Oh Great...Humans and their "Laws"

Well this is a pickle... Ulfgar, Nickolas, and I are all stuck here at the bottom of the broken chain to the upper mines with two slightly crazy Him up top in charge of solving the situation... At least the two halves of the chain has been lashed together with several cords of rope...We take the chain off the platform removing the bulk of the weight the rope reinforcements have to bear... We determine its Strong enough to hold the chains together for lifting one at a time... So that's the good news... Bad news is that Reed says he hears activity in the upper mines... Sounds like town guards investigating the mess upstairs... Great... We decide to send Ulfgar up first since this is his job... I have reservations because he isn't the best speaker and I don't know how much damage the Hin will have done to our cause.... But we send him up anyways...
 
After a short time the chain is lowered with a human soldier wearing the livery of the Bloodstone army, not the Virdin constables... Not so great... You can tell he is shook... Nickolas and I greet the Sargent and We warn him of the dangers still here in the cavern and of the remaining prisoners we are protecting... Still not treating us like the heroes we deserve to be treated like, and after his interrogation of the prisoners, he agrees to our plan of sending them up one at a time... We successfully evacuate out...
 
To my surprise we are told we are going to be detained instead of treated as heroes... We are led to the local Garrison and are imprisoned... I do have to admit we are treated well and our possessions are not taken... One by one we are interrogated and held overnight again... I am nervous this small mining town will use this as excuse to make examples of a bunch of non human strangers... I rashly chide Ulfgar for not asking for dwarven support since this was being done for Ironspur... I start looking for ways to bust out... In The morning the Lieutenant in charge makes his decisions... First, he declined to arrest us for any crimes... Good! Secondly, He then charges us with clearing out the remaining menace in the Undermines... We accept and spend a day or two preparing for a return assault...
 
After repairing the chain we head back to the mines... The complex is completely controlled by the Bloodstone military... I don't like it... I feel the dwarves, especially my buddy's clan, are going to get cheated out of this resource... The Lieutenant in charge stops my companions and questions them about their former adventuring party the Magnificent Seven... We head back down...
 
We decide to clear out the gargoyle rookery first... We assault from two different sides... Lacking robust ranged combat options the flying gargoyles appears to be a tough fight... Hallorin's burst of fairy fire opens the battle and makes striking the illuminated gargoyle's far easier! Reed uses his mobility to leap from ledge to ledge striking where he can and hurling his radiant blast when he can't... Ulfgar tries to grab the flying monsters when they come close allowing me to rush over and strike them... Luckily my hight and the reach of my great sword allow me to land a few extra blows... Nick uses his firebolts to blast the flying beasts... The the fly by attacks from the beast's are random and several land critical blows on me as I tend to end up exposed from risky attacks of my own... Eventually we defeat all the gargoyles except one who flees...
 
I take a moment to lay hands on myself and guzzle a couple of healing potions then chase after my companions who were chasing the last gargoyle... Luckily they had a dwarf with them so I catch up just as the tunnel they are heading down opens into a large chamber... There waiting in the darkness, suddenly illuminated by Ulfgar's axe, is a draconic monstrosity, a deep drake... A huge beast with wings, fore claws, and a serpentine rear ending in a viscous stinger... It has the advantage on us and it opens it maw and blasts us with green energy... The blast devistates my body and leaves me stunned... To my shame by the time I recover from the poison radiation the battle is over and my companions have felled the monster... A dragon is felled in my presence and the hobbit carney shuckster has equipped himself more glory from it than me... I must atone to Tempus for this...
 
Despite the grumpy half orc paladin the rest of Iluminus celebrate around the felled dragon and turn their eyes to the large mound of treasure the beast nested amongst....