IndyPendant's Sunless Citadel

Lehko turns impatiently."Yes. That is our deal. But if you get us killed, I guarantee I'll see your blood on the floor before they finish with me. Now be quiet. Be smart. Don't go running off into the middle of a dozen goblins, shouting your little snout off. I expected more of a Dragon Keeper." He turns back to face the door, settling himself in again. 'Is somebody going to open that door? We do have a job to do."
 

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Meepo looks around him, and grows alarmed. "What you do? Wait! What you do? You make nice now! You make deal Yusdrayl! Bring back Calcryx, we not kill you! What all this, with weapons? You kill Calcryx, Yusdrayl kill you!"

The red-haired druid turns his green eyes on the kobold and there is no humor in them as they flash with anger. "You were to be our guide and aid us kobold. Instead you have killed our prisoner before he could tell us everything I need to know. Has Belak enchanted or suborned the dragon to turn him against the kobolds? What has Belak been up to? Where is the pit the humans were brought to? How do we avoid the other goblins and hobgoblins in getting to the pit. We don't know. Thanks to you. And now the goblins say Calcryx joined them because he hated living in a cage, such as the broken cage in your keeper lair. Tell me about that cage now kobold. I would know."
 

Ydyr listens intently to what the kobold has to say to these accusations. He moves closer to Meepo, while keeping an eye on the door.

[[Flanking Meepo, across from another PC... and still watching the doorway.]]
 

Sorrow The Man Bear said:
Lehko turns impatiently."Yes. That is our deal. But if you get us killed, I guarantee I'll see your blood on the floor before they finish with me. Now be quiet. Be smart. Don't go running off into the middle of a dozen goblins, shouting your little snout off. I expected more of a Dragon Keeper." He turns back to face the door, settling himself in again. 'Is somebody going to open that door? We do have a job to do."
Jerek sighs. "I guess that would be my job," he tells the mage without enthusiasm. He stows his bow and makes his careful way around the pit to the door, positioning himself to open it on a signal from from Jair.
 

Kuma pulls his sword back over his shoulder, and nods at Jerek.

"Open it. I'll deal with what's on the other side." Then, with a chuckle, he adds, "Unless it's this Calcryx of course. Then we can let him speak with our Dragon Keeper here, and we'll see what's going on."
 


"Blast. No time for the cage explanation now, we'll assume the goblin was truthful about the dragon being in the room and that Calcryx could open the lock that I heard click open. Meepo, go to the door and call out to the dragon. Tell him you have new powerful allies and we defeated the goblins and are here to rescue him. With the goblins defeated and power on our side he might switch back to us. Also tell him he cannot trust Belak. Try to get a response from him. Then I want you to open the door and talk to the dragon more. Jerek, I want Meepo to be the one to open the door, your bow should be out and ready in case of any big surprises."
 

Jerek nods silently and sidles back around the pit. He prepares his bow once again and looks over the edge of the pit. He holds his finger to his lips and smiles in a sugary-sweet way to the goblins, giving them a wink.
 

Meepo nods eagerly and hurries accross the narrow ledge along the pit again. Since there's only about five feet of room between the door and the pit, you decide after a few moments to arrange yourselves so that Meepo, Ydyr, and Kuma are by the door, with the others ready to offer ranged support from the other side.

Meepo begins calling out to the other side of the door in draconic, and Heirmund is surprised to hear that he pretty much sticks to the script Jair outlined for him. When he's done, there's silence for a short while--and then something responds.

Any doubts whether there really was a dragon, or whether it was in that next room, are dispelled the moment you hear it speak. Something about the gravelly, rumbling voice reaches down into your ancestral memories and evokes a fight-or-flight response from deep within you. This, even though most of you cannot understand the draconic, and even though something about the voice gives you the impression of great youth. It becomes easier to understand how the kobolds could worship these creatures as gods, if the voice of one young dragon, heard but not understood from the other side of a door, could provoke such a reaction in you...

Heirmund can't make out every word from his position beyond the pit, but he gets most of it: the gist of it seems to be that to prove he's not under duress, and to give more details, Meepo--and Meepo alone--may enter the room to talk with the dragon.
 

Ydyr steels himself against the knot that is coiling itself in his stomach as he listens to the rumbling voice of the dragon. He begs his mind and body to calm... and positions himself next to the door, readying for whatever might be on the other side.
 

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