Rumours of Dragons...

8th February 2023

## Adventurers Attending

* Grrder
* Aldier
* Lucidus

## Mission Notes

Arriving at the guild, within a private chamber the party awaits for the arrival of Sir Beefington to explain the details of their quest. After a long time of pondering if he will arrive, he swiftly opens the door and shouts “The town of Aramoor has been robbed, go find out what happened and speak with Headman Flint for more details”. After which, slamming the door in haste leaving the group as ill informed as always.

As the party began to exit this chamber, a stranger made eye contact with Grrder. This stranger wrapped in furs and thick warm clothing approached the autognome. He appeared to be human, with dark brown skin that had been worn with gravel. Grrder had never seen this man in the guild before. The stranger enquired about the pay that adventurers get at the guild here, claiming to be a skilled swordsman and adventurous type. Grrder informed the man that the guild gives a flat rate depending on your skill level, to which the stranger signed and wandered to the barkeep for a drink.

Growing curious of his lone man, Aldier began to converse with the man about his travel to Otha’s Rest. Meanwhile seeing an opportunity, Creed decide to greet his pockets with his sly hand. The man at first not noticing the pickpocket gave Aldier information, but nothing of substance clearing dodging his questions with a careful structured tale to keep him at a distance. Furthermore, with a keen eye, Aldier noticed something about the gentleman’s eyes. Though the appeared brown and looking ahead at him, in the corner of his Sclera appeared yellow and lizard like. With a undoubtable second iris appearing in this tiny slit. Checking through his possessions Creed found something warm and wet in one pocket, testing his luck in delved deeper to try and find more but was sadly caught in the act. The Barkeep immediately yelled at Creed and apologized on his behalf.

Frustrated, the cloaked man got up and began to leave. To further add to his foul mood Rustling Whisper decided to link telepathically with him and question him about details of their quest. To which he revealed nothing, and didn’t seem to react to the message though the telepathy was reaching this man. Following him outside, Lucidus saw him go down and alleyway off the main street, after which a large flash of light appeared in that area. Quickly casting Detect Magic Grrder as well as Lucidus’ keen inspection of the lingering magic learnt that this man used a Teleportation Scroll to disappear. Shocked at the ramifications of an unknown visitor to the guild holding such a powerful spell scroll the group informed the most reliable member of the guild….Hamer, the cart driver. He said that he would inform Beefington when he can and began to take the party northward to Aramoor.

On the trail northward the group tried to learn more about Hamer, however even with a bribed sandwich and a promise of a birthday gift. Hamer only revealed that before he worked for the guild as a coachman, he used to raise horses which apparently didn’t work out well for him in the end.

Passing by the Lake Kou and entering the charred forest that surrounds Aramoor the group saw a most peculiar sight. While it is known that the town of Aramoor has a burnt forest around it from past events. A second ring of now charred and partially frozen tress surrounds the town. The party approached the town and enquired with the locals on what happened.

The locals explained that while the guards were dealing with a dragon circling the area, a gang of kobolds came in the chaos and pillaged everything of value. Gold, jewellery even some extra shiny cutlery was taken.

Shocked by the mention of a dragon, the party entered the longhouse hoping to find Flint the Headman. As the sun began to set, Lucidus noticed something. A roar coming from the mountains. They all hastily went inside and Flint explained that two quests were to be sent out. One to deal with the dragon and the other to find the belongings and find the kobolds. However, due to some transit error the first quest did not arrive at the guild. So now, this group will have to deal with both issues.

With a sense of no fear, Grrder and a curious Creed went back into the streets as the dragon flew closer. The rest of the team began to panic, unsure of what to do. Creed ran to the Watch Tower to get a better view, while the dull metalled Grrder stood in the dead centre of the street awaiting the mighty creature. As all the townsfolk shuddered and hid under tables and chairs in the Longhouse, a small little robot looked up into the jaws of a Young White Dragon. But to his surprise, an elven man stepped of the back of this great creature demanding his coin purse in exchange for his life. Creed, trying to immediate the elven rider with a message spell was immediately assaulted by a sheer cold breath of this dragon as the rider snapped his finger and the dragon turned and exhaled. By a moment of pure luck, Creed with 1 HP remaining after the breath attack lie against the now destroyed tower and waited to see what would happen.

With a careful use of Draconic Lucidus bravely confronted the rider and gave him his coin purse in exchange for them to leave. During this Grrders coin pouch was stolen too. After a moment of uncertainty, the dragon and his companion flew off to the north-west descending into the Pinsborough Peaks. The next morning, with the aid of a local scout and Wildman Venti the party trekked and found the lair of this dragon. A inactive small volcano that lie hidden between a valley in the Peaks.

Deciding to wait for the dragon and rider to leave the volcano, the party took a watch and shortly it left for more treasure. Narrowly squeezing through a trap filled crack in the icy cave entrance the group tried to get the jump on the group of kobolds who lie within the frozen magma chamber of the volcano. However, stealth was not on their side and shortly a fight of trap triggering, bag exploding and crafty magic ensued. Thanks to Rustling Whisper’s keen idea to shoot one of the big bags on one of the Kobolds backs it exploded launching them down into the dark depths of the volcano. With a few injuries and attempting enslaving of the only two remaining kobolds the party entered deeper into the lair and found all the stolen treasure and gold. But it had been encased in ice, so it wasn’t as easy to transport out. Except for Lucidus who conjured a convenient disk of force that allowed the group to get all the treasure out before the dragon and rider returned to the hoard.

After conversing with the two Kobolds they learned the large dragon was named Zethrokar and its rider and their master is known as Galashar. Galashar supposedly takes on the form of an elven man disguise his true draconian form of rippling muscle and armoured blue hide.

## Loot

* Standard Level Xp & Gold
* One common magic item of the players choice. This was given as the hoard did not contain any magical items but the guild will compensate for this large sum of treasure in kind.

## Rumours

* Who was the stranger hanging around the guild and what are his plans?
* Where did this Galashar fly off to and how did he tame a dragon?
* What was the dragon doing with the frozen ring around Aramoor?