Having wrapped up the fight with the mercenaries sent to kill dragons, the group finds themselves talking to a small creature who looks like the top half of a dwarf combined with the bottom half of a faun, but made of rock.
[[Camillune]] has made tentative friends with the creature, which tells the group to call it "Hey, you". In amongst the dealing with the hoard (the creature agreed to stash most of it underground but [[Camillune]] took charge of one piece of what looked like solid mercury), it offered to give the group directions to the next dragon, in trade.
It told them there were two dragons nearby, a white and a red. In exchange for directions, the creature asked for "Green." After some debate, [[Lorrin]] offered the green pigment from their disguise kit. The creature didn't indicate if this was acceptable, merely absorbed the color from the pigment, leaving it a gray powder. It told them that there was a white dragon just over the top of this mountain "but he's usually grumpy" and that there was a red dragon to the south.
They asked for directions to the red dragon and the creature told them to "go halfway up the mountain, pass the 7th boulder, and then turn left". It said that if they got lost they could summon him by calling hey you, and then it disappeared into the stone floor.
The group went outside to set up camp. [[Camillune]] put the dragon's corpse to rest as best she could. [[Lotte]] kept watch while [[Kaupu]] found a higher vantage point to look around from. After dealing with the dragon as best she could [[Camillune]] felt a pull to the west and went over the nearest hill to see if there was something over there. On the other side, the land sloped down into the ranching valley they had most recently left, and there seemed to be nothing of importance.
[[Camillune]] set up a magic dome for resting in for the night, but because of the spell's level, the player had to roll to see if it worked. It did, and extra stuff also happened, but it didn't really come into play.
After dark, [[Kaupu]] spotted three creatures trying to flee the dragon cave, and began attacking them. One of them threw up a darkness spell to try to give themselves a chance to make a break for it, but [[Ardour]] cast a fireball at the darkness spell.
Again, because of the spell level, there was a roll. The fireball doubled in both its size and its damage output, instantaneously slaying the three escapees. Having secured their camp site, the group rested til morning.
The group started south and then realized that they didn't know what constituted a "boulder". After some debate, they decided on something bigger than a man and smaller than a house. At what they took to be the 7th boulder, most of the group turned left and started marching up the mountain. [[Peltogyne]] (I think?) hung back because [[Ryn]] stopped at the boulder to think things through. The group regathered and [[Ryn]] asked if they were certain which left they were supposed to be taking.
After some more discussion, [[Camillune]] called "Hey you" and the rock creature appeared on top of the boulder they were debating beside. It was fairly confrontational though, and told them that it asked for green and they offered it powder. [[Lorrin]] pointed out that it was green powder and the creature vented its temper a little. "That's NOT what I asked for Yirrhesh [[Lorrin]]. I said I would trade for green. Not powder. Green."
(As a side note, [[Lorrin]] is the only member of the group that the creature actually knows the full name of. With the Fae, even if you know a being's full name, you don't use it unless it's been offered to you unless you're intentionally being as offensive as possible. If you were to do that to another Fae there would almost certainly be an immediate duel to the death.)
[[Peltogyne]] offered the creature green, but only for specific directions. The creature agreed and took the concept, definition, physicality... basically everything... from [[Peltogyne]]. The dryad's leaves immediately took on fall colors. The creature gave them group specific directions, sending them to a city some ways further south. It also gave [[Peltogyne]] a little more information, as it was the dryad making the trade.
As they continued south, the group expressed a lot of concern about how the removal of green would affect the dryad, but [[Peltogyne]] didn't really register what they were talking about. The knowledge that a trade was made is of course intact, but specifically what was traded is somewhat nebulous.
In the distance, [[Lotte]] could make out a city of some sort. As they got closer, the city got larger but did not become visually more clear. They got fairly close to it before they were certain that they were going to be entering a city of giants.
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...
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