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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9581078" data-attributes="member: 277">Hoard of the Dragon Queen Session 1Chapter 1 Greenest in Flames Part 1Day 1 7 PM to Day 2 4 AMPC Killed 0 Monsters Killed 29 Villains Captured 3 Villains Escaped 7Start Time 6:28 End Time 9:39Take 10 Downtime days. 76 GP.I had a very strong group of six. Carin Amanger Gloomstalker 3 drow elf. String Bean Rogue 1 Taxbaxi. Nerezza Monk 1 fairy. Nox monk 1 fairy. Violet Life Cleric 4. Luke Fiend Warlock Abyssal Tiefling.It is a fine spring day of Mirtul when our group gathers in the Green Tea Tavern. They are not happy. The grumpy dwarf owner serves tea and healthy food. He also cuts the beer and waters the wine.Carin, “This is weak like the sunlight.”Violet, “Maybe but the horse it came from is very sick.” The strangers chat until the bar closes at nine pm. They slowly make their ways to their rooms.Nerezza is awaken by something around midnight. He wipes a tear from his face. Was that platinum? As he comes to the floor collapses under him, he comes fully awake on the ground floor. A sheriff is trapped behind a beam. A fire has started at the bar. A huge storm can be heard outside but no rain. Violet, Luke, and String Bean try to lift the beam. Sherriff Andy screams, “You, cleric who you serve. It doesn’t matter. I deputize you for Greenest.” She feels a tear in her eye. She also notices the side beam is in the middle of his guts. The fairies start putting out the fire as the drow tumbles threw the wreckage of second floor.Carin, “Spare the Dying”DM, “What does it take to kill an npc. Hmm six on a d6.”String Bean scream, “DRAGON!” as a lightning bolt takes out one fireplace and part of the wall. The group drags Andy outside and heals him. Andy, “Ok deputies and good people. How about we stop those kobolds from capturing that family and get the to the keep.” The family turns toward the keep and the fight is on. The moon light is a quarter moon provide dim light if there are no fires giving bright light.Violet charges ahead of the group to protect the family and have the kobolds split toward the group. Daddy is killed before Violet makes contact but she draws off one of enemy. The other kobolds clash with the group. Andy goes down in the second row, “Frak me”. Carin tries to draw off one the enemy from the family who is stabbing Mommy. “naughty word YOU! KOBOLD. Nat 20 on my death save.”, screams Andy.DM, “When did the NPC get death saves?” Carin and Violet take out the enemy on the family and Carin provides first aid to Daddy. The last kobold falls, and the group falls back to keep. A blue dragon is providing CAP over the town while Kobolds and others are attacking various parts.Around 1 A.M. the group is sent out to stop the mill from being burned. The enemy has set up an ambush. Group, “Excuse you. Counter Ambush as we made the skill check!” The deputies see the kobolds are just faking fires on the roof of the mill and flank them and attack. A few rounds later the enemy is dead. The smudge pots are put out and the group waits for the relief. The group takes a short rest.Book, “That will cost you an hour and encounter.”Carin, “Let me speak to your writers!”Book, “Fine a short rest.”Around 2:15 AM they are told to set up an ambush and take prisoners. They set up around 3 on the map. A half dozen cultists approach the area when the ambush goes off. One escapes the Entangle spell briefly before being cut down. The spear throw is cut down. Another escapes the entangle in dashes inside. One tries to escape and is cut down by Carin, Nerezza, and String Bean. They question the cultists.Cultist, “Red, Blue, Green, Black and White. Tiamat loves me be she told me so. Red, Blue, Green, Black and White. Tiamat loves me be she told me so. Frulam Mondath is the spellcaster in the purple robes. The Cult of the Dragon rules. Non-believers drool. The boss is called Dragon Lady.”Guard, “I work for loot and we get a bonus if we find dragon eggs. 100 GP. The first two ranks of are dragonclaw and dragonwing.”McCaffery, “HEY That my IP!”Cultist, “We are the Cult of the Dragon you demon dogs. Ariel and Ookla will ride to our defense. We are hatching dragon eggs in the camp cave. The camp is to southeast about a day and half away.”The group grabs a hasty meal and move out to the sanctuary around 3 A.M. (location 3 on the map where the players drew out their ambush. Two forces are trying to get in to the temple of Chauntea. One with a battering ram being led by a dragonclaw. The second is trying to crowbar the windows open on the back side. The group split their forces divided them between the two groups. The entangle spell slows down the ramming force, and half back door force is cut down as they move out to meet the group. Carin, Luke, Pocket skeleton, and Violet whittle down the rammers. With not enough people to operate the ram, the kobolds fade away.We will pick this up next week at 4 A.M. Please read you character sheet.DM Note. With Kobolds being dragons now, unless the encounter says differently the species default for NPCs will be Kobolds. So, Cultists, Guards, Noble, etc. I moved the opening scene into the tavern. Sherriff Andy will be your quest giver.Nox and Nerezza need to buy a 2024 handbook.We are doing this by tiers currently. So, try not to level out of the chapters. About chapter 6 is when the tiers switch.I have three seats open if someone wants to drop in.CARIN! YOU AND YOUR JOKES I JUST READ YOUR NAME. 630 in the morning and you making jokes.The map on page 10 is hard to read. The numbers blend in with the background.End of Session 566.</blockquote>

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