DM Note: Phil had to bow out due to work but asked the group to play anyway, with the DM running [[Ardour]] as a "battle bot". So, Phil's character was present for combat but otherwise uninvolved.
The group continued on, passing through ranch country. 2nd DM note: I had intended for this to take a couple of days, but they were on the road and I forgot to mention it. Which probably has a lot to do with why they didn't end up interacting with any of the ranch people I had been thinking about. Oh well.
Getting into the foothills of the mountains, they noted a very contained set of stormclouds. Early spring, storms are not unusual in the moutains, but the sky was otherwise clear. [[Lorrin]] recognized this as a sign of a dragon lair. Once under cover of the stormclouds, the group was attacked by an entity formed of dust and air. Having defeated it, [[Camillune]] said that they should expect others. Far ahead, they saw bonfire smoke and she began rushing in that direction.
The group followed suit they came to a point where they were overwhelmed with a smell of death. [[Kaupu]] and [[Camillune]] (if I remember right) failed the save and had to pause to compose themselves. Everyone else moved forward to see what was causing the smoke.
On the other side of the brow of the hill, there was a large blue dragon, dead. And orc and two goblins were busily beginning to skin it. Nearby was a bonfire and beyond that was a cave entrance that would be the dragon's lair.
Prior to the fight commencing, I told the group that as soon as combat was initiated, I was starting a timer for unknown purposes. It was a long timer, but it existed and they needed to be aware of it.
This fight was somewhat lopsided, and over relatively quickly. The end of the fight was a running battle toward the entrance of the cave, with [[Camillune]] talking about needing to protect the hoard. She and [[Peltogyne]] rushed the cave. When [[Lorrin]] stopped to check the dragon's body, [[Peltogyne]] only paused long enough to encourage him to catch up.
The cave entrance had a passage right and left, with reflected torch light visible in the left path. [[Camillune]] rushed that way, with [[Peltogyne]] following. The others came with, attempting to be a little more stealthy. [[Lotte]] and [[Kaupu]] were most successful at that, as would be expected.
Not far down the left path, two humans attempted to stop the group. They were quickly dealt with. [[Camillune]] didn't even slow down.
The left tunnel came into another open area where a torch had been wedged into a wall. From here there was another path left and right, but neither [[Camillune]] nor [[Peltogyne]] could find obvious sign of which way to go. At random, [[Camillune]] chose left.
This path had two tremendous orcs waiting in ambush. [[Camillune]] evaded capture but the rest of the group was tangled up in battle with these two. [[Peltogyne]]'s sentinel feat prevented the orcs from giving chase.
While the rest of the group fought the orcs, [[Camillune]] took flight on wings of shadow and followed the sound of breakage and scuffling to the left and to the dragon's hoard. It was partially smashed, with a goblin continuing the destruction while a peculiar creature using a rope made of iron like a prehensile appendage throttled a second goblin.
[[Camillune]] gave a cry of "For the dragons!" and destroyed the goblin engaged in hoard destruction, and that's where we ended the session.
For the record, everyone else is dealing with the orcs still and [[Camillune]] is faced off with a creature of a sort she's never seen.
The group followed back to town. When they arrived, there was some discussion about getting cleaned up first so as to present better, but they decided to go back to the mayor immediately. Out front of the office were [[Melgash]] the fighter, [[Falimar]] the rogue, and [[Picti]] the sorcerer. Of course, none of these people had been introduced. As our heros arrived, the fighter ducked in to warn the others and then ducked back out. [[Camillune]] tried to be friendly, but it didn't seem like there was much interest in response, so the heroes went inside. Inside the office were [[Rouac]] the cleric, [[Ta'om]] the bard, and [[Theoc]] the artificer talking with Mayor [[Jerrell]]. On the desk in front of the mayor were a golden circlet and two bits of broken off "dragon" parts. [[Ta'om]] was explaining that their theory is that the heroes were using the control circlet for the dragon to try to blackmail towns into paying for protection. After some back and forth with b...
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