Fiery Foes

Adventuring On

2020-07-27

Retelling

I, Rys, reached for my pipes of pan And conveyed a tune across the land A song of peace and unity Reached the ears of all I'd see They swayed, they cheered, the sang along So engrossed were they with my fine song And those I've traveled with for the duration Found themselves some bardic inspiration The dragons, however, chose not to depart And so, a battle with them did start Lyrad fired the opening round And once again her aim was sound Selene and Fenn both increased their defense A fierce battle ahead is what they sensed I called a dragon a "scaly turd" And rattled him with my vicious words Mugs rushed in and slashed a wing Lupine Juniper pounced and bit the thing Hoj struck out with searing smite But failed to set the dragon alight The dragon shot back with fiery breath Some members barely avoided death It turned to flee but instead it found Juniper's fangs bring it down And as we finished it off at last Another dragon swooped in fast It charred our wizards and our ranger And incinerated a helpless stranger Will's bow struck true as did Lyrad's This dragon soon was feeling bad Selene froze its leathery wings Fenn sickened it with foul things Rys issued forth a searing insult But this dragon was no simple dolt Instead it took into the air And Mugs could not yet reach it there But Juniper jumped on its back And rendered it prone with a vicious attack Our party descended on the fallen lizard Hoj, Mugs, and Vale struck its exposed gizzards, The dragon stood and breathed fire breath Which brought two of our group close to death Juniper snapped shut her lupine jaws And killed the dragon to many "ooohs" and "aaaahs" Rys quickly strutted to Mugs' side And healed her up before she died I cured her most pressing wounds And new she'd be all better soon Hoj had a healing potion on hand And quickly came to rejoin our band The council rushed to give us thanks And offered some rest for our weary ranks We took some time to heal and talk But knew that we were on the clock Our party split into three groups Some went to the expeditionary troops Some went to visit their Deathlord Some went to gamble 'cause they were bored Some went off to see the shops To sell or trade what our enemies dropped After much talking, haggling, and trade Our party rejoined and overnight we stayed