Chapter 10: Winding Down
The Savage Seven wandered about silverymoon, discovering that the free peoples of the moonwood were in the process of rebuilding. Kathra spoke with a smithy about using his forge, and the group visited the refugee camps outside the city to try to purchase a home from one of the refugees. They failed, and decided to return to Nesme instead.
After gathering supplies, they departed on their way back to Nesme. On the road, the group encountered a small girl crying in the road covered in blood. She asked them to find her parents who had been taken by trolls earlier that morning. They convinced her to stay behind with the horses and headed into the troll moors to find her parents. In some ruins, Keladrien sent his familiar hawk to scout and discovered the green dragon Jaerathyndril waiting in the ruins. The party then turned back, but ran into the girl skipping their way. Alerted, she turned into a green dragon wyrmling and tried to fly away but was quickly shot down by the combined efforts of the Savage Seven.
Enraged at the death of her child, Jaerathyndril went into a rage. The group battled her in the ruins, unleashing all of their might against the dragon. In one fell swoop, she blasted Nalzmyr and keladrien with poison breath and downed the two spellcasters. Sai continued his assault on the dragon while Kathra used her cleric magic to bring Nalzmyr and Keladrien back into the fight. At last, Keladrien delivered the fatal blow with a barrage of magic missiles. Nalzmyr beheaded the dragon and her wyrmling, and the group decided to return to the gold dragon Menexavalos to receive the reward she promised them for slaying the green beast.
While traveling through the Silverwood, the effects of the dragons' lairs proved eerily removed. As they entered the gold dragon's lair, they discovered her beheaded and impaled on a giant wooden spike. After some investigation, they surmised that a group of people had done this and set out to return to Nesme.
Back in Nesme, the Savage Seven we welcomed back as heroes at Hawk's inn. Waiting for them was a letter from the former leader of the Delzoun Resurgence Soram Battlebellow explaining that the they had challenged the king about his association with the duergar and that the king had ordered Soram executed by the way of the iron burial. Instead, the kings guard turned on king Dagna and took him into custody. Days later, he was executed for crimes against the dwarves of mithral hall. Soram was crowned king. As a token of gratitude, he offered to array the group in fine dwarven armor befitting friends of the hall. He also provided a list of missing dwarves who had acted as the king's bounty hunters and assassins, asking that they kill any of them they found.
The group then brought the dragon's head to first speaker Alondo and regaled him with their tale. He suggested they stuff the head and hang it somewhere as a trophy, and after being told of the gold dragon's demise he revealed a group of adventurers had been boasting of the kill lately and speaking Ill of the Savage Seven.
The next day, the group visited moradin's throng and challenged this group of adventurers. The adventurers, a group of pelor worshippers of questionable piety, insulted and threatened the Savage Seven. The encounter ended in a street battle between the two groups wherein the Savage Seven thoroughly defeated the newcomers (and Keladrien stole the wizard's spellbook). As they fled, the pious mercenaries promised this was not over. Back in the tavern, the proprietor thanked the group for ousting the fools and offered a tip about troubled in the east around sundabar.
The group then traveled to mithral hall and received the king's thanks, finding a much more hopeful and open city. Kathra received fine dwarven plate emblazoned with the sigil of haela brightaxe, and Sai asked for plate armor as well. As they returned to Nesme, Sai sold his armor to a smithy in fireview square. As he made his way to the bank with the gold, he was accosted by thugs from a group calling themselves "the reapers" who suggested they knew something about him. He fled across the rooftops.
After settling in at Hawk's inn, the group spent the next month avoiding trouble, but at the end of the month they woke to find two people asking after them for their mercenary services.
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