- Penguin Fellowship + CR zip-up hoodie
- Ashkarath the Red Doom flies through the night and the coast of the mainland begins to come into view as the sun rises. Soliana recommends landing outside of the city by about half a mile and walking in as humans to request an audience with the king. Just as Ashkarath is banking, a ballista bolt flies past.
- Meanwhile back on the island, General Howard approaches the remaining three members of the party and attempts to arrest them.
SKILLZ CHALLENGE
- Niniel summons two of her tentacles and attempts to Intimidate the people trying to grab her (SUCCESS) "You don't want to play this game!"
- Poetry summons Ember and starts fighting the people who are trying to grab her, but they came prepared for fire damage (Arcana FAIL) Poetry is grappled.
- Zemma tackles the guy who has grabbed Poetry and completely knocks the wind out of him (Athletics SUCCESS) Poetry is free again. The sheep are starting to get agitated.
- MEANWHILE, Caleb looks down and sees two teams of soldiers manning ballista siege weapons one who is reloading and the other who is just getting ready to fire. Caleb watches them very carefully and tells Ashkarath when to dodge and the second ballista also misses. (Perception SUCCESS)
- Soliana grabs the claw that's around her waist and uses her magic to pump Ashkarath full of energy so that he can get out of range of the siege weapons as quickly as possible. (Arcana SUCCESS)
- MEANWHILE, Niniel singles out an army himbo and tries to convince him that Ashkarath has some monsterous sheep and they are coming. Himbo man is unconvinced. (Deception FAIL)
- Poetry grabs Zemma's hand and darts into the trees, but immediately takes a tree branch to the face (Survival FAIL)
- Zemma tries to jump out of the knee-deep mud puddle she fell into on the trail Poetry pulled her into, but she can't get enough traction (Acrobatics FAIL)
- MEANWHILE, Soliana spends a Feather Fall and she and Caleb land perfectly safely in a pasture near to the ballista station. Caleb summons one of his psychic blades and throws it slicing a rope on the ballista that is ready to shoot disabling it. (Sleight of Hand SUCCESS)
- Soliana looks around and sees that they are slowly getting surrounded by the soldiers who were manning the ballista. Soliana straightens her tabard and announces herself, "I am Marshall Ashera here to meet with the King about the dragon issue we have been having." The soldiers who could barely hear her stopped and looked at her more closely, and just at that moment Ashkarath swoops down and scoops up her and Caleb again. He flies them over a hill to a copse of trees where they will lay low for a few hours. (Persuasion SUCCESS)
- SKILL CHALLENGE SUCCEEDED
- Meanwhile back on the island, Niniel, Poetry, and Zemma attempt to sneak back to Fenrick's cottage but, as soon as they get to the cottage the little sheep who cuddled with Soliana bounds up to the three of them sees none of them are Soliana and immediately start balling at the top of his lungs (11, 12, and 13 for group stealth)
- Poetry immediately Wild Shapes into a duplicate of Soliana's new best friend
- Zemma crouches down and weaves her way into the middle of the herd where the sheep are bigger than she is
- Fenrick has come out to see what's going and Niniel gives him a ten second summary of what's going on before she turns herself invisible.
- Less than one minute later a couple of soldiers approach and ask Fenrick what's going on with the sheep and Fenrick says that sometimes they just get bored and start singing to themselves.
- One of the soldiers says he'll stay up here to watch the sheep and make sure nothing happens to them.
- Niniel looks around and sees Zemma just crouching down in the pasture not moving no longer hidden by sheep who have wandered away from her, so Niniel tell her to go hide in a hay pile, then she finds the Poetry-sheep and also directs her to the slightly enclosed hay pile.
- They convene a meeting in the hay pile, and Niniel wants to take out the remaining soldier, but Poetry asks what the purpose of attacking that guy is since his 200 friends would then come and kill them back.
- They agree to just hide in the hay for a while with Niniel taking another quick jaunt before her Invisibility spell ends to ask Fenrick to start talking loudly about fruit if something bad starts to happen. A confused Fenrick agrees.
- MEANWHILE, Soliana and Caleb have a trance through the morning and when they are rested, the three of them approach the city and are stopped at the guarded entrance and made to explain themselves.
- Soliana miraculously manages to bluff their way into a meeting with the King.
- They are taken to where the King is drilling with the army and preparing to guard the city against the attack of a ferocious dragon.
- Another person gets in Soliana's way, and when she tries to cast a Message cantrip to the King and gets tackled by like four soldiers just as the spell goes off.
- Soliana introduces "Ash" as a trusted emissary of Ashkarath the Red Doom and a protracted discussion about giving Ashkarath land to keep sheep and a deal for where 1000 acres and then Ashkarath will defend Ainor against invaders as that would endanger his sheep. The king is very skeptical about a dragon who likes sheep more than treasure, so it's a long road. It takes a lot of convincing for the King to believe that Ashkarath does not have a hoard full of gold and jewel and treasure.
(Missed opportunity for the king to be almost as obsessed with sheep as Ashkarath. What a twist that could have been.)
- MEANWHILE back on the island, while hiding in the hay, Niniel, Poetry, and Zemma overhear some soldiers talking about how they're going to take and eat one of the sheep, so Niniel goes Invisible again and run to get Fenrick.
- The three soldiers aren't deterred by Fenrick, so Niniel steps out of cover and tells them they WILL be eaten by a dragon if they take this sheep (who is named Merrill)
- 750 XP ea for 6,000 XP total ea.
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