Session 11 - Balagen 10 - 15 (Part 2)

Characters:

Party: Test Ranger - Human Ranger, Hank Hill the Third - Human Cleric, Urgan Durbul - Half-Orc Wizard, Regoo - Kobold Sorcerer, Meryur Mandri Bilryn Wrever Quopip Feldri Yegrim - Gnome Bard

NPCs: Sheondirth, Saleagaron Den'roja, Kalvin Ralortal

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Session 11 (Part 2): The Evil Metallic Red Dragon

After the night's rest, the guild prepares to heal Sheondirth. However, before this can be done, Test confronts her over the binding put on him. The dragon refuses to remove the curse, and Kalvin, who was questioning whether or not this was a good idea in the first place, decided this was a step to far and said he would no longer perform the ritual. After that, the party had to decide which way to go. They ended up choosing a path back to Craghammer. The failure to remove the curse caused Test to grow angry with the dragon and he would treat it poorly in the walk through the forest, failing to give it enough nourishment and leaving it tied to a horse in a painful position, able to look up at the skies she will never fly again. This lead to the party leaving the dragon except for Hank, who was able to talk down Sheondirth and Test to at least make up some of their arguing, not before the dragon kills two of the horses the party had obtained. This lead to Sheondirth revealing there never was a spell on Test, that it was all his own mind believing there was. She just created the narrative so as not to be killed. Though the dragon is still wanting to be left to die, it has rejoined the group and continues with them to the site of the battle with the kidnappers. After some searching, they are able to find the remains of the code book. Some of the pages are still intact, but not many.

The party then entered the remains of Stonehearth. The town had been pillaged and several buildings destroyed. The party searched through the town as Test followed some tracks to the mountains near by. He climbed a cliff face and found a cave and an overhang. The party rejoined Test after finding some items and gold and was able to explore the cave. They determined it was a pit used for some sort of sacrifices and that it was run by lizard people. They climbed the mountain and encountered a gryphon, which Test and Feldri were able to placate with their skillz. The session ended with the group on a literal cliffhanger as the party climbed down from the gryphon's nest.