- Rusty and Theophania head back to the Temple after she has scraped some samples off of herself for testing
- T asks Raiàn for help getting clean since the sludge is so sticky
- She then goes and pulverizes the ruby for Osiris then proceeds to test the sludge
- While Theophania is testing, Osiris casts Continual Flame on a pebble pops that into a small incense jar with a lid, and then gives it to Rusty so that he can have an un-extinguishable torch
- He discovers two small built-in compartments he had forgotten existed when trying to decide where to keep it
- Theophania's tests show that the sludge is composed of fecal matter, rotting flesh (indeterminate species), and some trace amounts of what look like flecks of chitinous material which is slightly shiny amongst the rest of the sludge
- They all agree to head back into the sewers in the morning to try to find the source of the rotting sludge material
- Tiff takes a proper bath because even though Prestidigitation cleaned her, she won't feel clean until she's had a bath
- Osiris collects the two Potions of Acid Resistance Reggie in the apothecary was helping her to make
- The next morning they meet at Callie's boardinghouse and then go examine the outlet where the sludge was coming from, and decide to find the nearest intended entry point rather than damaging the sewer grate
- Just as Theophania is expertly popping the lock open, a city guard shows up and objects to them going into the sewers
- Rusty refuses to talk go talk to Captain Swinson and enter the open sewer door with Lyrielle and Raiàn following immediately
- Osiris and Theophania hesitate for a second, and the guard tries to grab Osiris but she Misty Steps out of his grasp
- Theophania tries to close and lock the sewer entry door behind them, but she drops the padlock and then chases after her friends down the tunnel
- Osiris manages to sniff out the correct tunnel they need to take based on how Tiff smelled yesterday heading away from the river
- About 3/4 to 1 mile up the tunnel they come to a large thing that is blocking most of the tunnel, it is big enough to be the dragon that attacked the marketplace
- The smell has been getting stronger as they've walked
- Osiris casts Bless on herself, Rusty, and Lyrielle and they creeps forward until Osiris can see that it looks like the dragon, but it looks it has some severe claw mark wounds on it very different than the ones they would have inflicted when they fought it
- They walk the rest of the way up to it and confirm that it is dead
- The claws are in groups of four and five like humanoid type creatures would have, but the quantities and size imply it was a group of medium-sized creatures that killed
- Osiris estimates that it died at least a few days ago
- They tie a rope into a harness around and start pulling it, but when they pull it away from the small side tunnel, a bunch of fetid water pours out drenching them all to the waist except for Tiff who is up to her shoulders.
- They eventually drag it back to the sewer entrance where there are five guards waiting for them
- Tiff sticks an arm out of the crack in the door waving dragon scales at the waiting guards to show them that they really were trying to track down a dragon and weren't being shady in the nice part of town
- One of the guards loses rochambeau and has to come see the dragon corpse and loses his lunch
- They organize that one of the guards will get a cart and another guard will get someone from the hall of justice who can
- Everyone shushes Tiff vehemently when she tries to say that the didn't kill it.
- Eventually they make it to the sewer grate at the river through which the corpse will fit
- A gnome shows up and opens up the grate
- They manage using a Levitation spell from Theophania's playlist to get it up the river bank to the cart waiting on the nearby road
- The cart isn't big enough, so they have get a second cart and rig the two together and then Levitate the dragon corpse onto the new contraption
- A crowd has developed in the like hour it took for the guards to get the second cart and to rig the two together
- Raiàn sends for Magnus and Osiris offers him dragon parts for spells much to Tiff's dismay
- They start hauling the cart to the Temple to take care of it in the Hall of Rites
- There is still a trail of sludge dripping behind the carts due to the state of decay it is in
- Once they reach the Temple they dismiss the escort of guards who were helping to keep the gawkers at bay
- Raiàn tells Osiris about Dragonborn funeral traditions where depending, which is the closest they have to full dragon funeral traditions
- Osiris begins preparing the dragon's body for burial rites
- Tiff runs off to research what might have made the claw marks on the dragon
- Rusty convinces everyone whose still at the Rites Hall that they should head back down to the sewers to see if they can find what did this to the dragon before the trail goes completely cold
- Osiris casts Gentle Repose on the dragon corpse and they all head to find Tiff at the library
- 1400 XP ea. for 10,040 XP total ea.
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