Road to Hyperborea, Chapter Four
Dragonslayers
Tuesday, May 22nd, 988 AD
Sometime during the night, a person of the Asian persuasion comes into Thorgrim and Thorgrima's cave and speaks quick Cantonese at Wong. She looks uneasy and quickly confers with Nicolae. Then she tells us that she has to go. She doesn't say where or for how long, just that she has to go. She wishes us luck in Raising Lady Anna and leaves the cave. Nicolae, like a dutiful puppy, follows her out. The rest of us shrug our shoulders and continue sleeping. We'd probably be more concerned if we weren't hemorrhaging adventurers all the time. There must be a revolving door following us around or something.
In the morning we heal up and decide to go kill that dragon to the west so that Edward can become more powerful. Reynaldo goes out there first to scout the area, make sure there aren't any surprises that we wouldn't rather be made aware of and properly plan for.
He Polymorphs into a bird and flies to the west. He finds a cave with the bones of a snake on its apogee and six little huts surrounding it. There are a few Kobolds darting in and out of the huts; Reynaldo sees a total of five Kobolds, but figures there's probably about eighteen total, three to a hut. He dives under the snow and tries to get closer to listen in on them, and he hears them say something about worshipping something called "Kontakna," but then a Kobold steps on Reynaldo and sounds the alarm. Reynaldo quickly moves away and they can't find him, but he sees aboout a dozen Kobolds dart into the cave. His recon mission all but blown, Reynaldo heads back to the others. His Polymorph spell runs out about ten minutes out, so the trek back takes slightly longer than the trek out.
He reports his findings, and Thorbjorn mentions that Kebnekaise used to have a bunch of Kobolds who called Korminak their leader. Vera, Reynaldo, and Shara all give appreciative nods and then we all start planning for the death of a dragon. This involves an Earth Elemental conjured up by Jean-Claude, a pumped-up Thalia and Ivan, and everybody else just hammering away until it dies. If it takes to the air, the two mages are responsible for grounding it. We also decide we should probably take turns beating on it as its breath weapon might hurt a lot and could conceivably take out a lot of us in one shot.
As we're planning, a female by the name of Malina shows up.
to be continued...
The Cold Man
Wednesday, May 23rd, 988 AD
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End of Chapter Four
