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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 6365807" data-attributes="member: 36150">Just a happy update. It seems the Drow player has taken 'center stage'.  This means that the Drow's player will pretty much direct where the story goes.And so, into the Sunless Citadel they went...[obvious spoilers ahead, but the module came out in, like, Y2K or so]And lo, did they agree to rescue the Dragon from the goblins. And verily, did they laid siege to the goblin stronghold and discovered the captured Tiny (3.0's monster stat block) White Dragon wyrmling.I played her* up to be like an overconfident house cat, hissing and spitting at people as they entered her 'lair', then leaping and flailing with teeth and claws at the Half-Orc who approached her.  He swatted it down to 1 hp after the Halfiing Sorcerer and Half-Elf Bard had chipped at it with ranged attacks, where I then had it cower like a kitten and exclaim "I'll be good."*(The Half-Orc's player asked me if the Dragon was male or female.  I remembered that he was playing a priestess of Sif, champion of women and protector of the battered and abused, and decided that she was a female who was being raised to be a mate for Ashardalon... should he return.)While the Dragon was being tended to, the Drow darted down a side hallway to deal with reinforcements. I had the last goblin in the hallway surrender without a fight and the Drow decided that he needed a valet and a contact to use with the goblin tribe.  Butters the Goblin Valet was born.After some parlay with Meepo the 'Dragonkeeper' (who's terrible at his job), Butters (who's a great source of info about his clan) and Calcryx (who doesn't like either faction), The Half-Orc decides that her divine purpose is to protect the dragon, and the sorcerer jumped in to befriend it and teach it things [he's got the Sage background].  Calcryx opted to join the party over being returned to captivity - which made Meepo even more sad.Then, off to Goblintown, where Butters shows the group his "home" (a large communal room where they crap, eat, and live) and the throne room of Durnn, Hobgoblin Warchief.  The Drow and Durnn have a back-and-forth, trying to assess each other's strength and worth, and I thought an alliance was all but sealed... Then the Drow revealed that he WAS a Drow and demanded Durnn's surrender.Then the mass melee began...I dropped a subtle hint that both Meepo and Durnn had been in the Underdark before, as on the next level of the dungeon, there is a path written on the map that plainly says "To The Underdark" but is deliberately not keyed to the adventure.  They may deign to explore it... but with luck, the Drow will opt to collapse it.  Don't want any pesky Drow peeking their noses up there...</blockquote>

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