HotDK 21: “Red Lights and Red Roofs”

Having arrived in Waterdeep and settled accounts with your employer for the caravan from Baldur’s Gate, you notice that the Cult of the Dragon’s wagons do not stop to unload at the same place as the rest of the merchants but continue north on The High Road through the city. With the help of Jamna Gleamsilver you keep track of the Cult and find that they are not immediately leaving the city but have taken up lodging near The Market in the center and the Inn of the Red Roof. You procure lodging at a The Galloping Minotaur (a private suite on the top floor).

From there you split up to be able to watch the cultists’ movements from numerous angles. Brehana performs in Many Cats Alley, nearest the Inn of the Red Roof; Rargir and Malice explore The Market for supplies and spell components while also keeping an eye out. They spot a pair of a familiar faces heading toward the warehouse district. The are around The Market is plastered with flyers advertising jobs for laborers and guards for the road building project north of The Mere of Dead Men where Lord Neverember of Neverwinter is finally rebuilding the road that was destroyed years ago when Mount Hotenow erupted.

Rargir stays to keep an eye out while Malice finds the rest of the group. He locates Brehana easily enough, but neither Arynor nor Jamna have been seen. The set out looking for Pubert, figuring he’d be easy to spot or give description of. They find him in a brothel on Bazaar Street called Maison de Miaou.

Upon returning to The Market, Brehana, Malice, and Pubert catch up with Rargir who has observed the two cultists entering one of the warehouses and then exiting a while later, apparently short a money pouch. Jamna appears, seemingly from nowhere, admonishing them to not discuss things in such a public place. The group returns to The Galloping Minotaur to plan. Upon returning you are delivered a note from Arynor saying that he’s located members of the Emerald Enclave and a possible side mission that may lead to more information regarding what the Cult of the Dragon is up to.

The rest of you decide that Pubert and Rargir should go to the same warehouse the cultists were seen visiting to inquire about the work force going north. Brehana and Jamna cast Disguise Self spells and go to the Inn of the Red Roof disguised as a Dwarven adventurer and a Halfling Inn employee respectively. Malice uses Invisibility to trail them unseen.

Pubert and Rargir are easily able to procure employment with the labor force leaving in two days as guards and are told that their friends can find employment as well if they come by no later than Noon the next day. Meanwhile the three that went to the Inn are able to overhear conversations but only partially – they pickup the words/names “Bog”, “Wyrmspeaker Rezmir”, and enough information to believe that the loot you’ve been tracking since Baldur’s Gate is continuing north toward where the road is being built.