Fear not, I'm sure Ryland will find some sort of trouble to get into... and hopefully live to tell the tale.

Good bards don't die, they fade into the very legends they tell.

Before he leaves he takes two of the metal rods from his pack, the ones marked Malfandar and Dragonhaste, and hands them to Toben "Can you make sure Klale gets one of these.  I'm sure you can find a use for them."

I don't know what occurred after.

We'll assume Toben complied with this request and you have one of the rods.

Yes, there is no reason he would have held on to them after returning to the forges. For now, we can say that Klale got Dragonhaste and Toben has Malfandar.

Something came to mind when the thought of grounding dragons came up. What about dragon-sized bolas launched from the backs of dragons? Perhaps the fastest, as Klale mentioned, could carry these and attempt to use them against the other side. For them, they'd be one-shot uses, but you could also have some land-based launchers that could be reloaded.

Seems like something the dwarves might be able to craft, if they aren't completely focused on arms and armor.

Totally doable.  I'd argue that the dragons in flight would be the ones to use them as the contraption to launch them would be flight prohibitive.  On the ground, you could have a more ballistae-esque launcher to reload.  Probably 1 round to fire, 1 round to cock, 1 round to load.  Extra rounds spent to increase accuracy?
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:04, Wed 24 Jan 2018.

Makes sense to me. Idea influenced by Hiccup from How to train a dragon. :)

Anything to add, Ano, before I move on?

I was going to post but this have been hectic.  I'm good to move forward.   Ano will join the assault in the air with the dragons and attempt to find Voroch Hastir.  If he is one of the discords I will try to get him to the grounds Klale and I can work together.

Klale's problem is that he cannot be sure where the dragon battle will be. However, it may be that he can hitch a ride and be dropped off just before the battle. Even then, there's no assurance that he can get where he is needed in time.

Klale and Ano, this weekend I am compiling the dragon armies and their abilities as well as sketching out the beginning of the coming engagements.  I will not post in the main thread unless either of you have posts/conversations you wish to have during the build up period.  If no posts are made, I hope to post up the beginning of the fight by Monday morning.

However, I have a powerfully important event coming up this Thursday and a lot of my mind will be focused on that.  I apologize for the delay, but I want this to be cool, not just off the cuff tossed out there.

To see what I have in mind for the dragons (and perhaps build ideas for combat), the descriptions of the dragons will be here:

Non-aligned
http://5thagedivergent.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon-Kin

and here:

Elder Dragons
http://5thagedivergent.wikia.com/wiki/Elder_Dragons
This message was last edited by the GM at 03:45, Fri 26 Jan 2018.

Sounds like it's shaping up to be a really cool battle.   We will be fine if you take some time to focus on real life.  I hope your event goes well.

Alright gentlemen, it seems that RPOL.net is doing a server xfer here in the next few days.  I'm shutting down all games until the xfer is complete.  I HIGHLY recommend you backup your character sheets and any pertinent information in a Notepad file.  I will be doing this with all threads and character sheets as well.

This on top of what I have going on Thursday will effectively shut me down anyway.  We will resume the Monday after the new servers are up and running.

Talk about building suspense!

Thanks for the heads up

Game on!

Giving Ano a chance to post before moving forward in the main thread.

Will post tonight once I get off work

Lol, seems a bit ironic for a dragon that size to belittle the younger dragons for 'following a man', when they themselves follow the 'dragon master'.

How bad off does the plague dragon look currently

It looks like it got hit hard, but could limp home if left to it at this point.

Kill it with fire!".

We dont have any fire.

Punch it so hard the friction ignites the air around you.

Any chance of armor repair and/or healing (dwarven clerics?)