu's antics.
Tyrandro takes a seat on the hoard, feeling it with his hands and then lying down on the coins. "I guess you'd have to be a dragon to properly enjoy that." he tells while getting up again.
I heard a tale of a man who kept a vault of coins that he swam in. That is silly, one would hurt themselves if they dive into coins.
"Maybe you can just let the coins fall through your fingers. That might be fun."