Session 12 - Short and Peaceful Respite

## Summary

The group found a green dragon egg after the battle. They decide to give it to Balmia to look after and dreturn back to Castle Volistus to report the events back to Queen Anya. Grace found out some troubling news during dinner and the group preps for their travel to the frontline.

## The Events

#### Short and Peaceful Respite

After everyone recovered from their catnap, Arog gave Tired a big hug as he is very happy with their new recruit. Ipakas asked Toshi what are their plans so the group can try to stay out of their way. The group gathered some material from the green dragon's corpse then proceed into the cave to check out its lair. Besides a mountain of humanoid bones piled up to one side of the cave, they found a spell book amongs a pile of books.

Spells contained:

* Otiluke's resilience sphere
* Arcane Eye
* Wall of fire
* Long strider
* Ray of enfeeblement

Min spot something gleaming down the cave and found a dragon egg. The group debated who to give the egg to as caretakers and finally settled on Balmia.

> "Hey Balmia, where are you at? We have a gift for you that I'm sure you'll want." - Ipakas
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"Oh you finally got my diamond, map and alarm clock?" - Balmia

"Depends, if you would like a living dragon egg as a replacement or not? Meet us at your old cottage." - Ipakas

"SOLD be there by night fall :)" - Balmia

As the group is about to depart, Arog gave Tired the sigil of the Hozyn and another big hug. Ipakas asked Toshi to please let them know if they want to take Tired again so they won't worry about it. On their travel to Balmia's cottage, the group noticed the forest is more lively compare to before. Min use his ability to speak with animals and the bird informed him that they don't feel well. Min extend his hand out for the bird to land on and spotted the green bug on the bird has turned brown and decide to pull the bug off the bird. It caused immense pain to the bird but it stayed alive, Min offered the bird to rest with him until it feels fit to fly off again.

The group reached Balmia's house by sunset and knocked on the door, Balmia rushed to the door and whipped it over exclaming "where is my dragon?". After exchanging some pleasentries, the group walked into the cottage and saw the Matherson matriach sitting at the back of the little abode. She greeted the party warmly and stated her grudge task is complete and is now helping Balmia's group out with killing as many dragon as she can, much like what she has always done during the war. The group then sit down with Balmia and try to set up some ground rules around raising the dragon.

* You can't train it to hate all dragons.
* Other Green dragon visitation right.
* Other Green dragon can't be trained to be evil.
* We have visitation rights.
* No more Undead Dragon.
* ~~No dumb name.~~
* Tell us when it's hatching and we'll try to make it to see it hatch.

After they come to an agreement, Balmia offered them to stay for the night but outside of the cottage, so Ipakas set up a safety dome for the group to sleep the night away. The travel back to Castle Volistus was quiet and upon reaching the castle they saw a big dragon golem outside of it. Max greets the dragon fondly and asked if she could pet it, but the dragon refused.

That night, the group joined Anya and Marduk for dinner and relay recent event to the queen. Marduk informs that he will be heading to the site of war between the blue dragons and the red dragons. During dinner, Tired spotted a lady in purple dress with the Hyozen sigil and slinged away from the dining table to speak with her. The lady (Kiku) let slip that they are here to collect the people they need for the blue dragon sisters, and Tired try to convince her that the cleric they just saved is to be left alone as the blue dragons don't want her anymore. Then he returned back to the dinning table drenched in sweat as he had to exert himself to make the lie stick. While this was all happening, Grace noticed that Balmia tapped on the cup three times with her ring and Marduk tap on the table three times as well. Then they started having a conversation about old times. Grace realized they were speaking in code and was able to decipher what they were saying.

> "Petvan is a dragon spy" - Coded message
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Before bedding down for the night, Ipakas gave Jonik all his green dragon scales for him to craft anything to his heart's desire. Grace enter a deep meditation to seek advice from Tomen about the troubling information he just overheard. Tired tries to court Kiku with no luck then went off to buy his own riding horse for the journey ahead.