Gameplay - The Dragon Who Took Too Little

Atrix is unconscious, and the top of the cliff looks pretty defensible, with assorted boulders to provide shelter from any wind. There seems to be a cave even higher up the next cliff face, but that will be a difficult climb. It seems that the hobgoblins were attempting to make that climb

What's Your next move?.

Atrix regains consciousness and has 2 hit points.

With Ruby's rope to assist you, no Athletics checks are required to ascend to the ledge. You all makes it to the top, and find a good spot that Trev picks out to rest and recover yourselves, but find it already occupied. Human woman is tied firmly and gagged, and stares up at you wide eyed, but relaxes when she recognizes a few of you, especially guardsman Hasan. It is, of course, Illandra, Bilik's wife whose tracks you saw leaving the farmhouse with the hobgoblins.

Carrion birds begin to circle around the hobgoblin corpses, so you chuck them off the cliff (after stripping them of gear).

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Ding! You each reach level 2. Please indicate any choices in the Character Creation thread. You can either roll for hit points, or take the average, but if you roll, you're stuck with that result.

Illandra throws herself into Hasan's arms and weeps into his shoulder. She sobs out, "They struck in the night. There was a noise. Bilik went out, and the creatures slipped from the shadows and stove him down before my eyes. Then, the pale one with the staff, he made these gestures, and Bilik arose from the dead! It was awful. Then they drug me out here, made me carry their food and probably become their next meal, or feed me to that dragon up there! By the gods! Will this nightmare never end?"

"Well, I saw it stick its head out. It wasn't very big, but those bastards seemed excited to go up there tonight and chop it into bits. I don't know. It was scary but it didn't do anything to us."