The Adventurer's Guild

[Nicodemous]

			Insert joke here about a "metrognome" going behind a tree to play with his dagger.

 

[bluesfella]

The drake, no longer being the center of attention, flits away to chase a squirrel that he sees nearby. A few moments later a small bird flies overhead, and the drake takes to the air to play a game of "fetch". Before you can move to restrain him he is gone.

As Brocc meditates on the ritual, he sees the following images:

A stout Dragonborn warrior quickly packing his saddlebag. The floor behind him is strewn with rubble and broken statues.

Another, much older Dragonborn killing a giant spider, surrounded by dense trees and foliage. The Dragonborn is heavily wounded and bloody.

A twisted, evil-looking Dragonborn with a forked tongue, holding a great spear, and wearing thick plate armor. He is handing the dagger to the same Dragonborn from the first image.

 

[bluesfella]

When the ritual is finished and the images have faded, you can easily pick up the trail of the drake where it came out of the forest. Following the trail back through the woods is relatively simple, and the path leads in the same direction as the carrion birds you spotted earlier. Eventually, you come across a body lying face down on the ground. Or rather, not so much on the ground as sunken down into a body-shaped depression in the ground. The creature must have fallen from a great height to have buried itself in the ground this way.

The body is of a chainmail-wearing Dragonborn. There is a belt pouch lying nearby which has broken open, and coins litter the ground around the body.

[sblock=Mallick onlyYou spot a piece of clothing about 25 ft. up in a tree above the body.[/sblock]

 

[Harumph]

			I see something up in the tree...possibly it came from this poor reptilian flatbread.

Mallick climbs the tree to get the piece of clothing he spotted there.

 

[Nicodemous]

Perception Check

I look around for clues to his interesting ending. Is he injured in any other way that perhaps preceded his fall? Are there any other items around us that may give clues as to his identity?

Perception Check

 

[bluesfella]

Mallick pulls a tabard (heavy cloak) from the tree. It's a bit tattered, as expected, and has a large symbol of a snake on the front. This symbol matches the symbol from the drake's leg.

 

[bluesfella]

I look around for clues to his interesting ending. Is he injured in any other way that perhaps preceded his fall? Are there any other items around us that may give clues as to his identity?

Perception Check

GM: Besides the belt pouch and coins, you don't see any other clues around the body. If you want to study the body for injuries, you can roll a Heal check. If you want to search the body for other clues, that would be Perception. Since you've already rolled Perception to study the area around the body, I'll let someone else who hasn't gone yet search the body (if they want to). Chris or Spencer?

 

[Goel]

Sledge checks the body for prefall injuries and anything of value also picking up the bag of coins.
"You should always remember to buckle up before you fly"

 

[bluesfella]

Sledge is apparently in a hurry, because he misses most of the coins on the ground. He collects 12 gp and 3 sp.

He completely misses the other 36 gp, 9 sp, and 6cp strewn around the body.

GM: You rolled a '1', I couldn't help it!

With the help of Nicodemus, Brocc manages to roll the body over. Despite his injuries, it's plainly obvious that this is the Dragonborn warrior that the ritual revealed - the one hurriedly packing the saddlebags.

It also occurs to you that the farmer you just saved from the playful Drake is about the same build as this Dragonborn.

A quick search of the body turns up a map of what looks like a mountain, a village, and a bunch of red lines going around them. Further study is probably required to make sense of it. (Nature check, anyone?)

GM: Sledge is carrying the dagger, but who is carrying the potion of healing and the antivenom? Also, what do you guys want to do next?

 

[Nicodemous]

Nature Check

I try to study the map and get a sense for what I'm looking at.