Yesterday, Midel failed to show up for the wizard's duel with Erol. A dispatch of guards were sent to fetch him, but have not returned. The guards are looking for Jak & his party to go to Midel’s house. The party accepts and travels south to the small hamlet where the wizard has been living.
The community two hours south is nearly deserted. A peasant directs them to Midel’s house. He acts overly cautious. Squishy charms him to calm him down a bit. He says the mage wanted to be left alone. The guards went into the house and didn’t come back out.
Midel owns a small 15’ x 15’ shack with obvious signs of being broken into. Inside a few papers relating to property rights litter a desk. Squishy gathers them up along with a cloak hanging by the doorway. Downstairs lay a conglomerate of research papers on conjuring. The remains of 3 guards in breastplate lie within the narrow hallway to the backroom. A small hissing green dragon ducks behind the corner. Squishy extends out his powers and charms it. The party enters, searching around the smashed laboratory. Spotting a glint of something between the two plants in the corner, our Badger takes to digging. [This angers the dragon. That’s its hoard of treasure he’s been collecting.] As she delves deeper, Badger notices a tunnel behind the dragon’s corner. She explores it a ways back until it dead ends at a recent cave in. Badger digs through the collapsed rubble to a larger tunnel heading north and south.
Jak casts light. The party journeys down the tunnel to the north for about an hour. The tunnel rumbles. Something big is coming. An ankheg hurdles towards them. A violent flare of magic missiles, mind thrusts, and healing spells ensues. In the midst of confusion the dragon, seeing the opportunity, catches both Mary and the ankheg with its breath weapon. 'steal MY treasure will you?' When it's all over, Jak has an ankheg to shell. They decide to head back to town. They strip the guards of the remaining gear to return to the authorities.
The dragon doesn’t want to go. It sits on its hoard adamantly staying with its treasure. After Squishy digs up the coins it decides to follow him.
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