The hunt for goldenfire (Afina and Jaela, later Surraruthru too)

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru giggles at that.

"Perch! Screech! Baleruk seems like a bully. First he goes against Bahamut and then makes fun of a hoard! I don't have a hoard. I don't have a place for it! I have to carry everything!" He peers at his saddlebags, "I can only put so much in here... I need one of those better magic bags, but they get so heavy if you put too much in them... I think Arrel and I should try and make our hoards better than Baleruk's... Oh! We can play tricks on his hoard!"

His wings start fluttering like a hummingbird's at the prospect of pranking the other dragon.

[Anastasia]

"Baleruk is Baleruk. He's very prideful, and I suppose he deserves some of it. He's the first prismatic dragon since Tiamat. But that's the problem and oh no, you don't have a place for a hoard? Well, don't worry, you can get a room that can serve as one. I'll get Elena to make you a hoard space right away. A dragon shouldn't have to waste treasure on bags of holding! That's just wrong! You poor thing!"

As Kascha goes on, Dana turns and just watches the conversation, rolling her eyes. The Master hmms, "Jaela, perhaps a dragon would be a worthy opponent to hunt?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"But.. But if I don't take my hoard with me, then how do I protect it? Someone could take it! I saved what I could from my family, but I couldn't take everything. With a magic bag, I can have it with me *all the time.*"

[Anastasia]

"Aurora's safe," A warm, sunny smile comes onto Kascha's face. "Hell's tried to attack ti several times, but Medi's magic and Aurora's defenders are too strong."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hmm..." He still seems unsure and a bit suspicious, but... "... Only if I can keep it near you. If I have to protect both a hoard and you, I might as well be able to do both at the same time."

[Corwin]

"If it's a terrible dragon, sure," Jaela muses. "Ideally, one helping the devils which can't be that hard with Tiamat's flunkies." She snorts. "What a coincidence, I was just thinking of a really badass dragon earlier today."

Taking ten for 58 on Knowledge:Planes for TOR SALINUS

[Ebiris]

"Actually it's really hard to permanently kill devils, that's why we get so much use out of our dungeons. They're full of information to help the Crusade too," she adds but then shrugs as it seems Surrurathru and Kascha are off in their own little world.

[Anastasia]

Indeed, Kascha and Surrurathru are going on and on about things. Meanwhile, Dana kicks back, "If it's a terrible dragon, then it'll be a good damn fight."

Jaela can recall Tor Salinus. The Brine Dragon, the closest thing Salt has to an archomental. It is at least a great wyrm if not stronger, a deadly intelligent dragon that overwhelms any living creature that enters the plane. It collapses tunnels, can travel through Salt's deposits like an earth elemental can glide through stone and is an archmage as most elder wyrms are. It has a breath weapon that deals heaps of negative levels and damage plus a razor sharp lattice of crystals around it.

[Corwin]

"It's the worst," Jaela is all too happy to inform Dana, though she keeps her eye on the Master and Afina as well. "Swims through solid salt, flays with a breath of negative energy and is made of edges."

[Anastasia]

"Now that sounds like a good time," Dana smirks, "Lots of edges to bleed on."

[Corwin]

"He's the head cheese of his fake plane, and his hoard has the gear and tears of countless defeated adventurers!"

[Anastasia]

Kascha looks up at that, "Hm? Salt isn't a fake plane," she says, "It's entirely natural, as it's where the Elemental Plane of Water and the Negative Energy Plane meet. It's actually quite dangerous, even Seira's been there and hasn't beaten Tor Salinus."

[Corwin]

"Then we'll avenge her while we kick his ass!" Jaela exclaims, before looking shifty. "Not that she lost and sorely needs to be avenged, of course."

[Anastasia]

"Ahem," Kascha merely coughs discreetly. "I say we can settle on vanquishing him, but we really must be careful. All the lore suggests that countless others have tried. Did you know that the Red Knight hunts him and he still lives? He's forced away invasions from Water and from the Negative Energy Plane singlehandedly. He killed and ate Salt's last archomental and has kept another form taking its place. He's so strong that I hear not even devils try to mind the crystalvein in Salt."

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hmm... sounds like a hard fight. I'm not sure Kashca should go, if we don't have a really great plan."

He nods to himself, convinced that he's spoken completely logically and with absolute common sense.