The Denarians want a cup from the dragon's cave. So Chuck suggests we go there first and get the cup, so the Denarians won't tear up the city looking for it.
There is, in fact, no dragon present. There are some goblins, burglaring everything they can carry. There's also a rawhead, a conglomeration of bloody bones that somehow woke up. It eats people and adds them to itself.
The rawhead hates sunlight, but it can't be baited out into the light. Rowena slashes at it, but it can stick its severed parts back on again. Chuck lassos its spine, then ties the other end to a massive rock and pushes it off the hill. The rawhead gets yanked hard around two tight corners, coming to pieces explosively.
The dragon's hoard is well-organized by type of coin. Chuck grabs at a pile of silver coins and hears a mocking demon in his head. Yep -- they left one of the Coins on the pile as sort of a booby trap.
"It's more of an alarm, really," says a girl who wanders in. She's DeeDee, one of the Coin-bearers. They want the cup, and we can have the treasure. Oh, and they won't kill us.
DeeDee demonstrates that her hair is made of flat razor wire by flaying a goblin who gets in her way.
However, Rowena has suggested pouring water from the cup onto the Coin in Chuck's hand. If the cup is indeed the Holy Grail, that should discomfit the demon quite nicely. It screams, a lot, and DeeDee realizes we have a way to destroy demons. So she runs away. Milton gives chase, but she eludes him by placing a foot wrong and falling off the mountain into the river.
Andrew steals a suit of diamond chainmail which almost fits. No one else takes anything, except the cup, for which they leave a note.
As twilight gathers, they row to the center of Dollar Lake, and return the cup to Mr. Castle, the wounded veteran who lives there. The Denarians are thwarted ... except for the Blackhawk helicopter which keeps circling the town, searching ...
