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Hope everything is okay for him.
Still here
Yeah just waiting for something to react to right now we are food poisoned or something.
Hashik dreams of sailing away from the dark continent and towards civilization where they have ice cubes in their drinks.
”Yes. Let’s get into a room and sleep this off. Fortify it as best we can. Let’s get everyone inside.” ”This might simply be the dragons revenge or whomever is burning each place down, besides little accidents here and there. Maybe the whole food lot is poisoned? At any rate let’s get inside a chamber.”
DM Smiles, are we able to make it to the inn or are we going out like right now?
Hashik gets up and tries heading towards a room at the inn.
"Get us to a room!"
”Yes, three and do you have any cheese or fruit sir?”
”No, but we’ve better figure out where we are going to operate out of and how we are going to live in the meantime. We should try and gather some local rumors. Let’s see what people are talking about.”
Yeah both. We have a lot of pp and not a lot of strong carrying capacity types. ”Do you have any other bounties we can take advantage of? I mean with the dragon now gone, we should have food streaming in now, right?!”
”That would be great fine sir.”
Hashik is wearing a new identity so he moves along like he has not seen anything. "I should have said something earlier, but with the great dragon chasing us it didn't seem like the most opportune time. I suppose it would have been better to do this on my own or with a smaller group. Too late for that now." "You think we should go after them? You think they are going to report us?"
Under a new guise, Hashik looks somewhat exasperated with raised eyebrows showing ernest. ”Well, outrun isn’t the right word. What in the known world can outrun something like that? Winged death itself.” He makes a sweeping gesture with his hand that’s clutching the dismembered head sending a bit of half dried dragon blood flying ”Now if you mean, evade, remain out of sight, survive?!—Those are the right ones—and to be honest! I can’t believe it myself that I was able to make it back here before it caught up. Thank god you guys had the engines ready to go!” Something occurs to the successful dragon hunter and his hands snap to his hips. ”Wait! Now I’m kinda pissed. Did they know there was a big dragon out there!? What the freak! Had I known that was out there I never would have gone. As it was you guys have any idea what one this size can do to an entire host of professionals?! It’s . . . It’s just . . . Unimaginable.” Slipping into the horror of it all the man covers his mouth with a bloodied hand.
"Thank you your Greatness, if we can take this carcass back to show as proof you should have no more intrusions. If we could ask are there any settlements of our town that we could leave to? and if you could tell us how far?"
”To be honest your Greatness we don’t want to be here ourselves. Your offspring hasn’t just raided a few carivans here and there. It has wiped out every carivan for weeks and good sized portions of the two nearest big settlements have been destroyed through mysterious means.” ”The populations are starving and the rulers are getting desperate themselves. They have been hiring professionals to hunt down your wyrmling, but we are not them we are normal people being turned out to look for the wyrmling, which is preferable to starving to death in the burned out districts.” ”Our species are but rats to yours, but surely you must see how starving all of the rats and pushing them from the sewers at once could be detrimental.” ”We had hoped to communicate, because we are actually opposed to the Consortium which controls the cities and our very lives.” ”Last night we observed while the wyrmling ambushed and killed the majority of the professional dragon hunters. Good work indeed, but., they will be back and I in greater numbers the next time. And if you doubt aren’t looking for that type of attention I assume.” ”Perhaps working together we can be mutually beneficial to all involved parties?”
"As good a plan as any. In we go then."
”Heh. I think it’s too young to communicate yet. Those guys probably collected the gold and got ghost. I wish I knew where we could have escaped to with it.” ”the danger inside will be he can line us up with his breath weapon. Maybe the Oread can scout for us. See what the situation inside is?”
”Yes, I am sure you will be a safe distance behind. Heh heh hen. Hoping to pick up the pieces, but don’t bet against yourselves. If we kill it ourself we will be collecting the reward ourselves. If you want some of the payment you gotta come help put in the work.”
”I think we hit it hard and even if we didn’t kill it, it may have gone to ground. If it landed, we might be able to track it. It’s going to want to hole up if it’s still alive.” ”We could walk in a spiral at first light, overlapping our search and sweeping the area to see what we can find.” ”In the meantime, we should set half of us to watch while the others sleep then switch off. Let’s make it through the night first off, huh?”
Seeing Draalush fire, Hashik follows suit!
”Agreed! The battle is joined.”
”Hold Fast!” Hashik breathes. ”Once he is done with them, what do you think about me trying to talk to it? I know it sounds crazy, but maybe we can negotiate with it.” ”Or maybe we wait for it to carry off the goods and find its lair?” ”What do you guys think?”
”The dragon is going to pick them apart one by one, but eventually he will come in to get the treasure. We can see if they can actually injure the dragon.”
”Yes. Quite ingenious they are making a trap, but the dragon is quite wily himself. I think he might make these mercs. What do you say we try to conceal ourselves and see who it turns out? If these guys don’t have a way to make water it could be over pretty easily for them.” ”My guess is they do have a water source. Maybe they beat the dragon, but we are in a position to take advantage or help. If the dragon wins it might be weakened. Or maybe we get a chance to work with it. The dragon might give us important information in exchange for our magical items?” ”As for this caravan graveyard I think we looted this one already right”
"I thought of trying to sell those guys the magical arms and armor, but that might have been too big of a fence. Maybe after we reach the cart graveyard huh? Plausible we could find those there and then have them for barter." Hashik muses aloud before addressing the question about the dragon. "Its not very big, but it is a dragon and it somehow got access to a construct. Its hit and run tactics are maddening. . . " "Actually, it is quite ingenious in its tactics. This tiny little lizard has almost brought the town to its knees and open rebellion. A single being has cut the Consortium's supply line in two." "When and if we kill it our wanted posters and possibly bounty hunters, will be able to reach us. Such a double edged sword." "As crazy as it sounds I almost want to ally with it."
"Meh, fair enough? Hey, have you heard any rumors about what's going on in any of the other settlements?" Hashik asks conversationally.
While making preparations Hashik informs the party. ”I have a waterproof bag and a waterskin we can hold water in.” When the mercenary comes up. ”We have a little bit of food, but we are going after the dragon. I assume you are as well. What are you offering?”
”Perfect! I think we will need to find some food provisions however. Maybe some hunting and gathering is in order?”
”That’s a good hybrid plan! So we can get the arms and armor out with Jarek. Raok and I have the hats and I have a spell for one more. So if Karla can make it over the wall. The three of us left looking like half starved adventurers seeking to kill the dragon for a reward should be able to get out. What do you think?”
In the adventure the no magic weapons thing almost killed us as well. My character needed a sword to be effective in combat. My character wasn’t planning on living in the town as I thought escape was the primary goal.
Dm Smiles, first off I am am liking the game and I am glad you are running it for us because I know how much work it is to run a game. But I am feeling like we dont Have enough description to know what to do next. I don’t know if the two new characters have info about the town that we don’t but I think that is why we are going in circles. I honestly wouldn’t mind a little railroading or a blunt hint on where we should go next. I realize that you just gave us a hint that the two town’s waterfronts were burned down, but I don’t know where we could start to do some know local type searches.
”I was pretty much kept as a slave most my life. I don’t know much about this land. I do know civilization outside this wild continent and I know if I can reach it again I will do quite well for myself. If we are captured I am not sure which of us will simply be put to death.” Hashik drops into a pile of dresses. ”Anyways, maybe we can try to get some local knowledge about this place. It seems like there must be some place we can get to that is outside Consortium control.” ”Anyway, we are going to need to find a source of food. Do fishermen leave the harbor? The elites need to find a way to get food. We do have treasure. Maybe we could bribe one or stow away. I’m not against hijacking someone for that matter.” ”I could take one of you and we could go on an information gathering trip?” Hashik jumps up. ”Or maybe we say we are bounty hunters and simply walk out the gate looking for the Dragon. We have Consortuim magical weapons. They know they need magical weapons to deal with the dragon. We get in the wagon. Dress everyone up and head out. It’s so crazy it just might work!”
”Anywhere but here right? You want to stay in Sargava? I mean anywhere under Consortium control is a problem.”
”Oooooooooh . . . . Well crap.”
”That! Would be amazing! I am thinking with your special abilities and Raok’a ability to swim we might be able to scout, get a boat and escape out the harbor? At least in the wilds we can find some food right?”
”You’ll be no worse off than being caught out on the street. Most of our party isn’t stealth oriented. Choose your path. I already stated what my thoughts and abilities are and I am willing to remain down here if needed.” ”We need to lay low and either get out of town or get to our cart. But I don’t think we can pull that off with them working the search so hard right now. Better to wait until night then take our chances. We can lead those who can’t see without a light source making it harder for the human guards to see us.” ”I’m even willing to go out there and lead them off if needed, but we have to make a decision and quick.” ”Most of the party is already on the roof. What do you suggest Karla?”
”Raok might be on to something. Can you sneak up there and see if they are searching the rooftops? If they are just searching the streets and buildings some of us can just stay up there. If we leave them an open door they might just come through and do a cursory search and move on. I can make myself a vagrant or a commoner stuck on the streets when the riot happened and hide some of you in the boxes.” ”What do you think?”
”Look. I don’t know where to go. All my attempts to get local information about this damn town have failed. The only thing I can do is become someone else. I can do that for one other of you. We can try talking our way out, basically bullshiting. If you guys can come up with a plug I’ll try it.” ”Maybe have you guys hide while I pretend to be an employee? Or I walk out and distract while you guys escape? Let’s come up with a plan quick.”
”The guards are all over the place and pissed off. We have illegal weapons and the cleric was our only known contact to move this kind of stuff.” The dancer paces about. ”Should I go inquire at one of the more shady establishments? The brothel maybe? There are a shit ton of clothes in here. At some point someone is going to come check on their stock. We can’t wait here forever.” He plops down on a pile of clothes. ”Gods I want out of this town.”
”We can bed down here for the night. People need to rest. I can walk the streets freely and take one of you with me. We should sell the armor and weapons that we don’t need. Anyone else need a magical sword? Figures, we didn’t have one between us and now we have four. Heh! The irony.” Hashik can use his hat and spells to change himself so he can go out and purchase food and supplies or hawk the goods they have.
”Jarek, could you please check? You said you can climb easily.”
”Maybe they climbed out onto the roof.” ”I am satisfied they aren’t associated with the consortium. They are probably just as scared as we are.” Hashik tries to keep watch on the approach to the building.
Hashik attempts to get the measure of these men.
”I think we can come to an agreement. I am sure your superiors aren’t going to be happy you let us go and we don’t have a quarrel with you as long as you aren’t trying to kill us.” ”First off how did you come to know we were here in town? Who sent you to move against us?”
Yeah, that’s cool.
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