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# **Session 1 - WDH - Welcome to the Yawing Portal**

Adventurers start at a wooden table. 
The tavern is bustling and large. 
A large well is in the center with a green portal in it that leads to the entrence to the dungeons below.

The party overhears fighting at the portal
a large man has eyes tattooed all over him. He's threatoning a female half orc. He tackles her and starts pummeling her.
The bouncer (Hugar) won't do anything until he sees blood.
4 smaller humans with the same tattoos join the fight.
Hugar decides to throw one into the portal.
The rest of the party joins the fight.
Cyric casts calm emotions and supresses the enemies from wanting to fight except for one of the smaller humans.
Seeing this, he becomes terrified and eventually flees with his allies.
While walking out, the larger man mutters something about returning to Xanathar.

The portal begins to groan and a large troll exits the portal suddenly. Patrons begin to shriek and run as the party attacks the troll.
Cyric makes the troll vulnerable, to which the two elves proceeded to brutally break both of its knees.
The troll dies and Cyric offers to buy drinks for the party, congratulating everyone on a job well done.
A few people help drag the troll body into the portal. 

Another guy in excentric clothing walks over clapping. 
He reveals himself to be the one who sent the letters to bring the party to the tavern. 
He shakes hands with Cyric and introduces himself as Volo Thamp Geddarm.
The party sits down with Volo at a table to talk.
Volo admits to calling the party to find a cache of golden dragons hidden in waterdeep. 
He says his buddy Floon has gone missing while carrying evidence as to the location of the cache. 
The last time he saw him was out drinking yesterday.
Volo has offered a few hundred gold in exchange for finding him.
The Skewered Dragon was the last location Volo saw Floon.
Cyric determines that Volo appears to be genuine, except perhaps in regards to the payment for finding Floon. 
The two wood elf brothers depart for the tavern to look for Floon with Hugar trailing behind.


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No XP


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# **Session 2 - WDH - Finding Floom**

Rhys comes across a section of the Dock Ward blocked off by the city watch.
There are lots of dead bodies and there are people handcuffed wearing dark clothes with eyeball tattoos.
Rhys moves on.

Rhys asks a local for directions to The Skewered Dragon who warns about some ruffians around as well.
There are lots of apartment buildings that are smashed and broken.
While walking, Rhys comes across a shop with ornate windows with a sign that says "The Old Xoelob Shop".
Rhys continues down the road looking for the bar.

Rhys finds the tavern just as someone gets shoved out of the door and told to stay out.
The tavern is bustling.
Floon is nowhere to be seen.
Rhys goes up to the bar asking for the barkeep.
A small gnome is behind the bar.
Rhys asks if he's seen Floon, to which the barkeep says he was here and left with no incident. 
He directs Rhys to ask some of the patrons as to Floon's location.
Rhys takes a description of Floon and writes it down on some parchment to put on the bounty board.
He then sits down to wait for Hugar and to see if anyone notices the bounty board.

Hugar shows up a couple minutes later and gets a drink to sit down with Rhys.
Some patrons are talking about how bad the gang wars are.
A guy walks up to Rhys asking about the bounty and says he saw him leave last night with some others.
He says to talk to old Skurg since he knows everyone.

Rhys walks up to the old dwarf and asks if he wants a beer.
He orders him a drink.
Rhys asks about Floon and the dwarf seems to know him really well.
The dwarf directs him to a warehouse with a snake on it.

Rhys and Hugar go down to the warehouse.
It appears abandoned.
There appears to be an office or observatory on the second story.
There is a single gated entrance with a padlock on it.
Rhys easily picks the lock to enter the front outdoor area of the property.
They come across a door into the warehouse and Rhys picks the lock.
The warehouse is full of boxes and crates. 
It is dark.
Hugar spots some blood on the floor across the room.
There's evidence of a fight around the blood.
Rhys runs back to the Yawning Portal to get the party while Hugar protects the warehouse from tampering.

The party departs to the warehouse.
Hugar heard some footsteps inside before the party arrived and told the party about it.
Cyric enters and shouts to show themselves.
Rhys discovers three Kenku upstairs.
He asks if they have seen Floon.
The Kenku get angry and and say "kill".
The party attacks.
Rhys snaps the neck of one of the Kenku and asks the others if they want to give up.
One of the Kenku says no and then makes a bird noise at him before attacking.
Neoveith executes one of hte Kenkus slowly by pressing his axe into its face while its prone.
Rhys chops the last Kenku in half with a roundhouse kick.

There is muffled cries coming from a closet.
A man is bound and gagged on a chair half naked inside.
This man is not Floon.
The guy came here with Floon to do drugs.
He claims some guys abducted him and interrogated him and Floon about the cache of dragons.
He hasn't seen Floon since.
The guy described the abductors as having eyeball tattoos.
Cyric and Rhys pretend to leave the guy, to which he starts to divulge more info saying that the guys are part of the Xantarum.
The party leaves the warehouse.

There are a bunch of stage coaches blocking the warehouse with crossbows drawn.
They threaton the party demanding the guy inside.
Cyric attempts to tell them they can have the guy, but the guards are unhappy and demand the party freeze.
Cyric barters to trade the guy upstairs for info about Floons location.

The guard says the Xantarum operates underground in the Dock Ward sewers.

The party returns to the Yawning Portal to retrieve the birdman.

The party returns to the warehouse to find a manhole cover to enter the sewers.
Neoveith opens one and Visk sends his dragon down to scout it out.
The party goes down into the sewer and walks down the corridor.
Rhys begins to investigate a hidden door.
Cyric gets shot by a hidden dart hole.
He hands the dart to Neoveith before going through the door with the rest of the party.
The door leads to a messy room full of rusted weapons.
The party continues down the corridor.
The end of the hall reveals the room the dart came from.
Inside is a blowdart lying on the floor with no-one to fire it.
There are stares on the opposite side of the room that lead down.
The party descends the stairs.
At the base there is a corridor that leads off to the right.
At the end there is a small dorm room with bunkbeds and a barred wooden door.
Neoveith starts hacking away at the door, breaking it into pieces.
There is a Duergar standing on the other side who immediatly starts attacking Neoveith.
Neoveith grapples him and pulls him into the room with everyone.
Cyric demands to know where Floon is and successfully intimidates the Duergar.
He mentions that they have a kid hostage.
Rhys knocks the Duergar out cold and ties him up and puts him under the bed.


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XP: 800

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# **Session 3 - WDH - Oromis Returns**

The party continues down the hall to two ornate stone doors.
The doors slowly open when pushed.
Inside is a medium sized room with a large bannister of waterdeep on the wall.
There is a spooky guy in a chair that appears to be a mind flayer sucking on a brain.
By his side is a humanoid who has been beat up pretty bad.

Oromis asks if the mindflayer has seen Floon.
The mindflayer suggests the humanoid is Floon.
Neoveith smashes the mindflayer in the face.
The mindflayer charms Neoveith into attacking the party.
The mindflayer then goes into a magic gate and teleports away.
The party kills a small brain thing, and kill the mindflayers minion before healing Floon.
Visk locates a chest behind the chair and finds 2 healing potions, 16 gold, 82 silver, and 250 copper pieces.

The party returns to Volo with Floon.
Volo gives the party a deed to a tavern and tells them to come back in a couple of days.
Neoveith, upset by this, threatons to throw Floon into the portal.
Volo swears he knows nothing so the party leaves with Floon hostage.

They depart to their new tavern: The Vault, which is in shambles.
The party long rests except for Oromis who does stuff before bed such as hagling with locals.
Oromis visits the blacksmith to order some brass knuckles.
The blacksmith says it will be a couple of weeks and suggests he checks the pawnshop.

Oromis tries to get his circlet identified.
He learns nothing.

Cyric visits the carpenter to see how much it would be to fix The Vault.

Cyric stores the deed in the bank, deposit box 68 and hides the key in the cellar of the Vault.

Oromis learns that the circlet he has is a Circlet of Blasting.

The party levels up to level 4.




# **Session 3 - WDH - The City Watch Visits**

A couple days after settling into the tavern, a knock on the door sounds.
The city watch offered to pay 500 gold along with a letter of "favor" from the city nobels to break up a gang meeting.
Esloon Bezant of the red mage guild wants to meet with the Xantarum in a warehouse somewhere in the city.
The city watch specified that they don't want to have to deal with Esloon ever again.
The watchman leaves a sending message paper with the party to notify him when the job is done.

Skeered Dragon - Xantarum

