Mind the egg for one week, the dragon said. It hatched on the first morning.
The great dragon Vermithrax the Patient has gone on her first holiday in four hundred years and left her egg with a sitter from the village of Lower Puddle, along with a long list of instructions that stop at 'it will not hatch before I return.' It hatched on day one. Now there is a small, hungry, fire-hiccuping dragon loose in a village made mostly of thatch, a knight who desperately needs one good deed, a tax assessor who wants to know who owns the hatchling, and a rival sitter who was sure the job should have been theirs. Vermithrax is back on Sunday.
4 roles. You take one; your friends take the rest, and the narrator plays any left over. Anyone can bring a character of their own into a role instead.
A cheerful odd-jobber from Lower Puddle who has minded goats, geese and the mayor's grandmother, and took the dragon job for the money.
A knight of the Order of the Lesser Gauntlet, suspended after an incident with a bridge, who needs one witnessed act of valor to be reinstated.
A royal tax assessor sent to Lower Puddle to collect an overdue hearth levy, who has discovered that a newborn dragon counts as livestock.
The baker's eldest, the most responsible person in Lower Puddle by her own account, who applied for the dragon job first and was passed over.