Episode Number: (TG206)
Original Airdate: 5/2001
While Tierney and Gryff search around town and Tim works to end his curse in his own way, Arlemis and Leny and Kaelith follow a group of raiders to a secret camp, where they see their very first dragon. When they get back, Gryff and Tierney have possibly depoisoned a Sworn of the JustOrder, and maybe found a witness for the defense -- a half-orc rogue who claims that Bavrika, the dwarven woman Gryffid met on the night of the murder, was no lady.
If the "Ilcitrix" that Lig and Arik mentioned in Spiked Chains and Fireballs and Death Knells, Oh My! is also a dragon, then this makes a pattern for draconic activity. In both cases, they mentioned some kind of stone that they were seeking, or sending minions to find. This may be the same stone, or a different one. Ilcitrix is likely a white dragon, and Tar'haer'raloth is a green. Perhaps there are multiple stones for different-colored dragons?
TheBastard, whoever he is, is leading the attacks, but the alliance is not a deep or powerful one. It could be disrupted, and in fact this appears to be the only way that the party would survive.
Dragons
Dragons? Dangerous. Powerful. Motivated. These are not the creatures that sleep nine months out of the year and then go eat cattle. They're the most powerful players in the Big Game so far, and they intend to win. There's a stone out there somewhere that does something very powerful -- if you look at the history of the world, you'll get a few clues -- and the dragons intend to be the ones to find it. They're also not as stereotyped as the old kinds. While the reds are still bigger and stronger, they're probably the dumbest dragons out there -- all teeth, no brains. The white dragons might be smaller and weaker, but they're the crafty, deadly, "Spend Centuries Planning" kind of dragons. They're the ones who'll take over countries ever so quietly, while the reds roar around the countryside.
Metallic dragons are of course good and noble and beautiful, but they're not dolphins. Elves are good and noble, too, but in the Dragonlance world, the elves pretty much left the humans to rot. Good doesn't mean perfect, and it doesn't mean nice. If an old metallic dragon saw the path of things to come and realized that he could alleviate a lot of trouble by, say, burning a small village to the ground, well, he'd feel bad about it, but he'd do it.
You were having *way* too much fun during the interrogation scene.
Hey, when you've got a geas on you, you do what you can to enjoy yourself. Sure, I couldn't draw my weapons, but apparently there were no restrictions on grappling barehanded. So I got the chance to play "Scare the Børk out the Shopkeeper" with Tierney: he's the brains, I'm the brawn. Though I trust him about as far as I can throw him (which, given that he keeps dodging my attempts to grab him, isn't very far), we make quite a team when we decide to work together. My conduct was understandable, I think, given that I had quite a stake in what was going on around town. Perhaps even forgiveable.
Quite frankly, I'd have the børk scared out of me if someone of my appearance and build pinned my arms, put me in pain, interrogated me, then released me and gave me a big sloppy wet kiss on the cheek. But hey, you have to know this sort of stuff to be a good intimidator, er, interrogator, er, investigator.
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