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Campaign: Campaign 2 · Session: 72 of 83 · Arc: Coghaven · Where: North City; the sewers; The Underdark
Searching Nelda for the tracker, the party found it had moved from where Mia planted it. Wilbur spotted it peeking out of Nelda’s curls and pulled it free as it wriggled. Using his tinker’s tools, he reverse-engineered the bug. It was tracked only by a simple location ping, and while it could record and listen, it had no way to broadcast, so its recordings could only be retrieved by recovering the device. Wilbur learned enough to build his own versions. He sealed Asset Songbird in a jar beside Nelda’s bed, and the party staged a distraction by throwing a noisemaking stone through a window into the alley, then slipped out unseen.
The FAM retraced their route through the sewers, avoiding the Rat King and his swarms of rats, alligators, and crocodiles, and returned to The Underdark. Before losing sending stone range, Wilbur called Bulma to apologize for leaving without saying goodbye and ended the call with “love you.” A few hours along the Whisper’s old path, they neared the waterfall where a deep dragon slept and found a horned, hooded figure blocking the way. He claimed the party had passed through before without paying the toll, helped by the Whisper, who had always known about it. He demanded 2,000 gold, double the usual fee. The party’s attempts to argue, to mourn, and to offer Wilbur’s bits and bobs in trade only annoyed him. He declared he would take the gold off their corpses and transformed into a dragon.
Wilbur put a hand on Kip’s chest, recited his full name, told Kip he believed in him, and cast warding bond on him before running away, which reduced Kip to tears. Ellery grabbed Nelda and fled as well, leaving Kip to face the dragon alone. The battle turned, and the badly wounded dragon tried to fly off, but Ellery leapt from a rock with a flying kick, rode the dragon into the ground, and slid off cleanly as it lay dead. Behind the waterfall the party found the dragon’s lair, piled with gold, rubies, gems, and magic items.
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