>>5303317“The mammals present the greatest threat, IF we choose to remain here,” Paeris notes. “We could take what we need from the mines and homes, order the kobolds to withdraw from their village and back into the mountain, and leave this place to the mammals once it is stripped of compromising intelligence.”
“…Or we could remain, fight them off, hunt the adventurers in the hills,” the Bastard notes. “This could be a stronghold against mammalian incursion into our old territory.”
What will you do?
>Relocate the kobolds back to the mountain, and focus on plumbing the depths of the mountain quickly>Hold the kobolds’ village as a forward base, and begin operations to capture or kill any mammals who get too close>Have Paeris, and the members of your team with amulets of disguise, go spy on the nearby mammalian civilization for intelligence of your own>Begin drilling and assessing the kobolds, for perhaps it will be best to take the fight to the mammals...“The rings, necklace, and cloak are indeed all magical in nature,” the Novice tells you. “The green-stoned ring is host to a demon, that much is clear… But the rest of them will need to be properly appraised by a member of the Priesthood specializing in such things.”
“What?” you ask in mock astonishment. “This is beyond the ken of the GREAT Novice Fleshweaver, prodigy of her clan?”
She hisses, and nearly swats at you, before remembering the others are present.
“It is… Outside of my principle discipline, as well as those of the others with us. However… With your permission, the ‘materials’ the Dragonwrought sued to make his false form are well within my ability to analyze.”
This draws a few stares and outraged murmurs. She is proposing experimenting upon that same dragon-hatchling… As well as, less-controversially, the basilisk. She realizes the sacrilegious implications, but… Well, it is not without precedent.
“Experimenting with the flesh and blood of a long-dead dragon is how the Dragonborn Project was begun,” she points out. “We could glean valuable insights.”
Will you permit such research?
>Yes—it could prove too valuable a resource to waste>No, you will treat that hatchling—and any other such bodies—with utmost respect, and give them proper funerary rights befitting Dragon Kings>Actually, you have another project you’d rather the Novice focus on… [specify what] 