The Knights of St Edras met with Queen Livia of Tarsyn. She offered them money in return for an item they were researching previously. She offered them 100 freshly minted platinum pieces as an advance.
What followed was a series of typical adventurer shenanigans that ended with Terrificus getting whipped. Vulcanus to played boobie-honk with the queen. And others expecting to get whipped or killed.
After this encounter, they headed to Darveshnagar arriving after the Queen.
So they decided to leave the village while the crowd welcome the Queen.
They headed to Zapel Lake to look for a bandit. There, they learned about not only the site of a bandit camp, but also of a strange star that fell from the sky and that made the sand glow with strange colors.
They headed to the glowing sands where they found a beachball-sized chunk of crystal from which an odd light came. No doubt what the fisherman talked about.
Terrificus shattered the crystal with a spell and a crystal dragon came out.
A half-fight later, the dragon flew off in the hills...
