The adventurers called a council gathering to review their various strengths and weaknesses and discuss the challenge facing them that day. An evil dragon had been able to enter our relatively safe and dragon-free world due to the careless mistake of a phoenix who had accidentally shattered the timeline, opening portals between the dimensions. The phoenix had been grounded for her error and charged with protecting the timeline for the next hundred years, but it was up to the intrepid adventurers to find the dragon lord and dispatch him — either back to his home dimension or to a local grave.
Unfortunately, on their way to the dragon’s lair, they became hopelessly lost in the woods. Some treacherous magic had confused their sight and obscured the path. By happy chance, the sound of approaching (but fortunately noisy) bandits alerted the adventurers to their magical confusion and lifted the spell. They had to backtrack through the woods and discovered they had walked right by the dragon’s hideaway.
There, they attacked! However, they were ill-prepared and almost all of the adventurers were possessed by an evil spirit in league with the dragon. Sadly, one adventurer was killed because his body could not be possessed, and the faithful band hopes to find the means to revive him within the week or he may be forever lost! Of the remaining non-possessed adventurers, one managed to place a binding spell upon the dragon lord, allowing the others to strike multiple times, eventually bleeding the life force from the mighty beast. When the dragon was slain, the possessing spirit slowly slid out of our world and back into its own.
Exhausted by the battle, the adventurers had an early lunch at the local inn, the Hopping Horse, before some combat training with long range weaponry.