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

[Anastasia]

"Hi!" Kascha smiles and gives the dragon-golem a little wave. Mirajane just nods slightly.

Arrel gives the metal dragon a long look, the two locking eyes. Nothing's said, however. Perhaps mercifully, Wand stays quiet for now.

"So Origin tossed you in this maze for some reason? What's your goal?" The dragon's long neck rises up, head against the ceiling and well above the party. "This maze has many purposes, each with a goal to be found or a reason for the trouble."

[Corwin]

"To prove ourselves by retrieving a trinket for him, so he'd be allowed to join up with our Crusade when we give Lixer the boot," Jaela responds. "That's the prime goal for us here. Then, there's the overall goal of getting the first embers of Goldenfire to kill the Duke of Destiny. It also seems like this is your usual dungeon with riches and treasure chests, so since the Morninglord and Origin clearly want us to get useful and expensive tools to kill our enemies better, we're going after them. It makes so much sense we would be doing that even without a couple dragons on the team." She tilts her head. "I suppose recruiting anyone who wants to join the Crusade is another goal. How about it?"

[Ebiris]

"We have another awakened ironwyrm golem over there, he'd probably like to meet you," Afina chimes in after Jaela's explanation. "I'd have brought him along but he's Earth-aspected so flight doesn't agree with him."

[Anastasia]

The dragon listens to it all, a metal tongue flicking out every so often. Just like a snake's, licking at its lips. "That's a good reason. I can't leave this place, for the Morninglord depends on my presence here. But I can help you nonetheless." The dragon's eyes close and there's a soft rattle, as if all the maze were glass standing against a gale wind. "Back the way you came is a closed door. It's open now."

[Ebiris]

"That's very kind of you, thanks," Afina says with a smile. "Is it best if we keep going East to the exclusion of all else or would we be better served exploring more of the maze?"

[Anastasia]

"Ah, you figured it out," The dragon eyes Afina, "Always go east, to a new dawn and new life. Anything else is a diversion."

[Ebiris]

"We actually got told that elsewhere, but it seems prudent in any place connected with Lathander. You have our thanks, Golden Heart. Farewell," she says, taking flight back towards the presumably now opened door and beyond!

[Anastasia]

The party heads back. As they do, "That was an amazingly well mannered dragon," Kascha speaks up, "How nice of him."

[Ebiris]

"Yes, many could learn from such an example," Afina agrees blandly.

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru excitedly zips in circles and loops around Arrel and Golden Heart as the others talk.

"Bye, Golden Heart! I need to meet more dragons, so thank you for helping with that! I miss other dragons... But now I know two more! Though... I can't really visit you here often... Still... More dragons are always fun! Well, not the chromatic ones. Still, thank you! And give my thanks to Lathander! He's really helping me build my hoard. It's my first one!"

With that, Surraruthru flies off after the others, clutching Wand in two of his claws.

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Surraruthru: 238/238 HP, Greater Mage Armor (CL 13), Fire subtype, Greater Invisibility, Spell Turning, Moment of Prescience (+25), Foresight
AC: 36+2Insight (Touch: 20, Flat Footed: 26+1) SR: 18, Immunity to Fear, Sleep, Paralysis, Reflective Fear, Darkvision 60 ft, Low-Light Vision, Waterbreathing, Immunity to Fire, immunity to Disease, Weakness to Cold, +4 Dex, +2 Int, +2 Cha, +4 Fort Save vs Poison, True Seeing
Spells/SLAs: http://www.soulriders.net/forum/index.php/topic,101754.msg1059635.html#msg1059635
Spell like abilities as follows: (1/day for each) burning hands, produce flame, flaming sphere, wall of fire, fire shield, fire seeds, firestorm, incendiary cloud, elemental swarm, plane shift (Fire only)

[Anastasia]

Surraruthru gets a nod - a strange thing on a dragon - and a, "Farewell."

"Yes," Arrel thirds, "If only the rainbow was a good a learner as a speaker. Hmph."

Wand vibrates in Surraruthru's claws, "What they're saying is that most dragons are more arrogant than a pack of pit fiends. I hate fighting dragons, since it's all hubris until the end."

[Corwin]

The door that has stopped them earlier has been opened, so Jaela heads towards it!

[Anastasia]

The party returns to the door, finding that it is indeed open. It leads to a path going about 60ft ahead, then to stairs going up. Besides the stairs is a treasure chest, just like the others you've seen in here.

[Corwin]

Jaela risks herself by heading over to open the treasure chest!

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru begins looking over the chest for traps, but is surprised by Jaela's quick intervention and instead watches what happens with interest...