Session #10: Who? Why? Were.

General Summary

Kiwi continues her investigation into the doppleganger's machinations in the city of Waterdeep. She becomes increasingly confused about why they are supposed to be ridden from the city when Bonnie, their apparent leader, seems to be a good person who has a well enough motive for settling in the city- survival in the cold, dark world. Kiwi is told by the Emerald Enclave that dopplegangers are abominable monsters with no natural connection to the world, and they're innately born to lie, but Kiwi remains troubled by the whole circumstance.
Meanwhile, Hope gets a letter from the Harpers telling her to investigate the trustworthiness of the doppleganger gang in the city that Mattrim Mereg, aka threestrings the bard, seems to trust. Hope pursues Bonnie in social greetings and walks in order to seemingly accomplish this task.
While this is all happening, Kuro and Alex are attacked by a giant shark that seems to be screaming in a menacing gurgle on their search for the dragon they know of. They manage to fend the creature off, and they travel to the dragon, who accepts an offer of 1000 gp to part with his scale. They return home with the scale and place it in the attic where they see Aila's wooden desk and its furnishings, all of which are an innately carved ivory white wood.
Luthrin becomes tasked, by the Zhentarim, with finding a missing person, Dasher Snobeedle, who had gone missing. He pursues this for a while while Kuro follows a man who he is tasked with investigating for a tenday for the Blackstaff.
However, during one of the nights of these investigations, the group lay asleep while a sound resounded in the manor; the sound of muffled clunking that comes from one hard material against another. This sound resounded from a suit of gem forged armor, internally immersed by a constant stream of blood, pressing its boots into the wooden floor.
This thing, slunk its way through the manor towards Luthrin's room, where it attempted to kill him. Everyone except Alex and Finn, who are nowhere to be found, ran to his aid, and the creature was slain, dropping its gem forged armor and blade, but Luthrin, crazed from the fight, attempted to attack Kuro afterwards. This resulted in a brief skuffle between the party in order to pacify both Luthrin- by knocking him out- and Kuro- by talking sense into him.
After this rest, the group decided to accomplish some personal tasks. Hope took the gem blade for herself while she sold the gem armor for some coin to Embric and Avi. Fantastically, Grimace got a makeover with Luthrin at the same time. His fur was dyed brown from his head to his shoulders, followed by a white and green stripe, and finished with a plethora of pink fur beneath. Luthrin simply painted his nails and put on some general makeup.
Afterwards, the group all ventured to a meeting spot with the missing person. He tells the group that he does not want to go home because he has found a new family in the crew he was running with, but Luthrin uses magic to persuade him to go back home. While they're travelling there, Dasher transforms into a halfling-sized rat that bites Hope. After convincing Snobeedle to calm down on threat of death, the party delivers him and gains the reward money for his return.
Hope talks to Kiwi about being bitten, and they realize Hope has grown more hair and seemed to feel different. Kiwi recognized it as some form of lycanthropy and told Hope of the downsides of the lycanthropic curse, mostly that a being afflicted by it, goes into a mindless rampage under the full moon.
As the party begins to rest that night, Hope notices the moonlight shining into the manor, and looked to the sky to see the full moon, where she painfully transformed into a giant form of a rat.

Rewards Granted

500 gp
65 gp- Hope gained from selling the armor
renown

Missions/Quests Completed

Found and returned Dasher Snobeedle

Character(s) interacted with

Bonnie, the Doppleganger
Threestrings, the bard
Embric and Avi, the blacksmiths
Dasher Snobeedle, the displaced halfling

Report Date

25 Jun 2019

Primary Location

Waterdeep