Dragon Heist/Campaign Log
Session 1 - December 22, 2018
DR 1492, Ches 3, 2:00 pm Through Khan, the party is assembled at the Yawning Portal tavern to meet with Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm, told they are needed to answer a call for help. While passing the time with usual tavern fare, a fight breaks out between a half-orc, Yagra Stonefist, and some gang members. Aiding her in subduing them, Durnan ousts the gang members. A troll and several stirges emerge from the shaft in the center of the tavern, and the combined arms of Yagra, Durnan, and the party defeat them. Volo arrives at the tail end of this confrontation, happy to see the party a capable force.
Volo explains that he believes something bad has happened to a drinking friend of his - Floon Blagmaar. Giving a description of a handsome, nicely-dressed human man with red hair in his mid-thirties, the party sets off to the last place Volo saw him, the Skewered Dragon tavern in southern Waterdeep. They witness the aftermath of another gang fight - between the Zhentarim and Xanathar's Guild - in the streets, then being mopped up by the City Watch. Stopping in briefly in the Old Xobolb Shop, they converse with the owner and discover several shady types in black armor abducted two men off the street nearby two nights prior. Visiting the Skewered Dragon, they converse with the regulars and are pointed towards a warehouse in the area with a black serpent on the door - the mark of the Zhentarim. The party arrives, and finds it looking rather decrepit.
Session 2 - December 29, 2018
DR 1492, Ches 3, 3:00 pm Knocking and then breaking down the door, the party finds a dozen dead Zhentarim thugs in the warehouse. When they begin looting them, four kenku attack. Fwoosh momentarily causes them to stop fighting, after which the party kills two, knocks one out, and restrains the last. Searching the area, Ramesh finds someone who looks like Floon, only for him to name himself Renaer Neverember, the son of Dagult Neverember, the previous Open Lord of Waterdeep. He explains they kidnapped him and Floon, confusing them for one another, and that Floon was carted off somewhere else while he escaped his restraints and hid himself to wait for an opportunity to escape. He voluntarily joins the party to help rescue Floon.
A squad of a dozen City Watch arrives, taking the surviving Kenku into custody. Their Captain, Hystus Staget, is thankful the violence hasn't resulted in any deaths but gang members. Captain Staget gives a copy of the Code Legal to the party, promising to look the other way this time, and explains it was partially his fault for withdrawing patrols in the area. The City Watch positively identify the conscious captive as being a member of Xanathar's Guild, a known current enemy to the Zhentarim. Searching the warehouse further, Fwoosh finds a paper bird, and the party finds a cache of valuables behind a secret door. Departing the warehouse, Renaer sees himself to a bathhouse, Fwoosh uses the paper bird to summon Volo to the Yawning Portal later that evening. The party returns themselves there immediately, plying the time by busking, gambling, and drinking.
At 8:00 pm, Volo and Renaer arrive. They catch up on the situation at large, and Renaer leaves with the party to return to the warehouse in search of any tracks or trails to follow. Shrarsei manages to find a trail, eventually leading to a manhole on a nearby street. Following yellow Xanathar's Guild signs in the sewers under the street for a little over an hour, the party encounters a Gazer and defeats it. Continuing, they arrive at a Xanathar's Guild hideout, sneaking past the sleeping goblins on watch at the sewer junction.
Session 3 - January 5, 2019
DR 1492, Ches 3, 11:30 pm
to be continued
