Scratch that climactic encounter idea, re-thinking later.
Back to the adventure.
5. Renata's Lair:
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The winged woman opens the door into what is, apparently, the main hall of the building. The roof has been removed and the hall is open to the sky. There is a colossal gold dragon within.
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Renata Carideo, gold dragon, age category 6: HD 13, hp 53, #At 4, dam 2d6 claw/2d6 claw/7d6 bite or 13d8 breath/2d6 tail, Mv 30ft / 80ft flying, Sv F13, ML 10, xp 1765.
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Spells:-
Level 1: Charm person, Detect magic (x2), Protection from evil, Read languages
Level 2: Detect invisible, ESP, Invisibility, Mirror image
Level 3: Dispel magic, Haste, Protection from normal missiles
Level 4: Confusion, Polymorph other
Level 5: Teleport
(NB: If attacked, Renata will teleport away. She presumes that an adventuring party that attacks has access to some means of killing her very quickly, and will abandon her home and her treasure. She will, of course, return to attack the party later when she is prepared and they are not.)
Renata's treasure pile contains: 14,331 cp; 41,899 sp; 23,240 gp; 43 pp; the Fendale Jacinth, an orange-red gem nearly the size of a hen's egg which has been valued at 12,500gp; a rosewood scroll case set with chrysoprase worth 850gp; a platinum statuette of a kitten with chalcedony eyes worth 700gp; a fox-fur hood with tourmaline clasp worth 450gp; a black star sapphire worth 1,400gp; 5 zircons worth 50gp each; a greenish jade statuette of an unpleasant creature resembling a cross between a jellyfish and a bloodworm (the species is native to the plane of Tarterus, value 7,200gp); a set of 9 matching longswords with gemstones set in their hilts worth 350gp each; a
shield +3; and Renata's spellbooks, which contain every magic user spell from levels 1 to 5, plus 1d4 randomly-determined level 6 spells and 1 randomly-determined level 7 spell.