Session 7 - All my friends are dead

Summary
After the altercation with the vampire, the group emerge from the crypt to find the southern part of the forest caught on fire with a storm hanging over head. They decide to go investigate thinking this might be caused by Balmaia's dragon and the blue dragon born army. Balmaia sneaked up on Min during the night, drunk and complaining about her dead dragon. The group formed a shaky truce with Balmaia with the promise of working together or at least staying out of each other's way. The travel up North towards the viallges of the resistance member was incident free but filled with horrid sight of massacre. It seems the Matherson matriarch was indeed starving from her long imprisonment.

A drawf and an Aasimar walk into a bar
As the Matherson mat--iarch left the crypt, Ipakas send a message to Anya to give her a heads up that the vampire might be after her handmaiden due to an old family grude.

"'This is the Gnome you met in the forest. Just a heads up, Matherson's vampire lady is free and holds a grude against your handmaiden' - Ipakas""'Thank you gnome for the warning but Dellaila is no longer a part of that family so is no concern of hers' - Anya"

Steeping out into day light again, the group saw black cloud, fire and thunderstorm gathering at the southside of the forest. They think this might be Balmaia and her dragon's handy work on the blue dragon army they encountered marching south. Not sure what their next course of action should be, the group decided it would be a good idea to return to Marduk's cottage and discuss what to do next. Marduk wasn't too happy to be woken up by the group in the early morning and got even moodier once he heard the group has let out the Matherson matriarch. But since he doesn't care too much about the vampire's conflict with the nobles, the topic of discussion was quickly changed to the fire and storm that's brewing just south of his cottage. Without much information to work with, the group decide to head out to Kraco and see if they can gather some information. Knowing that there might be a bounty on the group due to their multiple altecation with the blue dragon born guards, Min and Max decide to stay back due to their notoriety and Tired also decide to stay back due to the vampire's bite. Grace and Ipakas set out for Kraco to gather some information, Ipakas disguise himself as a dwarf before they get close to the city and Grace said he knows the city very well and could lead them in and out very quickly. Grace disguise himself as a blind person (Alan Keen-eye) fleeing from the fire and Ipakas (Digby Strongstout) is his Dwarven servant.

In the city, Grace and Ipakas head to an inn to gather some information. They ordered some food, sat down and spotted the 200 gold bounty poster on the group. Before the food arrived, they decide to leave quickly in case anyone recognises Grace. They hung around the gate to ask the refugees if they knew what caused the fire and what's happening there. Some refugee recalls lightning, dragons and fire but everyone was in such a panick to run away they couldn't remember much. Grace and Ipakas decide to leave the city quickly and head back to Marduk's cottage on a phantom steed. It took them about an hour to reach back at the cottage and relay the information back to the group.

Meddling Kids
Marduk stated that he is waiting for an optimal time to flank the red dragon force once they engage with the blue dragon army, but Max wanted to check if Balmaia's dragon died in the conflict with the blue dragon born army so the group decided to head off to survey the battle site. They spotted an elven lady with long green hair sitting in the middle of a small clearing looking exahusted. Max try to strike up a conversation with the lady but she seems very disinterested and hinted at the fact that she is a higher being and doesn't really want to converse with them. Min brought up Loke in the conversation and Grace noticed the elven lady grimaced slightly, and head off to the west and leaving the conversation behind. The group decide to go deeper south to investigate the battle site and slowly finding more and more bodies along the way there. As they go further south, they start hearing people shouting orders to find survivors in dragonic. It seems only a small fraction of the previous army was left with a large portion of them injured and being taken cared of. After the general's order, the group saw a kobold ran off on it's own and Tired pretend to be an injured bystander of the attack and manage to extract the information that the offending dragon was taken down by the army and went down further south of the battle site.

The undead red dragon lies broken on the ground as the group aproached its body. Max respect the dragon for following through with their agreement and say a small prayer for the dragon. However, Balmaia was no where to be seen and the group suspect that she either survived the encounter or was never present for it. Since the group has been up for quite a long while, they decided to set up camp and rest for the day. They found a small clearing that looks perfect to set up camp, but there is a body strunged upside down between two trees. Upon closer inspection, it is one of the two people they have encountered couple days ago that were looking for the druid. There is a symbol carved on one tree and text carved on the other tree. Ipakas set up the tiny hutt for the group to rest in and Max set up a perimeter of alarms. During Max and Min's watch, Min noticed that his line of sight was slowly fading away and Max rush back into the hutt to wake everyone up. Min got trip over while stumbling in the darkness and a humanoid sat on him and asked "what happened to my dragon!?". Turns out Balmaia was not involved in the battle and her dragon went to suicide run on the blue dragon army. She also mentioned that Marduk is her Ex-Husband and he is dead to her. After trying to pressure Max to give her the alarm clock back with no success, Balmaia stormed off. Min yelled out at her to ask if she strung the dead guy up and she said that is not her handy work and she isn't lying about it this time before dissappearing into the treeline. Ipakas send a message to Balmaia letting her know the Matherson matriach has been set free. Then everyone heard loud cursing and Balmaia storming back to yell at them, stating they ruined everything. The group manage to talk Balmaia into a shaky truce of not treading on each other's plans before Balmaia storms off into the night once again.

The rest of the night went by peacefully and the group decided the next plan of action is to check out the village of the dragon tatooed people. Travelling through the forest, Loke popped out of the treelines and greeted the party. He is very glad that the group escape the fire unscathed and Grace started asking him if he's seen an elder green dragon, and a green haired elven lady. Loke said he's never seen another dragon but the green hair lady he has seen once or twice. Loke seems to be troubled by this information and turned around and left for his cave after the short discussion. Upon reaching the village of the water cross, the group witness an aftermath of a massacre which is most likely caused by the Matherson matriarch. The group spend the down time burying the body at the village, laying the dead to rest. The group reached the detinated village without further incident, but now they are face with the problem of tracking down the people with dragon tatoo. Fresh out of idea, the group decide to contact Balmaia to see if she has any tip on approaching these people. Min use the stone of sending Balmaia slipped into his pocket to contact her and Ipakas also asked how they can find the resistance member."'The lands to the north with no dragons sure sound good right about now' - Secret Pass"

Memorable Quotes
"Giant Carcass, No survivors, Best News" - Min