Out of Character: : In order to keep things moving (My schedule is going to be a little tight in the next couple of days) I'm going to post assuming that Ilthin will stick with Delgar on this move.
In Character: : Delgar approaches the egg and, without picking it up, he can tell that it is definitely a dragon's egg. He can't tell for sure without picking it up but it appears to be either a copper dragon, gold dragon, or bronze dragon egg.
He also notices that the coins, although they are not gold, are copper coins painted to look like gold. All told, there seem to be about 6000 copper pieces in the room.
Thane, Drethan, and Ardo head down to the open room and they find a 1' diameter hole in the wall with debris on the floor that appears to be the same paper-mache' that these kobolds seem to be so good at making.
They also find that this room appears to be a vivid contrast to the bare stone walls that you have seen so far in this cave complex. From floor to ceiling, the walls have been covered with cave paintings in vivid colors, mainly reds, oranges, and blacks. The drawings depict a number of small creatures clearly meant to represent the kobolds that you've been dealing with so far. They seem to be bowing and paying homage to a creature that looks just like them but is about ten times their height. The large creature's name, KURTULMAK, is chiseled beneath his picture in crude ruins. The drawing shows him seated on a great throne, holding a tiny figure, clearly meant to be a human, aloft in one great paw preparing to swallow the unfortunate in one single bite while trampling another beneath his great feet. As near as you can make out from the arrows and diagrams the drawings indicate that this room is a kind of antechamber to where the large creature lives. A short corridor at the back of the room leads to a stone lintel holding huge double doors that fill the entire space between the floor and ceiling, ten feet high and just as wide.
Edited: Falrun on 11th Nov, 2015 - 7:23pm
Just as he thought it is a dragon egg "I knew it! This is a dragon egg" Delgar reaches into his pack and takes out his blanket and wraps the egg up in the blanket then places the egg in his back pack. He will then catch up with the group " I m not sure how much there is but all those gold coins are actually copper pieces more then I could count quickly anyways"
"Copper, little buggers have traps galore and try to swindle people they deal with by painting copper to look like gold. Well this room seems to lead into a bigger room where this creature way larger than the kobalds lives. So it looks like we might get some fighting if these pictures are true."
Thane stops. "Gentlemen, what we might be up against is bigger than us all."
When Delgar comes to report, "What the hell, and you removed it? How do you know you did not set off a device?"
Thane shakes his head and sighs long and hard. He looks at what's ahead. "I may as well ask this, what do you all want to do?" While waiting for answers he checks out the immediate area.
Ilthin says "I have an idea. It may sound crazy, but hear me out. What if the dragon mother is what they worship, and the treasure is not to fool us, but to honor the egg by giving it a 'hoard' of its own to start with. I'm thinking that we should be very careful with that egg as we may need it to bargain our way past mama if things get rough"
"I'm suggesting as a LAST option, not a first choice. Besides, from the stories I've heard, and I admit they are nothing more than tales, aren't the metallic dragons supposed to be intelligent and if not friendly, at least amiable to human contact? Maybe we are rescuing it? I think we should at least put it back or find a place to hide it for now. One good fall into another pit and all we will have is a runny yoke."
When Ilthin said "Yolk" It made him think a bit. "That egg must be heavy if its carry such a creature." He turns to Delgar, "How heavy is that? How do you know it is the egg in question or a decoy? A real egg needs warmth."