They decided to look for Naga Malicinda, worshipped by the Jade Fang of Tiamat.
In part of the dungeon--the Temple of Naga Malicinda, they find a baby. In with the treasure. Just a baby. Now they're carrying a baby.
They finally meet the dragon.
Again, I get to do my favorite thing: in order to show the scale of the dragon to the PCs using the miniatures, I get put a real life puppy on the kitchen table. Thank you for your help, Tallulah.
Now I'm thinking: this is going to be otherwise a boring encounter, because the dragon is wise and chill. The dragon listens and agrees to meet the Half-King in two full moons in the Golden Lagoon.
A little anticlimactic after 3 weeks of like "We're gonna fins a dragon!"
The PCs leave. Or do they?
Bleezy the sea-elf wizard notices, like, hey--this dragon is in this massive flooded hall full of jade columns and there's like, a lot of treasure down there.
"Hey," says Bleezy as the other hastily leave through a stair in the rock, "could I, like, just get some of that?"
"Ohhhh," now the great Naga Malicinda is amused "are you a beggar? Or a gambling man?"
"A gambling man!" says Bleezy.
Naga Malicinda offers a game of chance and skill: if Bleezy spends 30 seconds in there--gesturing to a gazebo-sized dome like a massive teapot--then he can plumb the dragons' treasure for 12 seconds.
He agrees.
What's in there?
Dragon eggs, about to hatch.
Before the end of Round 2 Bleezy is down, bleeding.
The other wizard, Wyatt, who stayed behind to keep an eye on Bleezy, runs in there and quite responsibly teleports him out along with--somewhat less responsibly--one of Naga Malicinda's eggs.
Now, instead of me having to think up what to do next, they're in Vornheim having pissed off a maxed-out ancient dragon and the violent reptile cult that worships it like a god.
Couldn't have gone better if I'd railroaded it myself.
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