Dragon Heist S2 - Sewer Slime Slog

Prince Renear explained his father was kicked out of office, having embezzeled a huge fortune, and then proceeded to hide his stash and wipe his own memory to prevent it falling into… the right hands? The Stone of Golarrrrr is believed to hold the key to his memories and thus oodles of gold dragons.

Lettttts pound that pavement – Wilpher

Following the trail of the Kenku Drot spotted the previous night, we found a marked sewer grate. Peering into it, we do indeed see Zanathar gang tags - following them led us to a wooden ladder, guarded by a thing with too many eye stalks.

Really, any number of eye stalks is too many.

Dispatching the sewer mongrel, we climb to a large chamber, walls perforated with holes, from which gutteral yelling noises eminate. Goblins! With Teal’s gleaming armor easily hit flesh providing cover, the group scurries past their ambush point, and runs into a camp belonging to the bandits previously harrassing our half-orc compatriot back in the bar. After a struggle, and some wild flailing into the air, the invisible giant dwarf was taken down.

With a forking path offering both slimey and non-slimey routes (we take the latter) - and find Floon Blagmaar under the boot of a half-orc, with a tentacled Mindflayer onlooking, caressing a brain-dog. Upon seeing us, the ‘flayer waves the half-orc onto us, and strolls out of the room humming.

A harrowing duel later, we opt for a hasty retreat to the daylight, through a secret passageway (leading through a halfling’s brew cellar, of all places). Volo is very pleased to see Floon once more, though in place of his original offered payment (book royalties having not come to fruition), found himself forced to bequeath us a recent property acquisition: Trollskull Manor!

And then Volo takes you all for ice cream and a tour of the city, for the rest of the day.

– Teal Steel,
Semi-Pro Documancer

<- Session 1: Trolls Do Not Work That Way

Cast

  • B - Teal Steel, Fellow of the Order of the Unicorn (The Knights of the Unicorn are chivalric adventurers who follow romantic ideals: life is to be relished and lived with laughter, quests should be taken on a dare, impossible dreams should be pursued for the sheer wonder of their completion)
  • N - Wilpher, a wimpy street urchin who communes with rats
  • T - Milo Tealeaf, boy-wizard
  • D - Drot, Kobald ranger

odd ball folksy types

  • FLOON BLAGMAAR, our quarry
  • Renear Neverember, having accomplished nothing in his own life beyond drinking and partying, commonly recognized as the son of his Father, Lord Neverember, former regent
  • Volothamp Geddarm: chronicler; wizard; celebrity
Written on April 9, 2020