Another day another dragon Book Two, Chapter 2.1 (session 40, 1 st February 2018) You spend the next few days plotting and planning, how to bring down the dragon. Deciding that hunting it in its lair is a bad idea you decide that you should attempt to lure it into the open outside the forest (because of the damn mist). To this end you plan to lay on a fake caravan and use Galin to feed the information to the dragon master. Mads successfully arranges for a caravan to depart Waterdeep and arrive at Daggerford with some escorts on the 24 th Alturiak. In the meantime Galin is ‘encouraged ‘ to report to the dragonmaster that this caravan will be a more lucrative target than any of the few remaining elven villages. Galin takes some convincing but in the end performs admirably under some pressure in his next meeting with the dragonlord. Naergon listened/watched via Clair voyeurism and you are all satisfied that the bait has been taken Meanwhile Franz circled the surrounding area in bird form and located an area in the near centre of the forest , an area marked by an escarpment with a significant waterfall cascading down it, in which the mist is thicker, no large animals encroach into and where the undergrowth is dense and vicious. His suspicion that this area relates to the dragon lair was confirmed when he was swarmed and attacked by packs of crows and ravens whilst in the area. Whilst kicking your heels in Altand you met one of the wondering patrols of Elven Royal Guards and after some discussion, often rather heated and despite some mutual suspicion managed to persuade the patrol leader to meet you at your rendezvous with the caravan as it departs Daggerford and enters the hills to the west of the Misty Forest. Everything goes surprisingly smoothly and you meet the caravan outside Daggerford on the 24 th as arranged, the elven patrol joining you on the road. And almost as if by design as you descend from the hills on The Trade Way, passing the ruins of one of the many abandoned villages lying in ruins since The Sundering, you are assailed by a band of bandits – bandits you quickly identify as Cultists by their regalia. Your initial disappointment that your trap has been sprung by minions of the dragonmaster is quickly dispelled as emerging from the perpetual mists at the fringe of the forest a magnificent green dragon, ridden by the dragonlord himself, swoops down and catches Franz alone, ripping into him with its claws and teeth. Your plan has been successful, you’ve enticed the dragon and it’s master into battle on your terms. All you need do now is kill it. No levels were gained this session: Naergon 10 th level Mads 9 th level Franz 9 th level Jamna 9 th level Augustus 9 th level XP earnt is now irrelevant as the rest of TOD is based on milestone XP In-Game the session ended at 14:00 on 26 th Alturiak 1485 DR