Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

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Some useful rolls: 

/r 1d20+5 [eldritch blast]
/r 1d10+3 [eldritch blast damage]
/r d20+2 [initiative]
/r 1d20+2 [perception]
/r 1d20+5 [persuasion]
/r 1d20+2 [stealth]

Campaign Notes

A mantra heard from someone... before I joined:

Evil twin hides its face for now.
Expect that to change before winter's end


Notable People, Groups, Items

Devil Starsong
  • Zent guy in the Yawning Portal:
  • He's against the faction of Zents which are "trying to drag us back in time"
  • Gave us the quest to find who was killing elves in the docks
Martem Trek
  • Small boy, huddling, crying after the fireball attack
  • found remains of necklace - the necklace of fireballs used by the nimblethingy
  • We hired him - can't remember what we hired him to do now... keep an 'eye' on people, perhaps? Try and get people into the pub? Whatever, it made his day.
Nim
  • Automaton based in the House of Inspired Hands - the temple of, er, some god or other
  • Created some not great creations - a homicidal hummingbird and...
  • Another nimblething, which appears to be some kind of robot-for-hire - a sociopathic mercenary
Renaer Neverender
  • Young lordling
  • The party (minus me) saved his life earlier in the campaign.
Dalakhar
  • Gnome, hired by Lord Neverender (Sr) to spy on his son, Renaer
  • Trusted by Neverender Sr
  • Given special mission to retrieve the Stone Of Golorr (from whom?)
  • Afraid of the Zentarim / Xanathar guild
  • He as coming to us to hire us to take the stone to Neverender Sr when the fireball attack killed him
Cult of Manshoom
  • A breakaway cult from the Zentarim
  • Starsong reckons they are trying to drag the Zents "back in time"
  • No clear understanding of their motivations at this point
Stone of Galorr
  • Allegedly, an ancient creature, transformed into an artifact
  • "Knows the location of treasure consisting of half a million dragons"
  • Seems unlikely that this treasure will still be there, if the creature did know its location
  • More likely a big bad, realistically
The Gralhunds
  • Local nobles, involved with the Zents
  • Hired / worked with the cult of Manshoom to retrieve the Stone of Galoor
  • Lady Gralhund hired Nim's nimblewotsit to use a fireball to kill Dalakhar and retrieve the stone
  • Lord Gralhund is a week-kneed ninnyhammer
Urstall
  • The Zent who the Gralhunds were dealing with
  • A bit tetchy about having his colleagues blown up. Decided to enter into a heated discussion with Lord Gralhund.
  • Eviscerated by Ekah

Day notes: 29/05/2020

necklace broken clasp 2 red beads Strange, glassy, deep red with orange streak Found by Martem Trek

Pub Provisions Craddock Vintners, Brewers and Distillers Guild Upfront guild costs of 250gp Innkeeper's Guild Standard wines & ales: 10 gp / wk Finer wines & ales: 20 gp / wk

Carousing with Fitz

(not with Fitz, you understand, just 'with' Fitz, oh stop smirking)

  • Alston - Gnomish labourer
    Complaining - too much work to do;
    I wanna be an alchemist
    Undercliff - shanty town, then farmland
    fixing fences, slaughtering livestock.
    Going for horses
  • Timm - City Guard
    Weary - double/triple shifts
    Relentless
    Docks / mercantile
    Zents vs Zanithar
    Break into one of the merchants houses
    Prisoner - one of the zents - doing hard labour
    Only survivor of a zent vs zent battle
  • Tamir - Half-elf; dock worker / stevedor
    Docks
    Flotilla of 3 ships; going to do a carnival
    Stuff they've unloaded.
    Mostly elves
    Been to lantern (lots of steampunk tech - alchemy, clockwork and ting)
    The Disappearings

Day notes: 08/06/2020

Entering... The Docks

Phase Spider - deaded Drow - deaded -- Found: Gun Quest from: Devil Starsong of the Zhentarim Faction which is trying to 'drag us back in time'


Pub Provisions Guild of Butchers Justyn - Bruiser - can dispose of 'meat' for us


BIG BANG!

small boy, huddling, crying found remains of necklace - broken clasp 2 red beads Strange, glassy, deep red with orange streak Name: Martem Trek

Witnesses
  • Jezrin Hornraven
    saw an automaton firing the fireball
    House of Inspired Hands
Investigation

Injured dude escaped to house/compound owned by:

The Gralhunds

  • Reasonably well off, reasonably well-born, but not top nobles
  • _Very_ well connected
  • There are connections to the Casselantas - links.
  • Rumours that some members are tieflings

Renaer Neverender - young lordling we rescued Dalakhar, the gnome, was spying on him for Neverender Sr. Sr. trusts that gnome. Special Mission to retrieve the Stone of Golorr, afraid the Zentarim / Xanathar guild. He was going to visit us to take the Stone of Golorr to his father. Stone is the key to find the riches

-- Saw lady gralhund the other day - surprisingly quiet otherwise. Earlier this afternoon, terrible thumping at the door - allowed somebody in, limping, not the sort to be allowed in the front door.


Cult of Manshoom


Day notes: 20/07/2020

From what Lord Gralhund told us: The Stone of Galorr is an ancient creature, transformed into an artifact.

It knows the location of treasure consisting of half a million dragons

Angry dude: Urstall

Zent guy in the Yawning Portal: Devil Starsong

Things to bear in mind.

  • Sector by sector search - over a week, could do other things
  • Meeting people - could do that _while_ doing a search
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