He woke several hours later, to the sweet voices of his comrades in arms. Leave the fights to the experts. While your presence may have served as a possibly useful distraction, I did not require your aid to defeat the dragon. After my first strokes, the fight seemed to leave it, so powerful was my thrust. There's also that poisoned dart we found in its mouth, too.
Dragons are immune to poison.
It had been preying on the village because it was too decrepit to hunt anywhere else. But to a first level party, such beasts seem as mighty dragons indeed. We found no treasure, which upset Dania a great deal, and soon were on our merry way once again. The biggest problem was Rourk's horse, which had died, leaving our mini-tank on foot. The remainder of our trip to the keep was almost without incident.