>>5393771>20You press on, determined to avoid anymore incidents. The pain grows agonizing, the rash around your words spreading out. Your mana is depleted, and your physical energy begins to seep out and away as well, but you do not stop. The pain and discomfort drives you forward faster, so that your allies actually struggle to equal your pace. You hear breathless pursuit in the darkness, hear padded footfalls whenever you pause, and you cease to make such stops. You sense wicked intent in the eternal night of the below-realm, and resolve to outrace it. You do not stop to rest, not even when you otherwise would have without injury—Drow territory will be sanctuary, salvation!
>20 AGAINA fire burns within you, pushing the poison out, baking it away. You categorically REFUSE to fall to such an ignoble and pathetic cause as this grave-toxin. You are a Dragonborn, damnit, and you are BEYOND such petty assassins as these!
>Gained: Poison ResistanceBy the time you reach the encampment of the dark elves—or, rather, draw close enough for their unseen scouts and their arthropod allies to lower themselves from their hidden crevices above and to come meet you—your allies are flagging, barely on their feet. You, in spite of the dizziness and nausea which you feel even now, stand tall and unbroken.
“I am the Copper Dragonborn, of Bloodrise, here to see Princess Jazkarmel,” you declare to them, with stiff formality to hide the pained break in your voice. It’s not as if these elves wouldn’t recognize you, or could conceivably mistake you for anyone else. “I come at her invitation, and that of your Queen.”
Only once the elves acknowledge your arrival and agree to guide you to their settlement do you allow yourself to feel your pain in earnest. The fight slowly leaves you, and blackness fills your vision. You and your allies ll unconscious.
While you slumber, sleeping ff the poison and your extreme exertion, you shamefully dream once again. You dream of…
>A hidden danger among your elven allies>The scheming pretender who brought you low>The will of the Dark Gods>The Green Knight, as you so often do 