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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zoroaster100" data-source="post: 4311188" data-attributes="member: 8538">The Quest BeginsOn arriving in the Middle World, Xandir first turned for aid to the eladrin’s brethren, the Wood Singer elves of Westdeep Forest.  Hearing of the prophesy, the elven lord of the Wood Singers determined that the time has come to find and unite Lozol and Lilith, the long sundered half-elven children of Sir Keegan Redleaf (a renowned elven paladin knight of Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon).   The elven lord assigned the Wood Singers’ most promising new warrior, Rafanel Starhawk, as well as Lozol’s childhood friend, Tlaloc, to assist the eladrin wizard in his quest.  Also joining them was Lozol’s dragonborn friend, Hyksos.  Hyksos is on his own quest to wipe out the kobold threat to the human lands, in order to prove to the humans that dragonborn are still worthy friends and allies.  The questing heroes headed towards the human town of Winterhaven.   A half day from town they encountered none other than Lilith herself on the Old King’s Road.  She was on her way to her adoptive mother’s home, to help her mother find Lilith’s adoptive father, the scholar Douvan Staul.They began a conversation with Lilith, to convince her that they sought her for a worthy purpose.  But then the elves' acute hearing detected a man running over the next hill towards the group.  A farmhand rushed up the road, white as a sheet from fear.   It took some convincing to get the man to overcome his fear of the “giant dragon man”, Hyksos.  But after getting the farmhand’s story that his brother had been captured by "hundreds" of small dragon men. , Rafanel and Tlaloc decided to scout ahead.  Coming over the hill stealthily, the elves spotted the Staul farmstead under attack by kobold brigands.  The feral little scaled monsters barked and skittered about, poking and harassing a barely conscious human farmhand they had captured.  Meanwhile, other kobolds busied themselves setting fire to the farmstead.   Rafanel, enraged to see bandits assaulting helpless people, recalling the cruelty of the gnoll barbarians who years ago slaughtered so many of his own tribe, signaled to Tlaloc to get help, but decided not to wait to start the attack.  From cover of tree foliage, Rafanel began a barrage of arrows that killed two kobold minions before they knew what hit them.  Meanwhile, Tlaloc returned swiftly to the rest of the group to bring reinforcements.  Soon, the entire group was locked in combat with the kobolds.  Hyksos, the dragonborn, charged fearlessly headlong into the fray, cutting down a kobold minion with his longsword.  Unfortunately, he now found himself exposed to the horde of kobolds out in the open.  Given courage by their apparent overwhelming numerical advantage, the kobolds barked and squealed with anticipation of killing their hated enemy, a dragonborn.  Quickly, Hyksos found himself surrounded.  He was soon the target for a kobold slinger and several minion javelin throwers.  But worse, from behind the farmstead, two previously hidden kobold dragonshield soldiers charged at Hyksos, wearing scale armor and dragonscale shields.  With them came even more kobold minions swarming up to attack.  Things were looking grim for the dragonborn, but then the rest of the group launched into action.  Xandir the wizard and Lilith the warlock sorceress both launched fiery magical blasts at the kobolds, weakening and making them vulnerable to well placed blows from the others.  Hyksos restored himself from the brink of death with his own inspirational words, steeling himself to fight on against his enemies.  Tlaloc used a blinding barrage of daggers to slay his foes in numbers.  Xandir slowed some kobolds with a sleep spell, while Rafanel, Tlaloc and Lilith took down one after another foe with missiles and magic.  Finally, the battle was won, and the last kobold tried to flee.   Xandir used a well placed magic missile to knock the last kobold unconscious for questioning.  Fortunately the dragonborn spoke the Draconic language of the kobolds, and his skill at intimidation served him well in the interrogation.  The kobold revealed that his tribe had been conquered and enslaved into service by a fearsome goblin overlord, calling himself Irontooth, who in turn seems to serve a greater master.   But the kobold would not reveal the location of the tribe’s lair despite severe intimidation, as apparently, it feared Irontooth even more than anything the heroes might do to it.  Before the interrogation could be completed, the heroes realized that the farmstead had indeed been set on fire by the kobolds, presenting the heroes with a tremendous challenge to their skills to avoid having the farm burn down completely.  Xandir used an ice spell to freeze a portion of the roof to slow the fire, and Hyksos used his frosty dragon breath to help put out the fire.  But to finish the job also required raw strength to carry buckets of water to put out the fire, and magical help in the form of Xandir’s mage hand spell, which created a disembodied floating hand to carry buckets of water to dump on the roof. After defeating the kobolds and putting out the house fire, the heroes spoke to Mrs. Staul and learned that the last time she saw her husband was when Douvan went to Winterhaven to speak looking for the location of a reputed dragon burial site.  The heroes decided to rest at the Staul farmstead.  They knew the next day they would have to go to Winterhaven to track down Douven Staul.  And surely the path to the missing scholar would also lead to even greater danger.</blockquote>

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