Session 1 - How to save your Dragon

Summary
The team was summoned to the Dancing Princess Tavern, where Glorfindel asked the team to rescue a red dragonborn (Yorkis) during prisoner transport. Yorkis was rescued successfully on the following night and escorted to a cottage 10 miles out of Kraco. Maruk, a friend of Yorkis and the owner of the cottage promptly thanked everyone and paid them 10 gold each. As the team was about to leave, Marduk offer them another job to retrieve some ore and an emerald, which are pivotal for his dragon golem project. The new mission was accepted and the team left for the first ore site immediately. Upon reaching the marked site, they camped and had a strange encounter in the middle of the night.

Returning a favor
Min & Max arrived at the tavern first, spoke with the madam of the establishment briefly then went straight to the bar for a drink.Min took a sip of his beer and developed a stomach cramp due to his gluten intolerence before Max finished Min's beer and called him a pussy. Ipakas arrived second, demanded to see Gloria and went straight up to the second floor room where Glorfindel and Strider were waiting. Shortly after Ipakas enter the room, Grace and Tired enter the room. Seeing the Tiefling and Aasimar, Ipakas drew he weapon and held it to his side. Grace put his hand on his sword before Glorfindel informed the group that they are all friends here and there is no need for hostility. That is when Min & Max stumbled into the room with Min looking like he's in severe pain and Grace gave Glofindel a big hug as he is excited to see his old friend. Glorfindel exaplined that he asked each one of the person to be here to return his favor. The team is to rescue a red dragonborn during a prisoner transport and escort him safely to a cottage 10 miles out of Kraco. The transport is to take place during the following night, thus each member of the group retired for the night in preparation of the events to come.



How to save your dragon
An hour before the prisoner transport (1AM), the team got into their position to wait for the event to take place. Min was sticking fake tavern flyers down the street, Tired pretended to be a passed out drunk in a heap of rubbish, Max was looking from down the block, Grace and Ipakas were keeping a look out from separate roofs. As Yorkis showed up with three kobold guards, Min put all the guards to sleep, Max picked up Yorkis and dashed out of town with Ipakas and Grave while Tired obtained the manacle keys from the kobld guards. The group escorted Yorkis to the designated cottage shortly after without any incident. Grace decided to keep watch outside while the rest of the group enter the cottage. Upon opening the door, the group saw an old man standing over a bubling cauldron throwing stones into them. The old man rush up to embrace Yoriks, thank the group and gave them all 10 gold each for their trouble. Min refuse to take the gold as he said this is to repay the favor to Glorfindel, but Max quickly pocket Min's portion away. Before the group can leave, Marduk offered them another job but Ipakas decline the offer and headed toward the door. Min caught Ipakas before he left and ask him to hear the old man out, the old man said that he need material to complete the dragon golem to help liberate his home town from the tyranny of the red dragon. Moved by the old man's sincerety, Ipakas agree to take on this job with the rest of the group, so he went out and told Grace a summary of what happened and asked him to go in the house to speak with the old man while he took over the watch.

The neck huggers
The group departed from the cottage immediately and head for the first Ore site. They reach the first site without incident shortly after nightfall. Since everyone was up from 1 AM for the rescue mission, it was decided "resting and search for the ore tomorrow" is the right plan. Min & Max took the first watch of the night, they spend the majority of the watch playing with the bag of holding, paying very little attention to their surroundings. Luckily, their watch ended without incident and they woke Grace up for the next watch. With his keen sense of hearing, Grace heard howling of wolves from the south side of the camp and decided to wake up Tired who is suppose to be taking the next watch, then went off to investigate. He spotted deers reacting to the wolf howl in an unusual way (instead of running away, they seem to be calling back) and rush back to wake up the rest of the group. The group find themslve surrounded by wolves, deers and a bear. Tired took the first shot by shotting a ray of frost at the bear, hitting it squarely and provoked a massive roar from it. Ipakas intercepted a wolves path by slashing it with the shadow blade and Max pin down a wolf with her gladiator fighting style. Grace missed the bear with his first arrow and barely missed the wolf with his second as he was trying to avoid hitting Tired and Ipakas. Ipakas noticed that the animals weren't really attacking them nor were they closing in in a threatening manner, thus he command the wolf he attacked to back off and moved back towards the campfire himself. Tired on the other hand fired off three beams of scorching ray at the bear, missing one while landing a devastating blow with one of the beam. Seeing that the wolf actually lowered its head and coward after Ipakas's command, Min put the injured bear and deer to sleep and told the group he thinks the animals aren't particularly hostile. Hearing this, instead of finishing the wolf off, Max started patting the wolf she pin down and told it to calm down. Min charmed two wolves with his fae presence so him and Ipakas can get a closer look at them. Ipakas remember hearing travellers talking about weird animal behaviors in this area and discovered parasite looking green sacks attached to the back of the wolf's neck. Relaying this information to the rest of the group, Max pulled the parasite out of the wolf and the deer that was close to her and the parasite shrivelled up shortly after. Tired pulled the parasite out of the bear and put it in his bag, the animals quickly scattered away after the commotion and the group returned to their rest / watch rotation.

The quest for shiny rocks
Next morning, Grace spotted where the ore deposit is. While the group started mining and storing it in the bag of holding, Ipakas noticed the unusual quietness of the forest and spotted some birds just sitting on nearby tree branches observing them. He tried to catch one with mage hand but missed, however the bird did not fly away nor did it made a noise. Instead, it moved to a further branch just out of the mage hand's range. The group discussed if they should return to the cottage to report their finding or press on to the second deposit site. Grace wanted to head back to the cottage while the rest of the group think it'll be too much doubling back. Thus they pressed on to the second ore deposit site.

Memorable Quotes
"I take Min's Money, he's an idiot that doesn't realize you need moeny to survive." - Max

"Good eyes" - Ipakas to Grace