19. Sometimes, all you need to do is slap a dragon army officer

Yeah, the fortification that guards the dragon army soldiers. In our way so we cannot reach the City of Lost Names. I am livid that they are here before we are. I will need to pitch the idea of an air patrol to Kalamaan, so that we know the whereabouts of this stupid army.
 
Anywho, I take a quick measure. We have 300-400 troops with us. Here, I can't tell how many there are from where we stand. Maybe we can look for a better vantage point, or find someone who we can interrogate. What is the best option?
 
My guess is that the army is camped here because they are waiting for the people who went in there looing for something. Our main goal is to thwart them, so we need to go as fast as we can. Maybe when our army gets here, they can be a distraction. Waah spots a bunch of mages in there, so it will be a challenge for us to even sneak by. They are a pretty well-organized bunch, and I hate it.
 
We message Darrett with the fargab, and tell the army to sneak up to where they are about 15-20 minutes away, without being seen. The plan will be for them to distract the army - they won't need to defeat the dragon army, just draw them away and create a distraction. If there is a way for them to retreat, even better.
 
The plan is for me to find someone who looks like they may know what is up. Waah will then knock them out. Once they wake up, they can tell us what is going on, and we can get a move on, which is the important part. We hide and wait for a scouting group. The groups consist of between 4 and 10 people. Some of them have officers, some of them have draconians, and some of them even have sivaks. They come by every 15-20 minutes. We know we cannot get the parties with sivaks, because they can fly and alert people to our presence.
 
The first patrol is 5 humanoids, and 1 sivak. We skip this patrol. The second one is a group of 10 coppery draconian, and 2 soldiers. Next, are 2 officers and 2 coppery, small winged draconians. We argue whether officers would be good candidates for information. I think they know more, but Sterling thinks they are harder to break. I agree that maybe we don't have time for a good interrogation, so we let them pass. However, the next patrol is back to the 5 humanoids and 1 sivak. So we wait for the officers. And really, if the interrogation will be more difficult, we want to get both of them. The sound of a comrade in pain is a very effective interrogation tool.
 
Waah goes in to stun as many as she can. We can kill the draconians. Arinona turns one officer into a frog, and as we go to knock out the other, he surrenders. We go with him, and the other is kept as a toad. I start to ask him questions, and he doesn't seem to be paying me any attention. I slap him, and he cooperates better, but only asking if we will allow him to live. Really, he seems very confident that he will return to his post in the dragon army after betraying all this information to us. But, that is his problem, not mine. I ask:
 
How many people in your army? 473
What are you doing here? Guard the entrance and protect the rear of the army
What do they want? He thinks they want the magical stuff there, and they have an HQ in there, ransacking it
I ask about the sivaks, and he says the silver and gold ones come from out east.
Who is leading the rasacking unit? Leaders of the armor is the Mage Blohazet, and the priest Belepheon. There is another person, a solamnic knight with black armor and red glowing eyes. What do they call him? He's not sure.
Why did you join up this army? Because they have a lot of power, and they can make his family rich.
How long have they been in there, ransacking? A couple of weeks.
He has seen only 1 black dragon fly this way and then leave. So only 1 egg, probably.
Whats the best way to enter? The sneaky way? Waah promises him some gold if he shows us. He says at the rear of the encampment there are stables for dragonelles. At the back of the building and turn right, go to the end, and there are some boards. Move the boards. He called it a Winsed passage. The canyon walls are riddled with tunnels.
 
I ask Arinona how long her friend will stay a toad? She says probably for another 30 minutes. I call Darrett and tell him it is time. He has a plan, and starts the fight with some flying arrows. He uses his forces wisely, and pulls back slowly so that we can slip behind the fighting forces. We still have to face the rear guard at the stables, but I'm confident we can do this.
 
By the stables, there are three officers. 2 of them have pikes, and that long reach is deadly. However, with all the fighting and chaos around us, we have random soldiers coming to fight us, and even dragonelles falling on top of us at random times. It is a hell of a battle! But finally, we make it into the stable, and go into the tunnel.
 
Somewhere inside, the rock changes from a cramped tunnel to a carved out one. As we approach a fork in there, we see greenish flames, and spectral dragon heads. They scare me, and I almost attack Sterling. They float through us a vanish, and luckily, Sterling didn't even notice my fright.
 
The first room we find inside the tunnel is partially flooded, and depicts a dragon in flight on the walls. We avoid the waters. With all these dragons we see on our way, I would believe this would bring us to a city of Dragons, not the city that caused the downfall of the dragons. Hmmm...
 
The next chamber we enter is large, and has a bit of a fallen ceiling. There are also mismatched bones, and decaying hats and skulls. Maybe they used to make hats here. But what about the bones? Did they make hats up there, and then it fell here where the dead were? Are these even dragon bones?