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Chapter: The Roadhouse
(Khaznad, Sparkle, Mute, Dwarf, Dastardlyx (in body, not spirit)
They reach a roadhouse that marks the end of the road, until the rest is built. This is the place where the workers live in and travel to the end of the road and works on and then goes back. It is owned by a Half-Orc that talks a lot and loudly, and he locks everything valuable into a big storage room, including all the crates from the caravan.
At the tavern Dastardlyx gets into another fight and kills a cultist, Dwarf and Mute steals his beer. The chef tells Khaznad about lizards and snakes crawling around under the floor tiles, and Khaznad decides to hunt htem for food since he doesn't like anything the chef makes. The Dwarf shares a hayball in the stable with Khaznad for the night, while the others sleep in a room next to the cultists. And the dwarf manages to keep every single horse in the roadhouse awak all night with his snoring.
Khaznad decides go hunting for food at night, and changes into a snake, and crawls under the floor and into the locked storage room. While looking for food one of the crates move to the side, and three lizardfolk appears, and starts looking for crates, and one points out a sign to the others and they take all the crates with that mark.
Khaznad figuring them to be locals decides to ask them, so he changes back to lizardfolk form, and greets them, they jump like they woke up to find a Tyranosaurus looking at them. He tries to calm them down, and asks them if they are locals and familiar with the area, and if this was the night buffet, and they where hungry too? The seem confused, the lizardfolk around here sure seems to be a bit more… crude, that what you're used to from home. Simplifying it for them, you ask if they know where you an find some food nearby, and they tell you that there is a swamp at the end of the tunnel they came from he can hunt in. The thanks them and goes to look.
Chapter: Swamp Thing
The day after the adventurers gather up around a table for breakfast. Sparkle tells Khaznad about overhearing the cultists from the neighbour room talk something about lizardfolk, so being the only lizardfolk around he asks Khaznad. Khaznad assures Sparkle that he isn't the only lizardfolk here, and tells that he met three of them looking for food with him in the storage room.
Sparkle and the others seems very anxious about finding this tunnel, Khaznad is surprised, since they've never shown any interest in hunting frogs and snakes before, but he shows them. Following the tunnel back into the storage they notice that all the crates that has been taken away where the ones from the cultists. Khaznad following their trail through the swamp finds an abandoned camp.
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While exploring the camp, we hear noises from the nearby water, and several canoes arrives. The adventurers hides around the camp. the Dwarf hides under another canoe that lies upside down at the waters edge, Dastardlyx hides in some bushes, Mute hides in one of the small earthen huts, Sparkle hides behind some trees and rocks, and Khaznad just sinks down into a small water and lies with only his nose, eyes and ears above water next to a log.
A large group of lizardfolk appears from the canoes, and as they walk into the camp they start talking in draconic, about weapons they've gotten from their masters for their work, and when they start talking about magical talismans Khaznad gets curious, and rises up from the water, and goes up to ask them about what sort of magical talismans they're talking about.
These lizardfolk seems to be completely surprised again, Khaznad is starting to wonder if he looks really scary for these savage lizardfolk? But he asks them again what sort of magical talismans they have, and they reply, still shocked, that they haven't gotten them yet but that their boss promised them several magical talismans.
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At this point Sparkle jumps out from his tree, raises his arms and starts screaming “FIREBAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!” and puts the entire camp to fire. Khaznad is stunned as the others all charge forward to attack the lizardfolk, and even more surprised as he hears a roar and suddenly an upside down canoe charges past him and into the water hole he was hiding in earlier.
Then he notices one of the lizardfolk is trying to scream over the battle, as Sparkle gathered all the lizardfolk around him and blasts off that horrible thunder spell of his again. The lizardman is screaming that they will surrender if the adventurers just spare their lives. Khaznad agrees and manages to calm down the others, and starts helping the poor lizardmens, stopping their bleeding, and healing them back up with goodberries again.
After that the one that surrendered tells them about an lareg camp further into the swamp, with lots of lizardfolk and bullywugs, and several bosses, especially the pink eared potatoe sack that was giving them orders. And we leave the other lizardfolk in his hands. After resting, the adventurers takes a couple of canoes and sets off into the water, Khaznad prefers to swim.
