Last night we had a successful return to the Anthology stories with an adventure in the Dagger Isles.

Several of our characters were returning from previous adventures, and one was brand new. They were:

Tamatoa Thunder-Eater (triton barbarian)

Kai Mahoe (triton mage)

Kitch (halfling thief)

Oka Wara-wara, the “Dead-Eye” (triton shaman)

Cassius (human paladin)

The party had been hired to retrieve a crystal egg which belonged to one of the bird-like wind mages. Their investigation led them to tiny Tapiset Island and the partially sunken ruins of the Temple of the Viridescent Wyrm. Some decades prior, the temple was the lair of a green dragon, Emerald Nightmare, and his cult of human worshippers, but was now thought to be abandoned.

In fact, as the party would learn, Emerald Nightmare existed in the swampy waters around the temple as a dracolich, his animating spirit anchored to his bones by a large emerald phylactery in the center of his ribcage. Emerald Nightmare’s plan was to use the power from the crystal egg to complete a ritual by which he would be reborn into a green dragon egg he kept in stasis in the temple.

There was lots of exploration and derring-do, and in the end the party managed to thwart Emerald Nightmare’s plans and destroy his dracolich form (though his spirit is still around to cause mischief).

Thanks to everyone who came out: Kristen D Scott Owen Jeff Burke Ferrell Riley and Gary Wilson .