Gameplay 2 - Deranged Poisoner

Cloak of the Elvenkind

While you wear this cloak with its hood up, Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you have disadvantage, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, as the cloak's color shifts to camouflage you. Pulling the hood up or down requires an action.

You're quickly able to boost him up so that he can jam himself in the chimney.

Athletics roll to shimmy up, please.

Owen shimmies up the narrow chimney using muscles most people underuse, or lack entirely. The chute bends and twists a little, which helps, but he leaves the sight of the others. A rope eventually snakes down and you grab your things and climb up. All of you successfully ascend, Nar bringing up the rear.

Outside, the landscape is the same as you left it. The mountainside seems peaceful, serene, with birds circling in the places birds are want to do so, and a mountain goat stares at you, pausing mid-chew to assess the interlopers into its terrain.

It seems improbable, impossible really, that a hundred feet from you lies an abomination of epic proportions, and neither the thickness nor the hardness of the rock seems in anyway adequate.

@Nar: The teeth and claws of the dracolich are significantly larger than the beast at the village. Perhaps three times larger.

Your options are to return to the cave and have a look around the other side. When you entered, you chose to go toward the church first, but there was the sounds of water from another direction. You guess that this connects with the cavern of the dragon, as you could also hear water from a side passage near the entrance to the tunnel where you fought Ubar-Sin. (This may not have been described.)

The dragon is too large to leave its own cavern. You're not certain what the plan is there by the original summoners or whatever. Probably magic.