Session 33: Best Laid Plans

General Summary

Session 13 NOV 2019: IT is a Mind Flayer! IT almost eats my brain, but Lorin and Det totally kill it first! We rifle its pockets and find 2 healing pots, a spell scroll, adn 130 platinum.   We head down to breakfast and encounter Logrim, an acquaintance of Feng’s. Logrim informs Feng that his noble presence is missed on the surface, and we learn about some portals that allow quick travel in and out of the Dungeon.   TokTok interrogates the Mind Flayer’s dead body. He finds out that the Flayer was here alone, and that there’s a reward for his head. Moreover, there is a treasure stash back in its home colony, and a cave to the south with at witch and a trove of magical items.   Feng and the group say their goodbyes, and he escorts Det’s parents to the surface. We chat with Logrim, and learn that there are many opportunities for shopping/resupply in Skullport, despite some blockading problems of the water entrances.   We talk rather loudly about infiltrating the basement, which apparently is controlled by Zanathar, and the innkeeper 86es us. (Which we should have expected, alas.) So, we go shopping! I acquire a new shield and breastplate, as I may now be the party’s tank, functionally speaking. After, we visit an establishment named The Poisoned Quill (a poison shop, it would seem.) This shop is on the middle level, where we had previously been on the upper level of Skullport.   REMINDER: Contacted by a priestess who wanted us to procure magic items. There was a Harper debt to deliver gold to a Half-Drow who runs the Flagon and Dragon. We also were supposed to find the Throne of Alabaster (Which we did, and sent up). We’re also supposed to deliver a letter to the Tiefling who runs the Guts and Garters which communicated a debt owed to someone else.   We go to deliver the letter to the Tiefling, which goes better than we expected! As proof that we delivered the letter, she gives us a special-seeming necklace to give to the letter’s sender. This seems to fulfill our obligation.   Lorin, Logrim, and TokTok sneak into the basement while Det, Lily and I chill outside the G&G. After a flubbed stealth roll, the bartender finds the opened door, looks down the stairs with a puzzled manner, and shrugs. She then closes and locks the door from the outside, trapping the adventurous trio inside! Zounds! Tune in next week!