Hoard of the Dragon Queen Session 14 – Taking Skyreach Castle
Who knew haircuts would be the key to taking over Skyreach Castle?!?!? Strange episode for sure.
Who knew haircuts would be the key to taking over Skyreach Castle?!?!? Strange episode for sure.
Our adventurers travel to Parnast to infiltrate Skyreach Castle and prevent the gold from reaching it’s final destination. This would deliver a massive blow to the cults plans. While in the town bar, Kalak tries to pass himself off as a cult member by telling a story of Greg and the Ostrich. Once they board
The group follows Jos and Rezmir thru the portal. They emerge high in the Graypeak Mountains. Kalak finally catches up with Talis, who offers them a deal so she can move up in the ranks of the cult. She sends them to Parnast to interfere with the gold being transported by Skyreach Castle.
The group leads the coup against the castle and it goes as planned except they can’t find Rezmir.
The group has found out that the treasure is being transported by the lizardmen to a castle in the swamp. The lizardmen are not happy about the treatment they receive from their bullywug and human bosses. Our group makes friends with a few of them and starts to stroke discontentment amongst them in hopes of
The fifth day after leaving Waterdeep, ogres attack the wagon train and Agron goes down. They eventually make it to the roadhouse where they discover a trapdoor and lizardmen.
Two days before the wagon train reaches Waterdeep, there is a murder most foul. They meet Carlon’s contacts Remallia and Ella before the wagon train leaves the city
The party draws unwanted attention as they continue on the road.
The Order of the Gauntlet offers our heroes a job. They are asked to follow the movement of the cult’s stolen goods and find out it’s final destination. They hire out as guards and etc on the wagon train to Elturel. They already have plans to meet with Leosin while in Elturel.
After initially running from the kobolds, Agron & Kalack show up to join the fight. Things get worse when Frulum and his half dragon champion show up. Events turn bad for our group and they have to make a deal to escape.
After getting Leosin back to Greenest, the party is summoned by Governor Nighthill who has a mission for them. Go back to the cultist camp and destroy the dragon nursery. When arriving back at the cultist’s camp, they find it mostly deserted. Several guards and kobold servants are left in charge of the nursery. The
The group sets out following the cult’s trail. They are forced to deal with the cult’s rear guard. The captive cult members freely spill the location of the camp and the layout. The group dresses up in disguise and infiltrate the camp. Rescue of prisoner’s is the group’s priority. Leosin is among the captives.
The Cult Of The Dragon appears with a half-dragon champion. The champion offers to fight Greenest’s champion. Wog steps up to fight the champion, and immediately regrets it. The group does manage to capture a cultist that reveals information to them. Wog learns why a half-dragon champion is called a champion!
As the group nears the town of Greenest, they see smoke coming over the horizon. As they get closer, they realize that the town is under a dragon attack. Our heroes rush into town to help save the townsfolk.
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