Session One: The Adventure Begins!
General Summary
The party arrived separately to the city Waterdeep in search for answers after being visited by the mysterious woman. Each party member made their way through Waterdeep arriving at the Yawning Portal, a tavern known for where the more adventurous goes to have a drink, to find Volo. Cora Tealeaf entered the tavern and made her way to a chair by the fireplace. Valna, with her faithful companion Alistair, found a table near the well in the middle of the tavern after entering the tavern. Nyx grabbed a table in the back out of view of most the patrons. They all enjoyed a drink while surveying the room for any signs of Volo.
Cora Tealeaf, while watching the crowd, noticed a human male with beat up leather armor was eyeing a female half-orc drinking at the bar. She observed the human male down a two drinks as to get up courage to confront the half-orc. Cora spotted a tattoo of a serpent on his left forearm and decided to approach the human male about his tattoo as he may know something about hers. She catches the human male in mid stride as he was making his way towards the female half-orc. A brief discussion with the human male ended in Cora being caught in a lie and an insult about Cora’s size. Cora, not taking the insult about her small stature, punched the human male in the groining. Double over in pain from the blow, the human male friends surround Cora and begin to close rank. Valna, seeing the exchange between Cora and the human male, approached to see if she could help. With more insult directed at Cora and Valna from the human male a person approaches the confrontation and appears to be a clone of the human male. The human male pausing to take in the shock of seeing himself staring at him when a cry is heard across the bar as the half-orc noticed the human male and charged across the bar with her weapon draw. Aggravated about being discovered the human male turns his anger towards Cora while two of his friends run towards the half-orc female to slow her down.
After an exchange of blows between Cora, Valna and the human male the clone of the human male morphs into a clone of Cora. The clone then turns towards the female half-orc and blasts her with a breath of cold air which streaks across the bar sending patrons scrambling. The cold blast hits the half-orc female slowing her. Not know if the clone was helping, Cora turned her attention towards the clone and hit it with a snowball. The clone, reacting to the snowball, hits Cora with magic missiles before disappearing behind a table. Since she was over her head and injured, Cora summoned Iris, her animal companion as she defended herself against a second attack from the human male’s friend. After being struck, Valna pulled out her longsword and unleashed a world of hurt on the human male before realizing they may need him alive and started to pull her blows.
As the confrontation raged on a loud growl was heard by the well as a troll had climbed up from the depths of Undermountain looking for easy prey. As it climbed over the well wall, it grabbed a patron and began smashing him into the floor leaving a crimson stain across the floor. Cora tried to entangle the troll with a spell but the troll was able to resist. As Cora had her attention focus on the troll, Valna was able to knockout the human male and one of his friend causing the other to flee. The half-orc female dispatched the other two friends and made her way to the human male. Cora and Valna tried to determine if the half-orc female was a friend or foe but felt the troll was a more pressing matter. Cora mounted Iris and dropped the entangle spell as Valna moved to engaged the troll. They left the half-orc female alone with the unconscious human male where the half-orc female drove her sword into the human male’s head splitting it open like a coconut.
Cora launched an duel attack with Iris where she was able to dislocate the trolls knee causing it to stagger about and drop the lifeless body of a bar maid. Valna moved in to attack swinging at the troll connecting a few blows. After a few moments the troll would shriek and seem to regenerate the damage done to it. Nyx watch the battle from a distance and launched a set of magic missiles which impacted the troll with a sickly thud. Nyx sensing Valna never fought a troll before sent her a message telling her to use fire. Valna looked around for a source of fire while Cora attacked. The troll swung wildly but missed due to its injured knee. Valna found a large tankard of ale on one of the tables and threw it on the troll as one of Nyx’s flaming crossbow bolt connected. The alcohol caught the flame and caught the troll on fire. Unable to regenerate the troll began to swing out at Valna but missed. Valna and Cora got in blows as another Nyx’s crossbow bolt pierces the troll throat causing it lurch backward in a death throw. The troll hits the wall of the well and falls down the well end with a sickly thud a few seconds later. During the chaos of the confrontation with the troll, Cora lost sight of the half-orc female. Valna was able to catch sight of the half-orc female as she made a quick exit.
Regrouping, Cora and Valna introduce themselves to each and decide to combine their efforts to locate Volo. After paying the owner of the tavern some gold as a way of paying for the fight she started, Cora was told Volo was upstairs at a private table. Cora and Valna made their way up while Nyx hung back watching over the tavern. The owner of the tavern introduced Cora and Valna to Volo and sit down at the table with Volo. Volo introduces himself as Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm, renowned storyteller and traveler of the Realms. Volo tells Cora and Valna he was trying to locate one of his friends, Floon Blagmaar, which he feared was kidnapped after a night of drinking. Volo went to the city watch but they seemed not interested. He sent out some feelers for adventurers but no one responded. A beautiful woman approached him and told him she had some friends which could help which he stated Cora and Valna were a few of them. He did not know the woman’s name but stated he was confidant her friends would help. Volo offers Cora and Valna 100 gold for the return of Floon and promises to find out information of the tattoos both Cora and Valna have. Agreeing to help, Volo tells Cora and Valna Floon was last seen with Renaer Neverember, the son of Lord Dagult Neverember at the Skewered Dragon. Volo offers to put up Cora and Valna for the night at the Yawning Portal to rest.
Cora and Valna leave Volo and go up to the room Volo obtain for them while Nyx approached Volo and had a private conversation with him. Cora and Valna tell a little bit about themselves and were interrupted by a knock at the door. Valna opened the door to find Nyx. After a brief exchange of information, Valna let Nyx in. Cora apologizes to Nyx for hitting her during the battle and they agree to help each out to find Floon as each of them have a tattoo and want answers. They decide to rest for the night and start out in the morning.
On their way to the Skewered Dragon, they encounter a scene of a bloody fight on the street with the city watch detaining three human males. The group notices the human males have tattoos of a winged serpent on their forearms. After a brief discussion with a city guard, Nyx found out the men were agents for the Zhentarim.
The group notices a strange shop next to the Skewered Dragon called Old Xoblob Shop. They enter the shop and noticed the shop is full of trinkets. The shop is decorated from top to bottom in purple with a light lavender smell to the air. An old gnome sat behind a desk. Nyx asked the gnome if he had a private room where they could talk. The old gnome takes them back to his private quarter at the back of the shop. The gnome introduces himself as Sezarn. The group observed his shop was the only shop in the area which appeared to be in good shape and wondered if Sezarn was paying someone for protection. They notice Sezarn was slight untruthful and uncomfortable with the questions. Sezarn offer to answer their questions in exchange for something purple. Nyx gives Sezarn a purple trinket which Seazrn agrees to answer five of the group’s questions. The group found out Floon and Renaer were jumped by a group of men led by a tall human male with a black serpent tattooed on his neck. They were dragged away but he did not know where they were taken to. Sezarn tells the party the Zhentarim has been causing problems in the Dock Ward and he is paying the Xanathar Guild for protection and so far the Zhentarim have not bothered him. The group thanks Sezarn for the information and makes their way to the Skewered Dragon.
At the Skewered Dragon, they noticed the tavern was in disrepair with the locals of the Dock Ward sharing what was found on the docks as the day’s drink. The group scoped out the patrons when a human male came staggering up to the group. He said he was called Ned but did not know if that was his real name or not because he never really learned it when he was young. Ned took a shining to Valna as he was charmed by her elvish beauty. While Valna tried to down play Ned’s attraction, Nyx and Cora took advantage of the situation and made a promise to Ned Valna would entertain his advances if he provide them with the information they were seeking about Floon. With a small kiss on the cheek, Valna asked Ned for help in tracking down the human man with the serpent neck tattoo. Ned said the man was not a regular at the tavern but saw a warehouse down the street which had a similar serpent on the door. With Ned leading the way, Cora, Nyx and Valna travelled to the warehouse. They found the warehouse to be in better condition than the surrounding ones. A gate encompasses the warehouse with the windows blacked out. The front door had the black serpent symbol on it as well as a peep hole. Cora told Ned Valna would return to the tavern if things did not work out between the human man with the tattoo as they told him Valna was looking for her crush. Ned wondered back to the Skewered Dragon with hopes of seeing Valna again as the group planned their entry into the warehouse.
Session ended.
After an exchange of blows between Cora, Valna and the human male the clone of the human male morphs into a clone of Cora. The clone then turns towards the female half-orc and blasts her with a breath of cold air which streaks across the bar sending patrons scrambling. The cold blast hits the half-orc female slowing her. Not know if the clone was helping, Cora turned her attention towards the clone and hit it with a snowball. The clone, reacting to the snowball, hits Cora with magic missiles before disappearing behind a table. Since she was over her head and injured, Cora summoned Iris, her animal companion as she defended herself against a second attack from the human male’s friend. After being struck, Valna pulled out her longsword and unleashed a world of hurt on the human male before realizing they may need him alive and started to pull her blows.
As the confrontation raged on a loud growl was heard by the well as a troll had climbed up from the depths of Undermountain looking for easy prey. As it climbed over the well wall, it grabbed a patron and began smashing him into the floor leaving a crimson stain across the floor. Cora tried to entangle the troll with a spell but the troll was able to resist. As Cora had her attention focus on the troll, Valna was able to knockout the human male and one of his friend causing the other to flee. The half-orc female dispatched the other two friends and made her way to the human male. Cora and Valna tried to determine if the half-orc female was a friend or foe but felt the troll was a more pressing matter. Cora mounted Iris and dropped the entangle spell as Valna moved to engaged the troll. They left the half-orc female alone with the unconscious human male where the half-orc female drove her sword into the human male’s head splitting it open like a coconut.
Cora launched an duel attack with Iris where she was able to dislocate the trolls knee causing it to stagger about and drop the lifeless body of a bar maid. Valna moved in to attack swinging at the troll connecting a few blows. After a few moments the troll would shriek and seem to regenerate the damage done to it. Nyx watch the battle from a distance and launched a set of magic missiles which impacted the troll with a sickly thud. Nyx sensing Valna never fought a troll before sent her a message telling her to use fire. Valna looked around for a source of fire while Cora attacked. The troll swung wildly but missed due to its injured knee. Valna found a large tankard of ale on one of the tables and threw it on the troll as one of Nyx’s flaming crossbow bolt connected. The alcohol caught the flame and caught the troll on fire. Unable to regenerate the troll began to swing out at Valna but missed. Valna and Cora got in blows as another Nyx’s crossbow bolt pierces the troll throat causing it lurch backward in a death throw. The troll hits the wall of the well and falls down the well end with a sickly thud a few seconds later. During the chaos of the confrontation with the troll, Cora lost sight of the half-orc female. Valna was able to catch sight of the half-orc female as she made a quick exit.
Regrouping, Cora and Valna introduce themselves to each and decide to combine their efforts to locate Volo. After paying the owner of the tavern some gold as a way of paying for the fight she started, Cora was told Volo was upstairs at a private table. Cora and Valna made their way up while Nyx hung back watching over the tavern. The owner of the tavern introduced Cora and Valna to Volo and sit down at the table with Volo. Volo introduces himself as Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm, renowned storyteller and traveler of the Realms. Volo tells Cora and Valna he was trying to locate one of his friends, Floon Blagmaar, which he feared was kidnapped after a night of drinking. Volo went to the city watch but they seemed not interested. He sent out some feelers for adventurers but no one responded. A beautiful woman approached him and told him she had some friends which could help which he stated Cora and Valna were a few of them. He did not know the woman’s name but stated he was confidant her friends would help. Volo offers Cora and Valna 100 gold for the return of Floon and promises to find out information of the tattoos both Cora and Valna have. Agreeing to help, Volo tells Cora and Valna Floon was last seen with Renaer Neverember, the son of Lord Dagult Neverember at the Skewered Dragon. Volo offers to put up Cora and Valna for the night at the Yawning Portal to rest.
Cora and Valna leave Volo and go up to the room Volo obtain for them while Nyx approached Volo and had a private conversation with him. Cora and Valna tell a little bit about themselves and were interrupted by a knock at the door. Valna opened the door to find Nyx. After a brief exchange of information, Valna let Nyx in. Cora apologizes to Nyx for hitting her during the battle and they agree to help each out to find Floon as each of them have a tattoo and want answers. They decide to rest for the night and start out in the morning.
On their way to the Skewered Dragon, they encounter a scene of a bloody fight on the street with the city watch detaining three human males. The group notices the human males have tattoos of a winged serpent on their forearms. After a brief discussion with a city guard, Nyx found out the men were agents for the Zhentarim.
The group notices a strange shop next to the Skewered Dragon called Old Xoblob Shop. They enter the shop and noticed the shop is full of trinkets. The shop is decorated from top to bottom in purple with a light lavender smell to the air. An old gnome sat behind a desk. Nyx asked the gnome if he had a private room where they could talk. The old gnome takes them back to his private quarter at the back of the shop. The gnome introduces himself as Sezarn. The group observed his shop was the only shop in the area which appeared to be in good shape and wondered if Sezarn was paying someone for protection. They notice Sezarn was slight untruthful and uncomfortable with the questions. Sezarn offer to answer their questions in exchange for something purple. Nyx gives Sezarn a purple trinket which Seazrn agrees to answer five of the group’s questions. The group found out Floon and Renaer were jumped by a group of men led by a tall human male with a black serpent tattooed on his neck. They were dragged away but he did not know where they were taken to. Sezarn tells the party the Zhentarim has been causing problems in the Dock Ward and he is paying the Xanathar Guild for protection and so far the Zhentarim have not bothered him. The group thanks Sezarn for the information and makes their way to the Skewered Dragon.
At the Skewered Dragon, they noticed the tavern was in disrepair with the locals of the Dock Ward sharing what was found on the docks as the day’s drink. The group scoped out the patrons when a human male came staggering up to the group. He said he was called Ned but did not know if that was his real name or not because he never really learned it when he was young. Ned took a shining to Valna as he was charmed by her elvish beauty. While Valna tried to down play Ned’s attraction, Nyx and Cora took advantage of the situation and made a promise to Ned Valna would entertain his advances if he provide them with the information they were seeking about Floon. With a small kiss on the cheek, Valna asked Ned for help in tracking down the human man with the serpent neck tattoo. Ned said the man was not a regular at the tavern but saw a warehouse down the street which had a similar serpent on the door. With Ned leading the way, Cora, Nyx and Valna travelled to the warehouse. They found the warehouse to be in better condition than the surrounding ones. A gate encompasses the warehouse with the windows blacked out. The front door had the black serpent symbol on it as well as a peep hole. Cora told Ned Valna would return to the tavern if things did not work out between the human man with the tattoo as they told him Valna was looking for her crush. Ned wondered back to the Skewered Dragon with hopes of seeing Valna again as the group planned their entry into the warehouse.
Session ended.
Rewards Granted
Total experience for the session: 925 xp
Each party member received a 10gp advance from Volo to find Floon.
Each party member received a 10gp advance from Volo to find Floon.
Notes
Key Findings:
- The Zhentarim appears to behind the kidnapping of Floon.
- The Zhentarim are having a turf war with an unknown faction.
- The violence is currently confined to the Dock Ward but threatening to spread.
- There maybe spies for the Zhentarim on the City Watch.
- Volo appears to have some pull in Waterdeep but how much is questionable.
Report Date
10 Jan 2022
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