oh no. We should hunt it. I bet he looks like this! rawwwr!
Fizzy does his most evil dragon impersonation and the Fuzz runs up and plays the knight and slays Fizzy.
wanna do that? As long as the dragon is evil we can get it!
Well it doesn't quite work that way but that is the spirit Gnome. Alright you may tell you friends to come and share our fire for the evening.
Arvangail will head back and nod to the other elves gathered. He will make sure that his weapon is always on hand just in case.
Fizzy dances back and speaks to kazoo first
flamefriend, they are nice they are hunting an evil dragon. I think that is ok since evil dragons give good dragons like you a bad name.. Fizzy invites everyone to come to the fire
He nods towards the newly awakened dragonkin, the sudden stoop implying a bow. "Well, friend. It goes well." He smiles warmly, and it shows genuine mirth upon his features at the informality of the greeting. "How do you feel?"
"I feel as if an Ogre used me as a boot, but I grew a callus from the pain of it. I feel more energized than ever, but as if I could sleep for days. I'm a living, breathing contradiction." He says all of this as he opens and closes his eyes several times and then looks down to see that his armor is missing, but then catches the glint of the breastplate out of the corner of his eye. What he does notice is the image of a bronze dragon that now takes up a good bit of his chest. "Interesting..."
Selena, who appears to be a very beautiful elf, comes to the camp and sits down, stretching her arms emphasizing her frame. Something strange happens Will DC 18, otherwise you all seem to be more friendly towards her.
"My large friend is close to me, he protects me and my friends he has draconic lineage, I hope you don't have troubles with him." Selena says in a sweet voice.
The others at the camp receive her well enough then try to do whatever they can to make her stay better, offering food, blankets, and other services.
A few hours ago the group would likely jump at and try to kill something of that sort, but with her soothing words they are fine with it.
Not all creature living under the sun and move of have draconic blood are evil and bent on rampage and destruction. Metallic Dragon are noble and mostly good creatures even if the thinking and means are completely foreign to us.
Krazok comes in with the gnomes suggestion, on foot leading his Axebeak into the view of the campfire, the dragonkin looks like a humanoid red dragon. He has a breastplate of fine metal, a warhammer on his side, and a few javelins on his back. A massive 'large' greatsword is on his Axebeak nearby if needed. The other horses and their last member joins as well, a half-orc. "I am Krazok Vell Firesource, thank you for sharing your campfire with us."
A little green lizard of sorts runs around investigating many of their things. He stops for a bit to ask a question then goes right back to investigating. "Why elves so far to the North?" It sounds like a reptilian "elmo".
this is Fizztelligence.
youre welcome krazok. As i have alude to it we are out here in order to hunt an evil dragon. You wouldn't have any info?
"No, I don't know much of dragons, there are several bronze dragons the make the stolenlands their stomping grounds, and have heard of a green dragon to the South, I would say you are far to the North." Krazok responds to Arvangail.
Torq listens to the convo and settles down a bit as they seem to be friendly.. "Im Torq, it's nice to meet a friendly ot here.. So often the things we meet are not.. So dragon hunting eh? I've been doing a bit of that myself lately, although hunting them to talk not fight.. But then again im talked about metalic so.. I have very recently became bloodsworn to such a dragon.. Brother I am.." He pats Krazok on the back and gives him a smile..
"If an evil dragon is what you seek we might be able to help such a quest.. Is this a specific dragon? Do you know its name?"
No we have little information in fact. Our party was far away when it all happened we only say the aftermath of it.
"The aftermath of what?"
Another of the elves pipes up, it is obviously a pain to them, " "The Elven outpost we were living at was burned to the ground by a dragon. We could see it afar but once we got back there was nothing we could do, even the bodies were unrecogizeable."
"I see.. So it used fire.. That rules a a few of the dragons out if im not mistaken.. Im not sure if we have the skills to take town destroying dragon atm though.."
"You are welcome to our fire, but we will be off at first light to continue our hunt of the horrible beast." Another elf speaks up and the others nod in agreement.
Arvangail also nods in agreement
This sounds like fun! Can we come?
Selena looks at Torq, Krazok, and Fizzy with indifference.
We can talk about it in the morning
Fizzy and Fuzz, and th Sly if he wants move up to the Fire and Fizzy pulls out his dutch oven and bakes some cake
Once he finishes baking he falls face down and sleeps
"What is your next step from here? To what use will you put your newly awakened blood?"
Sly helps Fizzy with his baking. Then will make sure to remove the dutch oven from the fire, but near it to keep it warm. Eventually slipping off into the night.
Krazok takes the first four hours of watch, waiting for Selena to get done meditating. He will converse with whatever elves are staying awake.
snore...chew...snore...fart...giggle...snore
Sleepy sleepy..
Arvangail will take his turn during the night watch
The next day finds you all pretty well rested for sleeping outdoors.
The elves are collecting their gear and preparing themselves for the day.
Stepping out of the rocks, presumably with Gorgoron following him, he eventually finds his friends as the elves are packing up.
"Seems that you found someone to help in my absence." He says with a grin, not wearing his armor at this point, he has the breastplate strapped onto his back. The tip of the newly found dragon tattoo on his chest can be seen under his shirt, a coiled bronze neck. On his arm is another new tattoo, neither of which look angry like a new tattoo would.
"Yes, these elves seem to want to hunt down a dragon that destroyed their outpost. They welcome us to help track down and kill the beast, what say you Tomas?" Krazok explains and asks.
"Who is your new friend?"
have one everybody, courtesy of the Fizz.
Fizzy passes out green and red cookies that he baked the night before.
Smiling and nodding to Krazok.
"This is Gorgoron. He is with us to help with my magical training and tapping into my past a little."
The words of a dragon draw alarm for him slightly and it shows slightly on his face. "I am not sure. What sort of dragon would we be tracking?" He asks as he takes one of Fizzy's cookies and nods his thanks.
Evil dragon! Like this Tomdoir! Raawwwrrr! Fizzy and Fuzz do their evil dragon and dragon slayer bit for Tomas
"Im game.. I can assist in tracking as well.."
A big fire breathing one just simply says arvangail in a dry tone clearly not amused
Fizzy says to the Fuzz who shrugs
Fizzy passes out cookies to the rest of the fizz then those not of the fizz
The new group now finishes collecting their gear. The elves put most of their extra gear on a mule they have, as the rest of you burden your mounts.
They were heading East, the elves request that they explor for they are looking for any signs of the dragon.
Assuming you continue to explore. The ranger of the elves assists Torq giving him a +4 on survival. Thus you cannot get lost.
Another day passes exploring the next area, 'Hex', to the East you find nothing of interest to mark on the map, except that the Shrike river is near the South Western area. Though you did see the sign of a flying form far away in the Southern direction.
The camp is set up, and the elves offer to watch, they know you need to rest more than them.
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Yes explore!
Tomas also assists in the survival skill work as he follows their lead, completely fine with tracking an evil dragon.
An other day passes and still no traces of it
Continuing South, the next day you find a farm that is mostly burnt down, there appears to be a muddy pen.
The pig pen has a few pieces of pigs left, mostly blood.
The house does not seem to hold anything of value no remains of the farmers remain.
Large tracks are around the farm, but no visible tracks leaving the farm.
"If we can find a scale or something that belongs to the creature that did this, then I can divine towards its location." Krazok offers.
Understood, but so far we don't have anything that belonged to it.
Fizzy is grossed out by the farm but does a careful search take 20 for 31
Tomas grits his teeth at the destruction and looks about quietly, almost staying to himself. Death by dragon is clearly not sitting well with him.