So I had this weird dream...

So I had this dream I was reading a comic by Shen, The comic was a D&D styled adventure about two groups, one trying to make it’s way through a mountain ruins, the other trying to access the ruins themselves.

One group was very much Shen’s style of thin, kind of lanky characters, no real “fighter” style amongst them, but they relied on a lot of rogue and illusion spells to keep themselves safe.

The other was a sorceress (kind of on the dark side of magic) and two fighters who seemed to know each other but weren’t on great with each other. This party all came from an adjacent country that had supported an evil great wizard in a previous conflict quite a long while ago, the group also had a mysterious character who kept themself shrouded.

The two fighters know each other and the reluctant one decides to group up with the one he knows and the group because of a term that (in my dream) was something like “crenellation” which he didn’t really understand but had heard before.

The two groups met up because the “hero” group, for lack of a better term, was bickering amongst themselves when one of them noticed the oncoming group and right before they stumbled across them, cast invisibility and disappeared. He had referenced an illusion spell during the argument, but I didn’t think much of that.

The “evil” group is making the pilgrimage to the ruins because it’s the location of an artifact tied to the old ruler, it like many other parts of the evil one’s armor and weapons, were bound in spells by the great good wizard and left scattered in places of key importance in the world.

The evil group forces them along with them into the ruins when they get into one HUGE antechamber they strike up a light and there is a MASSIVE red dragon sleeping in the room. The evil group decide to use the red dragon to do their dirty work and leave the good group in the room and bar the door, to look for the artifact on their own.

In a twist, the red dragon slowly disapates and the missing mage from the good group walks out of where it had been and comments that he couldn’t have held that spell much longer and was glad it worked. It was a trick! I had completely forgotten about this mage and my mind was BLOWN reading this dream comic.

The other group begins to talk between the two fighters (and at this point I remember drawing a page from like a story book of the former big enemy guy, whose body apparently began to resemble black obsidian stone/crystal) and the fighter explained that “crenellation” was declared, giving amnesty to all exiled and defunct members of the region that had supported the evil wizard because he was in the process of returning to the world. The exiled fighter takes pause at this, and you kind of realize he will probably join the “good” group eventually.

The “evil” group’s sorceress finds the artifact and begins to try to breach the barrier surrounding it.

The robed shadowy figure of the evil group just ignores her, shoving her a little as it marches past and simply absorbs the purple magic shielded object into it’s abdomen and begins to grow from a shriveled weak looking person to a monster of obsidian, building around and shattering the containment spell it uses the armor piece within as it builds itself.

In some kind of mental draining on the sorceress it questions what she knows about the good wizard, and how, as he died with the evil one in the final battle, he was able to come back so soon and to such great prominence and regain his former strength. She doesn’t know, he asks her something along the lines of “why does no REGULAR person ever come back from the other side” and her response is that they’ve asked mystics and seers before and those on the other side say “it’s not that they cannot come back, it’s that they would not want to.”

At this point the being, whose size and mannerisms make it seem like quite a large person wearing obsidian armor, but his abdomen is missing where he pulled in the magic sealed armor, and is an upper body, and a pair of legs with no real connection except a small shard of obsidian that floats between the two, discards the sorceress as he’s drained her magic and life away in the process of questioning her.

He then summons a massive obsidian monster and he and the rest of the “evil” party begin to head back down the mountain to return to their lands, and it’s left as that the good party will assumedly fight the obsidian golem thing the evil sorcerer has left in the mountain ruins.