March 09, 2024

Hook

Rock And A Hard Place (Ruefang, Cahyali)

Plot Synopsis

The party arrives at a quickly made outpost at the site of a new village being built in the south of the Shanzhu mountain range. Regular earthquakes shake the village. They are received by an elven woman, who tells them that a survey team was decimated after breaking into a cavern at the bottom of a valley. They go into an infirmary tent with a very overworked Isisite, and help heal the survey team. One of the team members tells them about the size of the creature: a massive terodrako several stories tall. He mentions that their earth mage was eaten, and their nomad was crushed in half. The party grabs several elemental dynamite charges from a stockpile and heads out.

The party goes down to the valley, and finds nothing but a strange giant tree with crystal leaves as earthquakes continue. They investigate the base, and find a small hole leading down into a huge cavern with strange stone spikes coming out of the ground in a line. The spikes have runes in an ancient style carved deep into them. As the quakes go, the spikes lift up out of the ground. Bailin explodes a charge of C4, waking up the dragon - which they had been walking on this entire time. Their attacks slide off of it, until they manage to use the elemental dynamite to blow off some of the scales. From there, the beast begins to bleed out from repeated attacks. Xiao dives into its stomach, and rescues the skeleton of the eaten earth mage. He manages to bring them back to life.

The party ends the adventure by taking leather samples made out of its skin, and Tareen manages to extract blood bags from it. Xiao cooks some of its meat, and they share a nice meal before dispersing again.

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