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Start: 1st of Venusta 1113 GE, early afternoon. On the windy outskirts of Draakbarrow, observing a wanted poster describing a Halfling that looked remarkably like Otto Ozzley with an eyepatch over his right eye as an extremely dangerous individual (Unknown).
Aoife Sweeney used Sending with Daxar Darkstone - the Skallywag Squad are about a week or so out from Draakbarrow (arriving around the 10th). The walked into town, and observed a couple of buildings. They saw a crowd gathered outside Scaled Corona - a large amount of guild members and some adventurers gathered around a display table with Lohka Wyroc, the leader of the "fan club", describing his most recently artifacts. They included a prismatic dragon egg, a jade wand, and a perfectly hexagonal amethyst dragon scale which he claimed he retrieved directly from Morgo the Maleficent on one of his expeditions up Blind Claw. He claimed this scale could nullify any and all abilities of Morgo the Maleficent.
The crowd dispersed, Lohka Wyroc returned to the longhouse, and the party made their way into the massive skull of Zalvorax into the Tooth and Claw Tavern. They met an elven mage (Vijkastra Misseer) and a number of Scaled Corona members, including the energetic Tanzy. Arwa Hathspelt impressed the guild members with an incredible wood carving of a dragon - they immedaitely fawned over it and gathered around, and would later submit the piece to the art contest for the mixer.
Over at the Wyrm's Roost Inn, Calliope and Nesdin spoke with Baril "Sanctity" Epalout. He warned the party that the Scaled Corona Guild had become increasingly radical the past few years, with their popularity spiking after Lohka Wyroc first ascended Blind Claw and returned. He also advised Nesdin to disguise himself as they were very weird around Kobolds. Every few years, one would wander through town, and the Guild would essentially harass them and chase them out.
The party reconvened in their Wyrm's Roost inn and Nesdin sent a Sending to Arix. Over a few loving messages, they determined Arix was in high spirits and was somewhere in a basement - likely underneath the Scaled Corona Guild Hall longhouse. They were discussing ways to bust him out of their imprisonment when they heard a knock on the door. Vijkastra Misseer was there, and introduced herself as a traveling companion of Arix, and was helping him hone his sorcerous abilities.
The group went to rest for the night. To better understand the guild/cult, Aoife Sweeney cast Dream on Lohka Wyroc. She saw a vision of him in a ruined and burned landscape, with dragons flying overhead. She saw his trip up Blind Claw - ascending the mountain, sneaking through Castle Darkstone while invisible, and seeing Morgo's front claw. Suddenly, Aoife Sweeney snapped awake when Lohka Wyroc was eaten by the dragon in the dream.
Waiting for a few days, the group departed for the Scaled Corona Mixer on the evening of the 3rd of Venusta. There, they listened to the speakers (Tanzy flopped), observed the relics on display (jade wand, prismatic egg, draconic writings) and Arwa Hathspelt won the art contest (granted a Dragon Pin). Aoife Sweeney snuck onto the roof and discovered Over the Fence, invisible, creating an opening in the roof to steal the Prismatic Egg. Crax Goobadink also did some scouting, but both returned before the doors closed for the final ceremony.
The doors were sealed and the magical lights dimmed, preparing for the final ceremony when a rumble ran through the long house. After a beat, a burned corpse of a Dwarf guild member appeared on the main dais. Shoving the body off of himself, Arix popped up and said hi to his brother Nesdin. All at once, a portion of the ceiling caved in (Over the Fence, a half-burnt Lohka Wyroc busted through the left doors from below chasing the escaped Kobold, the adventurers were convinced to lean into the chaos and try to loot the Guild Hall, and Vijkastra Misseer drew a spell scroll and transformed 4 guild members (3 Tieflings and a Dwarf) into devils.
End: 3rd of Venusta 1113 GE, dusk. In the main hall of the Scaled Corona longhouse within Draakbarrow, with a fight about to break out between Bill's Bimbos, Arix, Vijkastra Misseer, Lohka Wyroc, the cultists, the adventurers, Over the Fence, and 4 devils.