Founder's Day, Part 3

The hulking half-dragon, Semvar, breaks free of V and Bivouac and takes flight, hovering over the chaos. V pulls out the huge crossbow she looted from the first half-dragon Team Ivy slew, and pierces the wing of Semvar. A second half-dragon flies in, another of the ones Team Ivy encountered in Bravado. Kobolds and cultists surround Bivouac and V as she crashes back to earth. As the fight turns against the heroes, a third half dragon, silvery, emerges and crashes into the town hall, attacking the second half-dragon with a gigantic sword. Meanwhile, the assassin strikes the Follower of the Coin down and tries to run, but Bivouac and Rah-Cerves finish him off.

Semvar, with V again on its back, flies straight up into the sky. V slashes it on the back with her Greatsword of Sharpness, and slays it in mid-air. She spreads her manta wings and glides to the ground as Semvar's body crashes to the stage. The surviving half-dragon picks up Semvar's body, vows revenge on V, and disappears through a blueish portal door.

Rah-Cerves and Mama speak to the panicking townsfolk, and Mama examines the Follower of the Coin: he's dead. The Virtue and Ulric Fancywater are wounded and unconscious on the stage, but alive. Bivouac and Aurelia interrogate the captured cultist, who tries to misty step away, but is counterspelled by Aurelia. He's shocked and intimidated, and tells them carnage was the goal, and they thought AI were buffoons. They came to kill the Follower of the Coin and others, but won't reveal more. Bivouac thinks he's fucking with him, and punches him back out. They look up and the silver dragon is gone. V rouses the dazed Virtue, and also finds the gleaming white sword of Semvar. They solemnly bear the body of the Follower of the Coin back to the Temple, and Rah-Cerves distracts the few acolytes while the rest begin to sneak down into the temple's vault. As they do, the disembodied voice of the Follower arises from the body, congratulating Team Ivy on a job well done. Mama can tell the body is dead, but the voice speaks anyway and offers them an additional "offering" at their HQ if they leave the body and go no further. They do so and leave the Temple.

Arriving back at the Landlocked Lady, they find a ring in a little purse: a solid gold band with a red gem. Zelle identifies it as a ring of fire resistance. Also there is a small chest containing a variety of polished, immaculate young chromatic dragon scales, blue white red green black, quite a bit. This suggests the Church of Waukeen has access to harvested dragon parts (the scales and the teeth he gave the Team earlier). There may be a rift between what was likely a previous alliance between the Church of Waukeen and the Crimson Night.

Rah-Cerves and V take another crack at interrogating the cultist. Bivouac breaks his finger and Rah-Cerves gets into his head, and he sighs, defeated. He tells them the Follower was a defector, looking to seize great wealth for some other end. The wealth dried up for the Crimson Night, so they planned to destroy the Follower and replace them. They want wealth for a typical dragon's reason, to hoard it. He confesses that the tea-maker is another agent of theirs. Visage is their leader, who assembled them, and when they are done their Lady, their Queen, will arise and ascend once more. He starts to fade, and they bring in Gorganax to feed on it. Gorganax has grown to panther size with goat-like horns, and speaks to Aurelia. He says he will stay the room and feed on the body and soul of the dying cultist, which he calls a Snackrifice, but says he probably can't handle the full soul of one this powerful; however, he can take some of its magical ability. Later, Rah carries the cultists body out back to bury it at the edge of the forest - while digging, he suddenly sees the spectral form of the cultist floating, mask removed, an elven individual, his soul diminished and no longer bound to his body. He says, "well, looks like you're stuck with me".

End of Season 2

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