Daggerford: Dino Crisis

Game Date: 8/22/2020

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 2

System: D&D 5e
DM: Rusty

The Party:

Ezmerelda (Christy) Halfling Rogue

Khemed (Mike) Half-Elf Wizard

Neven (Steve) Elf Monk

Vanya (Matt) Half-Elf Bard 

Boo - Neven's riding lizard

The Session:

After last session, we spent about a month of downtime.  Vanya used her time to get to know local nobles, and made a comfortable living as an entertainer.  Neven spent the month crafting healing potions, while Khemed sought out local spellcasters.  Ezmerelda mostly hung out in graveyards and tried to get in contact with local thieves.

Azul was out sick from food poisoning, but the rest of were assigned road guard duty.  We were ordered to travel to The Way Inn and makes sure conditions were safe for a caravan that would be coming through.  We left Daggerford early in the morning, and reached our first stop, Gillan's Hill, around mid-day.  After a bit of shopping, we rode on, and we reached Liam's Hold around nightfall.

We stayed at Liam's Hold overnight, where Vanya gave a very bad performance (her voice was tired from the trip).  The next morning we continued our journey, reaching a campsite late in the day.  We saw some lizard tracks nearby.  We investigated, and found that the tracks are similar to the Allosaurus we fought last session.

During the night, we were attacked by a pair of Allosauruses.  This was a lot tougher without Azul.  Neven took the most damage, but he also delivered both killing blows.  Last session Khemed acquired a necklace made of dinosaur teeth, which we discovered was now glowing.  Khemed studied the necklace and realized that it is a necklace of Allosaurus control.

We finished our rest, and hit the trail.  After riding about half the day, we reached the small town of Bowshot. We asked around about dinosaur activity in the area, and learned that something seems to be driving the Allosauruses out of the swamps.  Then we continued to ride until we reached the The Way Inn.  

After dinner we met with caravan leader Meldar, who hired us as escorts back to Daggerford.  We spent the night at the inn, and set out with the caravan the following morning.  The caravan was slower than our horses, and they estimated it would take about seven days for us to reach Daggerford.  Since this would put us behind schedule, we sent Khemed ahead to let our superiors know we would be late.

The caravan reached Bowshot the first day, and that Allosaurus-infested campsite the second.  During the night we were attacked by goblins and orcs.  Our chances looked pretty bleak at first, but then Khemed came running back in on the back of an Allosaurus.  He used a sleep spell to take out three goblins, and his dino mount attacked the orcs.  Unfortunately, the orcs managed to bring the dinosuar down within a few turns, but it was still a powerful image.

Khemed made one orc flee using a Command spell.  Ezmerelda went down from an orc's great axe.  Vanya finished off one orc with a particularly vicious insult, and Neven killed the final orc.  Once the orcs were gone, the final goblin fled.  It was too late to save Ezmerelda, but she came back to life as a Revenant.

We rode back to Daggerford, and explained our delay to our commanding officer.  After debriefing, we headed to the Shining River Tavern, where Meldar paid us and gave us some gifts:  A map, a fine bronze dagger, a wand of Detect Magic, and some potion bottles - three doses of Gaseous Form and one dose of Heroism.  We each received 467 XP, bringing us up to 803 XP.

About five weeks later we were going about our daily routine, to find the town was abuzz with talk of an execution.  A Red Wizard of Thay had been been found guilty of murder, and was brought to Daggerford to be hanged.  Khemed and Ezmerelda attended the execution.  Shortly thereafter, we received news that Cromm's Hold was being attacked by a black dragon.  Volunteers were sought to ride out to their rescue.

We ended the session there.  Even though we're about 100 xp short, we went ahead and leveled up our characters to level 3.