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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2307274" data-attributes="member: 13966">The party gathered their loot, loaded it up onto Elfenhaus and Fleck's cart, and divvied up a few of the potions, then moved on to find a good hill to camp on for a bit.  After spending the rest of the day there, with Rolf and Pup hunting for food, the party rested through the next day to recuperate, with Rolf and Argus using many healing spells that day.  Both nights, Fleck tried to Scry upon the dragon Oruzanthanax, and while his second attempt succeeded, he could only see darkness in his scrying mirror (for lack of darkvision), and could hear draconic speech but not understand it.  Fleck determined that the dragon was probably in an underground lair talking to himself or more of his kobold minions.The party then followed the trail left by the dragon when it had fled.  The trail on the ground went only for about ten minutes of walking, but there were also blood stains from the dragon's many wounds.  Valdir and Rolf followed the trail over the forest canopy where the dragon had apparently taken flight again, with Rolf taking on the form of an eagle to better sea the blood trail and follow it quickly.  After a few hours of travel through the woods, the party found the spot where the dragon landed and proceeded on foot into a large cave, on the side of a low hill.  A chlorine stench filled the air around the hill, and the surrounding area was rather sparse in vegetation.  Rolf scouted a bit longer in eagle form, and saw no kobolds in the vicinity outside, nor any other entrances or the like, so he shifted back to human form and reported.  Meanwhile, Valdir snuck over to the cave entrance and had a look inside, listening for any sounds, but was unable to hear anything from his vantage point.  Valdir saw the glint of armor from what was probably two kobold guards on opposite sides of the cave passage, around 70 feet from the entrance.  The cave sloped downward at a 30 to 45 degree angle near the entrance, then evened out around 40 feet away, and likely dips downward again around 60 or 80 feet away from the cavemouth.The party is discussing their options and tactics for this now.....Rolf has prepared a few healing spells this time, a few light-producing spells, and a few copies of Resist Elements against the dragon's acid breath.  Knowing that there isn't going to be much, if any, vegetation down there under the circumstances, and that he won't get to fight the dragon outside, Rolf's prepared some fire spells instead of Call Lightning, Entangle, or the like.  Argus just has some healing spells prepared, being only a novice druid, while Fleck has many offensive spells prepared for the upcoming fight.  Snake's probably got some offensive magic prepared too, but as yet he still hasn't spoken about his abilities that he had to use last time, against the kobold lancers that nearly killed him.  Attacking the dragon in its lair may be difficult, but the party figures it unlikely that the dragon is healed up yet, and they hope that they don't have any more elite kobold minions to deal with this time.  In the tight quarters of the cave though, they hope to take away the dragon's advantage of flight and maneuverability, and corner it for a beating.</blockquote>

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