Disciples of Atropus: Session 14 - False Stop
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Session Summary:

Date of Session: February 28th, 2021
In-Universe Date: Uktar 10, 1513 DR
Level Reached: 5
Dungeon Master: Juli
Players: Adrian, Cain, Liam, Victor
Player Characters: Amadeus Bosch, Felid, Nasurin Nisure, Li Xie-Li

The party awakens on the morning of Uktar 10th, 1513 DR, in the North Ward apartment Nasurin has been squatting in. They investigate the items they looted off of Ivanoska's body after killing her in Undermountain, and Nasurin reveals that Ivanoska had a Sending Stone, which she was most likely using to contact her professor at Candlekeep, Professor Renwick. Attempting to imitate Ivanoska, Nasurin speaks through the Sending Stone in an attempt to gather more information on Professor Renwick, and learns that Ivanoska is alive, having had a Clone and has now been sent to the city of Silverymoon with a person named Mattie. This information troubles the group, who now know that Professor Renwick is a wizard capable of casting at least 8th level magic.

Following this revelation, the party disposes of Ivanoska's old body, and heads out to get some lunch. Afterwards, they go to visit the address found in Ivanoska's notebook: 1406 Sammarin's Street. The address turns out to be the old residence of Professor Renwick, and the party sneaks in to investigate further. The house does not appear to have been lived in for quite some time, possibly a few decades, but they pocket some of the belongings of Renwick's parents, as well as some letters that were sent to them and stopped coming in after 1502 DR, eleven years before the start of the campaign. Afterwards, the party investigates the basement, finding a Teleportation Circle guarded by a vampire spawn and a flesh golem. Nasurin initiates combat, and the session ends.

Session Log:

Nasurin:
"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

Xie Li:
"I can't believe Nasurin did that to Luthi. Wild."
"Maybe it was the influx of hot sauce."

Nasurin:
"hm? whbat? whatd i do"

Felid:
Felid shrugs.

Xie Li:
"You blasted Luthi."

Amadeus Bosch:
“That was hilarious.”

Nasurin:
"oh. sorry about that"

Xie Li:
"So, how are the rest of us feeling?"
"Amadeus has bees in his brain… concerning."

Nasurin:
nasurin sits bolt upright in their chair and yells "wh-huh? bees in his brain? you're serious?" and runs over to try to listen to amadeus' skull

Amadeus Bosch:
Amadeus gently pushes Nasurin’s grimy face away.
“I’m hearing things, I don’t literally have an infestation. It’s annoying and causing me a headache.”
His head was starting to pound, and he wasn’t sure if it was because of the people that he was with or the noise.

Xie Li:
[XIE LI pulls his HAT out of his pocket.]

"This is way too big for your head, maybe you can use it to block out the light or something?"

Nasurin:
"are you sure? 100% certain? i met this guy once who threatened to put bees in my brain once and i've had this fear of bees in my brain since then so i've kinda spent a long time running away from him. are you sure you have no bees?"

Xie Li:
"I…. I guess if you didn't hear any bees in his brain there aren't any?"
"How would that even work?"

Nasurin:
"well i can't tell if he doesn't let me listen!"

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Could be ssneaky beess. Hiding."

Xie Li:
"Sneaky bees…."

Amadeus Bosch:
“Go wash your face and I’ll let you listen.”

Xie Li:
"We could all probably use a wash huh. I probably smell all musty."

The Narrator:
Luthienye comes out of the bathroom, all freshened up.
Luthienye: "I've gotta say, that's the first time I've been woken up by being literally thrown out of bed in…" she pauses and counts on her fingers "…at least three months?"

Xie Li:
"I'd ask why but honestly I've had the same thing happen to me."

Nasurin:
"do i smell bad? i don't have a sense of smell…"

Xie Li:
"My nose is all blocked up from the dungeon, everything is a little overhwleming. Can't tell what's what."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "I could regale you with the tales of the many times I've been thrown out of bed, but I don't think any of you want to hear about my sex life."

Xie Li:
[Then XIE LI does a KITTY SNEEZE inches away from AMADEUS.]

Nasurin:
"do people have sex anymore? i thought that was like. a trend that died out at some point"

Xie Li:
"Couldn't tell ya."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Well of course they do, how else would they reproduce? You can't just grow a person in a vat."

Amadeus Bosch:
“None of us are Quakers, so I’d imagine at least some of us would have sex.”

Nasurin:
"dunno, haven't thought about it in a long time. i'm not very good with people"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "I worship the god of love and beauty, so it kind of comes with the package."

Xie Li:
"Quakers? What do earthquakes have to do with sex?"

Nasurin:
"i'm not an oat, thanks"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Some small regional religion. Their whole thing is being celibate and religious dancing.”

Xie Li:
"Huh. Maybe I should convert, they sound fun."
"Just kidding."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Anyways, I'm feeling kind of peckish. What say you all we stop by a tavern and decide what we're gonna do today? This place is nice, but I'm afraid most of the food here is expired and I'd rather not dig into my rations unnecessarily."

Xie Li:
"Yeah, why not? I'll just scrub myself down real quick."

Amadeus Bosch:
“Sounds good to me. I didn’t eat anything after we got out of undermountain.”

Xie Li:
"I offered you the radishes, may I remind you."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Right of course, everyone else freshen up and finish your morning routines, then we can go see what kind of interesting taverns the North Ward has to offer."

Xie Li:
[XIE LI gets in the BATHTUB and SCRUBS DOWN.]
[The RICH PERSON SOAP is PRETTY GOOD.]

Nasurin:
"nobody answered my question, do i smell bad? i can't tell"

Amadeus Bosch:
“You ate a rat yesterday and threw it back up. That should answer your question.”

Xie Li:
[XIE LI exits the BATHROOM.]

"Now that I've sneezed and cleaned myself up, there's a slight funk."

Nasurin:
"i didn't throw it back up, i coughed it back up. and i don't know what that smells like, i haven't smelled anything in like half a century"

Xie Li:
"Wh???"

Nasurin:
"i told you, i dont have a sense of smell!"

Amadeus Bosch:
“No wonder you’ll eat anything.”

Xie Li:
"I don't remember things very well."

Amadeus Bosch:
“May I bathe next?”

Xie Li:
"Oh, burn, Nasurin."
"Yeah, go ahead. The soap's really nice."

Nasurin:
"oh i gave up on picky eating long before i lost my sense of smell"

Xie Li:
"I once heard a song about a girl who couldn't smell who rode around on a board with wheels…"

Felid:
"Lost sense of smell?"

Nasurin:
"yeah i met a witch back in………………………… the late 1460s i wanna say…. anyway, she didn't really like me, so she cursed me to remove my sense of smell. realistically i could have found someone to fix it a long time ago, but you don't really notice it til someone mentions it, and nobody really mentions it, so i just keep forgetting…"

Xie Li:
"Wild."

Felid:
"Should have murdered her back for curse." Felid shakes her head.

Nasurin:
"oh i did! don't worry. i think"

Xie Li:
"You… think? Do you have a record of curse-murders?"

Nasurin:
"am i supposed to?"

Xie Li:
"If it happens enough I think it'd be useful to keep track."

Nasurin:
nasurin shrugs and digs around in their pockets for the sending stone, which they pull out covered in butter and pocket lint. "anyway, do you think this thing still works? i forgot i had it"

Xie Li:
"What is it?"

Amadeus Bosch:
Amadeus luxuriates in the shower as long as he can, finally being able to scrub his body clean after days. It felt nice.

Nasurin:
"it's a sending stone. it targets another identical one somewhere else in the world and lets you send a message through it"

Xie Li:
"Oh. That… that must be what Ivanoska was using to communicate with her bastard teacher."
[XIE LI is KINDA SAD now.]
"Why don't we go get some food?"
"Once Amadeus is done, obviously."

Nasurin:
"shouldn't we talk to the stone, first?"

Xie Li:
"I'm… I'm not so sure that's a good idea."
"Ivanoska's teacher has the hand of that lich."

Nasurin:
"well yeah, that's why we should talk to it. i need to find that hand, that's like… my whole job right now. sort of"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Well, assuming the other stone does belong to her professor, wouldn't it be wise to know our enemy?"

Xie Li:
"Okay, well what if she finds us first and beats the everloving fish out of us when we're not prepared?"

Nasurin:
"how would she find us? sending can't track that. and i'll pretend to be ivanoska, watch"

Xie Li:
"Uhm."
[XIE LI stuffs a RADISH into their mouth nervously.]

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Oh, make sure to stammer a lot. I'm sure that girl stammered even in her thoughts, she was so nervous."

Felid:
Felid nods.

Nasurin:
nasurin holds the stone up and tries to pretend to be ivanoska while speaking into it, saying "I-I got the pendulum! Um, I-I don't think it's such a good idea to keep this with me for very long, wh-where do you think I should drop it off?"

Xie Li:
[XIE LI thinks this is ALL SORTS OF WRONG but won't say anything.]

The Narrator:
Nasurin gets a reply back almost immediately.
???: "Ah, I forgot I had this old thing. You've retrieved the Pendulum? You were supposed to be in Silverymoon."

Amadeus Bosch:
Amadeus finally gets out of the shower.
“You were right, Xie Li. This soap is nice.”

Xie Li:
"Nasurin is using a stone thing to talk to that teacher."

Nasurin:
"W-well I know, Professor Renwick, I-I'm sorry, I just thought it would be better to lay low for a d-day or two"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Oh, fun.”

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "Where did you find your old sending stone? I gave Mattie a new pair. Thought yours was stolen."

Nasurin:
"I-I dug around in my h-house before I went into u-u-undermountain. I wanted to m-make sure I could t-tell you when I g-got it"

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "No, I meant after that. I sent you to Silverymoon this morning."

Nasurin:
nasurin turns to the group and says (not in a message) "i think ivanoska swapped herself out for a double at some point. a simulacrum, maybe, but renwick says she was talking to ivanoska just this morning."

Xie Li:
"…"
"Then whose body do we have."

Nasurin:
in a message, nasurin sends "W-what do you mean, Professor Renwick? I-I only just got back to my house from U-undermountain, I needed t-to pick up a spare c-copy of my spellb-book after mine got d-damaged"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Makes sense. She knew Undermountain would be dangerous, so she sent a double.”

Xie Li:
[XIE LI sets the BAG OF HOLDING on the FLOOR and gently pulls IVANOSKA out.]

Nasurin:
(to the group) "thinking about it, a simulacrum would have turned back into snow after being killed. it's possible ivanoska had a cloned body somewhere that her soul reappeared in after she died. if so, we just have a now-defunct copy of ivanoska's body, and she's alive somewhere else"

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "Okay, what you're saying doesn't match up. You failed your mission in Undermountain. When you returned, I sent you on another one."

Nasurin:
(to the stone) "b-but i didn't f-fail the mission, professor r-renwick! I have the p-pendulum n-now! I haven't r-returned yet!"

Felid:
"Felid think Ivanoska is still alive but somewhere else."

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "I'd like you to have Mattie send me a message, confirming you're with them. Unless you have an excuse for why you aren't?"

Xie Li:
[XIE LI gives a SNIFF to the body, seeing if he can sense anything off about it.]

Nasurin:
(to the group) "by the way, if it was a clone, that's far above the tier of magic that ivanoska showed any capability of casting. if she had a clone of her made, this professor might be a lot more powerful than we can deal with any time soon. she says ivanoska is supposed to be in silverymoon right now, so we need to beeline it there and catch up with the real ivanoska"

Xie Li:
"I'm so distressed right now guys."

Nasurin:
(to the stone, pretending to hold back tears a little bit)"I-I'm telling you, p-professor, I haven't m-met up with you and m-mattie yet! i-i'm still in waterdeep w-with the pendulum!"

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "Okay. Could you just wait there for a moment, Ivanoska?"

Nasurin:
(to the group) "ah fuck. the lie's about to be blown"
(to the stone) "y-yes, ma'am…"

Xie Li:
"I can't… this body doesn't seem off. Can you guys sense anything?"

Felid:
"We kill professor."

Amadeus Bosch:
“This is horrible.”

The Narrator:
Professor Renwick: "I've just spoken with Mattie. I must say, your impression of my apprentice is spot-on. Unfortunately, I'll have to cut off our connection now. Goodbye."

Nasurin:
(to the group) "i can properly identify it in a moment"
(to the stone) "w-wait, p-professor renwick! i sw-swear i'm in w-waterdeep!"

The Narrator:
You attempt to use the sending stone again, and are made aware of the fact that nobody bears the other stone.

Xie Li:
"What's happening Nasurin?"

Nasurin:
"fuck. well, that's that on that. at least we know we need to go to silverymoon"
"renwick was able to contact the person travelling with the real ivanoska and confirm that she was there, so she figured me out"

Xie Li:
"The real Ivanoska??"
"Oh stars."

Nasurin:
"yeah, we have the old ivanoska's corpse, i assume. normally, when you die, your soul gets pulled to another plane where it lives its 'afterlife'. however, if you have a clone on the same plane of existence as the one you died, your soul gets pulled into that instead, and you continue living in that body. my guess is that happened to ivanoska, and all we have is an outdated version of her."
"i'll identify it to see, though" and nasurin sits down to start identifying the corpse

Xie Li:
[XIE LI sharply pulls away from the body.]

The Narrator:
Landon: "It would seem this corpse is currently under the effects of the spell Gentle Repose."

Amadeus Bosch:
“Fascinating…”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "That would be the one I cast."

Xie Li:
[XIE LI is VERY DISTRESSED.]

Nasurin:
"yeah, thought so. i imagine all we have here is a meaningless chunk of meat, now that another of ivanoska is alive somewhere else. we should probably just dispose of it. in the meantime, i'll make sure that eye is the real deal." and nasurin sits and identifies the eye too

The Narrator:
After about eleven minutes, Landon speaks up again, announcing that what you have is in fact the real Eye of Vecna.

Xie Li:

startle.gif

Nasurin:
"alright, well that's good news. means she doesn't have the real eye, still. of course, it may also mean she'll fight us to get it back, but that's… probably fine. so! morning errands, we need to dispose of this body, go get breakfast, and then investigate that address?"

Xie Li:
"I… I…"

[XIE LI is BROKEN]

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Well, that's fun. At least now we know I didn't kill Ivanoska. Well, I did, but I also didn't."

Nasurin:
"oh, you very much killed ivanoska, just not permanently"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "I'll happily wipe that stain off my conscience."

Amadeus Bosch:
“Sounds good. Hopefully this time, if she is the real Ivanoska, we won’t kill her.”

Xie Li:
"… Do you think she remembers?"

Nasurin:
"being killed? most likely"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, I suppose."

Xie Li:
"Ah…"

[XIE LI doesn't know how to feel.]
"What… what should we do about this then?"
"We keep leaving bodies everywhere…."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "This Professor Renwick character probably doesn't need Ivanoska's old body for anything if they have a clone of her, so I doubt she'll come back for it or anything."

Nasurin:
"that's part of life, sometimes. waterdeep'll get over it"

Xie Li:
"Where are we putting her though?"

Nasurin:
"there's probably a dumpster around"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Imagine, a necromancer powerful enough to cast Clone, allowed to be a professor at Candlekeep and cloning one of their own students. Who knows if its even a secret? Something like this never would've flown at the Candlekep I knew."

Nasurin:
"i guess i'll take a quick shower and then we can get going" and nasurin wanders off to the bathroom

Amadeus Bosch:
“You’d be surprised. Times sure do change.”

Xie Li:
[XIE LI gently pushes THE BODY back into THE BAG.]

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Let's all take a jaunt down to a tavern, and see if we can't rid ourselves of Ivanoska's old body in another dumpster. We'll be leaving bodies in dumpsters all across Waterdeep, much to the vexation of the city watch."

Xie Li:
"Hrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay"

The Narrator:
You all finish up your morning routines, and once you get all your stuff in order, the party takes a walk down Saerdoun Street and finds themselves at a tavern named The Misty Beard. It's a quaint little tavern owned by dwarves and frequented by members of the shorter races, such as dwarves, gnomes, halflings, etc. You even see a couple of goblins and kobolds. The food here is slightly overpriced, but the North Ward is an upper class ward, after all.

Xie Li:
"I feel inappropriately tall…. Felid, what about you?"

Felid:
"Felid agree. Tavern too small."

The Narrator:
You all find a seat at an empty table, and after a few moments a stout dwarven waitress walks up to you. Perhaps to some of your surprise, she has a full flowing beard, braided and adorned with ornamental flowers and such. She introduces herself as Mirna.

Mirna: "Welcome to the Misty Beard, my name's Mirna and I'll be your server for today. What can I get y'all?"

Xie Li:
"Warm ale please."

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Okay, one warm ale, and for the rest of y'all?"
She begins to write on a small clipboard as you all tell her your order.

Nasurin:
"uh… could i get some bacon and eggs, and maybe something strong like a rum or something… i need to wake up"

Felid:
"Meat."

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "I'll have something light and fruity. The breakfast, I mean, I'm not drinking first thing in the morning like those two. Just a strawberry parfait, maybe with some graham crackers to crumble into it. And an orange juice, gotta get your Vitamin C."

Nasurin:
"damn, alright, maybe i won't drink in the morning. how about your strongest coffee instead"

Xie Li:
"Luthi please."

The Narrator:
Nadredda: "Umm… Nadredda will have fissh….? Fissh breakfasst. Can put fissh on… bagel?"
Mirna: "We could put some lox and cream cheese on a bagel?"
Nadredda: "Er yess, that would being nice. Nadredda doessn't know what lox iss…"

Xie Li:
"Lox is very good, 10/10."
"Actually, could i have one of those too? The radishes weren't enough."

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Okay, two lox bagels. And for you, sir?" she points the feather end of an ink quill at amadeus

Amadeus Bosch:
“I’ll have some orange juice and decaffeinated tea, and do you have any good egg dishes? I need something light and with protein. Oh, and some toast please.”

The Narrator:
Mirna: "We can get ya some scrambled eggs?"

Amadeus Bosch:
“That’s perfect. Can I have a sausage with that as well?”
Surrounded by the smell of the tavern, he suddenly realized how hungry he was.

Xie Li:
“Scwamble.”

Amadeus Bosch:
“Ew, how old are you?”

Nasurin:
"scwamble."

Xie Li:
“24 cat years.”
“Yeah see Nasurin gets it,”

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Sure, sure. Alright, let's make sure I've got everything in order: I've got one warm ale, one bacon and eggs, coke and rum, a strawberry parfait with graham crackers, two orange juices, two lox bagels, decaffeinated tea, scrambled eggs, toast, and sausage. Does that all sound correct?"

Xie Li:
“Yep.”

Amadeus Bosch:
“Yes, perfect.”

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Alright, be back in a few. Y'all just sit tight, okay?"
She leaves and bustles off to the kitchen to drop off your order, and then goes to wait on other tables, leaving you free to chat or mingle as you please.

Nasurin:
"wait no"
"shit. i was distracted"

Xie Li:
“are ever not distracted “

Nasurin:
"i got a lotta shit to think about"

Xie Li:
[XIE LI stares at THEM.]

“Yeah? Lots to think about?”

Amadeus Bosch:
“People process things differently than you do, Xie Li. Leave them alone.”

Xie Li:
[XIE LI stares at AMADEUS.]

Felid:
Felid waits for her meat.

Nasurin:
"i mean, yeah, i've just been around a while. got a lot floating around in there"

The Narrator:
Mirna comes back after a few minutes with all of your food and drops it off at your table.
Mirna: "Okay, that should be everything. Lemme know if y'all notice any mistakes before I go leaving again, kay?"

Nasurin:
"wait, could i get a coffee instead of the rum? like, your strongest kind?"

Xie Li:
oh my god

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Okay, a coffee. Anything else?"

Xie Li:
Felid did you get your meat?

Felid:
Felid slams the table. "Felid did not get her meat!!!!"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Any kind?”

Xie Li:
leg of meat!!

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Woah, okay, I'm sorry ma'am. I'll get right on that. What uh, what kind of meat?"

Felid:
"Any kind."

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Oookay, we'll just get you some of our rarest steak, how bout that?"

Xie Li:
[XIE LIE slaps down THREE PLATINUM.]

“Only the best for Felid.”

Felid:
"Felid would like that."

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Er, that's a lot of money. Might as well get ya the whole darn cow!" she laughs

Nasurin:
"three platinum seems a little nuts, but sure"

Xie Li:
“Generosity. Consider two of them a tip.”

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Oookay, well I'll just be off then if that's it. Sorry for the delay."

Mirna takes the frankly ridiculous sum of money Xie Li has given her and bustles off again to fix up Nasurin's coffee and Felid's meat.

Amadeus Bosch:
“Xie Li, you won’t have this amount of money forever…”

Xie Li:
“We don’t live forever either.”

Nasurin:
"you know that much money could have bought a down payment on a house, right?"

Xie Li:
“So she can get herself a house.”
“I don’t know her life.”

Nasurin:
"so howd you guys all meet? am i like, barging in on a lifelong friendship between you all?"

Xie Li:
“I told nadredda she was pretty and then the rest is history.”

Nasurin:
"she is pretty"

Xie Li:
“I know right”

Amadeus Bosch:
“Mhm.”

The Narrator:
Nadredda blushes and tries to hide her face behind her lox bagel.

Xie Li:
“I… forget what I did to Amadeus and Felid. I think i called Amadeus ‘lonely’.”

Amadeus Bosch:
“Well, when I was lonely I didn’t know about Ivanoska.”

Nasurin:
"are you like… into ivanoska?"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Xie Li gets attached easily.”

Nasurin:
"i can tell"

The Narrator:
Mirna comes back to your table and interrupts your strange line of conversation as you see her carefully balancing a plate with a piece of meat twice her size, with a coffee perched precariously on top of it.

Amadeus Bosch:
“Unless you mean me, then no. She stuffers too much.”

Xie Li:
[XIE LI clings to AMADEUS’S ARM.]

“I have no clue what you mean.”

Nasurin:
"thank you, mirna"

Xie Li:
“Meat!”

The Narrator:
Mirna drops the plate heavily on the table and catches the coffee just before it falls. She's breathing heavily and panting.
Mirna: "Puff… huff… one… very rare owlbear steak, and a strong black coffee."

Nasurin:
"whats it like being attached to everyone you meet"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Ooo, meat.”
“Must be painful.”
Amadeus wriggles his arm out of Xie Li’s grasp and firmly grasps his fork and knife.

Nasurin:
"that seems like a pessimistic way to look at interpersonal relationships"

Xie Li:
“It hasn’t… been that bad until now.”

[XIE LI CHUGS HIS ALE TO FORGET.]

“Also Mirna thank you so much we love you.”

Amadeus Bosch:
“Everyone, though? Sometimes you have to be fine with just being acquaintances.”

The Narrator:
Mirna: "Yeah… you're… puff… welcome. And uh, don't bother paying for the rest unless you wanna completely pay off my mortgage, heh…"

Nasurin:
"last time i got attached to someone waaas………….. i dont remember"

Xie Li:
“Everyone is my acquaintance and I love them.”

The Narrator:
Your massive steak has gotten the attention of a number of patrons in the bar who are just kind of looking at your group now with looks like "are they crazy?!" punctuated by the fact most of this tavern's patrons are only about three feet tall.

Xie Li:
[XIE LI finishes his BAGLE. It was PRETTY GOOD.]

Nasurin:
nasurin downs their meal and their coffee and hops out of their seat

The Narrator:
Luthienye finished her food a long time ago, and has been sitting patiently. Nadredda finishes her bagel at about the same time as Xie Li.

Amadeus Bosch:
Amadeus finished his food quickly, having practically inhaled his drinks between bites of food.

Xie Li:
[XIE LI thinks AMADEUS is CUTE for being so TINY.]

Nasurin:
"lets get out of here, i don't like how many people are looking at us"

Xie Li:
“Sure. We probably shouldn’t talk about our business infront of so many people,”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Yes, let's go check out that address you found. It should be in the same ward we're in currently, just down by the City of the Dead."

Nasurin:
"you think there's a dumpster out behind this place?"

Xie Li:
“Oh actually I had a thought.”
“If… Renwick doesn’t believe us and if Ivanoska keeps lying to her, shouldn’t we… keep her to show Renwick?”

Nasurin:
"renwick said ivanoska failed her mission and that ivanoskas stone was stolen, so she likely already knows what happened"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Is “Should we guilt her with the body?” What you’re saying?”

Nasurin:
"besides, gentle repose doesn't last forever. we could keep recasting it, but i don't know that luthienye wants to hang around forever"

Xie Li:
“Does renwick know though? What if she thinks we just stole her stuff?”

Nasurin:
"a little late to ask, i think"

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "I could help you investigate that address, but Waterdeep's been my home for fifty years and I still have business to attend to here. I'd hate to have to depart, but I'm not much for traveling anymore I'm afraid."

Nasurin:
"well, our next stop after that address is silverymoon, and that's at least a few days travel out northeast. is anyone else looking to drop out before we leave the city? i have a bit of an obligation to see this through, but if anyone wants to drop out that's fair"

Xie Li:
“That’s fair Luthi. You’ve helped us so much, we couldn’t ask you to leave.”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Perhaps we could keep in touch? There's got to be a magic item shop where we could pick up a pair of sending stones."

Amadeus Bosch:
“That sounds nice. Good luck in finding another gambling partner.”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Thank you. But it's not like I'm leaving right now. This address is in Waterdeep, is it not? I can stick with you for just a bit longer."

Xie Li:
“Just in advance. Thank you : )”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "You're welcome. It's been my pleasure."

Nadredda: "Nadredda doessn't have anywhere to go. Sshe will come to Ssilverymoon."

Nasurin:
"well, anyway, are we dumping this body? if luthienye is leaving, we'll end up with a half-rotted corpse in your bag before we even reach silverymoon"

Xie Li:
[XIE LI sighs and holds THE BAG out.]

“Yeah, I guess. I’m not doing it though.”

Amadeus Bosch:
“I suppose so. It’s too bad we can’t take any kind of evidence along to show we had her. Portraits don’t mean anything.”

Nasurin:
nasurin takes the bag and wanders around the back of the building to find a dumpster. "the eye of vecna itself should be proof enough"

The Narrator:
You find a dumpster behind the Misty Beard and dispose of Ivanoska's defunct body.

Nasurin:
"now, on to raid her house"

Xie Li:
“hrghhhhhhhh okay”

The Narrator:
You make your way down the North Ward and look for Sammarin's Street. It takes you a little bit to find it, since the streets of Waterdeep are winding and confusing and you get turned around once or twice. Eventually, you stumble across the home and discover the source of your confusion: The house is actually on the corner of Sammarin's Street and Mhalsymber's Way.

Xie Li:
“Well, this is it?”

Amadeus Bosch:
“I’d sure hope so, after spending so long looking for it.”

Xie Li:
“it wasn’t That long”

Nasurin:
"it was a little embarrassing if you live here"

The Narrator:
The house is a fairly nice-looking one story house, but it looks like it hasn't been lived in for at least a decade. A sign on the fence reads "Renwick Residence," and in smaller text underneath: "Home of Gavrel Renwick and Marcella Renwick."

Xie Li:
“Oh.”

Nasurin:
"oh. well that's not really what i expected, but even better, i guess"
nasurin goes around back to find a less visible entrance

Xie Li:
“Didn’t she have a key.”

Nasurin:
"….right"

The Narrator:
You go to the front door of 1406 Sammarin's Street, the Renwick Residence, and try the key you got off Ivanoska's body. It fits in the lock, and you successfully unlock the door.

Nasurin:
i ENTER

Xie Li:
===> XIE LI: ENTER

The Narrator:
The inside of the house looks fairly nice and lavish, if covered in dust and somewhat decrepit. The place is abandoned, and a few of the windows are cracked or smashed. The lights are not on inside. You see a nice living area, and several doors to several different rooms, including a small study.

Xie Li:
"These windows… what happened here."

Nasurin:
"if this is renwick's residence, watch for traps. this might just be a facade"

Xie Li:
"Agh, you're right."
[XIE LI gets on HIS KITTY TUMMY and SNEAKS. You know, like AN ACTUAL CAT.]

Amadeus Bosch:
“Be careful.”

Nasurin:
"yeah, give me a sec and i might be able to light up some traps around"
"oh, and before i forget" nasurin flicks a leather bangle on their wrist and casts Mage Armour

The Narrator:
Xie Li digs around in some crates, and finds a fairly confusing assortment of items. One crate seems to be full of toys, fit for a young child. Many of them are dirty, covered in mold or other sorts of decay. Another crate seems to be full of potion reagents, many of them expired by now, and a small collection of poisons such as cyanide and arsenic. A third crate is full of… preserved animal bones and limbs, as well as embalming fluids and formaldehyde.

Xie Li:
"Mmh…"
[XIE LI says NOTHING and pockets THE POISONS.]

Xie Li:
[XIE LI slinks over to the LONG TABLE at the OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROOM.]

Amadeus Bosch:
“The good news is there’s nothing magical here.”

Xie Li:
"Except for my love for you."

The Narrator:
Nasurin goes and inspects the study. They find a number of notes related to the chemical makeup and synthesis of certain poisons, as well as a few tax forms and letters. The letters are addressed to "Gavrel Renwick, Toxicologist." You find also a number of books detailing the effects, description, and location of where they can be found of various rare herbs and other such reagents.

Nasurin:
"nothing particularly impressive, though it seems renwick or maybe a relative of theirs is a toxicologist"

Xie Li:
"Jinkies.

The Narrator:
Nasurin can read over the letters and try to determine the date on them. By doing so, they discover that it seems the last letter was sent to Gavrel in 1502 DR, eleven years ago.

Nasurin:
"none of the letters came in later than 1502, though. this place has been out of commission for quite a while. someone died or had to flee, i guess."

Xie Li:
[XIE LI opens a CHEST.]

The Narrator:
Xie Li finds nothing in the chest but old clothes. They look fairly nice, but some of them are tattered or dirty. They come in a variety of sizes; some fit for a young child, some fit for an adult man.

Xie Li:
[All too small for a LARGE CAT.]

The Narrator:
Xie Li also finds a dumb bowler hat in the chest. It's tattered and torn, and barely fits on your head.

Xie Li:
"Ah.. poor hat…. I want it."
[XIE LI takes THE HAT.]

The Narrator:
Nasurin opens a door to the left in the hallway and finds an abandoned bedroom. It has a nice, king-sized bed, a nightstand, a wardrobe, a little fireplace for keeping the room warm which is not currently lit, a desk in a corner, and a mirror that it looks like someone would've sat in front of to do their makeup.

Nasurin:
i look at the desk

The Narrator:
You open the desk and dig through it's drawers. You find not much of interest in here, except for a number of books on archaeology, children's books, some more letters addressed to a "Marcella Renwick, Taxidermist," and more tax forms. The letters addressed to Marcella stopped in about 1500 DR, thirteen years ago.

Nasurin:
nasurin leaves everything where it is and goes to the other door in the hallway

The Narrator:
You open the door into a decrepit medieval bathroom.
Xie Li inspects some bookshelves. You find more books on archaeology, toxicology, and taxidermy. It seems the Renwick family had a particularly gothic bent. You also find some more children's books.

Xie Li:
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmm."

Nasurin:
nasurin goes to investigate the third and final door(tm)

The Narrator:
You open the door into a kitchen.

Nasurin:
"looks a bit shit"
"anyone want to come check out the basement with me?"

Xie Li:
[XIE LI gets up.]

"I'm down!"

Amadeus Bosch:
“Sure.”

The Narrator:
Luthienye: "Let's go."
Nadredda: "Bassement alwayss good place for hiding sstuff."

Nasurin:
"i feel like we're for sure stepping into a trap, but let's go"

Xie Li:
"It's okat, I have two whole hats"

Nasurin:
nasurin has their hand in the pocket that contains the spell components for a nice little fireball, prepared if anything hostile appears

Xie Li:
[But NASURIN does not have TWO HATS. Beat that.]

Nasurin:
you're right, nasurin has three hats

The Narrator:
You all make your way sneakily down the basement stairs.

You come down the stairs into a large basement. In the middle of the floor, you can see a 10 foot diameter circle drawn in chalk and surrounded in arcane runes (not 60 foot diameter, as the map would have you believe.) More pressingly however, you notice two very fucked up looking and most definitely undead creatures in this room, apparently standing watch.

Nasurin:
nasurin deems the fucking flesh golem to be a suitable threat and pulls their hand out of their coat pocket, smearing sulfur and bat guano together into their hands and igniting a fireball in the room, simultaneously pulling a small tuning fork out of a second pocket and whacking it against the metal part of their arm, converting the fireball in midair into a thunderous orb

Xie Li:
"BAT POOP?!?!?!"

Nasurin:
yes, fucking bat poop

Amadeus Bosch:
“Ew.”

Nasurin:
nasurin says "maybe plug your ears" right before the thunder ball strikes the floor, igniting a heatwave-like explosion through the room that sounds like a nuclear bomb just exploded in the basement with you

The Narrator:
Nasurin hurls a ball of thunder at the Flesh Golem and Vampire Spawn in this room, dealing 22 thunder damage to each and causing a deafening roar of sound. Neither creature appears to be bloodied, but they have now noticed you and are very hostile.

Roll initiative!

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