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Wed 26th Jul 2023 11:00

Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise

by Asharene Shadowthorn

The group are standing outside of the mirror portal and see Ashe running as she is chased by Gargoyle Dogs. She leaps through just in time, but not after taking a significant amount of damage. The dragon fairies close them mirror slicing in half the Garoyle Dog. We all get a long rest. For Quarter Master, we've only been gone for a few minutes. For us, it's been about a year.
 
Elias overhears Blackwood talking that a crime lord named Terran Sozay, the one who plagued Eldoria for years, and also owns his mother's debt. However, Sozay has been dead for 10 years. However, some guy named Barret has been collecting from Elias for years. Elias has never met Barret, but only ever heard his voice.
 
Blackwood also tells us that the towns people are calling us The Cultbreakers and we are a bit of local heroes. She says that she and her people can take care of these people scamming Elias.
 
Elias has reservations, because there seem to be a lot of people in this operation. He's worried his mom can't be protected. Elias wants to figure out another way to deal with them.
 
Blackwood and Quartermaster invite Angst to Eldoria to study with them and increase his knowledge, skills, and status. Around this time, Ashe brings up that the hags told her that Morpheus is still alive. This really upsets Captain Blackwood and She, QM, and Franz cannot believe this.
 
Elias goes to free Toadvine from jail as he promised before we went to the Fey Wild. However, QM won't agree to this, and suggests that he talk to Blackwood about it, but wait for her to calm down.
 
Elias goes to try and talk to Toadvine to let him know, and they have a really awkward exchange, because Elias won't get the keys for him, but promises to help him escape.
 
Joe needs to get some enchanted bone runes. Ash helps harvest bones from the Yethhound, and goes with Franz and Joe to the occult shop called Esoterica.
 
Elias and Angst head to the Tavern to get Blackwood drunk so he can talk to her about releasing Toadvine. We agree to rendezvous at the tavern later.
 
Joe acquires a book of the stars from the store keep at Esoterica and the woman agrees to make her runes out of the bones we brought.
 
Franz purchases a fortune scroll that warns him not to eat dairy today.
 
Meanwhile, in the bar, Angst asks for milk and a muffin and Esmeralda the barkeep gives him a hilariously hard time about it, mockingly calling him "Cultbreaker"
 
Elias approaches Blackwood and buys her a drink. He charms her with his polite and quiet ways relating to her and understanding how she may not want to talk about how she feels.
 
However, she does open a up a bit to him. They agree that they both carry their history with them, and perhaps both of them could learn how to look ahead, and allow the people in their lives to actually help them. He also assures her that Ash wouldn't lie, even if the hags may have lied.
 
She opens up to him about Eldoria. She is surrounded by Sycophants there, and she appreciates Elias's honesty in despite her knowing he also has a favor. She figures out that Elias wants Toadvine to be released. She agrees to do this for him and he is taken back a bit at how much she is willing to bend the rules for the betterment of things.
 
She tells Elias that he can have Toadmine sign documents to make himself an informant and he can be released. She opens up ever so slightly about Morpheus, telling Elias that he reminds her of Morpheus with his silver tongue.
 
Meanwhile Esmeralda and Angst talk. They talk about Maggie, and she tells him he's not good enough for Maggie. JOe and Ash talk about how they could try to stake out the next drop point and find the leader of the scammers scamming Elias.
 
Blackwood give Elias her extra room key just in case he wants to come visit. He takes the key, but does not go visit her.
 
We tell Elias about our plan to try and locate the people taking his money. Ash and Joe will turn into animals and leave a trail for Angst and Franz to follow.
 
Jo picks up her runes from the occult shop and uses them to see how a certain event or task we want to do will play out.
 
We learn if we are successful, we will gain information about Elias's situation. Elias drops off the money and then hides behind a tree. HOwever, a guy named Dereck shows up and calls him out. Elias seeks Ash's help with a magical message and in her squirrel form she runs up Derek's pants leg and bites him giving Elias a chance to knock Dereck out.
 
We hear a voice from the cave that says "Dereck, bring me the money" Meanwhile. Angst and Franz discuss how to tell if a girl likes you or not. They hear our signal and head over.
 
The voice from the cave recognizes Elias as he approaches. They speak and Elias lures him out. Before he can come out, Ash, in her squiriel form goes in the cave and sees that it is a black dragon in there.
 
She runs out and reverts back to her self and warns the group.
 
The dragon offers to give Elias Dereck's job if he brings Dereck's head to him. Elias basically tells him to fuck off, throws up a silent wall of stone and shouts to everyone to "RUN!"
 
Angst and Elias talk telepathically and consider Elias bringing the dragon Dereck's head just for now that maybe we can escape alive. Elias gives us all a look and we approve that we will follow his lead.
 
Elias kills Dereck and takes his head off. He throws the head to the dragons feet and makes a fake deal with the dragon to report every 2 weeks to find out who needs to be shaken down for money.
 
The dragon also says that he needs one of our heads as collateral. Elias does not give in to this and he stands in a fighting stance. We start to fight. Magdelina starts running from behind shouting that she is here to help.
 
As we try to lure the dragon into the cave to fight, he goes after Magdelina and picks her up and takes her 130 ft into the air and drops her.
 
Elias uses shape water to try and soften Magdelina's fall. He then causes a cave in of the cave trapping all the treasure inside. WE continue to fight the dragon doing enough damage to make him flee from us. Franz throws an ice knife at him in an attempt to stop him, but he bolts up straight into the sky. Jo is able to cast one final guiding bolt and takes him out and he falls down to his death.
 
Jo mold's earth the cave in pile away and we check the treasure pile out in the cave. There is likely somewhere between 7 and 8k gold pieces. Jo fines a ledger that has everyone's debt listed on it. This dragon seems to have weasled his way into tricking people into collecting debt from people.
 
Elias finds a broom of flying. Angst finds a +1 shield. We take the dragon head and some other parts. We make note of the treasure (below)
We are also now known as the DragonSlayers as well as the Cultbreakers now.
 
Angst heads to Eldoria with Blackwood to study. We all get invited to a council member meeting, and this is where we end.

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  1. Session Zero Summer Camp years
  2. Session One: Shadows of Deception- There's demons in town
  3. Session Two: "Bread, Faeries, and Maleficarum: A Confectionary Conundrum"
  4. Session Three: Shadows of Enchantment: Confronting Demons, Trapped in the Fey Wild
  5. Session Four: Ensnared in the Fey's Embrace: A Scarlet Salvation Saga
  6. Session Five:
  7. Session Six: Missed this session
  8. Session Seven: A black dragon in disguise
  9. Session Eight: Tuning Fork of Unknown planes
  10. Session Nine: Welcome to the Abyss
  11. Session 10: Escape the Abyss
  12. Session Eleven: Games, rides, and fortunes at the faire
  13. Session Twelve: Fake Dwarves and Stolen Treasure
  14. Session Thirteen: A purple worm fight and a reunion with a dad
  15. Session Fourteen: A party, A fight and a funeral.
  16. Session Fifteen: Raising Zariel, Saving Andromeda, and making Dermish the ruler of the 9 hells
  17. Session 16: Crossover Aftermath. A fight against Demons
  18. Session 17: Bael's Gate- the 15th of Azuthair
  19. SEssion 18: The Big Cheese and the Way of the Cheese
  20. Session 19: We're making this shit up as we go.
  21. Session 20: And She was Seven
  22. Session 21: I think we have to kill my Aunt.
  23. Session 22: All roads lead to Eldoria
  24. Session 23: A heist given away, and lots of fire.
  25. Session 24: The fall of the house of Harcleave.
  26. Session 25: So many quests. So little time
  27. Session 26: The Living Flame
  28. Session 27: The Living Flame
  29. Session 28: So many things to do and a new place to live I guess
  30. Session 29: The magic school hidden in the Shadowplane
  31. Session 30: Curse of Slaad
  32. Session 31: The Good the Bad and the Oblivious
  33. Session 32: A Harcleve Family Reunion
  34. Session 33: Will the Real Aria Silvermist Please standup
  35. Session 34: Sisterhood of the Traveling Sword
  36. Session 35: Storming the castle of Loadagraph
  37. Session 36: We defeat Loadagraph and have a reunion with Morpheus
  38. Session 37: One Flou Flou over the Dragon's Nest
  39. Session 38: New friends and Floof Hoof reunites with Lukai
  40. Session 39: Murdering Orcs and getting ready for the adventures ahead
  41. Session 40: The Ambushers become the Ambushees
  42. Session 41:
  43. Session 42: Wizards, Lizards and kids in cages! Oh My!
  44. Session 43: Thunderstrike at Crow's Crossing
  45. Session 44: Travel to Pontimunde
  46. Session 45: Adventures in Pontimunde
  47. Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.
  48. Session 47: See Hunter for notes
  49. Session 48: On our way to Lupine
  50. Session 49: Wolves, Owlbears and Rocs OH MY!
  51. Session 50: Mansions, Rifts of Insanity, and Treasure Chests Oh MY!
  52. Session 51: Adventures in Anastas Village
  53. Session 52: The Magnuses attack the village because of us
  54. Session 53: An ooze named Denise- Meeting the werewolves
  55. Session 54: In which we perfectly impersonate the Magnuses
  56. Session 55:Motes of Shadow
  57. Session 56: Hydyr kills his brother and we meet Mordenkainen
  58. Session 57: A trip to the hells and seeing our old friend Dermish
  59. Session 58: Randi missed
  60. Session 59: Court Dates and Demon Princes
  61. Session 60: Gold returned, saving the Miners and Elois mom, Arud. .
  62. Session 61: Three Brides, an Elephant and a Death.
  63. Session 62: The Red Party Heist
  64. Session 63: The White Party- Oh hi Lyra!
  65. Session 64: Off to the Pyramid- Oh hi Ash!
  66. Session 65: Pyramids, Puzzles and snakes
  67. Session 66: An out of this world fight with Neo the Lid.
  68. Session 67: We defeat the Magnuses
  69. Session 68: Saving the werewolves from the mindflayers
  70. Session 69: Just a tiny group in a regular sized world
  71. Session 70: Randi Missed
  72. Session 71:
  73. Session 72: Fighting fucking moon dragons
  74. Session 73: A fight with Zozth
  75. Session 74: Zozth Fight part 2
  76. Session 75: Is that a sex thing?
  77. Session 77: Terry! Noooooooo!
  78. Session 78: Adventures in a new world???
  79. Session 79: There never was a Hilda and a Helga
  80. Session 80: Actually there WAS a Hilda and a Helga
  81. Session 81: Into the Underdark

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