4U 9: Shattered Fang

The RPG SAGA continues with "The Dream Team" of:
Koriel "Kori" the aasimar (human-looking) arcane archer,
"Puff" the gnome dream druid,
Aegle the winged elf kensei monk,
and their allies...

DM Note
What fun we have! The group keeps recruiting more NPCs. And when the NPCs die, they keep paying to bring them back to life. It's funny because they just keep getting more and more of them.

4U Session 9 Log
Homebrew Campaign (Alternate Forgotten Realms)
[Modules: Modified -----]
At the Bayou Brigade Fort: Kori, her former werewolf friend Mel Ramhorn, Puff, his kobold druid trainee, Aegle, Frazzle, and Acidfire ate breakfast together after Puff had visions of displacer beasts coming toward the fort. They finally received their invitation to go to Stormkeep (a.k.a. The Obsidian Fang), but decided they first wanted to go clear out the remaining enemies at Spellgard. Acidfire hired two human leatherworkers to follow them around (in hopes of getting displacer beast hide for future magic cloaks). A group of ravens were in the swamp.

On their journey, the team defeated 4 displacer crows. They arrived at the Spellgard ruins and rested in the monastery. In the morning, Puff handed over the cursed crown to Kori, who put it in the bag of holding. Mel took them through the catacombs and they found magical explosion trap rigged to destroy the tower and the underground tunnels. Puff was able to animal form into a badger and safely set if off while burrowing into the ground.

After the group blew up the tower, Aegle found a brownscale kobold who told them the gnome wizard and oni had already fled, in the direction of Stormkeep. In the swamp there was a huge battle with aberration monsters versus the lizardfolk army - leaving most of them dead. The team witnessed a huge magical explosion that destroyed the above ground "Obsidian Fang" and went to investigate. The ancient black dragon was dead! Kori ended up with a blackscale kobold on her shoulders. They had to kill the evil dozen kobold guards (with 3 kobold clerics). They explored the ruins and found underground levels below.

They helped 2 scared-looking gnomes escape - but later realized that was the evil wizard and oni in disguise; the villains used their remaining magic to hide in the swamp (specifically, in a secret thieve's den hideout tunnel that went below Stormkeep). The team bribed the 12 assassin ladies patrolling the level and then fought/killed the main enemies: the assassin leader, the assassin's cleric, the evil gnome wizard, and the oni.

In the end, they were going to go get the leather workers (who stopped back in the swamp to get displacer beast hides) and go back to the fort - but instead, they found that the ancient dragon's dead body was gone from the field outside the keep; a blackscale kobold told them "The Dark Lady" wanted to raise the body as a dracolich! Puff said they had to stop her...