Lundar's Library

Day 76, Year 542 of the Ascendancy

* An ominous presence fills the sky.

Around midnight on the 61st day of Winter, a
strange presence was sensed by the mystics in the lands. Soon after, a
Fire Drake appeared in town, and began scorching exiles with it’s
powerful breath! Since most of the powerful exiles in the lands were
conducting a rescue in the newly discovered Valley, there were no
exiles in town that could stand up to the might of the Fire Drake.
After town was filled with smoldering corpses, the Fire Drake appeared
satisfied. However, what happened next surprised anyone. After toasting
everybody, the Fire Drake grabbed onto the still smoking corpses of
Mace Windu and Xaerus, and took flight!

As soon as the Drake rose into the air, he started
to slowly glide towards the west. The fallen exiles in town were
quickly raised, and soon, everybody was following the Drake, and the
fallen exiles. Soon, the Drake flew out of town, and reached the docks.
Here, the healers were able to use their cads to raise the fallen
Xaerus(who landed on the ground with a thud), but the Drake, carrying
Mace Windu, flew clear over the ocean. The bewildered exiles rented
themselves boats, and followed.

The Drake flew forth from Puddleby, and headed
westwards, with exiles in tow. Here, the healers were able to rescue
the other captive, Mace Windu, and shaken Fen was put aboard a boat, a
ferried off to Puddleby. The Drake did not really seem to notice, and
he kept on flying until he reached Devil’s Island. Here, the Drake
paused for a bit, then flew onto the northern end of the island. Again,
the exiles followed.

The Drake flew at a leisurely pace southwards,
flying over hot beaches and tree-filled forests with ease, while the
exiles followed with some difficulty. Finally, the Drake flew over the
mountains of snell E2(according to my map)
and disapeared. Now, the exiles were puzzled as to where the Drake had
disapeared off to. All of the captives of the Drake had been saved, so
there were no rescues that needed to be conducted, but still, they were
curious. So, led by the dwarf Nunnul, the party headed off to the Lava
Cave on Devil’s Isle. There, they were massacred.

The cave was filled with all manner of creatures,
including Deadly Adders, Fire Rats, Blood Hawks, and more. Luckily for
the party, there were no Lava Walkers present in the cave, but the
party was massacred anyway. However, reinforcements arrived soon
enough, and the fallen exiles were chained out, and healed up.
Afterwards, the whole mass of exiles entered the Lava Cave once more,
and cleared the place of all the foul critters. However, the Fire Drake
was nowhere to be seen.

The exiles healed up once more, and left Devil’s
Island, and thus ended the adventure with the Fire Drake. However,
there still remain many questions to be answered. Why did the Fire
Drake kidnap exilesin the first place, and where did the Fire Drake
disapear off to? I have not the answers to these questions, but my
speculation is that the Fire Drake flew into the Crater or perhaps to
the Drake Den rumored to exist somewhere upon the isle. As to what
sinister purpose the Drake wanted the exiles for, I know not. Probably
not for food I would think, but who knows? Anyway, as I’ve said before,
it’s about time that I explored Devil’s Isle once more. And if ever a
Fire Drake were to appear in town again, and it’s claws happened to
latch on to me, I would gladly go with the Fire Drake, and see where it
would take me.

(Special thanks to iolaus
and Eisenbieger who showed me a most interesting Vision Stone of the
event, and gave me permission to publish it’s contents on my scrolls.
iolaus has a most interesting webscroll, that also chronicles the
happenings with the Fire Drake, and it can be found here.)