[AslanCross]

Wow. OP's post is indeed filled with awesome. The image of a huge Native American warrior furiously pedaling a bicycle is just hilarious, though. It reminds me of something out of Looney Tunes.

Anyway, one from this week's session:

The PCs were on their way to quell a potential uprising led by an evil genius noble who ruled a march on the border between Cormyr and Sembia (Forgotten Realms). They had to trudge through some swampland from the coast to get to the Marquis's castle and ran into a black dragon.

They had their hands full with the dragon already, as they were rolling badly on their reflex saves against its breath (and they didn't bother to heal up, for some reason). Then, out of the swamp, came a Drowned. It's an undead creature from MM3 that radiates an aura that basically begins to drown you even if you're on land. As the dragon was beating down on the paladin and the wizard (almost killed the wizard twice by Power Diving him), the drowned was moving closer, smothering the ranger and the rogue with its aura. Both failed their CON checks and began to drown.

The last party member, a meek, mild-mannered female cleric of Kelemvor (anti-undead god of death, for those unfamiliar), found that she had to destroy the drowned before everyone failed their CON checks and drowned. (she usually healbots even if everyone tells her she can actually fight well if she tried. Part of her RPing, I guess.) Anyway, she turns undead (we use the Complete Divine variant that simply deals damage equal to 1d6 per cleric level), severely weakening the drowned. The wizard follows up with an orb of cold, shattering off about half the zombie's body. It continues trying to advance on them but falls into some quicksand. The cleric, thinking quickly, blasts it with searing light. Needless to say, the sight of glowing, frozen zombie shards peppering the area in a blast of positive energy was very encouraging to the party. I might add it's the first time she killed anything in the entire campaign.

Of course they're still trying to kill the dragon, which has been moving too fast for them to keep up with. The newly revitalized rogue/swordsage wants to use her shadow garrote to take it out. Waiting to see if they can pull it off next session.