The Dragon at Thundertree

With an outstanding request to deal with a Green Dragon in the ruined town of Thundertree, the adventuring party that would one day be known as The Dragon Shield decided to take this opportunity to test out their potential new members. So Balasar, Eli, Sebastian, Fox and Faust bring along the half-orc barbarian Gron and the half-elf bard Niko and head several days north of Phandalin to take care of the problem.

Upon entering Thundertree they quickly locate the tower known to house the dragon and make their way there. Upon getting close to the tower, seeing the corpses of giant spiders strewn about, and thinking about how to get the drop on a dragon, the dragon attacked. Landing on the low roof and roaring at the party there was no choice but to fight the dragon or be destroyed. Faust, Fox and Sebastian with an opening volley struck out with arrows and magic allowing Gron and Balasar to move up and launch javelins. Niko inspired the party with his rousing speeches as Eli moved into position. Balasar, Gron and Eli making their way up onto the roof as the magic continued to rain on the dragon. The dragon lashing out at those who came close to him struck vicious blows but it did not deter them, spurred on by the inspirational bard. The dragon turned on those below and sprayed them with his poisonous breath catching half the party and rendering Niko unconscious.

Under relentless blows the tide begins to turn, the barbarians slashing into the dragon and vicious attacks from Eli along with a barrage of magical damage the dragon tried to flee. Before he escaped and with seconds to spare a final volley from the ranged attackers brings the dragon down in the main square.

Sebastian tended to Niko's wounds and brought him back to consciousness while Gron investigated the dragons lair. The rest or the party investigate the dragon's corpse. It was here that Gron found his first magical weapon Hugh. He was so pleased with his new axe that he chopped up a few trees to test out its powers. Meanwhile the rest of the party had decided to construct a cart to haul the corpse of the dragon back to Phandalin. While having to store the wings in Faust's bag of holding.

Upon returning victorious to Phandalin and informing the inhabitants that the ruins of Thundertree should now be safe to resettle if there was a desire to do so. They take the Dragon corpse, minus the wings as dead dragon and extradimensional storage apparently don't mix very well, to Daran Edermath to get him to make them some kind of armour or useful items out of some of the scales of the dragon and letting him keep whatever materials are left over as payment.