The PCs finally bring low the aberration that was attempting to devour them, and then search the chamber in which it was making its lair. They don't find much, so they explore down a side cavern, where they discover a large statue of a dragon with four unfinished protrusions sticking from its neck. SlakeThirst unsuccessfully tries to blast it to pieces, and Nobro attempts to chip away at its face with a dagger, but attempts to deface it are unsuccessful, so strong is the material from which it's made. Slagmoor claims the abandoned sculpting tools that were left in the area, while they do find one fancy tool which might have some value.
They proceed to the next area, from where they had heard sounds earlier after Nobro's chiseling, and encounter a trio of dragonborn with two small green dragons that are being trained in a central cave. SlakeThirst identifies one of the dragonborn as Pergeron, but they are waiting for our heroes, and a deadly battle begins. Between the dragon breath and the savage attacks of the dragonborn berserker tribesemen, the PCs are beaten to within an inch of their death, several of them multiple times over. But the only actual fatality is Nobro who bleeds out after being struck by the rebel Pergeron himself. Although grueling and close, our heroes eventually win the fight, but leave Pergeron alive and unconscious for questioning. Most of the unconscious PCs have been bandaged, and then Kaarl and SlakeThirst, both still standing, decide to rest for a twelve hour period to recuperate spent magic and let their companions heal.
Hathun, First-Week, Second-day, the Now-Year
After making sure everyone has healed up, the PCs question Pergeron, and quite brutally, responding to any of his backtalk with punches and kicks. Pergeron informs SlakeThirst that his father AcidTongue was his own predecessor, and that he has 'transmigrated' towards the Ayrie of the Ancients, where he is undergoing a transformation to a higher form to better serve Saurvax. They shut the dragonborn prisoner up again and then explore the remainder of the cavern network. First they find and search a room in which a pool of water has formed around a strangely smooth, giant metal spike made of a material similar to the device they found below Dogrush Mire, and also like the altar they found near the lair of the Demon of the Ditch. They also find a valuable piece of jewelry amongst some skulls floating in the pool which had been used as goblets by the dragonborn.
They question Pergeron about the strange silver spike through the roof of the cavern, and he claims it was there long before they turned the place into a hatchery for green dragon wyrmlings. The PCs scope out the final area, where they find some gem fragments, a bound human teenager who was taken as a prisoner by the dragonborn and then 'chewed' on by the wyrms, and lastly, a well threaded bag containing a quivering furball which turns out to be a tan bag of tricks.
PCs: Cynjak, Kaarl, Nobro, Slagmoor, Slakethirst, Un'Krug, Yukkbutt
XP rewarded: 1100 each
Inspiration rewarded: 1 (Cynjak, SlakeThirst, Yukkbutt)
Renown: --
NPCs
Pergeron (dragonborn male): Tall even for his kind, Pergeron is a strong physical specimen of the dragonborn race with scarred and cracked scales coating his neck and face. He wields a bone longsword of master craftsmanship that shimmers when fights, and custom fit splint mail with 'wings' fashioned onto the back.
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