>>5125872“What now?” asks Alhazred, after you have both taken the time to catch your breath and savour to sweetness and safety.
You look to your fellow Degenerate Reptilian Infiltrator, and the feathered chimera-drake (named after your dead human father) Hirschel which sits perched upon his shoulder... And briefly note the weird canine chimera with tentacles sprouting from its back, which you have enthralled and brought with you but which you have not yet bothered to name. You two, and these animal companions, stand illuminated by moonlight and starlight, near a rocky bay just outside the limits of Hawksong.
Beneath the ground, in the caves you have just wormed your way out of, lurk a brainwashed owlbear and a massive, malformed Dragonborn spawned from the twisted science of man and the remains of the Great Green Dragon of old. They are too big to exit as you did, though you suspect they could smash their way free… But to what end? Where will they go?
Elsewhere, hidden in the city or evading Tower Inquisitors, a collection of powerful demons await your return, to lead them to the incubus-the so-called “greater demon”—under whose symbol and auspice you freed them and recruited their aid. You’re not sure how you feel about turning such infernal powers over to a being whose goals have, quite often, been at cross-purposes to yours and your masters’.
And, of course, Head Chimercist Henzler—a most dangerous and highly-placed mage—remains only TEMPORARILY in your thrall. You must meet with her, and ideally with your other Tower thralls, you reassert your psychic dominance over them. You can call upon them at your discretion, but you can’t put it off TOO long, lest one or more of them awaken from the waking dream to which you have consigned them. If they were to realize with clear minds who you are and what you have done, and had the free will to act against you… Disaster.
(You also promised the Dark Gods that you would end your human father’s bloodline for past sins against your people and their Great Green champion, and you left all your swag and your
beloved boytoy back in town, so there’s also those matters to attend to.)
“What now?” is, indeed, a good question.
What do you do?
>Have Alhazred escort the Dragonborn, and take the valuable relics, back to the Serpent Priests in their subterranean complex—you must return to Hawksong and attend to urgent matter,s professional and/or personal>You will personally deliver your spoils and reap the glory—you are going to free the Dragonborn from the caves and personally escort him to your people’s cave complex a few miles outside Hawksong>You can neither leave the others to their own devices nor risk their exposure, but you have one or two matters you must handle before your party departs—you will hide the Dragonborn and your cache of relics and then make a brief stop off in Hawksong before traveling with them to the caves>Write-in 