Session 10: Council of Waterdeep Report

General Summary

We meet with the counsel and are informed of issues plaguing the land. Dragon attacks, trade issues within the city and information about White Death to the north. One particular council member seems particularly douche baggy, going by the name Valtoris. We also learn the Xanathar games are to be held shortly with the promise of great loot for those who avoid death.   After meeting the counsel Wilbo relays to the group that he has heard of this Valtoris. Wilbo was approached by the Xanathar Guild and warned that Valtoris is a traitor and working with the Dragon Cult to ferry goods trade routes to advance their cause.   We decide to first participate in the Xanathar games as we try and decide if we can trust Xanathar and or confirm our own suspicions of Valtoris. And hopefully loot some cool shit. So we head to the entrance to the underdark and take a long elevator ride down to the start of the arena.   The arena is a massive open cave with lava pits bellow. Wilbo goes invisible and begins to sneak down to where we spy a few dead cultist. Passing bellow Wilbo senses something in the dark but can't quite figure out what it is, must not be important. Once on the ground he slowly creeps closer to the bodies but he has to leap a river of lava to get to them. He of course does it with ease…….but, kicks up a small poof of ash when he lands. Seemingly from nowhere a 5 headed Hydra launches an attack. Apparently they can go invisible too? Wilbo dodges the first two snapping heads but the third catches him mid hop and crushes him. He falls limp to the ground.   At this point the rest of the group engage the 5 headed fuck. Martha goes scorched earth and launches a fireball, destroying one of the heads, which drops a necklace to the ground. Cher begins sniping the Hydra with her bow.   Out of the shadows what Wilbo had sensed emerges, a giant Wyvern swoops down and picks up Dio and carries him high into the air and drops him. Half way down Dio assumes an angle like form, saving him from certain death as he can now fly.   The Hydra then leaps up to the ridge the team was perched on and attacks, but the rest of the part was lying in wait! Hooves immediately slices another head off and anther necklace drops to the ground, seeming shrinking to 'ring' size. Martha quickly sears the stump to prevent it from sprouting back like a bitch.   Dio floats down to Wilbo's body where he lays hands on him and he regains the smallest amount of life. Wilbo engages the Wyvern throwing both his daggers, missing wildly.   Hooves once again smashes a Hydra head into nothingness, with Cher crits the hydra with fire damage and leaves burnt stump.   The Wyvern attacks again and this time picks up Wilbo, dropping him from 100 feet up. Dio swoops in an saves him from falling directly into the lava and death you don't come back from.   Tpain crits the remaining Hydra head and Cher cleans up the last head with a fiery blow.   The party turns its attention to the Wyvern and Dio smacks the shit out of it mid-air. As it falls into the lava he quickly swoops down and plucks a fine looking belt off of it before it meets a fiery doom.   We pull the dead cultist bodies away from the lava. We find attack maps discussing the Moonshae Islands, Triboar and the Northern Province and High Moor. We decide to rez a cultist and interrogate him. Dio learns that Valtoris is running the underground trade with the cultist (Xanathar was telling the truth) and there is a shipment of goods coming in tonight. Hooves curb stomps the cultist as a reward for helping us.   The group heads to the docks and does indeed see a ship being unloaded, curious for this time of night. They are offloading the cargo into a warehous just along the dock. Wilbo jumps up into a window to scout it out. He sees Valtoris inside with two tied up prisoners.   At this point Tpain rolls up on the crew in front of the warehouse and declares "You are all under arrest, put down your contraband!". They look at each other and laugh (ROLL FOR INIT!)   The group lets fly everything they have, giving no fucks.   Lillifern goes bear mode and summons a horde of fuzzy wuzzies. They attack the Fleshgrapher (don’t google that) and tear it to pieces.   Cher runs in slashing at fools on the dock. Dropping them like a bad habbit   Wilbo snipes two dip shipts still on the boat.   Martha flings a fireball into the warehouse, decimating everything inside.   Tpain engages a giant fucking Bugbear and obliterates it.   Dio engages the wizard and unleashes gods might on him. Cher finishes him off.   At the sight of the carnage unleashed, Valoris throws his hands up and begs for mercy. Wilbo free's the harbor guards that were tied up while Tpain intimidates Valtoris to give up info on the cult and the underground trade routes.   Wilbo convinces the group to hand of Valoris to Xanathar who will take over the underground trade and keep us in the loop on any info he can gather. Xanathar will also place a doppelganger on the counsel in Valoris's place.