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Alzar moves out, and heads towards the wall. The folks there hail him frantically, and then sling stones and quarrels at him, but to no avail. Alzar ignores them and flies into the town and passes a few homes and a shop or two and arrives at the town hall as an alert erupts. 20 soldiers move out of the hall to protest him, and Alzar casts Mass Charm and suddenly, he has a lot of friends that push open the doors and he flies into the town hall through double doors.
A pair of griffons and their riders launch from a stables in the far corner of Saffir to protest Alzar’s arrival, but he’s already in the hall. Krasniy secretly tries to cast ESP on Alzar before arriving. As we’ve seen before, that triggers his protective spell. Alzar rolls an 8 and makes his save, so he turns it off, and sees Krasniy as the one who cast it. Krasniy rolls a 13 and won’t take any damage from the breaking.
A moment later, he comes down from the eating room and greets Alzar with a booming voice. He welcomes Alzar and offers the mage a seat at the table with a plate of food to be brought out by a servant.
Alzar sits down, his charmed friends all giving him an honor escort. Alzar sits at the table, in the seat offered, and Krasniy the Red also sits. After a few exchanges of pleasantries, Alzar just comes out and asks why Krasniy’s own people are fleeing his town and petitioning Alzar to come in and remove Krasniy from power.
Krasniy’s features darken as he is accused by Alzar. Who is Alzar to question? Who is Alzar to push? Alzar offers Krasniy a one-time offer. Pack up, and leave, right now, and nothing more will happen. And Alzar won’t kill Krasniy. Otherwise, Krasniy will die, today, right now, in front of everyone.
Krasniy opens a wide, toothy grin. “You don’t begin to know the power I have under my control, human!”
Krasniy and Alzar move into the clearing, Alzar still on his Carpet, just a few inches off the ground, and in front of the town hall by unspoken mutual consent, Alzar instructed his “friends” to keep everyone away from their battle. Alzar grabs his Axe and the warlord smiles another grin, and this time, the grin seems to be toothier and wider than before, and soon, his enemy has polymorphed back into his natural form of an old red dragon!
Krasniy – AC -1, HP 86, Breath – Cone of Fire, THAC0 5, etc.
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