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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Envisioner" data-source="post: 7946120" data-attributes="member: 6749263">Even the halfling gossip network takes a few minutes to work, and the humans who lack this resource are even slower to take up the word.  Many of them come to investigate the dwarf's warning, but they tend to be initially skeptical, peering out into the darkness with their own, far more night-blind eyes.  A few even begin tentatively expressing doubt about the validity of Grimnir's hue and cry.All that changes literally in a flash, as a massive bolt of lightning from the storm crosses about a 30-degree arc of the sky and strikes a flying body in midair.  Though unharmed by the strike, the form is momentarily outlined by arcs of coruscating electricity before it completely absorbs the charge, and that gives everyone who's looking at the sky a very clear look at the size and shape of the creature - a thickly muscled body roughly the size of a barn, with a long tail lashing behind, an outstretched neck ending in a massive head, and broad bat-like wings.  These few details, even glimpsed for just a second, send an immediate and unarguable message:  dragon.Those who witnessed the sight immediately begin running, either headed directly for the town's central keep, or quickly rushing into their homes to grab a few possessions and/or relatives.  Those who didn't see the dragon do see the reactions of ones who do, and in short order the entire assembled crowd is in motion.  A moment later, a loud horn-blast blares from the top of the keep, three times in quick succession, and then repeating fifteen seconds later, and fifteen seconds after that.  Evidently this signal is meaningful to the locals, because before long ever door flies open and the stream of people heading for the fort is up to well over 100.</blockquote>

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