- Plain black T with CR zip-up hoodie
- The next morning, over breakfast General Howard approaches Soliana and gives his order for them to scout in the direction of the volcano.
- Niniel overhears someone say, "Wish my daddy'd bought me a commission like that."
- Niniel and Soliana pick up rations for their team for five days and stuff it into the bag of holding. There are also fire starting supplies (LOL)
- Zemma leads the way towards the volcano and they stumble onto what looks like a trail, which helps them make good progress.
- Soliana does a lot of huffing because she's never really been hiking before.
- Near the end of the day Zemma spots smoke from what could be a camp fire or a very small house's chimney
- Caleb sneaks up to investigate (because rogue) and sees a small house(?) built into the side of the hill, but is caught by an alarm sheep who baas loudly at him and incessantly.
- The alarm sheep follows him back to where his friends are waiting and Soliana immediately starts petting and hugging the fluffer.
- Soliana immediately declares the sheep to be her best friend while Caleb and Niniel argue.
- Niniel asks Soliana to cast Detect Magic and it is just a mundane sheep
- They take the sheep back to the house to "return" it.
- There's a very large, broad shouldered man who comes to see what all this bullshit is about. His name is Fenrick
- He doesn't have time for this nonsense because there is an injured sheep. His pasture is full of a large variety of different breeds.
- Soliana blurts out about the time traveling and arcane leaping and he is overwhelmed and invites them to dinner since they helped his sheep and seem nice enough.
- Fenrick has been here for ten years.
- The dragon is known as Ashkarath the Red Doom.
- While chatting Caleb highly implies that Fenrick is the Red Doom.
- Niniel is pretty confident that this guy knows the dragon.
- The sheep belong to Ashkarath. He sometimes just shows up to hang out with the sheep and brings new sheep and Fenrick is their caretaker. He gets to keep the milk and wool from shearing and Ashkarath even helps him build things every once in a while.
- Fenrick says he can give a signal and have Ashkarath come in the morning for them to talk to about maybe no longer stealing sheep or at least bartering for them
- Soliana takes a wool blanket and her bed roll and goes outside to spend more time with her new best friend. Zemma joins her.
- Niniel offers Fenrick The Rise and Fall of Hedrimond to read for the night, which he skims and says sounds wild.
- She scans her book about myths and legends, and it acknowledges Ashkarath's existence as an ancient dragon who avoids conflict and people.
- Niniel gets some wool thread and makes a little band and tucks it into Soliana's pocket while she's in a cuddle puddle with two or three fluffy little sheep and Zemma. She makes a second little charm and tucks it into her Patron Pouch.
- The next morning, Soliana is properly sheep-scented. Hopefully Ashkarath likes sheep smell. Into a non-eating kind of way.
- There's a bracelet made of a tough kelp studded with shark's teeth in Niniel's Pouch.
- Fenrick is up and about long before them and Soliana is combing and braiding her sheep best friend's right up until a large red dragon lands in the pasture
- There is a lot of convincing and taking, but Soliana is so busy combing and braiding the wool on the littlest fluffiest sheep that they bond.
- Ashkarath the Red Doom just wants to hang out with sheep, so he agrees that he could maybe do a thing where he breathes fire for smiths once a month and in return for some sheep pasture on the mainland where the people can have the wool and milk and he just gets to hang out with the sheep whenever he wants.
- The group walks back the way they came for the better part of half the day until they meet the marching army.
- General Howard is not on board with the idea of making a treaty with the dragon, but Niniel goes behind the General's back to the colonel who is second in command and asks if he would play ball if General Howard gets himself eaten, and she manages to convince the colonel (unnamed) to help convince the General to at least stand down.
- The general does not have the authority to make a treaty, so in the end Soliana and Caleb will accompany Ashkarath the Red Doom directly to the king to make a deal that doesn't involve bloodshed.
- Peak DnD right here.
- Dan notes that Ashkarath is a shephoarder.
- 750 XP ea for 5,250 XP total ea.
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