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Vivian said the wine-like sap of the trees in the Fauns' Grove, west of town, might drop the dragon. One sip can knock a mortal unconscious.

Fauns frequent the grove and do not take kindly to anyone stealing their drink.

The party met Lilt and Cask in the grove. Cask accepted Grimni's Witness Ring as a gift with sentimental value and gave them a bottle of the wine. As the fauns left, Lilt played a calming lullaby. Mono and Brother Dirk fell asleep.

Father William called Ingrid a pagan witch in a coven with Vivian. The party met her. Nothing matched a coven. She and Vivian trade reagents.

On the night they brought Zach back, a hooded figure left from behind her house and vanished into town. Dougal and Mono went to the house. The shop was dark. No one answered. Dougal left 3 gp and a letter for Squints at the Fox, asking him to watch her in the evenings.

Squints reported that Ingrid was the hooded figure and that she had been watching Warwick at his smithy. She left paper and flowers at his doorstep. Mono found part of a burned note inside the smithy: “I left the flowers, they are only flowers... I left the little...”

A dragon has penned Brandonsford. Reeve Eric posted a thousand gold for whoever slays it.

George, the only hunter who came back, said it was more fat alligator than winged barn, poison on its teeth, black scales everywhere except the eyes and mouth. Those unscaled spots, he thought, might be its weakness.

Gill's sons Tad and Zach went out with a pig and a net. The scuffle wrecked the mill. The dragon carried Zach off. The party found him in the shallows by the Gustos bridge, his left leg gone above the knee. Tad made it back to town.

They reached the cave west of the dwarves' mine, believed the dragon lay in there, and turned back.

The party obtained a bottle of wine from the Fauns' Grove. They sought it as a way to bring the dragon down unconscious.

Ingrid said fairies were encroaching on the forest. Vivian could help.

On the trail to the mine a golden fox took Dougal's dried meat and went east. Elven hunters and black fae hounds asked after it. Dougal told them the fox went west six hours ago. The speaker promised to hunt the party down if they were lying.

Sprites said they were being hunted, and that they were all going to die. Dirk grew donkey ears. They ran for Brandonsford. Finnian the leprechaun vanished when the hounds closed. The gate shut in front of the wolves' snouts.

They did not take Lives of the Saints on the trip north. Dougal regretted that.

The hunters followed the party to Brandonsford. At the gate, the hounds said the west was empty and that the party smelled like the fox. Dougal read from Lives of the Saints, but the elf only grew furious. Made to choose between hunters and prey, the party agreed to join the hunt in eight days.

Quinn said his good alcohol has been disappearing from The Golden Egg every night. He accused Bentley of stealing it or paying someone else to do it. He offered the party 100 gp to catch whoever was responsible.

The party found fourteen iron ingots in a scorched crate at the dwarves' mine. Warwick told them he was running short of iron and that the dragon had kept him from checking on the dwarves.

The party promised to bring the iron back. In exchange, Warwick would craft a device that Hilda could attach to the stump of her arm to hold her shield.

A dwarf family at the foot of the mountains stopped coming to town.

Vivian was fond of Grimni, the eldest, and last saw him after they found gold in the mines. She sent herbs for his joints.

The party found the mine burned and collapsed. They buried the family. Brol's pick was by the hearth. His body was not among the dead.

Grimni's ghost, speaking through the Witness Ring, said Brol killed him by collapsing the mine, and had gone west to the cave where the brothers found treasure. He asked that Brol be shown mercy. He was not being himself.