Last session, as the party made the final leg of their journey toward Collinwood, a shadowy messenger bird delivered a two-sided coin of Tymora and Beshaba to Cinovas as a symbol of luck and misfortune. Led by Merrit Thistlewick, the companions navigated a hidden trail into the halfling village of Collinwood and gathered at The Lucky Cup tavern, where Merrit Thistlewick’s family and, later in the chapel dedicated to Tymora, Elder Mary detailed a disturbing string of thefts: coins stripped from the sacred Money Tree, household items and anything left out vanishing overnight.
After an overnight vigil yielded no sign of thieves, either due to Merrit Thistlewick’s increasing draconic traits or the influence from the Scale he keeps hidden on his person, Myravyn discovered strange clawed tracks outside the village. The party tracked the prints to a hidden rocky cave, where a pack of kobolds led by Scale Priest Zik zik zik hailed Merrit Thistlewick as the “Great Scaled One” potentially due to his secret dragon scale. Deep inside the cavern surrounding an black dragon skeleton half-submerged in acid the kobolds turned hostile trying to take Merrit Thistlewick’s dragon scale in an attempt to revive the ‘Great Scaled One’. In a subterranean battle against acid spittle and spirit guardians, the party slew Zik zik zik and cleared the lair, leaving the companions poised to recover Collinwood’s stolen treasures or to report the situation and allow the Purple dragon knights the honour.