Into the Dark Day 13 - Day 20
General Summary
The Matter of the Dragon
- The party decided that it was only fair to attempt to speak with the dragon and moved to wake it up.
- Farren remained "a dragon's breath away"
- Harold identified one of the pages scattered under the dragon was an incomplete scroll of mirror image. Despite it's incomplete nature, Harold used his magic to attempt to cast the spell anyway. It did not behave quite as normal, the illusionas appeared more solid than usual.
- The dragon rolled over in it's sleep, and crushed what was left of the corpse.
- The party woke the dragon, who claimed to be Stoutcutter the Terrible. It was quickly evident, even though the dragon began speaking draconic, that something was amiss. He said things like he was "now" Stoutcutter etc.
- Stoutcutter tried to get the party to bow to him, claiming they were in his lands etc.
- The party pointed out that the dragon might not be where it thought it was (as it, reportedly, had not been in the area until very recently). The dragon took to the air to check, still demanding the party serve him.
- Drizzt honnestly did not expect this turn of events and was at a loss.
- Beau had enough of this, and cast hold monster on the dragon. The dragon attempted to counterspell and was quickly countered as well as afflicted by spell plague.
- The party ganged up on the dragon and beat it up to the point it looked ready to surrender.
- Beau asked Vaena to read the dragon's mind in order to know if it wanted to surrender while it was still paralyzed by Beau's spell.
- Vaena, reluctantly agreed to try, and actually managed to cast detect thoughts.
- The dragon was willing to surrender, but Vaena indicated it would probably stab them in the back given the slightest opportunity.
- The party attempted to kill the dragon, but it morphed into an old, naked, human, man.
- The man freaked out and teleported away. Beau attempted to counter him, but was foiled by shennanigans linked to the instability of magic.
- Vaena mentioned that the man had attempted to teleport to somewhere across the continent.
- The party and the king decided this was ... good enough
- The captain also found some more treasure
Preparations
- Captain Farren left 30000 gold pieces with Judy so that she could try negotiating for adding mithril to the Divine Retribution
- Harold, knowing Krumbleton was tired, sought out another cleric to help him get over his sudden fear of long resting.
- Fernando and Beau shared their drow city costumes.
A Surprisingly Uneventful Journey and Relatively Safe Entry
- With the help of their guide and the magic carpet Rust had "borrowed" from New Port so many months ago, the party managed to race through the underdark, avoiding most dangers.
- Beau started method acting as a noble drow lady. Harold disguised himself as Donnie and did the same. Vaena and Ryltar found them insufferable.
- Vaena took on the form of a bat when it was pointed out that a parrot would be out of place. She grumbled that there was a bird exhibit in the city. Beau tried to convince her to be a snake whip which only prompted hissing.
- The party settled that they would pretend to be visiting from the noble house Nagon from a distant city and that they would meet at Jarree's Shoes in the bazaar if they were separated.
- Rayne disguised Farren as Alton, determining Beau's costume was not up to snuff. Fernando just put on a hood. At Farren's request, Rayne changed his dishguise to be Alton but with a beard. Rayne claimed to be using regular magic to make this disguise.
- Drizzt left them to go visit some deep gnomes, as his pressence in the city would likely be more a hindrance than a help.
- The party decided to enter from the east. Twice, they ran into trouble.
- Some students guarding the farms called them out on tresspassing, but Beau managed to pretend she was a noble lady looking for "inspiration" for her art. Alton helped by acting pitiful and scared of her. Vaena offered, repeatedly, to kill Beau.
- The party then drew too much attention in the poorer district. Harold was not seen as very intimidating. The rest of the party were able to frighten off the group that planned to ambush them.
- The party continued unimpeded, though they had certainly been spotted.
- During all these instances, Rayne was always busy looking at something else.
- The party avoided a noble lady heading noisily down the street.
- Alton spotted a cheery human in the crowd, which seemed out of place. Before he could investigate though, Vaena insisted on showing him that there was, in fact, a surface bird aviary. She had not noticed the human.
- Nearly at the bazaar, Alton spotted one of his sisters heading in the other direction.
- Alton went to follow his sister to see what she was up to.
- The rest of the party went to the shoe store to wait for him. Ryltar summoned his familiar to guide them as Alton's Vaena went with him.
- Box of bottles, including a potion of cloud giant strength and a potion of invulnerability
- 4000 platinum coins
- A guide to Alton's city
- One greater restoration
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