pukunui
Legend
OK. Here's what I'm thinking:
Leosin will arrange to have Elia and the PCs use the Harper teleportation network to get them from Waterdeep to Everlund. (See the "Inner Circles" bit from Storm King's Thunder for details). In Everlund, the PCs will learn that a) they're famous and b) the cult is on the move and may attack the city soon.
Perhaps the city is already under siege and Elia has to smuggle the PCs out during the night. Elia insists that the dwarf wizard travel in a basket so she doesn't have to touch him. She flies east into the Nether Mountains, past the still-smoking ruins of Jalanthar. She takes them to a hidden vale with a waterfall. Passing through the waterfall, she uses her wings to keep the PCs from getting wet, except she makes the dwarf wizard go last and then pulls her wing away so he gets soaked.
On the other side of the waterfall is an idyllic glade full of beautiful plants and the like. This space may be a demiplane of the dragons' creation or some such thing. Elia leaves the PCs to wander the glade for a bit while she goes on ahead to meet with the other dragon councillors. The dragons keep the PCs waiting in order to test their patience. However, Nymmurh shows up in humanoid form in the glade and chats with them for a bit, giving the PCs a few clues about each of the dragons.
The PCs are then ushered into a colossal chamber within a mountain, where they find themselves standing in a small circle of light at the bottom, while the five dragons are perched in alcoves overlooking the PCs' platform. The intent is to make the PCs feel like they're being judged (which they are).
The dragons hope that the more impatient and intimidated they can make the humanoids, the more willing the humanoids will be to make concessions.
After the meeting, Elia will drop them off on the road back to Everlund and tell them they have to make their own way back since she has lots to do notifying the rest of her kind and the like. Along the way, the PCs will meet up with dwarves who've captured a cultist. When they get back to Everlund, they find the cultists gone. While the city is mostly intact, it has suffered, and the people aren't happy because they thought the PCs were going to be there to help but instead they disappeared in the night.
Or maybe the city wasn't under siege before but gets attacked as the PCs arrive. Maybe they have to fight off cultists as they make their way back to Moongleam Tower in order to teleport back to Waterdeep - while the people of Everlund beg them to stay and fight. Or something. I might be getting too ambitious here.
EDIT: Or, perhaps instead of just Nymmurh appearing in disguise, all of the dragons do so they can test the PCs in secret before they are called into the meeting. They can put the PCs off their guard this way, you see, and get a good look at them. Tazmikella can figure out that one of the PCs has her stolen item, as well, so she can surprise them with the knowledge that she knows they've got it when they enter the council chamber.
Leosin will arrange to have Elia and the PCs use the Harper teleportation network to get them from Waterdeep to Everlund. (See the "Inner Circles" bit from Storm King's Thunder for details). In Everlund, the PCs will learn that a) they're famous and b) the cult is on the move and may attack the city soon.
Perhaps the city is already under siege and Elia has to smuggle the PCs out during the night. Elia insists that the dwarf wizard travel in a basket so she doesn't have to touch him. She flies east into the Nether Mountains, past the still-smoking ruins of Jalanthar. She takes them to a hidden vale with a waterfall. Passing through the waterfall, she uses her wings to keep the PCs from getting wet, except she makes the dwarf wizard go last and then pulls her wing away so he gets soaked.
On the other side of the waterfall is an idyllic glade full of beautiful plants and the like. This space may be a demiplane of the dragons' creation or some such thing. Elia leaves the PCs to wander the glade for a bit while she goes on ahead to meet with the other dragon councillors. The dragons keep the PCs waiting in order to test their patience. However, Nymmurh shows up in humanoid form in the glade and chats with them for a bit, giving the PCs a few clues about each of the dragons.
The PCs are then ushered into a colossal chamber within a mountain, where they find themselves standing in a small circle of light at the bottom, while the five dragons are perched in alcoves overlooking the PCs' platform. The intent is to make the PCs feel like they're being judged (which they are).
The dragons hope that the more impatient and intimidated they can make the humanoids, the more willing the humanoids will be to make concessions.
After the meeting, Elia will drop them off on the road back to Everlund and tell them they have to make their own way back since she has lots to do notifying the rest of her kind and the like. Along the way, the PCs will meet up with dwarves who've captured a cultist. When they get back to Everlund, they find the cultists gone. While the city is mostly intact, it has suffered, and the people aren't happy because they thought the PCs were going to be there to help but instead they disappeared in the night.
Or maybe the city wasn't under siege before but gets attacked as the PCs arrive. Maybe they have to fight off cultists as they make their way back to Moongleam Tower in order to teleport back to Waterdeep - while the people of Everlund beg them to stay and fight. Or something. I might be getting too ambitious here.
EDIT: Or, perhaps instead of just Nymmurh appearing in disguise, all of the dragons do so they can test the PCs in secret before they are called into the meeting. They can put the PCs off their guard this way, you see, and get a good look at them. Tazmikella can figure out that one of the PCs has her stolen item, as well, so she can surprise them with the knowledge that she knows they've got it when they enter the council chamber.
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