# D&D Waterdeep Dragon Heist (Chapter 1)

- [Adventure status](https://hackmd.io/@tanc/HkkIFPYUi)
- [Chapter 2](https://hackmd.io/@tanc/Hk5IUBump)
- [Chapter 3](https://hackmd.io/@tanc/S1-equPVJx)

# Session 1 14/11/22 (Uktar 15)

# Waterdeep

> Looking for Volo that needs to talk about a quest

## Guilds

- Lords alliance: An alliance of influential people from various Cities in the Sword Coast, making the best interest of their cities and especially countering the Zentharim. Also enemies with Xanatar


- Force Grey (also city 'defenders') take care of unofficial business where the city watch doesn't get


- Guild of Xanatar: Thieves, illegitimate (led by Xanatar, a beholder)


- Zhentarim: Basically tories, enemies with harpists


- Harpists: Neutral faction, trying to keep balance b/w good and evil
- Harpists are against the Zhentarims as well but do not resort to the same dirty tricks as Xanatars


## Yawning Portal

### Chat with the barman at the Yawning Portal

- Political issues amongs groups after the old open lord (Lord NeverEmber) has left town


- Lord NeverEmber left 4 months ago for a mission in NeverWinter, and was a nobleman with no guild associations
- New leader is Laeral SilverHand, a ex harpist - now moon star


- Voting system is based on one vote per lord, open lord has two votes
- Davil Starsong, from Z (sun elf)


### Chat with Volo

- Volo offers 1000 gold pieces, a good friend is missing after a night out drinking,
- Volo's young friend Floon Blagmar was last seen a a couple days in the Docks area close to the Skewered Dragon. Volo doesn't seem to be lying about anything and he's actually concerned about his friend


- They were gambling and drinking
- He lives in the Castle neighbourhood (we have the address), his room didn't have anything out of place.
- Floon was supposed to leave the room the day after but his bags were still around.


- He's not from here but from Baldur's Gate (probably?)

### Yagra's brawl (Zhentarim)


- Yagra Stonefist, an orc affiliated to the Zentharims, was attacked by a bunch of thugs, one of which had a 6-eyed tattoo on his forehead


- Yagra told us it was Xanatar's mark. She wants to climb the ladder through the Zentharims and get rid of Xanatars.
- She pointed us to the elf Davil Starsong if we wanted more work from the Zhentarims. He is one of the 5 founders of a sub-branch of the Zhentarims, "The Doomriders". The other branch is supposed to be the cause of the Zhentarim's bad reputation.


- We caught the attention of a bunch of fellas, like Jelester Silvermane, affiliated to the Lords' Alliance, who tells us to steer clear from the Zentharims.

### Obaya (Waukeen priestess)


- Priestess of Waukeen (thieves guild) - she's guarding the pit. All the tunnels under waterdeep axtend for km underground, and aside from treasures there seems to be secret access to an underground draw city (Skull Port), a under Xanatar's control. She's motivated to find out more.

### Bonnie


The waitress at the Yawning Portal (the bard has a crush on her)

### Meloon (Force Grey)


- Meloon Wardragon - likely affiliated to the the Force Grey group. He's a bit of a weird dude, apparently. **He mentions we should talk to ** at the docks about Floon.
- The Force Grey HQ is in the Blackstaff Tower, in the Castle borough

# Session 2 21/11/22 (Uktar 15)

### Davil Starsong

- Elf, Big dude in the Zhentarims, has plenty of jobs and tasks to give us around town. He prefers to bypass the City Watch in quelling the violence between Zentharims and Xanatars.
- He claims they are being provoked by the Xanatars, which he'd like to investigate going further.
- Methkins might be involved in a few murders, racially motivated (elf or half-elf), some of which are also Zhentarims. Not sure if affiliated to Xanatars.

## On our way to the docks

 

- Citywatch is dealing with a group of people with eyes tattoos on their head (probably Zentharims), we helped the Citywatch catching one of the Zentharims (FUCK TORIES)
- Looks like there was a fight between Xanathar's and Zentharim's.
- Iustus (citywatch member)
- We are looking for the location of the Skewered Dragon, near the Harbor ward, looks like there's people in dock street


- We found the Skewered Dragon's location thanks to the help of a prostitute with poor tastes. We gave her a gold coin cos we believe in society, whilst she gave us a few info about a spike in violence in the docks, with the Xanatars probably involved (she recognised the tattoo)

## Skewered Dragon

### Conversation with Conn (Bartender)

- The homicides have not been isolated to elves, but lately this have intensified. They are aware the area is split between Xanatars and Zhentarims.
- He remembers seeing Floon, together with Volo. He doesnt recall if they both left together, but he points us towards a dodgy dwarf (Solomil) who apparently spoke with them for quite a bit. He's a sailor, not a criminal.
- He also pointed us towards the captain of the City Watch who's around in the pub if we want more info on what's going on in the docks (Sigorn).

### Conversation with Solomil Silverfingers (Sailor Dwarf)


- He appears relatively young, with hands heavily covered in rings and greasy hair. He invites us to a dice game.


- We win thanks to Cnat's illusions, so that we can get some info out of him. He tells us he's been playing dice with Volo and Floon, there seems to be no animosity, despite the fact that Floon won a ton of money out of him.
- He also talks about another man who approached them, Renaer Neverember, the posh son of Lord Neverember, who's a friend or at least an acquaintance of Floon (not sure about Volo). He then left the inn with him as he thought Floon was too drunk.
- After another won game, he tells us that when Floon and Renaer left he spotted a bunch of bald Zentharims that followed them outside the pub.
- The 5 bald dudes gave him a job once, unloading a few boxes in a warehouse off Candle Lane (look for a _small snake drawing_ to locate it).
- We also find out that Methkins is a private investigator, an elf, who's been going around asking questions. His office is in Ship Street.
- __He can give us a couple of jobs to unload a few illicit goods in the docks, away from the eye of the City Watch__

## Candle Lane (Zhentarims' warehouse)


- In the first room we found 3 corpses of stabbed Zhentarims
- In the second room we have found a party of 4 Kenku which we obviously massacred with no degrees mercy


### Kenku

 

> A Kenku being stabbed by Alvin


- We found Raener Neverember locked in a closet.


He told us him and Floon were ambushed by the Zhentarims which were counter-ambushed by the Kenkus in what is probably a mistake in determining who was Raener. As a result, Floon was taken away somewhere else.
- They were most likely after the Stone of Golor, the only key to access a ton of swag from Lord Neverember. The Stone was stolen, and they think it's Raener who did it, however he knows nothing at all about this stone.
- The Kenkus (affiliated with Xanatar) mentioned something about following yellow signs to the sewers where they would have brought him to their leader.

- Upstairs we found a rudimentary bell alarm system going down the north window, some gold coins and a _paper bird_, a magical device that allows you to communicate with a recipient at distance.


- We found a secret room and a chest with 4 beautiful urban landscape paintings Lascan, Neverwinter, Silvery Moon and Baldur's Gate


# Session 3 28/11/22 (Uktar 15)

- The City Watch stormed the warehouse shortly after our fight, most likely looking for Raener. They found him hiding and he interceded for us so that they knew we were not responsible for the massacre (lol). They told us we could pick up some work with them at Castle Ward as unofficial co-operators but they won't be covering us if we decided to enter the sewers to save Floon.
- Cnat got smashed jumping out a window


### Hyustus Staget


The City Watch high ranking officer seems to like us and would recruit us

- They don't know if there's a main entrance to the sewers but they suggest to search for the closest entrance to the building.

### Parting ways from Neverember and descending into the sewers

- We are to move towards the sewers and are sending Floon to stay at a friend called Mirt, a harpist, which lives in a mansion in Castle Ward, neat the City Watch HQ, at the crossing between Coin Alley and Tarnish Silver Alley.

### Sewers

- We found a manhole with what appeared to be signs of a body being dragged towards it on Book Street. We chose to enter the sewers from there and were greeted by a stench of shit and total darkness. Brodor lit up his shield with a spell and allowed us to find a yellow mark pointing towards north and walking through a river of mud/crap.

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- We followed the yellow-marked path for hours but havent found anyone anywhere. We went outside for a second and realised we were still in the Docks quarter. We keep pushing through and the ladders leading to the surface progressively disappear, meaning that we might be in an area of town where there's no public access to the sewers.
- We meet a strange creature guarding a shorter than usual ladder (about 3m vs the normal 7-8m). We decide to climb it.

### Gazer


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### Sewer's Zentharim base

- We find an opening overseen by a room with a goblin guarding over the entranace. We destroy the goblin with little effort, obviously


- We encounter a dwarf and a human that seem to recognise us, the dwarf speaks common and they attack us as we approach


### Zenk (friend of dead Krenz)

- The surviving dwarf works for Xanathar and was trying to close a door to stay away from "assassin jelly", probably some dirt elemental stuff.
- He tells us that Floon with Grumshar, a half-orc and leader of this unit of the Xanatars. Apparently there's a guest with them, a Mindflayer apparently, who's witnessing the torturing of our friend.
- The Xanatars think that Zhentarims stole something to be used to access unspoken riches from Lord Neverember.


### Grey Ooze


### Prison cell


- We saved Floon from a big old torturing session by Grumshar and had a close encounter with a Mindflayer which disappeared into a portal. Are Xanatars up to something dodgy AND supernatural? Fuck if I know, we legged it and got back to Volo for our prize and a well-deserved rest.

# Session 4 18/12/22 (Uktar 16)

## Yawning Portal


- We wake up and hide Floon in a closet for "extra care", then proceed downstairs to find Volo
- Volo tells us that he's short of cash but that he could instead compensate us with an ownership contract for a run-down mansion in the North Ward (Trollskull Alley)


- The catch here is that the house is haunted by a poltergeist that will most likely make our life a living hell should we choose to move there. It's not dangerous for our lives but quite unpleasant.
- Volo suggests to try to tackle the issue by communicating with the spirit and see if he/she/it needs something to be done or returned to acquiesce his/her/its nonbinary fury


- We agree to meet Volo the next day at the City Hall to make the contract exchange official and we let him reunite with Floon. We proceed to the Market Ward

## Market Ward

- Cnat approaches a merchant to discuss the paintings.
- We spot the signatures of the paintings - they are from "Pimlico". Fine Art merchant Colbert tells me they can be very expensive. We follow him at the back of the store away from undiscreet eyes.
- The Laskan painting appears not to be part of the Tryptich collection (Neverwinter, Sailor Moon, Baldurs Gate)
- Price is roughly 500 gold each, the trictic more valuable sold together
- **Colbert, the merchant**, accepts to buy the Laskan painting on the spot for 400 gold but we turn down his offer in the hope a wealthier buyer will pay more for it. He asks us to come back in 3 days (on Uktar 19) as he will have found a buyer by then.


## Dockyard

### Ship Street
- We look for Metkins' office on Ship Street to investigate the elf killings.
- Metkins is a fairly old elf, looks more like an adventurer himself. He has been investigating on his own, not asked by City Watch.


- So far there's been 5 victims, all surface elves (no drows) and half-elves. - The last killing was a peasant called Ivy at the Thirsty Sailor Tavern, in the Dock Ward. It was so discreet the victim wasnt found dead until the morning as everybody at the scene thought she was sleeping.
- The other killings were way more visible (one strangled, one drowned or thrown off a building) but he doesn't know if they were robbery-related. City Watch is as useful as a pair of socks with holes.
- The only common themes is that the serial killer operates at night and at a relatively regular interval (more or less 2 weeks), but it seems odd that his victims were going for a stroll that late in the evening.
- He points us to Sigourn from the City Watch who's screwing around the Piers' area.

### Piers (city watch office)

- **Sigourn** is a Dragonborn warrior, full plated and very cool


- We tell him Meloon sent us and he shares some concerns about him. He appears different lately, he says.
- We try to get some info on the elf killings and on the potential compensation (80gp).
- Seems the knife used for the last killing was forged outside the city. It looks quite new, almost never used before, but of common manufacture.
- Sigorn confirms there seems to be no common trend, no political movement nor alliances within the elves.
- He tells us we could help the City Watch by snooping around at a meeting between Xanathars and another mysterious group in the sewers, at a crossing just under the Market Ward. They'd like us to investigate and figure out what's going on. If we're successful the rewards is 70gp.

## Market Ward (again)

### Xanathar's Sewers Crossroad

- We approach the place of the meeting and hear a group of people chatting loudly, they've been waiting for 2 hours without anyone from the other side showing up.
- It appears they are guarding something precious in a crate


- We pretend to be the other side of the exchange, and while examining the crates we find one portrait painting of a noble family and one from a sort of epic battle
- Trag was the capobanda, he probs knew way more than the others.
- The rich merchant they were supposed to meet might have not turned up cos they smelt.
- He might belong to the Bregan D'Aerthe' organisation, half merchants half mercenaries, a bit shady to be honest.
- We kill everyone and take about 40 paintings in a crate
- We flushed the bodies into the sewers


### Yawning Portal

- We go to the Yawning Portal to drop off 30 of the 40 paintings, carry the crate away visibly so that no one will go looking in our rooms and we proceed to go to the city watch to deceive Sigorn about what happened, returning the 10 paintings and receiving our compensation (70 gold).
- We decide to use the evening to check the Thirsty Sailor in case the elf-killer showed up.

# Session 5 16/01/23 (Uktar 17)

## Town Hall

- We go to the town hall and notarise property papers with Volo. We are now proud first time owners of a shitty old victorian house in Peckham. There's nothing better than inherited wealth.

We then walk to Troll’s Skull Manor, our new property


### Lif

We inspect the interiors, we are annoyed by the poltergeist and Piler communicates to it writing on a dusty mirrors. He says:

Po: Leave!
Pi: Tell me your name or be dead!
Po: Lif
Pi: Reveal yourself
Po: Scary reveal
Pi: *Unimpressed* we are the new landlords
Po: Clearly displeased
Pi: Why u crazy, chill bru
Po: This is my tavern
Pi: How did you die?
Po: Dunno
Pi: Did you know ppl?
Po: Everyone knew me, me wuz well pplr
Pi: What’s your unfinished biz?
Po: I miss my tavern Trollzkulltavernz
Pi: Looks great, but pls clean up
Po: *Actually cleans up (wtf?)*


We end up agreeing in living together with the ghost, which will help cleaning up and serve in the tavern, so that he can have his tavern back and we can use the house (and he will clean). Seems like the start of an odd friendship.

### Tiger's Eye
After this encounter, we started exploring the neighbourhood. First we went to the Tiger's eye and found out there lives a private investigator named Vincent Trench.
He invited us in his house and he answered some questions while offering his services.
We spoke about Metkings, who he knew (as a not as good investigator as himself).
He hasn't heard about the killings of the elves.
He suggested we speak to other neighbours to find out more about Lif's and Troll's Skull Manor's history.


### Wyrm's bookstore

We are met by Rashall the Page Turner, a weirdly short dragonborn which is very welcoming, he's the book shop owner. We present him with Volo's signed copies for an evaluation.

We exchange our 2 copies for 2x2nd level spells that Cnat promptly steals.


### Corellon's Crown

Fala Lefalir welcomes us and as we ask about the story of our ghost she explains that the owner of the tavern (Troll Skull Tavern) died about 30 years ago pushed under a brew barrel. Apaprently a couple bought the property afterwards trying to make a posh hotel but failed as the ghost was not exactly selling the whole concept too well. The property changed hands a little more afterwards but always with little success.

The last owner they knew about was Dagult Neverember (PLOT TWIIIST!).

It appears recently someone else often asked about the property, a certain Emmek Frewn, a foreigner (Laskan accent or some other Mexican country) that often came round to enquire about the price of the property etc. It appears to have happened 3-4 times in the range of a few years.

We ask about the elven murders and they seem not to know or care too much as it's well far from where she lives and whatevz, really who gives a fuck, I live in Kensigton anyways and dun care about the ends.

Fala's Potions
Potion Cost
Potion of animal friendship 125 gp
Potion of climbing 50 gp
Potion of greater healing 250 gp
Potion of healing 50 gp
Potion of water breathing 250 gp


We encounter a band of thugs coming back home, in the middle of the empty streets. They've heard we are thinking of starting a business and are offering protection. Honestly, they look like a bunch of minor criminals and they claim to be independant and to work for Bronn. We demand for a meeting with the boss in 2 days (the 19th) in our tavern.

## Yawning portal (check out)

We go back to the Yawning portal and have a little chat with the bartender, celebrate our successes, faff about, pay and collect our shit. We go have a chat with Davil Starsong to see what's what.

### Davil Starsong

Davil is a Zentarim associate. Seems important


He offers to lay down some capital to start the tavern (2500gc) but the catch is they want a 10% cut of the interest, which would double up to 20% and then lead to the tavern to be burnt to the ground if skipped. We choose to delay this decision for later

He gives us a heads up on a side quest: we should visit the Weird Bottle's Concoctions' shop, managed by Skeemo the Alchemist. He patented a mind-reading potion which Davil wants us to retrieve and bring to an unknown lady which will give us our reward.

We bring the paintings back to Trollskull Manor, our new base, and we sleep.

# Session 5 19/01/23 (Uktar 18)

## Trades Ward
### Skeemo

We go meet Skeemo for the quest where we have to bring a potion from a gnome to some chick


We are given 4 green potions which we have to deliver to a street not far from there (the Way of the Dragon corner w / Nugg st) where we have an appointment at 15:00 with lady Esvele Rosznar (or something along that line) wearing a purple Hijab.

He also suggests not to trust Colbert too much about pricing as he's an arsehole and go try to sell our paintings in River street

Cnat tries to intimidate a merchant and fails, we go to finish the mission.

### Walking statues of Waterdeep


### Honorable Knight


We get to the meet, post Jorg at a wall and have a pint outside a pub, at some point a taxi show up with no one coming out and the driver talking to someone inside without doing much.


We complete the tarnsaction succesfully (she seemed to be a drow and got the money with a subtle sleight of hand) and receive 3 platinum pieces. A lot of people noticed what we did in the square as it was very busy but no one seemed to give much of a shit.

## Yawning Portal
We go to the Yawning Portal, chat with Yagra (the tittied orc) and build up some relationship, exchange banter, etc.

Then we talk to Meloon which has notice our dealings with Davil and mentions he'd like to knick him (as Meloon is Force Gray militia).

While chatting to Meloon Tanc remembers that the Neverember kid is well more connected to the Force Gray as he knows which is way above Meloon's level. So probably a waste of time here.

We get a bit of talk going about Zentarims, and find out that it was split in two parts, where Davil's (one of five top boys, including Keemo, the annoying rock gnome drug dealer, Istrid Horn which is a Depts Dwarf or something like that, some half orc, and more unknowns) is the one he antagonises the most, and the other is the Black Network, managed by a mad wizard called Manshoon, which is kinda the top baddy and mega dangerous, which was last seen in Zentil Keep.

### Manchoon

Because we are little shits, we then go talk to Davil ignoring anything that was just said to us.

### Chat with Davil

Davil was not very happy about us messing with the street dealers, reprises us a little and we pretend to learn a lesso for like, a minute.

We move on to casually chat about the next quest.

There is a rich halfling family, the Snowbeedles, that live in the posh bit of the docklands (north). A certain Dasher Snowbeedle has disappeared. Seems normal as he's a wee bit of a dickhead, but since he comes with great endorsement from the rest of the establishment they'd care to know if he's just whoring about or gambling or actually in trouble. They just seek information, but we don't really care that much for now. Obviously City Watch is investigating but due to the budget cuts in the public sector we don't really expect shit to be done about him.

We would get roughly 80% of the reward.

## Back to the mansion, briefing

We talk to Lif and brief him with the plan for the ambush the day after.

## Uktar 19

We go to River street to negotiate with a second merchant that we didn't yet have a fight with. They offer us 2.5k gold for the trictic (+1) from Pimlico.

We now go to Colbert and negotiate a price of 3k with separate buyers. He gives us an appointment for Uktar 20th in the evening to close on 3k (plus his 20% commission ON TOP, dickhead).

We then go sell the other 20 (or so) paintings at River st and go back home to prepare an ambush to the Camorra folks.

## Back to the mansion

We prepare an ambush and basically make Bronn into baby powder into a single turn and while everyone escapes we attempt to talk Fritz into being our number 1 employee.


We convince him to lead us to their safehouse and try to recup the rest of the crew. There seems to be some beast there at the bottom floor that Bronn is keeping around.


In the basement we find a wounded Troll - we are displeased and steal a couple small crates before leaving them locked in.


We find a dagger, go back to our home, and sleep (ready for Uktar 20)

We have an appointment with Fritz and gang in the morning at 11:30

# Session 6 23/01/23 (Uktar 20)

Lif has left us a note on a book that he is now using to cummunicate with us:

"When are we going to open the Tavern? You should see the Guilds"

1500 GC to Refurbish the Tavern
Running Costs: 60 GC every 10 days
Earnings: every 10 days roll a D100

## Meeting with Fritz

Frits lets us know him and 4 people would still be available to work for us - their running price is 4 silver coins each. We hire them, and offer him 8 silver coins. Apparently Rud (another ex gang member) is trying to reboot the gang againts us. We should pay him a visit.


The other members of the gang are:

- Chalvir Ganthelios
- Noth Jarilz
- Azgelazgus


## Meeting with Colbert

We go to Colbert’s shop to sell the paintings - he's not there, but we find a halfling guarding hi stall. Alvin hides, Alessio goes talk to him.

He's called Tuckleberry, he's tasked with bringing us to the buyers.


We follow Ale (staying back) which is following him to Field road to meet them.

Field road is basically a bit of a bustling shithole, somewhere bwetween a medina and a slum.


Saveriovok is stopped by the 5-0 but it don't seem to matter much. he duration, we seem to be getting involved with untrustworthy people.

We enter a dead-end alley, there is a nobleman protected by 2 bodyguards, armed with a spear and a sword.


As we show we do have the paintings, we get ambushed by arrows and attacked by the bodyguards. Let the messacre begin.


To be honest we get fairly beaten by this lot and end up running away. At least we get to keep the paintings and kill a couple of them.

We try to go to River st in the Trades Ward to sell them at the lower price previously offered, but it seems no one wants to buy them now as it's been going around that these pictures were stolen and hot.

We end up storing them back at our house. We may be able to place them when it all blows over in a week or so.

## Back home

Fritz is very relieved to see us as in our absence he found out the house is haunted (oopsy, we forgot to let him know)

Myrt, the famous harpist adventurer introduces himself and offers a job for the harpist.

It seems he wants informers about Zhentarim recruiters.

 

He gives a full pitch about the harpers, to be honest they seem a bit of a cheap, half-arsed paladin vibing crew of absolute well-meaning wankers.

We reply we'll think about it and say we'll be in touch. He drops his full address in Castle Ward.

We go back to the Yawning Portal to talk to Yagra, which frankly dunno shite.

We decide to just go on and undertake the last investigation quest from Davil and seek out for that lost halfling Dasher Snowbeedle.

## Snowbeedle Manor


We go to the manor and talk to lady Blossom Snowbeedle - she offers 500 dragons to find Dasher.


She's upset that the son often goes out mixing with the commoners, dressed as a street boy and way below his lineage. He goes drinlk at the Hole In the Wall, a low-level local boozer.

Dasher is yound, barely of age and has curly hair.

Lady Blossom feeds us and shows us a painting of the son.

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## The Hole in the Wall tavern

> As You enter the The Hole in the Wall, the clamorous scene inside strikes You. The tavern buzzes with the shouts and guffaws of rowdy patrons, draped in a hazy fog of thick smoke and the dank aromas of spilled liquids and undercooked food.
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> The lighting is scarce and feeble, providing a murky backdrop for dark and furtive dealings.
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> At the bar and tables, shabbily dressed patrons haggle, brawl and play games of chance and skill. Hugging one wall, You glimpse unkempt musicians and jesters in colorful patches of clothing, pounding drums and plucking out discordant accompaniments.
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> An occasional bark of laughter or jeer falls from a dimly lit corner, adding to the din and chaos. The Hole in the Wall Inn is a lawless den of vice and forbidden amusements.


We talk to the barman, for 2 gold pieces he seems to better his memory and point to room number 3 where our dude is chilling with his crew.


As we enter it seems everyone in the room is bare fucked up.
The youth seems startles and we go talk to Dasher.


We decide to return Dasher to his mother, we don't really give a shit about him getting his freedom and privacy (except for Alvin), we threaten him and basically carry him back home and get our mulah.

We return to the Yawning Portal to talk to Davil.

He asks us where we are with the Metkins investigation, we give him an update, it seems further quests will be more important, but we should focus on that for now.

## Skewered Dragon

We go to the Skewered Dragon to talk to Solomil (we were to do that 2 days ago) about shifty dockland quests. They only pay about 3 silver coins a night, so we easily pass.

## Thirsty Sailor

We check in the Thirsty Sailor just to take a look about the elf killings. No news, everyone is drunk and careless again.

## Back home

We go back home and chat to our employees. They investigated Colbert and it seems he disappeared completely. Seems it happened before and he always came back after a few days.

We didn't find his address. We give Fritz a budget of 10 gold coins to find out.

We start the works to renovate the tavern for 1500gc which should finish by Nigtal 1st. We tell Lyf that he should help in every possible way to make this happen and not scare people to death cause otherwise we are liable for a lawsuit and this will cost the company its image and have great opportunity costs and we are targeting free cash flow.


# Session 7 08/02/23 (Uktar 21)

A boy comes knocking at our door early morning telling us that Metkins wants to meet us. We give him a silver coin so that he can go buy drugs, or ice-cream, we dont judge. In the letter the boy handed us it appears that the investigator has discovered something huge on the Elves' murders' case


## Metkins' office

We find Metkins on his office door, he tells us that last night or early this morning the City Watch found another dead elf, a trader this time, not far at all from the office. He asks if we want to go to the crime scene together: we choose to follow the fucker.

We arrive on the scene and start chatting with the City Watch. They don't appear willing to cooperate. With an improbable Charisma dice throw, Cnat finds out the victim was the Perfume Seller. We claim to be sent by Sigourn and this seems to suffice to let us in to continue the investigation.


We enter the shop and see the corpse on the floor, covered in cuts. The City Watch believes the killing to have happened only a couple hours ago, with a very tall figure but incredibly fast suspect fleeing the scene. He/She/They dropped a few perfume bottles when running away but it's hard to think that the murder was a result of a failed robbery.


We inspect the body, scattered with several dagger-inflicted wounds: a far cry from the clean and stealthy tehchnique Metkins suggested the Elf-Killer followed. Going forward, we will call them the "Monster of FirElfe".

The dead elf is called Amos Elias and is a fragrance specialist. He carries a few gems and gold coins, a small dagger for opening letters and his shop's keys. Looking further, we find blood and skin residues under his fingernails - an indication that he fought his assailer until his death. The flesh residue, in particular, is remarkably dark and similar to that of a drow. We put the sample in a parchment for future analysis.

Metkins thinks not unlikely that the killing is be related to the Monster, despite the bad execution. Hatred between Drows from the Underdark and Surface Elves runs quite deep, but usually they keep away from cities and most of all they dont need perfumes. We should keep this detail in mind. Another quirk is that this is the first high-profile victim compared to the commoners killed so far. Also, the last murder goes back only 7 days ago, a big difference from the fairly regular spacing between the previous killings.

The only witness to the scene told us the suspect wore a purple cape, made very little noise even while running and ran towards Ship St, then North-West. Luckily, a small healing temple closeby might be a good port of call for someone who got injured in a fight. We choose to go there.


## Temple of Tymora


We find only one priest in what looks more like a stall instead of a Temple. We ask him if he's seen somebody wearing a purple cape, he says he did indeed see them and they weren't in great shape. A drow man with a bad wound on his face that most likely were caused by a beast.

They appeared to be a drow and stink of decomposition, the smell seemed to come out of him despite not opening his mouth.

He arrived at the temple as the sun was rising, they covered their face and left, probably not to be affected by the sunlight.


The priest assures despite of smelling like death he wasn't an undead as their belling would have damaged them instead of healing.

It's likely that a drow with so little tolerance for sunshine is fresh on the surface and not dealing coping with daylight.

We decide to look into the closest tavern, to see whether the culprit may have hidden nearby to pass the day.

## Thirsty Sailor tavern

We stumble upon the Thirsty Sailor on Fish Street. Talking to the bartender we seem to find out not much else, despite gaining their simpathy due to them being friends with the dead.


The bartender is sure no drow was here today, but a drow would have stayed the evening one week ago. It seemed to have been the same night that there was a killing.


We now have a suspect. We enquire about their appearance.

The drow in question was wearing a traveler cape, was dressed as an adventurer and may have been wearing a leather armour. They had a drink and had caused no issues. Was smelling nice and probably wearing parfume.

The drow was quiet, only pointed to make an order, socialised with no one, looked older than cnat, white hair, he seem to have a sort of metal cane / wand with a handle as a weapon. It was rather small and kept it in a holder. The bar tender could not really identify this weapon.

Petra (the bartender) mentions that quite often an itinerant carnival lands at the docks, and stay for a short while. The crew is mainly drows.


The owner is an eccentric drow called Zardoz Zord, from Luskan.


They last landed here a couple of months ago and show up every couple of months.


We go to the sewers in the hope of finding the drow undeground and split in two groups, after walking for a while both groups hear steps and run towards them, obviously just to meet each others again. We hear some noise in the water - seems some slimy creatures are creeping under its level. They look like oozes.


We kill a bunch of oozes and get 'nuff xp to level up next time.

# Session 8 20/02/23 (Uktar 21)

We leave the sewers as we're in pretty bad shape, returning to the Thirsty Sailor to regroup and restore. We proceed to take a nap of 12 hours.

**(Uktar 22)**

Petra the Stakanovist (only available in DnD, not real life) tells us that Metkins has left in the meantime but asked us to meet him at his office tomorrow.

### The bloody fist

It’s late hours when we enter The Bloody Fist to continue investigating - there’s an organised dwarf fight and bets happening and the tavern seems way more alive than others.
The barman tells us that his tavern is off the beaten track and that probably nobody knows much about the killings.


The bartender suggests checking out Mule’s skull which is mostly elven folks, but talks poorly of them and Cnat ends up real pissed off but also obtains a flask of Feel-No-Pain on the house.

### Back to docklands

Then, we proceed to use Alvin, bein a half elf, pretending to be drunks as bait (while we hide and watch) to see if the killer will come up again in the docklands.

We now walk into the parfume shop (the crime scene) and notice the door was open.

Alvin enters stealthly as we wait outside and take watch. The window glass was broken.


We spend the night trying to play bait but no luck. In the morning we go meet Metkins in his office.

We make no progress, then go do some shopping and decide to go talk to the wizard Blackstaff at the Blackstaff tower to try and get some magical support for our investigation.

### Blackstaff tower (Uktar 23)


The inside of each floor is way larger than how it seems from the outside.

Inside the top floor hall we meet Vajra Safahr (AKA Blackstaff) - she says she has been waiting for us.


She wants us to find Halam, on a cave near the side of Mount Waterdeep, we just need to check in for reports to bring back to her.

Apparently the man is into deep meditation most of the time, so we shan't disturb him too much.

We then go to mount waterdeep to get this done.

### Mount Waterdeep

It takes us about 3 hours to hike around this fucking mountain, and it's well tiring.


Alvin gets fatigued as he fails as he fails a dry vagina saving throw.

We bump into a manticore. Now we may just be in trouble.


We destroy the fucking thing (not without effort) and assert our dominance over the mountain.

We go for a short rest in the manticore’s nest and wake up in the night to find a bunch on troglodytes eating the manticore’s carcass.


We decide to terminate their existence as they are uneasy on the eye, and succeed to do so even though Cnat’s cloud of daggers reveals pretty silly in this testing phase.

After the short rest, we reach the top of the mountain where we can see that the drow circus ships have reached the city docks, and find the hermit’s hut.

It’s approximately 1am, and if anyone is inside they are likely sleeping. Not sure we can give a fuck.


The old sage is well braggy about his 7 months meditation and asks us not to be back next time before he can beat his record. He’s a solid wanker. Anyhow, he leaves the following message for Blackstaff:

> Evil’s twin hides his face for now.
> Expect that to change before winter’s end

He then proceeds to some more bragging and starts talking to Saveriovok.

It‘s like dumb and dumber.

He proceeds with a tad more bragging and general wanking about his long meditation.

It’s like talking to Manlio, just worse.

This individual is extremely irritating but seems to hold some charm over Saveriovok for monastic reasons that are way beyond me, and they’re now talking unpaid internships despite the fact that we’re all very tired about the whole business of this long day.

Anyway, the dude is called Hallam or some other Mexican name of that sort. He’s seriously bad vibes but Saveriovok may just have something to learn from him, hopefully not requiring any sexual favours.

# Session 9 27/02/23 (Uktar 24)

The sun is rising (it’s about 5am) as we get back to Waterdeep.


We go meet Vajra at Blackstaff tower, where she claims Halam tends to be quite cryptic when he's not on his pills. She says she's still willing to perform the ritual and that she will require a piece of organic matter from the creature and a few hours to wrap the whole thing up.

*We give Vajra the fragment of drow skin*


We decide to return to Trollskull Manor to regroup and rest before searching the Docks' area on the back of Vajra's ritual.

# Session 10 06/03/23 (Uktar 24)

As we get back home Fritz tell us that representatives from all guilds showed up to propose a meeting to discuss supplies and organisation for our new business. We have to fix a date by Nightal 1st. He also tells us that works keep pushing on as expected with no hiccups. The poltergeist is superhappy to see the new place shaping up.


Fritz also tells us that there's a bit of unrest among a couple of his dudes which we might have to quell with some good ol' violence. The issue here is that they might get in trouble and lead the city watch back to us. We can always decide in the future whether we want to stay fully legal or dip our toes into racketing as a side business. Prostitution is also a perfectly viable pet project, should we want to invest in dwarvish chicks with one leg.


### Back to Blackstaff Tower

We go back to Vraja's as she should have finished her ritual by now. She greets us and tells us that the ritual gave a hint on the presence of 2 people instead of 1, both in the same place, meaning that it could be 2 entities in the same body - maybe someone who's been possessed and it's not even given that it's a drow. The creature has spent the last 2 days in the docks' neighbourhood within the sewers. This can be accessed by a long and twisty tunnel with a bunch of buildings and structures that indicates somebody inhabits that area. She saw a long rectangular room with something that looked like a throne at the end.

Jorg lets the fact that we saw a Mindflayer in the sewers slip in the conversation and Vraja seems surprised. She then tells us that the dual entity issue might be due to an intellect devourer, which clings on its host until they die (this might explain the stench of rotten flesh in our suspect!). She claims that as soon as the host is killed the parasite is likely to look for another host straight away (us, probably).

### Back into the Sewers

We choose to risk it and head to the sewers, once again through the entrance close to Xanathar's base. Unfortunately we do not find the yellow marks that guided us the first time, but thankfully Saveriovok drinks his own piss to allow the entire party's survival.

We get into one of the worst played fights of our campaign and end up somehow and despite odds killing the possessed drow and the brain devourer that was in his brain.

Alessio becomes a vegetable, which all in all is almost an improvement.

We also found the stolen perfumes, which to be honest we have little clue why may have been stolen in the first place.


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 |  _  /| | __/ _` | '___/ _` |/ _ \ | |/ _ \ 
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It costs us too much to heal Alessio so we decide to just give him a week of rest to get out of his shitty state.

We go back to Vagia and as we prove our worth, she offers us an official position in Force Grey if we wanted so, we take time for now as we have feet in all shoes.

We go to Davil and bring the head of the drow, the corpse of the brain devourer and the stoled perfumes and cash out our payment (300GC). Davil also offers us to join the Zhentarim.

We then proceed to also cash in our fee from the city watch, gather Metkins as a third party witness to the whole story and cash in another 120GC that was the official watch. He repeats our invite to join Force Grey.

While Alessio rests, we fast forward a week and figure out how to use the time:

Options:

- 1 search (2ppl)
- 1 money led task
- Practice a craft / trade / skill

# Session 10 06/03/23 (Nightal 1st)

### A week has gone

After our encounter with the intellect devourer which left Saveriovok virtually disabled, we choose to spend the week shopping around for items that will come handy in the future. One of these is the bag of holding for which we manage to snatch a bargain at 850gp (not thanks to Saveriovok's charisma, he's a vegetable).

In the meantime the renovation works for our enterprise finally hit completion so everything's ready for our startup's launch. The party members who are not mentally incapable choose wisely to study 1/4 of Volo's guide to monsters so that we are more likely to avoid death by dumb battle strategies.

We decide to launch a startup party with cheap sushi rolls and canapees so that everyone in the hood can get a taste of our unimaginable wealth.


In the meantime though we decide to needlessly risk our lives by engaging in a fierce battle with the troll we met a few days ago. We come very close to losing Brodor, but dead a dwarf, you can always find another. We head back to TrollSkull Manor with literally a troll skull, what are the odds!


We open the doors to the general public and the night goes well enough. However, there's definitely room for improvement potentially through a bard or a music band.

Cnat gets wasted and gropey, plays the horn poorly and freaks people out.


### Nightal 2nd

The morning after we're waken up by an insanely loud noise and a lasting vibration that shakes up the building. We run downstairs to check the neihgbourhood and we see a large patch of terrain completely burnt down. The smell of roast meat is strong and the building next to ours has caught fire. People are panicking while trying to throw to throw water on the flames but it doesnt really work.

We spot about 11 charred bodies within the flaming inferno and we ask a passerby what the fuck's happened. Saveriovok grabs a sciura by her neck and inquires about the accident. She claims to have seen what looked like a marionette on a nearby rooftop throwing something on a group of halflings and other passerbys.


A gnome was seen rushing towards our pub before being hit by the blast. Not far from him a couple of armed humans lie lifeless, as well as other humanoids and the above mentioned halflings. The gnome, upon careful inspection, is found to have his belt undone and a whopping 100gp on him with which he was probably buying drugs. His boots were also completely covered in grime, of the same kind of the one found in the sewers. Falah, our herbalist neighbour,confirms the sciura's version and adds that a hooded figure was seen kneeling on the gnome's corpse before limping away towards the Bent Nail.


> Barnibus

After the explosion we meet the young Neverember which tells us he’s been recently contacted by spy of his father’s, a gnome named Dalakar, and he says he found the stone of Golorr. He was gonna meet Neverember to give it to him - he didn't want to even take it and didn't show up.

TL;TR; Neverember thinks someone must have found him ang taken the stone.

Loads of people may have heard of this - Neverember mostly suspects the Zentharims.

The stone seems to be the key to enter a vault containing 10k golden dragons hidden there by his father.

Neverember suggests to try a necromancy spell to talk to the dead gnome.

Meanwhile he explains us the marionette possibly was a nimblewright from the temple of Gondd, deity of crafting.

We decide to buy the [Speak with Dead](https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Speak%20with%20Dead#content) spell for 250G and go to castle waterdeep to chat to the dead gnome (with the help of Neverember which has ties with a bunch of folks working there.

He lets us in and warns us we only have 10 minutes, then leaves telling us we’ll meet at the Yawning Portal.


We launch the spell and have 5 questions.

- Q1. (Piler) - Why did you want to meet Neverember?
A1. I wanted to give Neverember the stone to bring to his father.
- Q2. Who mandated your killing?
A2. I'm not sure but I was being chased by three drows, probably Zentharim.
- Q3. Who do you think has sent the nimblewright that was spotted on the scene?
A3. I was chased by the Zhentarim and I was hiding in the sewers for days while chased for stealing the stone from the Xanathar.
- Q4. Who killed you?
A4. Not sure, but a fireball
- Q5. Who and where did you get the stone from?
A5. He infiltrated in the sewers cove of Xanathar (kingpin) with 6 others (no one else made it) with the objective of retrieving the stone

We realise that if two drows are dead, one more was following the gnome (and he was Zentharim) and after keeling on the corpse escaped limping, it's likely that while the niblewright killed the gnome the Zentharim drow actually went away with the stone.

Cnat attempts to disguise themself as one of the dead drows at the Yawning Portal to try to investigate the guilty parts. Devil doesn't recognise him, neither does anyone else.

Meanwhile the team chats to Yagra and finds out that the Black Network of Zentharim appears to be now ran by Urstul Floxin, a drow that has a mandate on his head.

For a few drinks, Yagra tells us that Urstul is currently hiding in the mansion of the Gralhund family, a noble family of untouchables in Waterdeep.

## Temple of Gondd

We go to the [Gondd temple](https://kingsway-role-playing-group.fandom.com/wiki/House_of_Inspired_Hands) in the Sea Ward (where the Nimblewright was likely made) to investigate further.

We talk to a Dragonborn that explains us that while a nimblewight made in this temple couldn't have committed acts outside the temple, a particularly creative one may have constructed another niblewright that could have committed a crime. We go looking for him and interrogate him.

He admits to being in fear of acts of his being found out. He did something bad last month.

He created another small nimblewright. He did that because others of his kind are different and don't like him. He spent a while with the creature but he escaped to explore the world.

He never came back. He didn't tell anyone about it not to upset the priest. Once, though, he remembers a noble woman getting close to the temple and being interested in his creation.

She worm a long green vest with golden finishes.

The vest had a symbol representing a face with two parts, one half was pink and the other red.

The symbol reminds our translator of the Gralhund emblem, which depicts a half demon, half human face.

> The Gardaland emblem ... contribution of Piler
> 


# Session 11 10/05/23 (Nightal 3rd)

We resume our sesh at the Temple of Gondd, where we decide to ask Nim further details on how his creation looks like. He tells us that it's not dressed, roughly made and about 1m tall (hence much shorter than him).

We ask the priest of Gondd whether he wants us to take care of the issue without getting the city watch (insurance) involved, perhaps behind some compensation such as artefacts and shit.

After a short rest at Trollskull to recover spells we go to Gralhund Villa.

## Gralhund Villa

The villa appears majestic and well looked after, despite the ominous outlook. 4m tall walls keep the large plot of land separated from the rest of the neighbourhood. We approach the gate.


We climb over the walls and enter the kitchen. After Cnat scouts some more rooms with invisibility on, we find several staff dead and baddies guarding the upper stairs. Upstairs there are more staff held hostage and we hear noises of a big fight. We decide to sneak up to the two guards downstairs to go up together and intervene.


We end up killing all the baddies and saving the noble lady, reviving the drow and confroting the landlord on all the mischief regarding the stone and niblewright pointing a blade at the son and father’s throats.

After a long negotiation we attempt double playing the lady and the drow, it turns out he is Urstul Floxin, - we decide to talk to him and pretend he runs free after a fight after deciding with Lady Gralhund to deliver him to justice (or kill him) to then meet again at the tavern to get information.

We meet Barnabus Blastwind and Saeth Cromley when the city watch arrives.

The lady tells a bullshit story to the 50 - in her version the nimblewright belonged to the Zentharims and stole a fireball necklace from her house and disappeared, in the meanwhile Urstul and his thugs seized control of the villa and held hostage the Gralhund family.

We know the truth is different: the nimblewright was working for lady Gralhund and unleashed a fireball on Urstul and his two sidekicks. Urstul survived, stole the stone from that gnome and came back to the villa for revenge. But things didn't turn out so well for any of them.
Where is the stone now? There was no trace of it or the nimblewright at the Villa...

# Session 12 22/05/23 (Nightal 4th)

We wake up with a kid screaming at the top of his lungs to sell the freshest copy of the Waterdeep Wazoo. Thank Talos, child labour is still legal here. The newspaper reports the details of last night's battle at Grahlund Villa, with a big fat ban on Zentharims all over town.

A dodgy looking human with an inhuman amount of hairgel approaches Trollskull Alley and knocks at the door. He introduces himself as Laggo Spessoh, a bard with a harmonica who plays a funky new beat called 'Blues'. Being a blue half-orc, Saveriovok is quickly sold to the idea of letting this guy have a chance at impressing customers with his music.

## Introducing Laggo


We are approached by Mirt Zedda Piras who's after a couple of names regarding Zentharims around the town. We give away the identity of Manchun, Yagra and Urstul himself. Mirt gives us the location of what is believed to be a Zentharim den, in the sewers, where we might find more info on what the heck's been going on these days. We express our doubts on a potential involvment of Xanathars, but it could very well be that Zentharims just fucked up.

We choose to venture with Laggo in the sewers and leave Cnat at home to rest a bit, he's been looking like shit lately so he probs deserves a rest. After a quick search in the sewers, we clash swords with a bunch of lame Zentharims and of course this ends in a bloodshed. We manage to capture one of the bad guys and decide to bring him up on the surface to hand him in the Harpists.

We also kill a Bugbear

 

# Session 13 29/05/2023 (Nightal 5th)

We get a list of bounties from the City Watch when we hand in the prisoner at their HQ (Carl seemed not to be worth anythingy).

The list is as follows:

- Yagra Stonefist
- Ursul Floxinn
- Davil Starsong
- Istrid Horn
- Skimo Weirdbottle
- Sidra Romeir
- Agorn Fuoco

We chat to laggo and we find out he lost his friends from the black magic evocations of the Gralhaund on a boat. Apparently they also do rituals in the cemetery - once every two days mas o menos.

An old man that works in the graveyards, Valen Rudor, is the one to ask.

We take a long rest but we’re woken up by someone knocking at our door - Lif signals us someone just arrived.

From the window we see a large hooded figure.

Babbetto goes to the door - it’s Yagra. She ain’t in a great way.

We talk to her and finally decide to hide her. She doesn’t have loads of intel but we generally get along and collecting favours is always worth more than 50GC.


We finish resting and head to the city of the dead.

## City of the dead

It’s around 12:30, we get to the city of the dead, and the weather is shite.


We meet with Valen, which is basically undead himself (tu tum ts) and get him to explain where the rituals happen.

He brings us to the crypt but warns about the illegality of breaking into nobleman’s tombs without permission.

The crypt belongs to the Cassalanter family, so he finds it weird the Gralhand show up here so often.

We walk a little further and find a small pyramid, about 5m tall with a metal gate. The entrance seems to lead to the underground.

He leaves us there.



> The emblem depicted above the pyramid gate. There is a motto below it that seems to read "At all costs" in some ancient local language.

The gate seems unlocked. Babbetto pushes it, and we go down a long flight of stairs.

We start getting down with the undead.


Also, we have a spider problem.


# Session 14 05/06/2023 (Nightal 5th)

We reach a big stone door that looks suspicious, we are arguing about what will be found behind the door.

We open the door and find a black portal, Laggo suggest to go in the portal with a rope, Brodor enters the portal and reappears at the entrance of the room, we follow the rope and it leads to another room with a big hole in the middle

 

Jorg ja Meel oneehi decides to descend in the dark hole and reappears in the room he says he has seen two monsters with beards made of snakes and a nimblewright


Cnat, probably high on amphetamines, decides to grab life by the balls and descends in the darkness, whilst the others run to the other entrance from which Jorg Jamel came out. Our favourite magician becomes invisible and performs a great trick where he tries to abduct Nim against its will.


We killed the 2 beasts and take the Stone of Golorr from Nim himself. It vibrates of an alien energy and Cnat learns that it serves as the key to a portal. We interrogate Nim and find out that it was up to no good, sponsored by lady Grahlund herself, and apparently waiting for somebody (human) to hand him/her the Stone.
Together with the stone, he had a note:

*"A gift for the masters. Y.G."*

We try to find a way to deactivate it and tie it up, masking it as a backpack and carrying it back on the surface. Once back in the City of the Dead, we find someone meeting us.


# Session 15 12/06/2023 (Nightal 5th)

We emerge frome the crypt and there's a greeting party for us.

One Human

### Urstul Floxin

One grey-skinned Duergar dwarf carrying Talos' sign, the god of Thunder and Chaos and a hammer.
a half-orc 2m tall carrying a lot of stereotypes,wearing a full plate armor with fancy details and a huge woodenshield with "The merry friends" written on it, plus a greatsword that.
The human is dressed like an adventurer wearing a cape and handling a longbow with an arrow ready to be fired.


We lose the stone of Galore, Urstul and his merry friends almost killed us, two more were hiding behind us, a mage or sorceress and a Rogue that we never quite saw, but felt the bite of his arrows.
We surrender and managed to escape and return to Trollskull Manor.

After a night sleep and a level up, we decide to bring the Nimblewrighy back to the House of Inspired hands,

### Casalanter's Mansion
We stumble upon the giant mansion of the Casalanter's Family, Amalia, and Victoro,they have 3 children, Osvaldo the heir, Elzerina and Terenzio.
This family has a strange story, Cnat recalls every single bit of it... that gossiping brat. 3 years ago the family was going bankrupt but all in a sudden they came back and became one of the richest families in Waterdeep. Everyone wonders how they did it.


We get to the house of the inspired hands and return the Nimblewright To Valletta

### House of Inspired hands

Laggo persuades Valletta to get two magical objects, we decide to get:

Goggles of Night and Eversmoking Bottle

 

Next stop?
We are considering investing in some better equipment, just to avoid having our asses kicked by some motherfuckers again, and then we'll pursue the Stone of Golorr using a Locate Object spell. What can possibly go wrong?

# Session 16 19/06/2023 (Nightal 6th)

Laggo is playing Paganini entertaining the crowd in Trollskull Manor,
Cnat makes eye contact with the detective Vincent Trench

### Vincent Trench


He starts a conversation with Trench, that suggests to avoid going against a noble family like Casalanters, he offers to investigate them for a price for 50 GC.

We hire him, then decide that probably, to save on potions, we could try go steal
from Skeemo’s shop Weird Bottle Concoctions (since, as confirmed by Yagra, he was one of the first ones to be arrested).


We get there around 02am and find a note on the entrance (closed until further updates) and the shop is sealed shut with wood planks.

It takes Laggo around 40 min. / 1hr to uncover the bottom side of the door. Jorg picks the lock. Laggo and Jorg get in and check for loot. We decide to ransack the place for a total of 5 Health Potions, 7 common potions and 5 uncommon potions.

Someone notices noise while leaving as Laggo sucks at walking, but it doesn't seem we’ve been identified.

We make it home at around 3:20am and the dward casts Identify Object to locate the stone. While the spell is out of range, the dwarf senses it suggesting to look west.

We run to follow the direction and end up in Rough Road where - outside a theatre, there seems to be a lot of movement and a popular celebration.
There is street food, booze and people generally having a good time.


The thatre is bustling - it’s a 2 storey building in some sort of a rough shape. The stone seems to be somewhere in there.

The theatre is called Brittsenbright (run by Malcolm Brittsenbright)

> Malcom Brittsenbright

Cnat takes off to the loo to cast Locate Object - the crew enters the main theatre area and as they enter they cross eyes with a well dressed elven lady with a scarlatt mantle and brlonde hair. She gives us a long stare before continuing to look at the stage.


Jorg steals the stone in an amazing stealth action, Cnat is taken aside while leaving from the elven lady, Jorg leaves and hides behind a column, the dwarf is left inside and accused of theft with the City Watch officers now coming in to check.

> Ramalia Heaventry


The harpist elf was looking for two 'zentharims' that got the stone from Ursul the night before.

While one goes away with the guards throwing a hissy fit, the other leaves and is followed by Laggo and Pastariello, the stealth duo of the year.


They tail the figure through the tracks in the snow and end up in Mistshore, amongst crackheads and general lowlife.

Meanwhile Cnat gets the gal’s number and is probably underway to nail her (if he times his first text correctly).

Cnat rools a d20 for penis and turns out not to be very large (6).

Ramalia Heaventry live in Castle Ward in Keltarn Street. Cnat can call her Remy.

Cnat goes back home at sunrise to cast Mage Hand.

In secondary news, we have the stone.

# Session 17 01/08/2023 (Nightal 7th)

Laggo and Saveriovok keep chasing one of the Stone holders until they disappear in the crowd in the slums.

They venture in the darkness searching for the misterious person, meeting 3 curious kids that want to be adventurers:

### Nat, Squidly and Jenfrenx.


They tell us that the guy walking past is the son of a woman living in the area, Martha Fuoco, an old hag who's barely alive anymore. He's apparently very rich but for some reason he's leaving his mother in this foresaken place. They're not sure what he's up to but apparently he doesn't annoy anyone around here.

Laggo and Saveriovock confront the fugitive, he was trying to kill his mom, he says his new family are the Zentharims and in particular he serves Manchoon. The guy is called Agorn fuoco

### Agorn Fuoco


He got the stone from Urstul in order to smuggle it to a safe spot. The Stone was too hot for Urstul's pants, hence Agorn's utility as a mule. He would have brought the stone to an ancient tower called yellow spire tower

### Yellow Spire Tower


Located in the Castle Ward where Manchoon's supposed to meet him. Allegedly nobody knows how to use the stone but they all want their hands on it.

He offers to give us more details on the Zentharims' cove if we agree to spare his life. We choose to bring him to one of the safehouses the bad guys used in the past in order to reconvene with the rest of the guys. Laggo goes to fetch them while Saveriovok guards the dude.

Manchoon's hiding in the Kolat Towers, within the Southern Ward, a haunted place where he can act undisturbed.

### Kolat towers


We find out the other witness is called Amat Sersent, a cleric from Bain. We torture and kill the hostage for more info, find out there's a fee for his head but decide to just leave his dead body in the hideout and avoid making too much noise that may bring us closer to a confrontation with Manshoon.


We go back for a long rest.

## Nightal 7th afternoon

The day after Cnat studies the stone and finds out it gives +1 to armor class after attuning with a short rest - it's also a key. It takes another half day to keep studying the stone. It turns out it also curses the wearer with a disadvantage on constitution saving throws.


The curse can be removed after attuning and throwing the Remove Curse spell.

The stone is also sentient and answers questions. Questions can be asked while attuned to it, and the relationship develops.


We prepare to talk to Neverember next time and possibly attune and interrogate the stone.

## Lord Neverember

## Nightal 8th

Cnat would love to finish his handjob but he's too tired and crashes in bed attuned to the stone of Golor, dreaming about full employment. When we wake up we choose to interact with said stone, once per day, asking it where the vault is.


The stone answers that it's buried underneath the mausoleum of the Brandat's family - we never came across this surname before - but Cnat remembers that they're somehow related to the Neverember. This means that the Mausoleum must be in the City of the Dead.

We decide it's time to disguise the dwarf, not only so that he can have a normal social life, but also because we want to keep his appearance hidden to the only witness who could unmask us. Of course Urstul knows exactly what we're on about, but until that time, hey! who cares. We buy a Disguise Kit to do it properly


> Piler’s disguise

We reach the guardian of the graveyard and ask him whether he knows where the mausoleum is, but the guy's not there - a bit odd innit. A Kelendorr cleric, Brimm, is at the guardian's hut instead.


Laggo approaches him and gets told that it's his turn to guard the gates today, so we ask him about the Brandat's grave. Upon a generous offer of 2gp, he peers into the graveyard's logs and finds about the mausoleum we're interested about. Apparently it's not been looked after that much and points the place on our map. We choose to head there straight away to recon the place.

We find it covered in snow, as it's starting to get shitting cold outside.


Jorg has the impression that an eye cast in the bark of the huge tree next to the mausoleum just shut its lid when he saw it. Cnat keeps investigating it and discovers that the tree has a pretty much humanoid figure, including wooden legs stuck in the ground. We could very well be facing a Trent, a sentient creature that is usually benign but hold great powers. Still very flammable, though. Cnat tries to interact with it and after a while he mnanages to establish a contact. The Trent manifests itself to all of us and asks us what we're up to. Cnat embarks on a philosophical discussion with the tree, completely missing the point of our mission. After a long discussion we learn that the tree is guarding the entrance to the mausoleum and won't let us in unless we have somebody with Brandatt's blood with us. Therefore we head straight to Myrt's place to find Lord Neverember and bring him along.

Myrt greets us and asks whether we have info on the Zentharims, but we lie and tell him we know nothing about them.

## Myrt

He also tells us that Neverember has been moved to a safeplace since Harpists and Zentharims are having a querelle and it's no longer safe for him. But apparently it could also be other people close to the Cassalanter's family. We learn that a few dangerous people have gathered outside the city's walls, near Undercliffe in an abandoned farm.They were supposed to storm Mirt's place but upon hearing the news that Reiner has been moved, they probably decided to hold off their attakck. He suggests we move our pre-emptive strike upon the Cassalanters before they reorganise.

Upon a patriotic push, we choose to venture forth and beat the shit out of the baddies at Undercliff. We arrive there at dusk so we can take advantage of the darkness. The farm looks pretty dead and no lights nor fire appears to be on from outside.


We start with a classic misdirection tactic from farmer Laggo, then blast an expensive fire ball from the necklace to sort out the 2 cultists in sight, then proceed to attack the dogs to find out they are actually hellhounds. After killing them, it turns out there's more cultists summoning more doggies, and Laggo figures out these people are connected to who killed his mates.

Just for good measure, we proceed to kill everything on sight. Laggo thinks they are connected to the Gralhund, while Myrt seemed to think they have something to do with Casalanters. Something seems off about this.


# Session 18 06/09/2023 (Nightal 9th)

We go back to our HQ and Vincent Trench has little do to in the morning so he knocks at our door very early in the morning. We let him hin and he starts ranting about the Cassalanters and their connection with the dark arts and necromancy, in particular they seem to have stipulated a pact with the demon Amadeus, the dark lord of L'Eredita' and Sanremo.

This might be due to the Cassalanters trying to get back their previous shine in town, with the heir Osvaldopaniccia potentially being the scene. He claims to have seen dodgy people wearing capes entering their mansion,which sounds in line with the entire interpretation.

He cannot tell us more as he had to interrupt his investigations to avoid being seen, but he thinks more families could be involved, in particular the lesser ones. He suggests we get in talks with the Grey Hand but without any sort of proof this could turn just a big waste of time. We decide to hire Vincent again to keep investigating the matter.

Cnat wakes up all of a sudden and remembers that he can once more query the Stone of Golorr since a day has passed since the last time we did this. He then proceeds to ask the Stone what perils lay ahead to get to the trasure, to which he suddenly starts astrally projecting through the maze.

+ Metal door requiring 3 different keys

+ a very tall room with columns all around
+ a frail bridge made of pillars that shatter easily, surrounded by paintings that stare back at you
+ a room full of fire and blazes, but no zoots in sight
+ a final room containing what is probably a dragon or another huge scary reptile - after which his vision is interrupted

The party therefore proceeds towards Myrt's house but we bump into the chick Cnat was molesting on the night we stole the Stone of Golorr at the theatre. Cnat tries his best not to be sued by the lady and she actually entertains a conversation with him. She seems to know already that we cleared out to the farm outside the walls and claims that she's already brought the person we were looking for.

We finally meet Reiner, who seems to be in bad shape. We chat with him and mention the Brandat family, which his long-dead buonamamma belonged to. He genuinely seems to know nothing about the mausoleum so we choose to tell him about the pact with the trents at the entrance of the grave. He offers to accompany us but wants to do nothing with the stone after that, claiming that he wants to leave Waterdeep for good. The Harpists knew all along that we had the stone and chose to stay silent, cuz they only care about balance in the Faerun, like the commies.


- [ ] Cnat studies the Volo book in preparation of visiting the crypt. This will result in 5 advantages to next rolls when identifying creatures.
- [ ] Also, because of the day spent all together, everyone on the next day can perform 1 roll with advantage.

Past midnight, we ask the stone a new question. "Tell us all we need to know about the keys".

The answer is, the keys are:

- [ ] A beholder stalk
- [ ] The sunlight
- [ ] A gift from a queen

We realise it's premature to go to the dungeon, as we have fuck all from the list.

We then ask Neverember to send us a paper bird before leaving, and we decide to venture in the sewers to look for the Gazer corpse we previously killed, as we plan to pass its stalk for a beholder's one (or just find an actual beholder, who knows).

We clearly have little in terms of ideas, but se surely know what true friendship is.

# Session 19 25/09/2023 (Nightal 10th)


we decide to go back in the sewers to look for a beholder stalk. We encounter a group of tugs and kill two of them. There is another Xanathar hideout in the undermountain where we could find some gazers.

Laggo decides to write "the merry friends were here" with the blood of a thug.

We then proceed to kill the other guy as well, with pretty much no reason nor outcome.


we go to the Yawning Portal, have a conversation about the portal itself (which seems to lead to a dungeon of at least 11 floors), find out from Jalester that the Lords Union would give us at least 500GO + some other reward for gathering evidence / disrupting Xanathar operations downstairs, and decide to venture downstairs in the morning.

Our Group is called LAGGOMBAGNIA DELL'ANELLO

Our lead singer is

LAGGOOGLE


We get some money and help after a great musical performance we venture downstairs to the first floor.


Saveriovoks Chi Points


We kill a few goblins, a grey Ooze, find fuck all in a flooded room, and put a break on it.


# Session 20 02/10/2023 (Nightal 10th)

We continue on our quest towards north and stumble on two horrible monsters called Grells. We battle them fiercely and kill them good, then proceed further. We enter another room where we meet a weird dude with a cape, who claims to be a member of the Undertakers. He tells us that the Xanathars hide in the Southern part of the maze instead. The man walks away so we re-enter the room sneakily and read inscriptions on one of the three statues in the room.Somebody scribbled "Smelly Ass" over the original inscription, "Stupid Head"

 

We actually find a spectator and kill him, and take one of his stalks with us. Part one is complete.

We then start thinking about the next items - sun light and a queen’s gift. Sunlight could be summoned with Sunlight (which we need level 5 to cast).

# Session 21 09/10/2023 (Nightal 10th)

We decide that we're gonna go back outside of the undermountain to obtain a few spells that are going to help us with our main quest.

Once we emerge from the underdark, Laggo performs one of his sweet-worded numbers and advertises Trollskull manor to the clientele.

We go talk to Jalester Silvermain about having found proof of Xanatars presence in the underdark.
Laggo show the spectator's stalk to Jalaster. He needs more proof but he is happy with our service to the Lord's Alliance and Waterdeep.
Because of this we don't get more reward.

Jalaster is friend with Laeral Silverhand, Waterdeep's open lord (after Neverember left).

When we get back to
Manor, Fritz lets us know around 100 people were looking for us while we were away, tonight.


Scenes from the triumphant return of Laggombagnia dell'anello (al naso)


## After long rest in Trollskull (Nightal 11th)

We try to figure out best course of action from here - first, we go and manage to purchase a 'Speak with animals' scroll that Laggo can use, then, we try to remember, through the history of Waterdeep, of any queens that we may have access to. Nothing comes to mind as Kings and Queens are rare in the Swordcoast nowadays, but we think we may go to the cemetery and ask for ancient burried queens.

We also realise the plan of talking to a Queen bee is possibly a no-go, since speak with animals requries them to be rather intelligent (bees just ain't) but finding a Spider Queen may be a viable options too.

We then decide to split - Laggo, Cnat and Saveriovok will go to the city of dead to talk to Valen Rudor, Brodomir and Jorg Jamel will go to Southerward to talk to the 'Alpinists', or whatever the fuck they're called here.

Valen Rudor turns out to be utterly useless, but will show up to the next gig.


The others don't find anything by the Alpinists villa, but bump into what seem to be the Kolat Towers. We don't that know they are but can presume so as they seemed blackened by soot and smoke and remind us of what was described by Amat Sersent.

We are welcomed by someone holding two hounds wearing ivy on their head: Melanor Felbranch.


We present ourselves as scientists researching the aracnoid demographic working on a new potion formula having to do with beholder stalks and whatnot. The person invites us in, we politely decline and ask about Spider Queens and whatnot.

They find out a bunch of stuff (which Tanc needs to be filled in on) amongst which the idea that the Ettercaps follow a social structure similar to aracnoids, meaning they possibly have queens, and being humanoids they may be easier to have a bit of a chat with.

We should find a group of these dem tings in a forest East from the city, called Ardeep Forest.


We all get back to TrollSkull Manor to regroup around midday - Laggo starts rehearsing his performance for as he ordered Fritz to prepare flyers and whatnot for his gig tonight.

Seems the most viable solution here is Ettercapps, the forest is 1 day walk from Trollskull.

Cnat finds out from Volo’s book that these creatures are dumb as shit, very strong, clmb on webs like spiders and attack with claws and fangs. Often they keep spider pets. All in all they are not massively dangerous, and we don't find out much about their social structure other than they can be dominated by super clever spiders or they can elect leaders on certain occasions.

Cnat spends some time studying other creatures with queens from the Volo book, and finds:

- Spiders
- [Lolth (queen of spiders Drow deity)](https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Lolth)
- [Ankhegs](https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/16787-ankheg)
- Chitines
- Fey queens (fairies)
- [Lizards](https://www.aidedd.org/dnd/monstres.php?vo=lizard-king-queen)
- Ettercaps

Vincent Trench pays us a visit, this is his last work investigating Cassalanter family.
He uncovered an unsettling truth, they are trying to collect a large sum of money, as an offer to Asmodeus.
They are therefore involved with a secret cult.

The figure is in the thousands of dragons, to be collected by the end of the year (30th Nightal, their twin sons birthday).

They came to know about a huge amount of dragons, hidden in a secret vault.

Main chatacters in the family:

- Victoro and Amalia Casalanter.
- Elzerina and Therenzio, the twins.
- Their son Osvaldo, heir to the family, hasn't been seein in a long time.

##### Next steps:
##### -Laggo e Laggompagnia "the true story" show at Trollskull Tavern
##### -Ardeep Forest hunting for Ettercaps
##### -Question the stone

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