Dragon Hunting

## Rise of the Red Sun

* After a day or two at the mimic village, the party decides to head to the nearest city. Gorp the book mimic decides to stay in the mimic village. Kysona bids Gorp a tearful goodbye.
* The party arrives in **Relmith** and learn that back in Sirex Opal Malor has been voted out of office and Chestington has become governor. The Sirex and Sigil relationship is at all time lows. Sirex has imposed high tariffs on Sigil tech, leading to dissatisfaction in the Outerlands because they rely on Sigil-made farm equipment.
	+ There are rumblings of bad things happening in the Outerlands. The Protectorate is heading North to address these concerns.
	+ The Church has emerged from the Trial with a squeaky-clean reputation. With the Sigil power vacuum, the Sirex government is turning more towards the Church for guidance, and Semasi is now consulting with the governorship.
	+ There is lots of talk of the impending election for the Chancellorship. General Kursk and the Tarrin governor Olivia Hawkins are both running.
* Eli takes some drugs and trips balls. She sees a whitish-blue elemental dragon calling down lightning. The dream then morphs into an image of Ina unconscious and tied down on a cot. Eli hears a woman muttering science-magic mumbo jumbo.
* Wan Ti bonds with the Child of Bombyx Mori and nicknames her Nibbler. Wan Ti also obtains a Dragon Scale Necklace of Bonding, cementing their friendship and causing Wan Ti to become the Child's caretaker.
* V leaves the party with the intention of getting in contact with the other Tyger Claw ambushes and coordinating a plan of attack against Arasaka.
* The party goes to Barnabus's monastery and talks to his teacher, Grandmaster Qutt. Out of nowhere, a ninja cyborg (Red Sun) appears and challenges her teacher to a duel to the death. Grandmaster Qutt accepts, causing the duel to be protected by the Lupo and Cani Sphinxes, the Sphinxes of the Hunt. The party cannot interfere with the fight and help Grandmaster Qutt due to presence of the Sphinxes of the Hunt.
* The Symphasian Monastery preaches pacifism, so Grandmaster Qutt stays on the defensive during the entire duel. This is obviously not sustainable, and Red Sun eventually slays the grandmaster and leaves. Barnabus is horrified and traumatized.
	+ Shortly after, the party receives a message from the Red Sun asking to meet in two days outside the city of Relmith where the rivers meet. Arasaka have Damian Rourke and are willing to exchange him for the Child of Bombyx Mori. The party rejects that idea immediately and has to decide what they're going to do instead.

## New Friends, Old Enemies

* The city is advertising a dragon hunt because dragon body parts are very valuable. The objective is to slay a green dragon that the trackers have located and bring back its teeth. The prize is an audience with the Andro Sphynx, who will answer any question that the winner has.
* The White Wolf, a famed dragon hunter, is rumored to be joining the hunt. The rumors turn out to be true because the White Wolf arrives in time for the dragon hunt with a small army of flinds. Eli, Franz, and Jaque are shocked to discover that the White Wolf looks like a combination of Telethiel and the Grin.
* Geronimo, a famous and skilled tracker, leads the dragon-hunting group to the foot of the mountain where the dragon is supposed to reside and leaves them there to figure the rest out for themselves. The group camps at the base of the mountain for the night. The White Wolf invites Eli to talk in the tent and threatens to hurt her family if she prevents him from obtaining the dragon teeth.
	+ Before he leaves, Geronimo gives Kysona a mirror shard and tells him that his patron expects her payment. Afterwards, Kysona notices that the hand that received the mirror shard has a black patch on his palm.
* That night, the White Wolf and his group of flinds kill everyone else's horses and leave, giving themselves a head start.
	+ A Tabaxi group suggests that they head to the nearest village and try to ask for horses. On the way, they come upon a narrow bridge. The Tabaxi easily traverse it (minus one who falls to their death), while the party uses magic to painstakingly cross. At some point, a rock elemental starts attacking them. Somehow, they all make it over in one piece.
	+ The party arrives at the village and discover that the Tabaxi have already taken the horses. The village asks that the party not harm the green dragon because the dragon ensures that their crops grow. It turns out that the village worships the Draco Sphynx, which is heresy to the rest of the religion. The villagers show the party the shortcut to the dragon's lair under the condition that the party will not hurt the dragon.
* On the way to the shortcut, the party is attacked by Red Sun. They still have not fully recovered from their last encounter with Red Sun, so the fight doesn't go great for the party, but Red Sun does end up running away.
	+ The party arrives on a sheer cliffside. Kysona turns into a giant bird to start flying people up. He manages to fly Aelis and Eli to the top when the metal dragon attacks again. It turns out that the metal dragon is Red Sun.
	+ Aelis runs into the cave to get the green dragon to help them. Red Sun downs a few player characters before the green dragon arrives and begins fighting Red Sun with Aelis on his back. Both the green dragon and Red Sun take heavy damage, and Red Sun flies away rather than admit defeat. The party tries to pursue but Red Sun gets away.
* The party realize that the green dragon is sentient and not harming anyone. The green dragon is heavily injured from his fight with Red Sun, and is not able to properly fight off White Wolf's dragon-hunting party. The party decides to defend the green dragon and ambush the White Wolf while the green dragon rests in the back. There's an exit in case the green dragon needs to make a quick escape.
	+ The party fights the White Wolf's flinds. In the commotion, White Wolf manages to slip by the party and get to the green dragon. Aelis uses her Death Spell scroll to kill the remaining flinds, everyone rushes to where they left the green dragon. Everyone is too preoccupied with intercepting White Wolf to interrogate Aelis about her very illegal and evil spell.
* The White Wolf attacks the green dragon, yelling at Draco Sphinx to show himself, indirectly revealing that the White Wolf has been killing dragons in order to get the Draco Sphinx's attention. Wan-Ti arrives with Nibbler. The White Wolf captures Nibbler and gets ready to stab her in the hopes that this will finally get the Draco Sphinx's attention. Wan-Ti tries to stop the White Wolf, and the White Wolf stabs Wan-Ti with his aging knife, causing her arm to essentially rot off.
	+ The Draco Sphinx does appear and attacks the White Wolf, neutralizing him. Eli finishes him off, and brings Yazmin's pendant to the Draco Sphinx. The Draco Sphinx also destroys the aging knife.
* The Draco Sphinx thanks the party for helping the green dragon and for caring for Nibbler. He ages up Nibbler, and then gives the party dragon god lore.
	+ [Insert Dragon god lore]
	+ He recognizes that they were promised three questions with the Andro Sphinx, so he will answer three questions instead
		- **What happened at Silverhearth?**
			* The orb was used and created a inter temporal and inter planar rift. Beings from other planes and time came through and destroyed the city and two armies. The Protectorate quarantined the city.
		- **Where is the orb?**
			* It's in the Anvil Islands. We can't find the Anvil Islands unless you already know where you're going. Dr. Perry knows where it is in the Anvil Islands
		- **Where is Dr. Perry?**
			* The Draco Sphinx says that he does not know where she is -- she's hidden in a place where he can't see. However, he can bring the party to someone who does know where she is. The party gets on the Draco Sphinx's back, and he's getting ready to leave when the Spirit of Fire suddenly appears and starts firing at them.

## Finding Dr. Perry

* The Draco Sphinx flies quickly through the jungle while the Spirit of Fire chases after it, peppering the the group with gun fire. The bullets tear holes in their armor, and lowering their defenses. The gunfire and high speed chase cause Barnabus and Veggie to fall off of the Draco Sphinx, but Eli polymorphs Barnabus into a giant eagle, who grabs Veggie and flies them to safety. The Draco Sphinx flies into the jungle, which makes way for the Draco Sphinx like a red sea. Eventually, they manage to lose the Spirit of Fire.
* The Draco Sphinx flies to an Arasaka envoy escorting a captured Damian Rourke. The Draco Sphynx kills all the Arasaka soldiers guarding Damien and flies away. The party puts Damian into a Zone of Truth and interrogates him about what his goals are.
	+ Damian explains that this Arcadia is actually not the first Arcadia, but the latest iteration of many. When Dol Arrah created the plane of Arcadia, she sealed off from the other planar realms, making the existence of Arcadia inherently unstable. Dol Arrah has made countless different Arcadias, each one a failure. Damian hopes to use the Court of Owls to finally stop the cycle.
	+ There was a prophecy where Damian died, and he was able to circumvent that by killing a Damian from an alternate Arcadia.
* Damian has shepherding abilities and is able to guide them through the jungle to Dr. Perry's lab. He's nonchalant about being captured by the party and being forced to bring them to Dr. Perry because he "foresaw" all of this happening. He leads them to the village where the previous Child of Bombyx Mori died. Everyone except for Kysona, Wan Ti, and Nibbler decide to enter the village, while Kysona watches the events through Arya.
* As the party members enter the village, they all experience psychic pain and hallucinations about the Child's death and the magical plague that ensued. Once there, Damian pulls back a fold in the Gaiyu to reveal Dr. Perry's lab, which is located underneath the village's lake. She had been using the dark, unstable magic generated from the Child's death to hide herself from detection, which is why the Draco Sphinx had been unable to find her.
* Once the party enters the lab, Franz shoots Damian in the head. Dr. Perry seems unsurprised and not upset that her brother has died. She implies that they didn't have the best relationship.
* In the lab, the party can see an unconscious Ina lying in a cot with Liluth and Kendal restrained or unconscious nearby.

## Attack of the 10-Foot Time Eater

* Dr. Perry tells the party that she is working on time and time-travel research, and offers to show shows them her time-travel research on a small television screen. Everyone watches as Matthias arrives at the farm where Damian and Dr. Perry left Ivan with the intent to kill him. Ivan has just returned from the Protectorate fort where he had fought and killed the Time Eater. Upon seeing Ivan, Matthias charges and attacks him. Azrael and Pandora watch the fight from the farm house.
* Ivan manages to hold his ground against Matthias and is about to get away when the Time Eater shows up again. This time, it catches up to Ivan, de-ages him into a baby, and eats him. Matthias tries to run away, but the Time Eater is simply slows time so that he isn't able to escape. Fortunately, Morgan the Powerful arrives just in time to protect Matthias by summoning a magical wall to stop the Time Eater. Azrael and Pandora teleport away immediately upon seeing Morgan.
* The Time Eater tries to get through the magic wall, and almost seems to be making progress, when it turns to look straight into the "camera" that the party is viewing the even through. The monster then abruptly gives up and teleports to Dr. Perry's lab. The party attempt to hold it off, but nothing they do is effective. Finally, they break the glass wall separating the lab and the lake, and Eli uses Control Water to sweep them, Dr. Perry, Ina, and Liluth onto the shore. The party races towards the jungle, with Eli and Jaque carrying a still unconscious Ina.
* The Time Eater emerges from the lake by draining it. He causes the village to reverse to what it was when the Child died, and long-dead villagers start coming back to life. The party try to slow down the Time Eater with spells and weapons, but nothing works.
* Finally, Aelis and Barnabus stumble and fall behind. The Time Eater first catches Aelis, turns her into a baby, and eats her. Barnabus tries to escape the same fate by killing himself. Unfortunately, the Time Eater simply reverses time and revives Barnabus. It then turns Barnabus into a baby and consumes him.
* Aelis and Barnabus's death slowed down the Time Eater enough for the rest of the party to reach the jungle. The Nymerian jungle is able to resist the Time Eater's magic because it's so ancient that it a long time to de-age. Once in the jungle, the party is separated into: Kysona, Wan-Ti, and Nibber are in one group while everyone else is in the other group.
* The larger group wanders the jungle for a day and are attacked by monkeys and then captured by lizard folk. The lizard folk are cannibals, and they bring the party to their village to be eaten. They tie the party members to a fire pit in the middle of the village. A ranger named Verinen is also tied in the pit who states that his mission is the protect the Child of Bombyx Mori.
* Meanwhile, Kysona, Wan-Ti, and Nibbler also wander through the jungle, though unlike the other group Nibbler is able to help protect them. They stumble upon the lizard folk village and see that all of their friends have been captured and tied up. To rescue the other group, Kysona and Nibbler combine their magic to make Wan-Ti appear like a lizard god. Wan-Ti climbs down to the village and challenges the lizard king to a fight. He accepts.
* While the lizard king is fighting, Franz and Eli are able to break out of their bonds and help the others escape as well. The party fights the lizard folk. Zhu Li arrives on the back of a T-Rex and kill the last of the lizard folk.
	+ The party loots the lizard folk village
* The rest of the party begins fighting the lizard folk. Zhu Li the one-armed Loxodon appears on the back of a triceratops and saves us all. She introduces herself as a friend of Jaque and V and says that she's here to brings us to the Elder Tree.
* At the Elder Tree, the party brings Nibbler to the leader of the Elder Tree, an old Tabaxi druid named Pensive Paw. Pensive Paw is surprised to discover that Nibbler is a dragon turtle due to the historical animosity between dragons and sphinxes, but she welcomes Nibbler and the party to the Elder Tree and offers them hospitality. Just as the party is wrapping up their meeting with Pensive Paw, the Spirit of Fire appears and starts firing.