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The next he can make out from the sky out here is still pool of crystal water, that perfectly meets his expectations. There is a small shallow valley back here and about 200 feet across or so, and low hills around. There is a buzzing from the three circular pools at the bottom and Alzar makes out some dragonflies. The big monster kind .
Two of them are in a mating dance. They are red dragonflies, and that makes them work with fire. Alzar swaps on the Ring of Fire Resistance for Free Action for this encounter. He thinks he can solo these. Time to find out - he uses the Scarab of Venom to coat two arrows with poison and will go over by ground, because they are likely more maneuverable in air than he is, faster, and have a breath attack. So he is more familiar with ground.
After landing, he begins to sneak up to them with his skills. It’s very easy, there’s lots of cover, and they aren’t really looking around. He gets to range and launches an arrow at each.
He rolls a16 and a 7. They are very hard to hit -2 AC so the first hits, and the second misses. The Dragonfly takes 5 damage and…rolls a 3 and dies. One dead. The mate pauses, sees Alzar, and then breathes on him as he loads more arrows
Init - 1 vs 7
Alzar’s arrows fly out and he misses with both. The breath come out and the fire settles down, he takes 5d6 damage - 19 damage, brought down to -2 per die, so 14, and then fails his save.
66/80
He can’t regen fire damage either
1 vs 6
Alzar hits once for 1 damage. The dragonfly flies over to attack in melee, so Alzar drops the +4 short bow and grabs his Gladius from his leg-sheath
4 vs 3
The creature bites Alzar for 1d6+6 damage 9. Alzar’s THACO is 18, and he needs -5 forhis sword and STR, and then adds 2 back for AC, so 15 is needed, so his 11 misses.
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Alzar is hit three times, dodges, once, and then slays the creature. He’ll regen these bites though.
1300 XP total
Alzar takes the small statuette and dips it in each of the three crystal pools. After the third, it grows again, and is now fully handed sized.
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