8 April 2023
[[Coyra]] explains that some black dragonborn tried to abduct her and [[Gammy]]. [[Ishtar]] is confused. [[Urtho]] backs her story. [[Jaezred]] . [[Camden]] and Granny are outside the city but come insie when they hear [[Coyra]] scream for help. [[Urtho]] is unable to convince the guards to help. Granny spots a tall white dragonborn ([[Lthar]]) approaching with two black dragonborn. He is [[Brayne]]’s right hand. He explains that they just needed to talk to [[Coyra]] and insists that she come with them. She insists that the whole party come with her and the dragonborn doesn’t object. As they’re walking they notice that a group of blacksmith are outside (which is weird?) discussing how things have rusted overnight. The white dragonborn takes everyone to his office. [[Camden]] stays in the hallway. The dragonborn admit that all dragonkind who are telepathically linked have been called to help release Tiamat. [[Coyra]] claims to have been looking for a way to destroy her dagger. She says that she was going to have Phil destroy it but she doesn’t know where he is. [[Lthar]] is confused about everything. He suddenly drops his head to the table and seizes, probably being affected by the call of Tiamat. He refuses to reveal to us who he serves, but asks for help. Then the building shakes. “She’s a protector of Grantex. She’s in great danger”. He leads us to the mountainside near the city, to a giant boulder. The same boulder Granny and [[Camden]] saw kobolds take big sacks behind. He pulls out a scroll and uses it to cast a spell to reveal an opening in the mountainside. He explains that his patron (a dragon) lives in here somewhere. Party progresses down the tunnel. They find a broken body of one of the kobolds, a coin, and a ruby. [[Lthar]] leads them down the tunnel. The party hears jingling coming from ahead, like someone is pouring coins on the ground. Progress through the tunnel and continue to find loot and some dead kobolds. Giant worm pops out of the floor and attacks the party. Granny whips it with her thorn whip and it dies. Party explores some more, gets attacked by another worm and a brass dragon wyrmling. Combat continues and another worm appears. Take out the two large worms, then a gargantuan one pops through a wall, knocks out [[Camden]], and runs away from [[Jaezred]]’s fear aura. The worm continues to flee. The party investigates the bigger unconscious dragon and finds [[Lthar]] under it, unconscious. [[Jaezred]] smacks the big dragon and wakes her up. The worm gets over its fear and begins to return. [[Jaezred]] is the only one in the party who speaks Draconic, so he’s the only one who can talk to the dragons. She says that there is an evil coming to attack Grantex and she was building a lair from which to defend it. The gargantuan purple worm reemerges. It eats one of the wyrmlings. The party kills the worm. The dragon says she’s going to take the remaining wyrmlings and move somewhere new to establish her lair. She tells the party that they have proven themselves and gives them permission to take from the hoard. She explains that she found the wyrmlings at the border of Cestrap and Bimoranto and rescued them. She saw evil druids experimenting with the corpse of a red dragon. She swears the party to not speak of her as her presence must be hidden so that she can protect Grantex. [[Ishtar]] and [[Gammy]] suggest the party go help Tal, but no one else seems to feel it’s a priority. And no one remembers that [[Pip]] is still missing. Party finally stops collecting money and teleports to the shore of the underground lake where they find Tal. He updates them on the situation, confronts [[Jaezred]] (unsuccessfully), figures out where [[Pip]] is, and then they go to collect [[Pip]]. Teleport to level 3 and start making our way up to level 5. Find [[Daelish]] guarding the gate between level 3 and level 4. He lets us through. Someone use’s [[Dinus]]’ ring to open the door to level 5 and we find [[Pip]].