Demon Dragon

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We got to East Haven as the demon dragon was still attacking it. It’s all on fire and falling down. We gotta get it out of the town, so I grab the alarm horn from Eggy and blow it at the dragon. It really works and it breathes pain all over me, but I’m fast and smart so it doesn’t hurt that bad. Doc gets really big and just keeps hitting it right in the face while we all throw stuff at it. Saalym and Sandy fight with a bunch of the blue dwarves first, and then run right up Doc so they can punch it, too! I kill it though! Cuz I’m the strongest! It falls right down in front of us and Explodes! That was really fun!

Doc and I run off with a piece of scale to show the town what I did. We help them kill the rest of the blue dwarves, and tell everyone they’re safe now cuz I killed the demon dragon. Leshy came with so she and Doc can help the hurt people. When we save the people at the townhall, I show them the scale and he takes it. But Leshy says it’s dangerous and takes it back. He says we should take the big statue, too. It all needs to be destroyed or something. I’m going to keep my piece though, it won’t hurt me, I’m too smart!

In the morning, Twitch says he has a new mission for us, to help with the stupid winter goddess lady. Says there’s an old city under the ice with big magic things. Says the dragon heart he got yesterday is a battery for the sun thing, but there’s even better under the ice maybe. We have to go get a book first though, that knows how to get under the ice. That seems like a really smart book, just like me. I know how to get through ice, you chip it out of the way. Twitch says it’s on an island of frost giants, so that will be lots and lots of fun!

Twitch asks then if I still have any of the demon rock. It’s mine though. Eggy says it’s dangerous and it could hurt me. Doc is worried about me, too. Eggy doesn’t want me to end up in a cage like the gnolls’ guy, or crazy like the king we killed. I think he might kill me and take my head, even though I’m faster and smarter than him. I could kill him first, but Saalym wouldn’t like that at all. So, I bury it near the dragon rocks. I know where it is, I can get it back if I want to.

We go check on Good Mead first. The bees are okay, but most of the town is wrecked. We go check on the church where they put Sammy, but the crypt is open and Sammy is gone! Saalym is really upset and no one knows what happened. Maybe he wasn’t really dead. Maybe the winter goddess lady took him. Eggy says we should ask around wherever we go to see if anyone has seen him.

So, I turn into him, as best I can remember and head off to ask everyone in town. Eggy and Saalym shout at me, but it’s what Eggy said to do. I don’t understand why they’re mad. I’ll get her some mead so she doesn’t have to go near the bees. I don’t know why she hates the bees so much. Nobody in town has seen Sammy, but I tell them if they do to tell the Speaker. I make my funny hat change my clothes so they look like Sammy’s, too. But only to show the kids. I think the others would like that even less. Weird.

Saalym doesn’t want my present of mead, so I drink it myself on the way back to the mountains. We gotta make sure all the blue dwarves are dead before we go kill a bunch of giants. But some other blue dwarf lady has taken over the castle. At least she can talk so we understand. She’s not gonna play with the demon rock and doesn’t want to take over Ten Towns, so we let her be. Boring! I wanted to kill more blue dwarves! Time to head for the giants’ island then.

Down With The King!

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The weird blue Dwarf King says we’re intruders and trash! He sends his even stranger creatures to attack us, poor fungus things. We put them out of their misery. Him too. It’s been a lot of fighting, especially for Saalym and Leshy who went up the elevator alone. Silly girls. What goes up comes back down. So, they take a moment to rest.

Doc and I take a look around. There’s a room full of fungus nastiness. A guard station with some pretty rocks that Twitch won’t let me touch. There’s a big door, but there’s noise behind it, so we wait for everyone to catch up. There’s some blue Dwarves there, trying to tie up a big bug. I shout for them to leave it alone, and they do. But then it and they attack us. Oh well. Mean, nasty blue Dwarves.

The next room is a huge forge that seems to pulse with a heartbeat. There’s lots of blue Dwarves in here on top of a bunch of towers. And there’s some of the big furry guys from the throne room down by the forge. Eggy shows off the head of the crazy king, trying to say we set them free, but I guess they didn’t like that.

We fought the ones on our tower and shot at the ones in other places. It looked like some of the other Dwarves liked that the king was dead, because they was fighting on some of the towers. Doc went down with Sandy to fight the furry things, but there were tiny ninjas on the floor that kept stabbing his ankles. They took care of it all though. Eggy says there weren’t ninjas, it was just a spell. I don’t think that’s how spells work.

When everyone’s dead, we take a look around the forge. It’s really hot! Twitch says there’s a dragon’s heart in the forge, from a red one. He wants to kill the heart or the forge or something, so that they can’t make another demon dragon. That’s boring though, it doesn’t fight back. There’s all kinds of scraps of the tingly demon rock, so I snag a really small one when Twitch is busy. It’s not fair I’m not allowed to have one.

Doc and I take a look around. There’s a bunch of clothes and gear on one wall, so we go in the nearby door. There’s a big Dwarf lady statue in there, but her head’s cut off, and there’s a weird purple guy chained to it. He doesn’t look so good. Doc says he’s dead. There’s more doors, so we keep going. There’s a blue Dwarf behind one of them. He wants to experiment on me, just like he did the dead purple guy outside. That’s no okay, so Doc hits him, and he turns all red and spikey and then he explodes. I take his hat, I like it, it’s funny. Everybody came running because of the fight, and Twitch gets really interested in the stone tablets in the room. He starts rubbing paper over them with charcoal or something. Seems boring.

Doc and I wander off again, but this time Eggy and Leshy follow. We find a couple dwarves in robes torturing a couple other dwarves. We save one of them. A lady dwarf, but she runs away. There’s weird coffins in here, but they have spikes inside them. Next we find a bedroom with moldy ale and empty chests. Then we find some of those big armor Dwarves and a lever. I make the lever go and then we smash them out of their armor. They were protecting a room full of chests with locks on them. Eggy remembers that we have a paper of symbols that might match them, so we come back later.

The next room we find is lots more fun. There’s six blue Dwarves all drinking. When Eggy shows them the dead King’s head, three of them help us attack the other three. But then more arrive and some of them are bad and some of them help us. Only four of them survive though. But at least it was better than none like it seemed in the forge room. There’s also a hall full of lightning.

We gather the group back up again and find a prison with some naked people the Dwarves had kidnapped. All their stuff is back out by the room with the rocks, so we give it all back and help them get back out of the castle. There’s also a bunch of big riding lizards, but Eggy can’t make friends with them, so we leave them alone. The only other tunnel down here seems to go all they way under the dark.

We talk about taking a big rest, but people are worried about the dragon. So they think about the map and distances and think maybe we can save a couple towns if we leave right now. So, we head back out of the mountain and down. We run into a friend of Twitch’s. She’s nice and came to find us to get our help with the dragon. So, off we rush.

Duergar In the Castle

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No choice but to climb the stairs, really. And it’s just so tall that we all go up together. The door doesn’t have a way to get in, but it just opens right up. So does the big gate thing. They must want to talk. Maybe they don’t like the goddess lady either and can help us.

Or not.

They start shooting at us! After inviting us inside! That’s terrible hospitality. The even start throwing magic at us, and that’s just not right. So, we throw right back and smash that unwelcoming party. How rude!

We look around where all the mean ones were waiting. There are some bedrooms there, but they’re all boring. Eggy found a secret tunnel that led to a room with a map on it. There was a dragon figure on the map over by the Ten Towns. It was on a weird thing so I moved it back to the mountains, but nothing seemed to happen. Twitch said it isn’t magic and can’t call the dragon home. There’s a lever which moves the figure back out to the towns and back again. Strange table.

Further on we find a fancy bedroom with a fancy trunk. It has a poison cloud trapped under all the fancy things inside. There’s also a closet shrine to a Dwarf god in here and a whole bunch of mind flayer skulls. They look kinda cool, so I take one for Doc. The god statue is made of the demon rock and tries to head my mind, so Twitch wraps it up to try and protect us, but it tries to eat him, too. Saalym smashes it to bits. There’s a key underneath. Mine now.

Next we find a room with levers and chains and things. Pulling the lever makes noise, but not near by. Twitch thinks it might be the front door. Leshy says the hole in the floor and ceiling is an elelator. It’s a cage that goes up and down. It’s up right now, so we wait. When it comes down to us, it’s empty, so Sandro, Twitch and I get in and it takes us down.

There are some duergar down there, but they don’t want to fight. They want us to kill their leader for them, or so Twitch says, but he’s pretty smart. It takes For Ever until the rest of the group makes it down. Leshy and Saalym had to fight a bunch of guys by themselves, I guess. But now everyone’s downstairs, we can deal with the big mean leader guy and his fungus friends.

Dead People, Gnolls, and A Dragon

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Twitch says we have to go find his friend who is now a bad person, so we go down a ladder to a room with frozen dead bodies in it. There’s water down here and a little boat, so we put Eggy and Leshy into the boat, Saalym climbs on the walls, and the rest of us swim in the cold water. There’s bodies in the water, too. Off to one side, there’s a little room of grain and a hungry rat – boring. Off to the other side there are even more bodies in the water. These have chainmail on them. Maybe they were the Speaker’s guards or something.

The next hall leads to a wooden statue of a person in a block of ice. Twitch says he thinks it’s for their demon god, but this seems real lazy. They got all these dead bodies and they put a wooden guy inside the ice. I guess the demon god guy got encased in ice, maybe they shoulda caught a demon to put inside, but at least a person!

The next room has the tiefling lady we’re looking for. She is really rude. Twitch wants to kill her, but she says he’s wrong about her and is going to be in trouble. He attacks her anyway, but she made the air all wet and disappeared. He looks all over the room, but doesn’t find anything.

That’s boring though, so Doc and I go down the other hall and pull a lever we find there. There’s a big noise and a new tunnel has opened in front of the boat. We all head back out into the water and find another tunnel. This one has all the servants of the Speaker, so we give them food and help them get back through the water to the keep.

Leshy says she’ll clean all the water after Twitch and Saalym get all the dead bodies back out of it. Folk are worried about Twitch and want the Speaker to sign papers saying she was bad, so she can’t get Twitch in trouble. I don’t know how that’s supposed to help, but he seems happy about it. Nothing left to do here, so we head back to check on East Haven.

The dwarf lady owes us money for the killer we killed, but it takes a couple days for her to show up and pay us. People say some gnolls have been raiding and attacking people. They killed one lady and took her magic fishhook that catches magic fish. Leshy doesn’t believe in magic fish, but my Dad caught one and it took him to the faewild so there!

We head out to our ship on the way to the gnolls. The were-polarbear we had heard about is sleeping inside, but everything looks fine. He’s really nice so we tell him he can sleep there whenever he wants. He says there’s trouble with some of the nomads, so he’s going to try to help. Then we head down to the gnoll chasm to camp.

After we rest, Eggy finds a way down, but also a cave, so we go in there first. There are a bunch of gnolls in there and they attack us, so we kill most of them. Doc really doesn’t like it when people hit me. But Twitch talks to the survivor and tells him not to attack people anymore. He agrees and runs away after telling us that Chizga is the leader down below. Doc and I find a big table in the next room covered in blood, and Doc smashes it up.

We all head down into the chasm where there are a bunch of gnolls on spike and weird echoing laughter. I wonder if they were a rival clan or if Chizga worships the stupid winter goddess lady. We work our way around to another cave. This one has pictures in blood on the wall. There’s a fish cooking over little fire and a fishing pole and spear. Doc and I head in to go see if that’s the fishing pole we’re looking for and trip over a sleeping gnoll.

This is Chizga, I guess. I take the fishhook off the pole and put it in my shirt. Twitch talks to him and tells him to stop killing people, but Chizga doesn’t seem happy about it. Twitch says he doesn’t think he’ll stop if he gets hungry again. But we decide not to kill him anyway.

Further up the chasm, there’s a guy in a cage with a black javelin made from the demon rock. I let him out, but then he tries to stab me, so Doc knocks him off the cliff after grabbing the javelin from him. It’s not tingly, and Twitch takes it away with an invisible man. He says it is bad and made that man crazy.

We keep going and find a bunch more gnolls. They look really, really hungry, so we give them some food. Eggy starts getting mad then. He wants to go back and kill Chizga for being mean to his tribe and not taking care of them. Seems like they oughta take care of it themselves, but a couple others agree. We all agree to go back and talk to him at least.

We go back and ask about the crazy man, he says he caught him in the chasm, but he was too dangerous to kill or something. Doc tries to challenge him for leadership of his tribe, but he refuses. I turn into a gnoll and try, but he says I don’t smell right. We leave then, and Eggy shoots him dead.

We head out after that, to go find the last castle of blue dwarves who have come up from under the dark. It’s a few days away, but Eggy knows where to go. The walls are really huge here, and there’s a big staircase to get up to the doors. As we get close, a big dark icy dragon flies out of one side and heads up towards the Towns. We can’t go as fast as that, so they’ll have to take care of themselves. Maybe it’s just going to talk to the white dragon that’s mad at us. We’ve gotta get inside and see what the dwarves are doing first.

Evil Wizards and Bad Men

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The old dragon’s real mad, so everyone wants to get far away. There’s evil wizards way up north, Doc says, who might be doing all this winter stuff, or maybe they just know about it. So, we rush all the way up along the coast to a big scary building out over a cliff. Twitch says it’s just one wizard, and he wants to just talk to him. He used to be one of his brothers and now he’s not or something. So, he, Saalym, Sandro, and Leshy go inside, but we have to hold all their things so the guards don’t take them away. I whisper in their heads in case they get in trouble, but this sounds way more boring than what Doc said. Eggy, Doc and I stay outside with Yogi and the mummy lady.

They go inside for a really long time. Saalym says one of the guards is a bad guy, so I tell Twitch. He asks me to tell Saalym to seduce a guard so he can seduce the prisoner. I wonder what’s happening in there. But they say they’re fine. When they finally come out, they don’t know anything new. Ugh, boring!

What now? We’ve gotta figure out this winter goddess lady thing so people will feel better and help us get our ship back. Eggy thinks maybe we could make the sun orb bigger to really make her mad so she’ll show up instead of just sending dead things to fight us. Or maybe do something at a shrine to her to get her to answer and find out what she wants. We’ve gotta go back and get our sleds and axebeaks, though, so we head to Bremmen, and back through Targos to Bryn Shander. I stop to buy my dad a pint and tell him all about the dragon who is probably hunting us. The magic folk get stuff to make the sun orb bigger and Eggy and Saalym make chainmail for Yogi. The orb’s not ready, though, so we had over to Caer Dineval since we haven’t been there yet.

Their speaker is missing or sick or something. One of the people in the tavern says there are weird people at his house. The barman says the Inn is closed and if we want somewhere to sleep we should go up to the Speaker’s house because it’s really big and there are lots of us. So, we go up there, but the guards don’t want to let us in because the speaker is ill. They don’t even want Doc or Leshy’s help. Call him a heathen, whatever that is.

Everybody says we have to go in for sure now, so we sneak off and hide for a bit. We see a person in rags with a glowing necklace get let in, so Doc and I sneak up and climb over the wall. Then through a tower and into the keep. There’s a burned up room, which is weird. Why didn’t they clean it up? The next room is a really nice bedroom. It’s the speaker and he’s being held prisoner. The guard shouts so I throw my mind blades at him and he stabs me. That makes Doc really mad and he kills him. The speaker says they’re bad men, Knights of the Black Sword.

I call the rest of the group to come in, and Doc calls for more guards to come fight him. The speaker says there’s a tiefling in charge here, but also a Levistus guy. Twitch says that’s an Arch Fiend, so these are definitely bad men. We kill some more guards on the way through the keep until we meet up with the rest of the group. They found a tiefling, but he’s just a servant and not the leader guy.

There are a lot more rooms, so Doc and I keep looking. First we find an old lady, though. She’s one of the bad knights, but she’s not a knight anymore and she knows about the blue dwarves from under the dark, so I call Twitch to talk to her. Next we find a kitty, but it’s scared of all Doc’s shouting. Next we find a bad man without weapons and since he doesn’t attack us, and Eggy has caught up, we don’t kill him either. Then we find the Tiefling and he’s a really bad man so we stab him a lot. Eggy is frustrated, even though he’s usually the one killing people. Maybe that’s why, he’s mad we got there first. Twitch asks in my head to not kill the leader, but we moved on by then, maybe Eggy stopped him dying so he can kill him later himself.

We go through the kitchens and leave all the staff alone cuz the speaker said they’re good people. Then out in the courtyard, more people come out, and they’re all bad, so we kill them, too. Seems like everyone’s dead so people start searching the place and Doc calms down. There’s one spot on their map of the blue dwarves that we haven’t been yet, down in the mountains to the bottom. There’s some goblins and goliaths down there that we need to talk to, too.