Session 03 – Nimble Shadows and Sewer Serpents

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💥 Fireball in Trollskull Alley

While business picked up at Location:Trollskull Tavern, a massive explosion shattered the calm—a fireball detonated just outside, killing Dalakhar, a gnome spy, and several citizens. Remarkably, the tavern and party were unharmed, though the street was left scorched and chaotic.

Waterdeep

👤 A cloaked figure was seen looting Dalakhar’s body and fleeing toward the Bent Nail–.
🧒 A child claimed a metal puppet had thrown something into a barrel—it was revealed to be a Necklace of Fireballs with two remaining beads.
🧙 Silas identified the explosion as magical; Dren confirmed the necklace’s nature.

Eyeless assisted folk and asked questions

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🚨 City Watch & Renaer's Secrets

The City Watch, led by:

• 🧑‍⚖️ Barnabus Blastwind

• 👮‍♂️ Sergeant Cromley
  ...arrived and began their investigation. Captain John Mercer calmly persuaded them the party was innocent. They revealed:

• Dalakhar had been fleeing armed pursuers.

• Trollskull was declared a crime scene.

Later, Renaer Neverember arrived and revealed:

• Dalakhar had spied on him for two months.

• He was likely seeking the party to deliver the Stone of Golorr to Renaer’s father in Neverwinter.

• The artifact is powerful and valuable, drawing interest from the Zhentarim and Xanathar Guild.

• Renaer offered 💰1,000 gold if the party retrieved it.

Silias in the library with a candlestick

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⚙️ Temple of Gond,Gond City– Sewers,The Lonely Automaton

Following the automaton’s trail to the Temple of Gond, the party met:

• 🐉 Valetta, bronze dragonborn priestess

• 🤖 Nim, a sentient automaton

Nim confessed to secretly creating a second nimblewright that had escaped. He feared the construct was responsible for the explosion. The temple had locked Nim away.

🎁 Rewards Offered:

• 500 gold for destroying the rogue Nimblewright

• OR a mechanical invention (e.g., barking box or adjustable stilts)

• Nim begged for the nimblewright to be spared and Trollskullreturned, Tavernpromising a unique invention

📟 The party received a Nimblewright Detector — spins and clicks when within 500 ft

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🕳️ Sewer Hunt – The Yuan-ti Ritual

With no detection from the device, the party scouted the Waterdeep sewers and stumbled upon a yuan-ti ritual involving a drowning victim, red and green malisons, and a purple abomination.

The cult attacked, declaring: “Witnesses must be slain!”

⚔️ Combat Highlights:

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🎁 Loot & Rewards

📜 Magical Scrolls (unassigned):

• Fireball – AoE damage

• Animate Dead – Raise undead (ethical concerns)

• Flaming Sphere – Area control

• Fear – AoE frighten

🗡️ Weapons:

• +1 Longbow

• +1 Scimitars

💰 Gold:

• 216 gold pieces total

🛡️ Faction Gain:

• +1 Renown with the Grey Hands / Force Grey for defeating the cult

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Party Status:Status (Post-Battle)

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🛠 Temple of Gond Investigation

• ExploredAll theexhaustion siteeffects ofhave thebeen fireballcleared explosion tied to Delacar and a Necklace of Fireballs.post-session.

• Met Nim, a lonely automaton who created a runaway Nimblewright—likely the “puppet” seen fleeing the scene.

• Violita offered:

  • 💰 500 gold for the Nimblewright’s destruction

  • 🧰 A barking box or stilts as a reward

• Nim pleaded for mercy: return it and receive a unique invention.

• Received a Nimblewright Detector (clicks and spins within 500 ft, max speed at 30 ft)

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🐍🔍 SewerUnresolved Battle – The Yuan-ti Cult

• No Nimblewright detected in the sewers.

• Discovered a yuan-ti ritual with:

  • A drowning victim

  • Red and green malisons, and a purple abomination

• The cult attacked, declaring: “Witnesses must be slain!”

🎯 Combat Highlights:

• Eyeless: Used Divine Smite & Guiding Bolt, downed by cold/poison, revived Slim Jim

• Slim Jim: Healed Eyeless, downed, revived

• Captain John: Landed a critical Sneak Attack (39 damage); rolled nat 20 death save; finished red yuan-ti

• Dren: Frontlined, maul attacks, survived with 3 HP

• Silas:

  • Unleashed two Fireballs (from Necklace)

  • Deployed Fear and psychic spells

  • Remained untouched—but his boots got filthy crossing the sewer

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🧪 Loot & Rewards

• Scrolls not yet assigned; likely for Dren or Slim Jim

• 🛡 +1 Renown with Grey Hand for stopping the ritual

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🩹 AftermathThreads

• The party staggered home torogue TrollskullNimblewright Manor:

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  • Captain John: 1 HPlarge.

  • Dren:The 3purpose HPof the yuan-ti ritual is unclear—possible necromantic ties?

  • EyelessDebate &brews: Slimdestroy Jim:or severelyspare drainedthe Nimblewright?

  • Silas:Some ✨scrolls, pristinelike robes,Animate muddyDead bootsand Fear, raise moral dilemmas within the party.

• Nimblewright’s fate remains unresolved

• Yuan-ti ritual's purpose (possibly necromantic) still a mystery

• Ethical debate brewing over whether to destroy or return the Nimblewright

• Scrolls like Animate Dead and Fear challenge the party’s moral compass