Part 2 of Carson's prequel to "Our Year with the Dragon" aka Planet of the Dragons. This is a summary.
... So the previous portion led us up to the final encounter leading us to the Throne of Golden Ages, which the party intended to find and destroy, thus ending the horribly inhuman treatment the human emperor was giving to the dragon community. The true source of the empire's power was arcane magic, which was coming from dragons - directly from their blood.
Furthermore, upon meeting the Emperor and his entourage, the party learned they were undead - from banshees, etc. to the emperor himself, a vampire. After much pomp and circumstance, delay and distraction - one of the rogues discovered a secret wall behind the throne that opened large enough for a dragon to fit through. A big battle ensued with the Emperor fleeing and the party defeating his minions before following through the opening.
A corridor led to a strange chamber - to a room with no throne. Instead, a gigantic, strange beast held the Emperor, who proudly exclaimed that he was sitting upon the true throne, his true source of power. In the final encounter, Jorel of the Stars (unchanged except in his memories from his future self), Shamus (ancestor of Shamash), Atlas Jones (ancestor of Wikipedia), Stella (ancestor of Ella Enchanted), and the ancestors of Aurora, Robrick Willikers, Hadjii, and Sticky Fingers all worked together to defeat the emperor and his strange one-horned mount along with the ghosts of gored dragons and strange magical effects. When the weird creature was defeated, the world of the emperor imploded in an ominous way and the world changed in a giant shockwave as what had been done, became undone.
It was all very epic, like a fantasy version of the end of the first Ghostbusters movie.
Just as epic was what followed: the beginning of the reign of the dragons, who paraded a tainted sphere of Io, vowed wrath on the humans and burned the seas in a tremendous show of force. As most of the party flew away on the back of the dragon they had saved - Lady Visandra, each of them had similar thoughts: Oh GOD, what have we done?
By the way, we went DING to 14th level. And if you missed it, you missed out on Ava's Bananas Foster pastry things - mmm. delicious!
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