Rime

Start-class article · First seen: s22 · Last seen: s24
Rime
Portrait of Rime.
Character
StatusAlive
First seens22
Last seens24

Rime is a young male silver dragon, a wyrmling in the DM’s words (“It’s a Wyrmling. He’s not very powerful.”, [49]), whom the party found hiding inside the great hooded statue of the ridge temple north of Greysmere in session 22. Wounded by an Aurelian bolt, he told the party of hunters who had tracked him there and of a woman calling herself “Mother Sarah”, then let Father Thomas and Caelumn heal him and promised to help them face her [6][11][13][17]. In session 23 he came out of the statue and pointed them to a sealed door that needs “the black orbs” [28][69]. In session 24 he is only a voice: he will “join you when you go to fight Sarah”, says “she’s completing the ritual”, and does not know where the orbs are [59][61][72].

Overview

Rime is a silver dragon wyrmling, male in the DM’s narration (“his left shoulder”, [6]), whom the party met in session 22 in the statue room of the ridge temple. He had been hiding inside the towering hooded statue that the DM later calls “the Vecna statue” [1][42], speaking through its mouth to send the party off on an errand and buy himself time [43][19]. The DM gave the name in his own voice, “Uh, yes. My name’s Rime.” [7]; the spelling is unconfirmed, and a question for the DM.

He is the party’s only source for the woman he calls Mother Sarah and for the Aurelian hunters who tracked him to the temple [11][13]. Everything he says about them, and about the temple’s numbers and the sealed door, is his own account.

In session 24 he is heard but not seen, and his name is not spoken; the party calls him “the dragon” and, once, “Mr. Dragon Man” [39][44].

Appearance and demeanour

A small silver dragon “keeping one foreleg close to its chest as a black bolt protrudes below his left shoulder”, shown to the table in a picture [6]. He flies [20]. The DM calls him “just a Wyrmling. It’s just a little guy.” [45]. He is wary and quick to panic, at first cagey and then polite and grateful: “Thank you. That’s very kind of you.” [20]. He is vague about numbers, “I’m bad with faces”, and about the rest of the temple, “I’ve just been here.” [46][47]. In session 24 he is not seen, and the DM describes only “multiple conduits going to the statue” [48].

Abilities as played

He speaks through the statue’s mouth, flies, and hides. In play he has done no fighting: the DM reminded Hugo that he is only a wyrmling when the flameskulls woke, and none of his actions was narrated in the fight at the sealed door, which ended in session 24 [49][50][38][51].

Relationships

  • Caelumn: devout in the Platinum Dragon faith of Vhal’Zarim, he took Rime for platinum, “Platinum One”, and pressed him to admit it. Rime answered “I’m just a silver dragon”, and Father Thomas backed him: “It’s silver” [52][53][54]. Played for character; it gives Rime no title.
  • Father Thomas: Rime took his Aurelian seal for the hunters’ and panicked, then let him draw the bolt [55]. In session 24 it is Father Thomas who calls on “Mr. Dragon Man” for help and who reads his urgency as pain [39][56].
  • Terry: vouched for Thomas, “He’s a good one, somehow” [57].
  • Kole: knelt to him in session 23 [58].
  • Mother Sarah: the woman who “came in here a couple of weeks ago” [11]; probably the Mother of the kidnappers of Pell, though the DM has not said so. In session 24 he says only “Sarah” [59].
  • Aurelian forces: the hunters who tracked him to the temple [13].

Disposition towards the party

An ally. He bought time with a ruse, then admitted it (“I guess you saw through my ruse”), and offered to “give you a hand” against Sarah once the party was ready [17][19]. In session 23 he agreed at once to join the assault [60]. In session 24 the offer stands, for the fight with Sarah only [59].

Notable quotes

“She wasn’t supposed to start taking people.” — Nick (DM) as Rime, [6]

“She came in here a couple of weeks ago. She said her name was Mother Sarah? Something about bringing back stronger undead.” — Nick (DM) as Rime, [11]

“Sure. Are you ready to face Mother Sarah?” — Nick (DM) as Rime, [60]

“I’ll join you when you go to fight Sarah.” — Nick (DM) as Rime, [59]

“Now hurry, she’s completing the ritual.” — Nick (DM) as Rime, [61]

History in the campaign

Session 22: The Dragon in the Statue

Main article: Session 22

Beyond the mural’s door, a voice in the hooded statue questioned the party, demanded “the covered meal from the dining room” and warned Terry off [62]. When Caelumn peered in, a small silver dragon squeezed out through a panel at the back with a black bolt below his shoulder, and gave his name [63]. He begged the party to stop a woman, “Mother Sarah”, then panicked at Father Thomas’s seal until Terry vouched for the cleric, who drew the Aurelian bolt [64]. Caelumn healed him for 15. He admitted that the demands had been a ruse to buy time, promised help against Sarah and crawled back into the statue [65]. Asked how many cultists there were, he guessed “maybe 12” [18].

Session 23: The Changeling in Manacles

Main article: Session 23

Hugo reckoned that the dragon would gladly help against the cult’s leader, and the party went back to the statue, where Kole knelt and Caelumn again called him the Platinum Dragon [25][66]. Rime came down the stairs inside the statue and out of the hatch, asked whether they had found a way into “the middle sanctum”, and now put the cultists at “At least more than five” [67]. Told they had fought a female cultist, he agreed to help and pointed to a door that needs “the black orbs” [68][69]. When Father Thomas struck it and the fight began, no action of Rime’s was narrated before the session paused [47][50][38].

Session 24: The Knight of Smoke

Main article: Session 24

Rime is heard but not seen. When the last skeleton fell and a low chanting began, Father Thomas called on “Mr. Dragon Man”, and Rime answered “I’ll join you when you go to fight Sarah.” and “Now hurry, she’s completing the ritual.” [51][39][59][61]. Later the party went back to the statue room, where the DM described “multiple conduits going to the statue” and Rime said “You got to hurry.” [48]. Asked where the black orbs were, and shown the one Kole held, he said “I don’t know.” both times [70][71]. Father Thomas took him to be in pain “because of the ritual”, which is his own reading [56].

Status

As of session 24. Alive, unseen, last placed in the statue room [48]. He has promised to join the party for the fight with Sarah and does not know where the orbs are [59][72]. Open questions for the DM: the spelling of his name (not spoken in session 24); what the conduits are, and whether he is in pain, as Father Thomas reads it [48][73]; why Aurelians hunt a silver dragon, and what seal he saw on Father Thomas [13][74][75]; whom “She wasn’t supposed to start taking people.” meant [6]; and what “the middle sanctum” and the black orbs are [29][69]. On Father Thomas’s History check the DM said Aurelia hunted dragons “together with Vhal’Zarim”, “chromatic ones but the metallic ones too”, which is not reconciled with the Karvos account ([14]; see Vhal’Zarim).

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 22, line 799: The statue room: "a quiet scrape coming from inside the statue when its mouth speaks".
  2. ^ Session 22, line 805-808: Caelumn's cover story; the voice demands "bring me the covered meal from the dining room.".
  3. ^ Session 22, line 834-838: The voice warns Terry off: "do not come close mortal" and "smite you down".
  4. ^ Session 22, line 853: "Do not ask me questions, mortal.".
  5. ^ Session 22, line 858-860: After the corpse offering, "an audible sigh" and "small pitter patter" inside the statue.
  6. ^ Session 22, line 864: Revealed: "You see a small panel open at the statue's back"; first words "She wasn't supposed to start taking people.".
  7. ^ Session 22, line 866-867: The name: "My name's Rime."; spelling unconfirmed.
  8. ^ Session 22, line 868: "Um, I mean, no. I'm just a silver dragon.".
  9. ^ Session 22, line 872: He heard the secret Caelumn whispered to the mural.
  10. ^ Session 22, line 887: A black pulse through the statue; "You guys need to stop her.".
  11. ^ Session 22, line 890: "She said her name was Mother Sarah?"; "bringing back stronger undead".
  12. ^ Session 22, line 901: The DM's narration: "you recognize the bolt stuck in Rime as Aurelian armaments".
  13. ^ Session 22, line 904: Aurelian hunters "tracked" him to the temple; "not before the cultist found me".
  14. ^ Session 22, line 909-910: History lore: Aurelia "together with Vhal'Zarim" hunted dragons, "the metallic ones too".
  15. ^ Session 22, line 911-917: He recognises Father Thomas's seal: "they're back please stop him".
  16. ^ Session 22, line 920-923: The bolt drawn; Caelumn's Cure Wounds, "15 points of healing".
  17. ^ Session 22, line 929: "Once you're ready to face, Sarah I'll give you a hand".
  18. ^ Session 22, line 931: A headcount on a memory roll of three: "maybe 12".
  19. ^ Session 22, line 933: The ruse admitted: "it also would have bought me time".
  20. ^ Session 22, line 935: "he flies back and crawls back into the statue".
  21. ^ Session 22, line 1257-1259: "It's a Wyrmling. He's not very powerful.".
  22. ^ Session 22, line 1841: Hugo on the Book of Secrets: "Maybe the dragon might know.".
  23. ^ Session 22, line 1881: "Oh, you can't get inside the statue.".
  24. ^ Session 23, line 1477: The DM's narration again: "the room that kept Rime".
  25. ^ Session 23, line 1527: Hugo: "the dragon just is happy to help us take out uh help us take out the necromancer" (the party's label for the cult's leader).
  26. ^ Session 23, line 1627: Still inside the statue when the party returns: "who oh it's you".
  27. ^ Session 23, line 1632-1636: Kole "just kind of goes down to one knee"; "show some respect for an older being such as that"; Caelumn's "the Platinum Dragon" corrected again, "He's a silver dragon.".
  28. ^ Session 23, line 1638: "You see him descend from the stairs within the statue and come out the hatch in the back.".
  29. ^ Session 23, line 1640: "Did you manage to find a way inside the middle sanctum?".
  30. ^ Session 23, line 1642-1644: "There's loads of cultists in here."; "maybe 20? Maybe 30? No, that's probably not right. At least more than five.".
  31. ^ Session 23, line 1641-1647: Told that the party "fought a female cultist", he agrees to help: "Sure. Are you ready to face Mother Sarah?".
  32. ^ Session 23, line 1649: "go ahead and open the door, and I'll help you in the force. Sorry, in the assault. And he looks to this door over here.".
  33. ^ Session 23, line 1656: The door he looks to will not open for Hugo: "They don't budge.".
  34. ^ Session 23, line 1659-1666: The door: "three indentations", each "roughly the size of a baseball", and runes "written in a language you don't understand.".
  35. ^ Session 23, line 1674-1677: "well are you going to pull up the orbs"; "the black orbs to open the door".
  36. ^ Session 23, line 1686-1690: "We will be back, Rime." (Caelumn); "Okay, I'll be here." (probably Rime); of the lower level, "I don't know. I've just been here.".
  37. ^ Session 23, line 1749-1751: The DM gives the name again, "Rime."; Father Thomas calls "Rime i said Rime help"; no action of Rime's is narrated in the fight.
  38. ^ Session 23, line 1902: The session pauses mid-fight; where Rime is at that point is not stated.
  39. ^ Session 24, line 424: Father Thomas hails him: "Mr. Dragon Man, are you there?".
  40. ^ Session 24, line 427-429: Rime, in the DM's voice: "I'll join you when you go to fight Sarah."; "Now hurry, she's completing the ritual.".
  41. ^ Session 24, line 1173-1187: Back at the statue: "multiple conduits going to the statue", "You got to hurry."; asked where the orbs are, "I don't know."; Father Thomas reads him as in pain "because of the ritual".
  42. ^ Session 22, line 1883: Inline citation.
  43. ^ Session 22, line 808: Inline citation.
  44. ^ Session 24, line 1167: Inline citation.
  45. ^ Session 22, line 1259: Inline citation.
  46. ^ Session 23, line 1644: Inline citation.
  47. ^ Session 23, line 1690: Inline citation.
  48. ^ Session 24, line 1173: Inline citation.
  49. ^ Session 22, line 1257: Inline citation.
  50. ^ Session 23, line 1751: Inline citation.
  51. ^ Session 24, line 382: Inline citation.
  52. ^ Session 22, line 865-869: Inline citation.
  53. ^ Session 22, line 873: Inline citation.
  54. ^ Session 22, line 927: Inline citation.
  55. ^ Session 22, line 911-920: Inline citation.
  56. ^ Session 24, line 1185-1187: Inline citation.
  57. ^ Session 22, line 913: Inline citation.
  58. ^ Session 23, line 1632: Inline citation.
  59. ^ Session 24, line 427: Inline citation.
  60. ^ Session 23, line 1647: Inline citation.
  61. ^ Session 24, line 429: Inline citation.
  62. ^ Session 22, line 799-838: Inline citation.
  63. ^ Session 22, line 864-867: Inline citation.
  64. ^ Session 22, line 887-920: Inline citation.
  65. ^ Session 22, line 922-935: Inline citation.
  66. ^ Session 23, line 1627-1636: Inline citation.
  67. ^ Session 23, line 1638-1644: Inline citation.
  68. ^ Session 23, line 1641-1649: Inline citation.
  69. ^ Session 23, line 1677: Inline citation.
  70. ^ Session 24, line 1174-1178: Inline citation.
  71. ^ Session 24, line 1182: Inline citation.
  72. ^ Session 24, line 1175: Inline citation.
  73. ^ Session 24, line 1185: Inline citation.
  74. ^ Session 22, line 911: Inline citation.
  75. ^ Session 22, line 915: Inline citation.