DM Hugh Monday December 23rd, 2019 12:11:23 AM
Our heroes head to their retirement party at the giggling Ghost.
The headline of the Hook City Herald reads the following : The Iron Dragons: A Complementary Band of Unique Heroes.
From the article:
It started with a There he goes. Get him. Bosk and a group of adventurers who no longer journey with our Iron Dragons stepped in to prevent the apparent murder of a three year old boy only to see things turn out that the victim was no boy and was in fact a thief. From there they got a protection gig facing off against the Iron Band and it was during this time that Beriothian now a druid, then a rogue joined the party. After our heroes had defeated the Iron Band, Maikill a half-orc who no longer journey's with the Iron Dragons insisted on taking the name Iron Adventurers because Iron was strong.
Enter Zane a minotaur initiate to a martial arts temple he took a wrong turn and fell into a cave with the Iron Adventurers. A giant spider, and some adventure later and he became part of the group.
Zane did leave when receiving a tip about where his parents might be as he is still searching for them, but nothing came of it and he returned. He is still searching to this day. Any leads can be delivered to Zane at the Iron Dragons' Tower.
Though the roster has changed through the years the Iron Adventurers who later became the Iron Dragons have always been good to our city. Though at times things seemed kind of dire. They once fought an Illithid demigod who was damaging the party as fast as they could heal. If Restlin hadn't have dropped his feather token on the thing and gotten lucky with how big it had gotten this story may have been looking extremely different.
Their adventures had often ended up taking them to exotic locales or strange places. One time Restlin fought a dragon in single combat using a razor on a luck quest. He lost of course but the whole thing was just a sham as the dragon wanted Restlin to dispel his grandmother who had been trapped in the form of a gold fish. Other adventures have seen them in Jericho space where they fought a burning whale, a living space station and found the flying ship Starblazer. The living space station was once again defeated by some quick thinking by the Mage Priest Restlin when he turned its brain cluster into a piggy toy. They also fought an Umbral Dragon Korrine on a plane with odd physics and went dimension hopping in their most recent exploit where they saved the Wold. In fact these dragons seemed to have faced dragons a decent number of times despite their rarity with Restlin and Garret riding on dragons, though in Garret's case who found himself wrestling with dragons on a few occasions.
There have been highs and lows in the Iron Dragons illustrious careers. The day when everyone was getting muddy save for the mage priest with his rope trick, the day when the poor chit machine lost her sanity. They are still waiting for her to reboot and the technician to come. The day when Beriothian was slain and brought back by Gargul the Lord of Life and Death for not respecting Him. Let that be a lesson to all of us to be on our best behaviour when meeting with Gods. Beriothian sure learned respect and has the divet in his forehead to prove it.
There were good things too. Sesha became Matron in Waiting of her own house. Zane made friends with both Dock a crystalline ship and a tribe of kobolds that worship him like a deity. They were of course gifted their tower residence by the Dragon council and what a wondrous tower it is. Tink pulled off a really cool move while invisible and defending against threats to the hook, landing the corpse of one of the assailants safely away from folks in a cool pose that no one could see because she was invisible.
What is next for the Iron Dragons? Well retirement. They'll serve as rotating dragon stones for the Dragon Consortium. Zane will see to the monastery where he trained, Beri will start a druid grove, Sesha will take up the mantle of Matron. Her and her consort Restlin will presumably work at producing heirs. Bosk will serve Gargul, Wyaar will serve Ma'ab, Tink will serve Pantheon and Garret well he'll continue to enjoy meat on a stick and telling of the time he rode on a dragon.
So friends next time you see an Iron Dragon tell them thank you for they have saved us and the Wold several times over and if it is Garret, buy him either a meat on a stick or a Garret if you have the coin to spare.
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