Wyverns, Red Ragers and Bees

AK510-37 Cool Summer End Week 1
[Charon Guiding, Shale Resting, Cycles Watching]

Cogaday

A Wyvern attacks the village and is slain by Ethan, Tim, Bob and John. Ivellios arrives with Tin Tan and Khranen once it is all over.

In the heat of this battle Todd Stuffitt is collecting taxes and is attacked. He is paralysed by a single shot from a hidden assailant. He is taken away and meets an assassin who agrees to train him in return for Todd's assistance against The Dark. The Dark sent the assassin to kill Stuffitt fearing him for a reason unknown to the assassin.
An initial training session ensues. He gets 'floured' a couple of times when the assassin hits him with specially prepared targeting crossbow bolts.
But he is a quick study and he learns his assassin skills quickly.
Over the next few days the assassin visits him out of sight of the party and teaches him the art of the Bigany Assassin.
Todd is tight lipped about all this upon his return.
Todd opens the Wyverns stomach.
Then takes the carcass back to his home for stuffing.

Draiday

After using healing magic and Ivellios learning more spells they set out for Honeyglen to assist the Queen of Zzziiivvv against the Lizardfolk.
They are attacked on the first night by poison dusk lizardfolk whom they easily defeat.
They change the watch roster after realising that the least capable watchmen were all on the same watch.

Charday

They continue past Stein and north towards Honeyglen.
The queen sends a plea to Bob to make haste as they are currently under siege.
They press on through the night rather than making camp.

Sunday

They arrive at the Zzziiivvv valley in the early hours of the morning.
There are hundreds of lizardfolk surrounding the rocky outcrop that holds the fledgling city.
Most are common lizardfolk but there are many blackscales, poison dusk and even bloodscales there.
A massive Bloodscale Barbarian leads the war band.
Soldier Abeil make devastating storm wing attacks that kill many lizardfolk and injure many more but they are outnumbered.
Many soldiers are killed by vollies of poison dusk arrows but they remain out of the larger lizardfolk's reach.
There are several crude siege machines being used by the lizardfolk.
These stone throwers are beginning to smash the city walls.

The queen and Bob agree on a simultaneous assault.
The PCs cast preparatory spells and as the enter the battle they hum with power.
Ivellios launches a fireball into the middle of the enemy and many of them are incinerated. Then he starts picking off the survivors with magic missiles.
Ethan charges the massive Redscale Rager and is almost cut in half by a stroke of his enormous shining axe.
Ethan misses.
Appleby summons hippogriffs and then charges into the fray.
Bob pumps out a hail of arrows and severely wounds the Redscale.
Tim Tanner charges and demolishes several blackscales. They flee his ring of maces.
Then Todd who has been studying the Barbarian's moves, anticipates his movements well enough to put a crossbow bolt through the side of his head. The massive creature falls to the ground. Dead.
The battle continues but with their leader dead and the Abeil on the offensive, they quickly break and are routed.
Thanks to the fierceness of his companions attacks Ethan somehow manages to avoid a fatal blow and staggers away from the battle to heal.
It's all over before he can return.
The queen thanks Bob for honouring the alliance and he judges that the Abeil city his be a strong ally of Woodhaven from now on.