3. We Killed a Wyvern!

General Summary

Day 8

We arrive at the Wyvern Wood, an enormous redwood forest. It is just a couple weeks into spring and the forest has a damp, cool mistiness pervading it. Halfway through the first day of travel the mist still hasn't burned off, which is unusual for natural mist.   At a certain point the noises of the forest change, alarming Grover and Lidi. Abi spots a trail of broken branches and claw marks above them but some are quite old while others look fresh. Lidi goes ahead to investigate and reports that there are four black wyverns ahead to the left and one large brown one to the right (an earthwyrm, Sink tells us, not the same as a wyvern).   Sink educates the party on wyvern (and other draconic) varieties:

• Black: Noxious breath that gathers in clouds.
• Blue: Rare water spirits who are playful and mischievous.
• Red: Violent but solitary hunters.
• Green: Small, cunning predators that like to use traps and ambushes.
• True dragons live in the Eastern mountains
• Wyverns have 4 limbs while dragons have 6 (including wings).
• Wyrmlings also have 6 limbs and have scales like dragons (wyverns do not) but are smaller and less intelligent.

With this in mind we backtrack and plots a course around the perimeter of the wyverns. Along the way we encounter an old, enormous skull the size of Sink, evidently of a red wyvern. It is cracked as though it was ripped off the body. Fortunately this would have happened well before the storm.   We harvest the two horns, which are 2 feet long. Grover is eager to use such a thing as a weapon but the other three are less impressed about such a possibility. Eventually we settle down for the night in a shelter of some boulders.  

Day 9

Abi is awoken before everyone else by something alarming - a green wyvern perched on the boulders surrounding camp. She rises slowly and wakes Grover, intending for the two of them to hold the wyvern's attention and distract it while Lidi (now also awake) attacks it.   The plan holds, despite the wyvern lunging and trying to drive them out of the camp in the other direction. Lidi lands an impressive blow on it and the camp dissolves into a fight. In the scuffle it knocks down a trapped tree and Lidi is crushed beneath it before Grover can kill the thing with an axe between its eyes.   Sink prepares crude strength pellets to let us move the enormous tree before sending Grover to butcher the wyvern and Abi to gather ingredients for a potion of wing mending.