Maybe it was exasperation, maybe it was because he was hungry, or maybe it was because he just bloody well paid attention.
Ash jumped into the exploded remains of the undead dragon and his archer friends, and found 4 golden arrows and a bow. He then went out into the next room, discovered that there was a huge pit, which, at the bottom, seemed to be slightly illuminated by a pair of glowing red eyes. Reasoning that it was most likely an undead skeleton, he continued on to his right, discovering a 10' high shelf.
Hoisting himself up, he continued on. The rest of the group stayed behind like confused roombas, finding the concept of climbing something 10' high impossible.
Solving a few minor puzzles as he went, he eventually encountered a gigantic, undead dinosaur with a golden sword within its chest. Refusing to yell "I have at thee" he nonetheless, had at it. Jumping and stabbing as was his trademark.
Raelin, being of reasonably high intelligence, suddenly solved the puzzle of the 10' obstruction. "Hey... I could climb over this!" he smiled, brilliantly. Tribby, the 9' Ogre looked at the 10' obstruction and squinted. The Elf's idea just, might, work.
Ash jumped and stabbed, and was swallowed by the giant tyrannosaurus!
The party gleefully climbed over the obstructions, being quite excited at their progress.
Ash, not missing a beat, smashed the creature's teeth from within, causing the creature to open its mouth in protest!
The rest of the group arrived and stared helpfully as Ash fought the giant behemoth!
Ash leapt from the creature's maw, spiderman vaulted up on an arc, and landed upon the back of the creature's skull, stabbing it once more from a vantage point where the creature was unable to counter!
Raelin snapped out of his awestruck daze first, and stabbed the creature in the big toe with the golden knife they'd acquired from the Ravid's treasure chest! "HAH!" he yelled!
Ash continued to stab, all the while holding on as the creature thrashed violently!
"HAH!" Raelin yelled again, really poking the creature.
Tribby looked up at the creature, back at ash, back at Raelin, and asked what they were fighting. Jay El informed her that it was the undead dragon from before. Med mentioned that she thought they'd blown that up earlier. The group discussed this some more while Ash screamed in bloodlust (can one have bloodlust against an undead? Would that be bone-lust?)
Tribby ran up and attacked it with her club in the face... which was very high up. Ash explained to her that it was still an undead tyrannosaurus rex. Tribby apologized, and smashed it in the shin, instead.
Ash finally fell the beast and the group celebrated and discussed various aspects of the creature and what, in fact, it was. Ash took the golden sword from the creature's chest and held it aloft. The group asked where he'd gotten it from.
Ash headed back to the junction from which they'd came, and found a silver key was needed to unlock the door to the next area. Manbearpig shot a golden arrow at the undead at the bottom of the pit.
Ash used the ring of poverty upon the golden key, turning it silver, and opened the door.
as a dungeon master myself, I totally relate to this post.
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