Vat:18 Dragonzzzlayer

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Starring: Joseph, Pauline, Koz
Guest Starring: David the Viet-orc, Jake Petroski
Challenge: Male and female dragons
Location: Squirrel Hill, Frick Park
Date Played: 20 Mar 2013

Drafted

Pauline: So, we're Feebs now. Contractors, sure, but we've got badges. I fucking hate working for the man, just so that's on record.

Joseph: The VAT has taken on some new investors, who purchased a 20% share. Dependin' on your reckonin' this could be a good thing, as the investors are Ember and Lee from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This makes us official FBI contractors. This could open some new doors fer us.

Once the sale is complete, I hit the motherload of documents from eastern Europe, provided by our FBI folk. They are intelligence reports from Soviet supernatural happenings from the 70s, well, 1970s that is, until the dissolution of the USSR.

David's Dragon

Pauline: David, the Viet-Orc dropped into the VAT on a slow day. He laid it out, all pink and naked: he thought there was a dragon living in homestead. It was a slow day, so we went and checked it out.

Sure enough, in one of the old forges, there was a pile of eggs. I actually have been to that forge- production wasn't following the formul- oh, never mind. Eggs. Dragon eggs. Well shit. We called in some experts, but they weren't able to do much- I mean, what does a herpetologist know about dragons?

I also found one of the dragons' victims, who had dog tags. I used that to get some information, but I also tried to get the VA to help find his family, and let them know what happened.

Joseph: I'm just over the moon about finding some dragon's eggs. I want to learn as much as I can FROM A SAFE DISTANCE. In preparation I dig and dig and dig until I exhaust my resources and my fella teammates patience. While I'm doin' my research they get in touch with Jake Petroski, a dinosaur expert from the Carnegie Museum.

While at the scene of the eggs, we find a dragon scale, red/black in color and tough as steel. We also find a dead man, Donald Dickson, burned to a crisp which is no surprise after finding a red dragon scale.

Jake estimates that based on the size of the eggs that gestation will be around two years. The body was three years dead.

Kozzzzzzz

Pauline: After a few days of staking out, Koz called in a friend with access to a news chopper. We all go to bed, but Koz is there, keeping an eye on the scene. That's when everything goes to shit, and the dragon comes back- and starts slaughtering news copters and drawing all sorts of seriously bad attention.

The phone chain goes into effect, and we all make it out there eventually, but Joseph and I mostly missed the action. Koz put the daddy-dragon to sleep in the river. Mom, looking like a human, shows up and wants to clear out the nest and move the eggs. I give her a hand with that, but before I can remind her that humans are off limits in my town, she's gone.

Joseph: I reckon that if the scene of one of our investigations is on the TV, the cause probably lies with Koz. By the time that I arrive, Koz tells me that he managed to use his art to put the dragon to sleep. Incredulous, I commune with the river where the dragon plummeted outta the sky, and lo and behold I get a strong paternal instinct from the sleeping creature.

This is much closer to a dragon that I'd like to be.

But then a woman, a beautiful creature of power and seduction, addresses me about the eggs. I know immediately to be careful, as I'm likely dealing with the mother dragon in human form. Her accent is from provincial Austria.

Gone, but not forgotten

Pauline: Dragon-lady spends the next few days cleaning up after herself. She scares our herpetologist silly, he practically goes into hiding. She destroys all the evidence but the video stuff, which makes us wonder if she actually knows what video cameras are.

With what we can find out, we thing the dragons are from Eastern Europe and somehow related to Centralia.