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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 545237" data-attributes="member: 1210">NOTE: Dragons in my campaign have traditionally been seen as gods. There were only a few back in the 2e days, and if one lived on your continent you generally knew about it. A dragon would claim a mountain range, entire island, or similar geographical area as its lair; nobody messed with them. Bear that in mind when dragons are discussed...Zeebo Swayzac is an old friend of Sheva, Angel and Sybele, but he's out of touch with them. Since they helped liberate Tirchond from Forinthian domination, he's been a member of the Council of Tirchond and not much of an adventurer. Politics is really his game, anyway. But sometimes the two things mix well. Half a decade ago, when he adventured with them and a bunch of others, they helped guard a cavern full of dragon eggs from the forces of Law as part of a gambit to overthrow the power of the Forinthian Empire and its crushing monotheistic religion- and it worked pretty well. Tirchond is free, the majority of the baby dragons made it out into the world, and things are good for Zeebo (called "the Mayor" by those who know him well). Zeebo is a gnome, and both a wizard and a sorcerer. Though his split abilities stop him from having very high-powered magic, he rarely runs out of spells.Recently, a powerful enchantress associate of Zeebo's, Estelias, approached him with some very interesting news. Rumor has it that there is a dragon on the island of Pesh- but from what she'd heard it's too big to be one of the ones that Zeebo and his companions released. Nobody's ever heard of it until recently, and it seems like making contact with it could be very useful. A dragon could be a valuable ally against the forces of Law- and Zeebo's the man for the job. Thus, he's come to Pesh City, the major port, and is going to investigate from here.Zeebo's a lawyer at heart, so the first thing he does is go to one of the two major barristers' guilds of Pesh. The more liberal, libertarian, even libertine one is called the Society of the Grey Scarf (scarves and veils are a large part of the fashion and culture of Pesh), so that's the one he chooses. When he enters the place, he sees a young man with make-up and veil on at the front desk. A few honeyed words later, Zeebo is talking to a lady attorney named Souliass; another short while later and they're at dinner, and not too long after that... well, let's just say that over pillow talk, our hero puts her on retainer. Tada! He's got a local lawyer, just in case he needs one. The pillow talk tells him a lot. She knows all the good places to go shopping, she tells him, as well as all the good restaurants. She tells him about a strange infestation of extraplanar insects in the Spicewoods; they're formians, and they're intensely lawful creatures. She also tells him that there's been a suspicious rash of assassinations lately, and explains to him that the ruler of Pesh is the oldest member of a very extended royal family- which makes assassination very common. But these assassinations have been predominantly of lawful members of the royal family, and auras of Chaos have been detected at all of the crime scenes that have been checked. Interesting, thinks Zeebo.The two make a date for the next night at a restaurant that she knows called the Gorel Tree.</blockquote>

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