<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/92/38/be/9238be8625e38d36b6e8a4b6fa80c211.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">THE DRAGON'S DEMAND </span><br/>A Pathfinder Adventure<br/><br/><strong>Happenings!</strong><br/><br/>"What's this about kobolds?" one of the deputies asks suddenly as he stares between Purcilla and Flint.<br/><br/>"You know, the scaley buggers we found," the other deputy added helpfully.<br/><br/>"Oh, yes, those kobolds," the first deputy said.   "No need to worry, sirs and madams.  They are dead."<br/><br/>"Burnt to a crisp, I daresay," the second deputy added, once again, helpfully.   "Should I go see the wizard now?"<br/><br/>The first deputy, whom we shall call the fat one, didn't want to speak to the wizard himself.  He was a rather cantankerous and unpleasant man, and the fat deputy had his fill of cantankerous and unpleasant people in this one-stable town.<br/><br/>"Aye, do that, while I..." here, the deputy pulled up his belt around his fat tummy,  "take control of this situation."<br/><br/>The second deputy, who we shall call the thin one, proceeded to jog up the hill towards the north, to a stately manor that sat upon a hill.  The same hill which the tower's ruins, which Purcilla could see from her vantage, had once stood.<br/><br/>"Now where was I?" he asked himself.   "Right!  Yes, so, no you may not cross the bridge, no we do not need your assistance, and--hey, aren't you those people that the sheriff was going to arrest?  Oh.  Oh-ho-ho.  Oh!"  Here, the fat deputy got a little bit heated.  He at once wanted to fight the party single-handedly, but also adjust his armor.  He sensed a connection between the party's presence and the current events, but he was too stupid to articulate his reasoning when he got agitated.  "I know what's going on here.  I know...!"<br/><br/>Everyone suddenly saw the thin deputy run down the hill at full-speed before stopping beside the fat deputy.<br/><br/>"I went up, as I said I would, to talk to the wizard, and wouldn't you know it," the thin deputy said,  "there was another dead kobold on his front porch.  Burnt to a crisp, just like the other two."<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/hHryAcJg.jpg)<br/><br/>#3 = Garrison;<br/>#4 = Wise Piper Inn;<br/>#5 = Apothecary<br/>#6 = Scribe<br/>#7 = Butcher<br/>#16 = Smithy<br/>#17 = Stables<br/>#19 = Mason's Guildhall<br/>#21 = Barber<br/>#23 = Tinkerer<br/>#24 = Furrier