Dwaye follows Meepo to Lady Yusdrayl, introducing himself to her with a small bow ”I am Dwaye, a skilled fighter, at your service”

”I would gladly help you, if it's okay with the rest of our party of course” Dwaye turns to the rest of the party, awaiting an answer.

Heia huddles in with the party and speaks in hushed tones.

"It seems our paths lay parallel for the moment. I see no harm in this. If it is fight we must than I will not squander the opportunity. But I do have some questions better suited to when we are away from them"

She nods her head toward the Kobolds. 

Soar agrees with her companions, and quietly says that the kobolds seem to be treating them well and deserve the benefit of the doubt. "Should we strike out to scout the area near the goblins alone? Or invite the kobolds to come with us? And do we want whatever dragon they mean to get back to them?"

"Ive no qualms in giving them what they desire. The only object she she offers that I am curious about is the key. But first we need to convince a dragon to come back to it's captors."

Heia fiddles with her string of beads for a moment, chewing her lip. "I do not know what good their guide would do us, they've already confessed an ignorance of the goblin territory. But it really doesn't matter to me either way. I will support whatever the party wants." 

"I agree with Heia. The scrolls are what I would choose, in case any of them are rituals I can add to my book."

"I agree, I don't think we need the Kobolds need to come with us. I believe that we should look at getting the key as a prize for returning the dragon and helping the Kobolds."

"A key and some scrolls for a wyrmling." 

Heia nods to herself and turns to face Dwaye. 

"You have our support." 

"Very well, if you wish to travel alone, Meepo will take you to the entrance of goblin territory, and wait for your return."

Meepo leads you back to his dragon taming room, then down a trap-filled Z-shaped corridor that he disarms as he travels. This ends at a door. "I will await your return here!", says Meepo, hopefully.

As the group makes it way away from the hearing range of Meepo, Heia will ask, "So, does anyone have any ideas as to how one captures a dragon? Should reasoning fail I feel like we should have a contingency. At the very least we knock it unconscious and drag the thing back here. But, I am open to less brutal ideas."

"Second, according to Yusdrayl, the goblins are lead by stronger creatures from below. Is there a chance that the adventurers we seek are involved in this?"

"I've no experience with dragons. Perhaps, if anyone is able to create illusions, we can project an image of Meepo and hope that it follows. As for the adventurers, I have a feeling that we'll find them while we're looking for the dragon. They have magic; maybe they're under mind control."

(Pause)

"We could also have someone attempt to imitate Meepo's voice to help with the illusion. For example..." 

(Attempting to imitate Meepo's voice; Performance check 13) "Hey, dragon! It's me, Meepo! I've come to take you back!"

(Clears throat) "How was that?"

"Why don't we ask Meepo to come along or at least have him stay close?" Soar asks before he departs. "He knows the goblins and the the dragon knows him. Also what is our plan?"

She goes back in range for Meepo to hear her.

"Thank you for guiding us here and for pointing out those traps! What else can you tell us about what's ahead? How many goblins and how long have they been here? What will they think when they see us? Most importantly, how do we get the dragon to come with us? How big is it? Is there a way to get it to like us? What's it's name?"

Heia pauses in her walking, she is interested in what Soar discovers from her association with Meepo. 

Asmodai will also listen to the information that Soar gets from Meepo.

Kiric will follow his group members example.

"There are at least as many goblins as us kobolds; be careful, goblins are deceitful, and will try to trick you! They have been here from when we first got here, no idea how long... Calcryx is our dragon's name, he likes eating rats, so maybe you can find some to lure him with?"

"Thank you for your help. He likes eating rats? So he's not so big. Where do the rats usually live?"

To her companions she asks, "how do we want to approach the goblins? Aggressive force? Deceit? Sneaking around?"

"We have a stockpile of rats, let me go get you some!" Meepo rushes back to the dragon taming lair, opens a door to the south, and scoops handfulls of live rats into a sack. "Take this!", he says with a grin.

"I suggest stealth as much as possible. My experience with goblins is that while one or two may pose little threat, they are quite dangerous when they swarm."

Heia will watch Meepo run off, "I got to admit the little guy is beginning to grow on m...." she trails off as Meepo returns with the wriggling bag. 

"Anyone want to carry the bag of live rats?" She hands open up in front of her, palms outward, and she backs away from the kobold. 

Heia will return to scouting the hallway ahead. As she passes by, Heia turns to Kierro and says, "I liked your impression."

perception for hallway and door 24 stealth 7

“Thank you, Heia. I can carry the rats.”

"I agree with Heia on the approach to the Goblins. Stealth is bes,t and we can take down the Goblins one by one if need be. We  don't want to get into a full battle with a bunch of Goblins."

Stealth: 11