Session 10: Turning Up the Heat

General Summary

The session begins with the party making preparations to go to the dinner.

At the Villa

Madame H's Wild Ride continues

• Madame H decides she wants to sneak her way into the villa alone, which she manages to do thanks to 'Pass Without Trace'.
• She explores part of the first floor, where she sees a room with portaits of House Cassalanter, depicting them from a few years ago.
• She infiltrates the kitchen where she disguises herself as a servant and sneaks upstairs.
• Unfortunately she reaches a dead end as the doors to the rest of villa are locked when the banquet kitchen is not in use.
• While figuring out a plan, she stays put.

The Party meets their enemy...

• Arriving at the villa, the party are greeted by two young children; Elzerina Cassalanter and Terenzio Cassalanter who brings them to the private library.
• They're also greeted by a friendly dog who is extra friendly to Gaerreak Facan.

SpiderMasie in action

• Maisie also Wildshapes into a spider! For reasons!
• She uses this to explore more stealthily.
• Exploring the library, she sees numerous books and tomes...and an interesting display shelf with jars full of swirling mist.
• Upon closer inspection, one of these jars is labled as "Your Beardy Face" (a vault key!). So SpiderMaisie spins a web around it to mark it for later.
• She then sneaks into a room that appears to be a study (while still a spider).
• She sees Victoro Cassalanterdeep in thought at his desk. All around him are different contracts outling different loans.
• Looking at his desk, she sees that it’s built in an odd way that indicates that the locked drawer may have a secret compartment inside.
• She also sees a suit of armour, which upon closer inspection could be a security measure (either Animated Armour or a Helmed Horror).
• Victoro is called away from his desk by his son, who informs him the people he invited are here.
• Masie takes this as an oppurtunity to fuck around and find out, dropping her Wildshape to try and open the desk...
• Yeah so that was a Helmed Horror. Luckily she manages to revert back to her Wildshape and escape!

A Deal?

• Sitting with Gaerreak Facan and Kerberos in the Smoking Room, Victoro Cassalanter offers the following in exchange for the Stone;
• A 10% cut of the horde (50,000 out of 500,000 gp worth) to split amoung the party (about 10,000 gp each).
• Gaerreak's debt would be forgiven, and the collateral returned to him.
• They would free Gwen, thus saving her life and the party would not have her blood on their hands.
• Gaereak says that he would need to discuss this with the others, and asks some questions of his own. He learns;
• That there definitely is 500,000gp worth of embezzlemed funds in the Vault of the Dragons.
• House Cassalanter wants the money to "secure their future" without bankrupting themselves.
• Kerberos investigates the kitchen.
• Madame H has now disguised herself as a servant and is evesdropping.
• Gaereak and Masie sit at the table

The Dinner

• Everyone (expect Madame H because she's eavesdroping while disguised) enjoys a tense meal.
• The food is delicious, and there are multiple courses.
• Nothing new is really learnt, however, the party is told they will be escorted down to where Gwen is and to wait in the Libary for a servant.

Into the cellar

• The party is escorted to the Libary by two maids (one is Madame H in disguise).
• Left alone with the imposter maid, they steal the marked jar and begin to discuss plans.
• These revolve around rescuing Gwen, breaking into the desk and maybe having to kill people to cover their tracks.
• The party also believes that maybe this maid isn't quite right, not the sharpest tool in the shed.
• Tensions break as Kerberos tries to grapple the maid who is revealed to be Madame H.
• She then hides in the cloakroom, ecountering what might be a divine sign of Tymora.
• The party decides that they'll deal with her later, and sneaks into the cellar.
• They look around and at first notice nothing too out of the ordinary. Then they noticed a cold draft coming from a wall.
• Suprise its a secret door!
• They decend down the stairs and arrive at the Temple of Asmodeus.

The session ended with Gaerreak Facan, Kerberos and Maisiearriving at what appears to be a dungeon; Madame Hallelujah having an existential crisis and Gwen Olsen doing something...

Session ended 20/6/1492 at 9pm; 20th of Kythorn (The Time of Flowers) 1492 DR, the Year of Three Ships Sailing

Campaign

It's Always Sunny in Waterdeep

Protagonists

Maisie

Chaotic Good Shadar-kai (Orphaned noble (urchin )
Druid 1

10 / 10 HP

STR
14

DEX
17

CON
15

INT
14

WIS
20

CHA
12

Kerberos

Gwen Olsen

Chaotic Evil Human (Criminal / Spy)
Blood Hunter 3

31 / 31 HP

STR
19

DEX
16

CON
17

INT
18

WIS
16

CHA
12

Madame Hallelujah

Neutral Evil Variant Human (Charlatan)
Cleric 2

15 / 15 HP

STR
10

DEX
16

CON
12

INT
12

WIS
18

CHA
14

Gaerreak Facan

()

8 / 8 HP

STR

DEX

CON

INT

WIS

CHA

Report Date

17 Aug 2024

Primary Location

Waterdeep