Cause and Eventuality

Journal excerpt from The Legend of Saramago and the Sixth Mage Guild:

Reassessing, we decide to solve the 'goblin' problem before we move on and discover more of these ancient sites. Since when we leave the goblins will come anyway. More walking. We find the goblins and I try and talk to them to see if they will buy the dream but no one listens. A big ugly hobgoblin comes out  I try to talk to him, he sniffs and leaves...have both of my Scorching Rays in your back! All the way to the encampment and its a large red dragon running them. I try to talk to him and would have given him the site for his lair and given him a share of the treasure we find in our careers, but he also didn't want to talk or want any 'help', and after some Ray's of Enfeeblement, and arrows and failed blindness spells, he slowly flew away before we could kill him or subdue him. He burned the ornithopters and any other written evidence.  I guess at least we can head to the next site, but of one thing I am sure. We haven't seen the last of Red.