The Harvest Moon Consortium

[Winterhawk99]

Dragonkin Mage

The dragon kin showed up in the vales to find Su-gar alone. He walked around her asking her many questions about herself. She was suspisious but conversed with him. He made her an offer as tralla and others came into camp. He told her that he would give her 1,000 gold a day and make her stronger and faster if she would but submit to a small examination and tell her story to him about her world. which after all sounded very interesting.

They negociated some sug-gar asked if she could keep her weapons? The dragonkin obliged her by saying yes. a few in the group got a forboding feeling but said little to diswade her. After a hard negociation she accepted the dragonkins offer and he teleported her to his laboratory in the mage guild.

She ported Su-gar to a cell for her own protection of course and started to work magic. The Dragonkin then pulled a cover off a dead human on a table and spooned out some vile looking fluid from within its torsal. She then took the fluid and walked over to a pool of blood mixing the fluid in with the blood all the while asking su-gar questions about herself. The dragonkin then put a bit of the mix in a container threw it into a fire and cast several spells on it Horrid wilting and wail of the banshee. The dragonkin told su-gar it was her first test to take the potion and drink it. She was hesitant at first but the dragonkins charming words helped her decide it would give her all the things she wanted.

Su-gar drank it. There was a loud explosion as she grew cold, her heart stopped and she stood as a newly incarnated cursed swordsman.

The dragon kin exclaimed laughing, " It worked, it worked, I will now take you back to reek havoc on the rest of your people." There was a flash and she was back in the vales.


Su-gar appeared in the vales exclaiming, " Dont attack it is su-gar!" She ran twoard Luthian and tralla as feelings of hatered for the living overwhelmed her. She told them to run away then attacked them twoard wear alistra was. Alistra slow to react ran as the undead thing attacked jack. He quickly ran into the house after getting cut by Su-gar's sword. Alistra was looking for spell components while trying to get away finally she found what she needed and threw bigbys grasping hand on Su-gar. While the undead couldnt move Alistra quickly conjured a circle around her that undead could not get out.

When su-gar was released from the spell she banged against her prison and flailed at Luthian and tralla.


After a while Su-gar gained control of herself alistra told her to focus on her life to keep control and to tell her about this potion she said she drank. Alistra listen carefully and then moved away from su-gar to talk to Luthian and tralla.

Alistra said she thought she could make a counter spell but she would need three things. Fairy dust, a gift freely given from a thief, and a lock of hair of a dead palidan that died peacefully.

Luthian had a scroll that tralla had given him earlier. but where to find fairy dust and a dead palidan they finally concluded that if tweedles was down in the ravine they might get some from her and possibly they could find a dead palidan in the elven crypts.


Tralla flew down into the ravine to find tweedles in her cage. She asked tweedles for a favor for her friend. She needed a bit of fairy dust to help her. Tweedles wanting to get out of the cage again wouldnt give any to tralla until she helped her escape. tralla rooted through her pack and found a scroll of dispel magic. She threw it at the cage but the cage held firm. Tweedles got upset and exclaimed," you have to breach it!" Tralla dug into her bag again luckly she had a scroll of lesser spell breach.
She unrolled and cast it at the cage.

Tweedles blew her a kiss and she disappeared as the cage collapsed leaving behind all the fairy dust she sheaded on the ground.

Tralla collected it all and flew back up to the vales.


After Tralla came back to the vales, her and Luthian ran twoard the crypts fighting gnolls and gibberlings along the way. They reached the baelnorms out of breath and spoke with them. They told the baelnorms they needed a dead palidan to get some hair from. one that died in peace and not violently. The baelnorms discussed it and told the pair that they could destroy the undead if they wanted. Tralla would have none of that and luthian didnt look to happy about destroying Su-gar either. Geristone talked about the maidens but Jackarra reminded him that they all died violently. They thought it over awhile when geristone asked about sir Luna. Jackarra thought about that awhile. No one was sure if Sir Luna was a true palidan because of many stories surrounding certain possible misdeeds in his life.

Tralla and Luthian said it would have to do so Jackarra looked at the records and told the pair where Sir lunas sarcophicus was.

They rushed down to the south east corner of the secound level they found a xeg-yi and many quickling clerics in their way. They fought threw them luthian killing the xeg-yi while tralla takeing care of the quicklings.

They found the tomb and with much effort slid the lid of the gold sarcophicus open. Inside was a skeleton with an elaborate sword and only a few strands of hair in the coffin. Luthian focused on the sword while tralla carefully cleaned the hair out of the tomb. All the while she was talking to the skeleton telling it that they needed the hair for a friend in need.

After she was done she saw Luthian mezmorized by the sword. She quietly convinced him to leave it and they rushed off twoard the vales


Alistra quietly talked with sugar all day within the circle keeping her in her memorys of life. with dusk approaching Luthian and tralla came to the vales. with an hour and a half to spare they spread the ingredients in front of Alistra. a scroll of cure light wounds that tralla had given Luthian, a vial of pixie dust that tweedles had left, and the hair of Sir Luna that Luthian and tralla bravely took from the elven crypts.

Alistra poured the pixie dust on to the scroll curled it up tight and tied it together with the hair. She then cast spells on both it and her self. Speaking a complex incantation she then blew the dust on to su-gar restarting her heart and warming her blood. The spell was broken just in time for if the sun had fallen Su-gar would forever remain an undead. sug-gar thanked them with all her heart and they all thanked alistra for helping them. They wondered off to make more tales of the new age of immigrants.


Story written by Winterhaw