Adventure Logs - Dragon Wars - Tales of the Draco Wolves

A 5e Series - Arthur DM'ing

20210312  3rd Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Ken, Bae Acemar Sorcerer Warlock; Mick, Nimble Eladrin Monk Rogue; Chris, Khrous Triton Paladin

The heroes start in a small village and after hearing a description of the situation, they decide to side with the forces seeking to oppose the dragon born.  They decide to tackle a group of goblins before trying to contact some elves deep in the forest.  They ambush a goblin camp and trace the goblins to a portal to another area with a goblin village lead by a Yanti named Slanter.  She gives us a quest to tackle some hobgoblins and the heroes agree but find thirteen hobgoblins to be very tough indeed.  Letting a patrol of eleven pass, they ambush thirteen more in a cave lair and shortly all the heroes are down before Slanter and a squad of goblins arrive and finish off the hobgoblins.  The heroes find a strange scroll, 25 GP each, and 15 total sets of gear (Longbow, Longsword, armor, shields and arrows), a large supply of food and provisions.  Slanter gives Marconis an Amulet with the symbol of the Draco Wolves on it.  Advance to 4th Level

20210402  4th Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Mick, Nimble Eladrin Monk Rogue; Chris, Khrous Triton Paladin; Steve, Alexandria Half Elf Swordmage; Tena, Gnome Wizard.

The heroes set off from thier new base, leaving Bae behind to guard it. After obtaining a couple of pack lizards, they travel to the nearby city and sell the equipment they captured from the hobgoblins. They also purchase tools to fix up thier base, the Dragon's Den. The group also purchases a couple of donkeys and head off to the encampment of the elves. The elves give them a mission to find thier missing companions and only suceed in half the group getting captured by the Dragon Born and some mercs. The three captured heros are rescued by the elves. The group then moves off to assist an inventor troll with some wolves who are bothering his pet plant, Carney. After dispatching the wolves, the group find six puppies and one adult wolf they give to the goblins with the understanding that the heroes will get three of the wolves after they are trained.

20210424 4th Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Mick, Nimble Eladrin Monk Rogue; Steve, Alexandria Half Elf Swordmage; Tena, Gnome Wizard; Ken, Bae Acemer Sorcerer Warlock.

The heros discover Dragon's Den has been hit by a clamity and try to figure out the mystery. Boldo pees, and pees and tells fellow Kobalds what he saw and dark cloaked figures follow him. Bae and Alexandria exchange information with a trader in secrets as the heroes try to gain info on a legendary merchant caravan and the sighting of a dragon. The heroes defeat some bandits and spare two who become supporting characters and also determine that there are some evil dwaves near their new base. The PCs may advance to sixth level.

It was an advance to 5th level but if you all want to jump to 6th that is fine.

6th Please

I meant 5th Level...

Well there were two adventures at 4th level...

Either way is good.

20211023 5th Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Steve, Alexandria Half Elf Swordmage; Tena, Gnome Wizard; Art, Parkensaien - Human Paladin of Gird.

The heros discover that there is a large group, maybe a dozen and a half, Durguar deeper in the mountains who have access to passages to the underdark as well as an encampment of about thirty werewolves. The group locate the dwarf cave and also confirm it has a network of hidden observation posts to detect visitors. Speaking with Karn, who commands an Earth Elemental doorman, the DracoWolves determine that the dwarves are not openly hostile and may be willing to engage in trade. On the way back to base, the group catch a pair of werewolf scouts and they are also not immediately agressive. After a quick resupply, the group travels to town and pick up a job to slay some raptor like monsters which have been raiding the nearby country side. Setting an ambush on the far side of the military crest of a hill, the group manages to quickly down a wounded beast, and injure a second before the remaining three charge. Luckily the beasts are tired from travelling and thier attacks continue to miss the mark while the heroes down them one after another. The heroes return to town gather the bounty and then prep for a potential caravan arrival.

20211217 5th Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Chris, Khrous Triton Paladin, Steve, Alexandria Half Elf Swordmage; Tena, Gnome Wizard; Art, Parkensaien - Human Paladin of Gird

The wolves spy on the arriving military caravan. It is a single wagon and heavily guarded.  After a time, it emits a huge white light up to the sky and the light has magic and hypnotic powers.  This potentially opened a portal and many of the towns people were transported to hell where a portion of their soul was drained.  The wolves entered the abandoned city and helped themselves to some loot and after a few days the people returned but with some memory loss.  Baldo escaped hell earlier than the rest of the people.  With some research, it is thought the Dragonborn are behind the strange draining caravan.  The wolves left the city and joined up with some bandits and are about to attack a military caravan.

20220128 5th Level Stuart, Marconis Human Ranger; Ross, Boldo Crotch Puncher - Kobald Monk; Chris, Khrous Triton Paladin, Steve, Alexandria Half Elf Swordmage; Tena, Gnome Wizard

Together with a band of about a dozen (bandit) allies, the wolves assault a military arms caravan. An initial scorching blast by the gnome wizard, reduces a large number of the forward guard section to ashes. A hail of arrows down a couple more of the lead guards and the allies take down one of the two dragon born. Khrous moves in to attack the second dragon born while Alexandria and the Gnome Wizard take down the Guard Captain. Within a few seconds, the rapid assault wins the day for the Draco Wolves and thier allies. The group hauls the wagons off the road and finally unlock them and find high grade armor and arms. They put the bodies inside the enclosed wagons and roll the wagons into a nearby river. The split the supplies with the (bandits) and part ways.

Later, the group discovers that the supplies have a magic mark on them. They debate selling them at a nearby city and instead decide to barter with the elves. The elves agree to remove the marks and trade for the supplies, giving the Wolves; a magic long sword, a magic quarter staff, they enchant the armor of the swordmage, and also provide a silver rapier, ten (10) silver bolts and 300 GP. They also have Artemis and Demetrie stay with the elves to receive formal training in arms.

The heroes then check in with the Duergar and the werewolves before visiting Arcemedies the Troll. There they find that Carney the plant is holding a demi-god who is cursed to always disguise himself as a devil when in fact he is a Celestial. The Wolves come close to killing "Luke" but instead gain quite a bit of information from him about the three Arch Devils and about 3,000 lesser devils who have come to the region. The Wolves agree to assist Luke in building his initial communications network in exchange for Luke's short term aid against the Dragon Born.