Daggerford: How To Train Your Dragon

Game Date: 9/5/2020

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 3

System: D&D 5e
DM: Rusty

The Party:

Azul (Cliff) Dragonborn Fighter

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:

We received word that a black dragon was attacking Cromm's Hold.  They needed volunteers to ride to the hold and help out.  Naturally, we all volunteered.  We rode through a storm, arriving to find the hold recuperating from an attack.  We had missed the dragon by a couple of hours.  The dragon had demanded a specific relic - a blue coral altar, which the Baroness relinquished.  After the dragon left, the keep was attacked by some lizardfolk.  

We poked around the keep, helping out, and studied the dead lizardfolk.  They were oddly deformed, and did not appear to be from either tribe we've encountered so far.  We stayed at Cromm's Hold overnight, and had dinner with the Baroness.  She told us about another magic altar located at Elorfinder's Estate, which is Northwest of Daggerford.  She believes the two altars might be connected somehow.  

But for now, we were asked to investigate the black dragon's lair.  They gave us some Potions of Greater Healing (4d4+4).  In the morning, a woman named Maechen approached Azul, offering to be our guide.  She joined the party and led us into the swamp.

As we were trudging our way through, Maechen spotted a large constrictor snake, blocking our path.  We attacked it from range, killing it before it knew what hit it.  We pressed on until it got dark, then set up camp.  During the night, a group of large lizards attacked.  We took some damage, but we got them all knocked out.

Maechen spotted some ruins.  Esmereld and Neven accompanied her to investigate.  They saw a humanoid figure standing guard.  As they got closer, it started bellowing in Orcish.  Soon we were in a fight with some orcs.  After taking a few out, we entered the ruins, and faced more orcs and a shaman.  

The shaman hit Neven with a fear spell.  Khemed calmed one orc with a Charm spell, and Maechen finished it off.  We kept taking them out, and more orcs joined the fight.  Vanya finished off the shaman with a Shatter spell.  Azul hit three of them with his lightning breath.  

We noticed that the orcs looked like they might be half-Orc, half-Dwarf.  After the battle, we found a large egg.  We figured out that it was a black dragon egg.  After much deliberation, we decided to take it with us.  Unfortunately it started hatching as we were rigging up something to take it back.  Azul convinced it that he was its mother, and we decided to lead it back to town.  

We hiked, we camped, and we hiked some more.  Around noon we came to a large lake, with an island in the middle, and a small structure on the island.  We knew it was a bad idea, but we decided to check it out.  We discovered that the structure was a shrine to Lathander.  It contained an altar covered with four fire beetles.  Khemed turned invisible and went in to investigate, and saw four lizardfolk waiting in ambush.  They appeared to be deformed in the same way as the lizardfolk who attacked Cromm's Hold.

We ended the session there, right before a possible combat.  We received 100xp each, for a total 1004.  

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