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We destroy Shunn Shureth (spiderface)

OPEN QUESTIONS

• What did the Drow do with Ilbratha?
• Were the Drow & the priest of Kossuth working with Xanathar?
• How did Rizzeryl miss a zombie beholder?
• Who is Yek and how does he control the Goblin bazaar?
• Is Yek with the Xanathar Thieves Guild?
• Is there a Drow fortress between us and Level Three?
• How did Harria capture a golem, the Gold Tiefling Heart?
• What is the Gold Tiefling Heart we found?

FOR THIS GAME

GAME NOTES

We start on a SHORT REST and discuss Rizzeryl's plan. We decide to reapproach Rizzeryl for better info (again), but find he is hiding in his chambers pretending not to be home.

When we finally get in to talk, he gets tense about the zombie beholder and the body of the Drow Assassin, but does not seem to want to give details. We find out that Shunn_Shurreth and Nadia_the_Unbent are warriors. We all wonder if Xanathar is the zombie beholder. The only useful detail we get is that Rizzeryl has "a device" that will guide us to Skullport and will get us past a Xanathar fortress on Level Three.

We decide to recon the NE Xanathars gang the led by Shunn Shurreth. On the way we find a chamber with a stone altar and walls covered in carved eyes & mouths full of mold. Big consensus "nope." There is a statue covered in melted gold on the altar, so we try to lasso it but are not able to budge it and leave it be for now.

Going all the way to the NE, we peek on two bugbears. Jitters creates an illusion of a bleeding gnome dragging a sack of gold and chasing our driftglobe, but the bugbears don't fall for it, and stay out of range.

Jitters forces the illusion toward the guards with the party hiding behind it. Unfortunately, we spring a trap that peppers us with darts and the illusion is broken. The bugbears disarm the trap to come kill us and we dispatch them quickly. We find both branded with a 10 pointed star, which is likely the answer to their challenge question: "How many stars does Xanathar have"?

Reinforcements come in the form of thugs and Shunn Shurreth himself. Jitters blasts the reinforcements with a lightning bolt followed by the same from Ceol. Mira drops one with an ice knife and the remaining three run.

We give chase and Gimbal drops two from running shots, but Shunn Shurreth himself remains alive to call for help. We continue to chase him south into a pack of bugbears where Ceol and Gimbal drop spiderface. Then we engage a the lot of them and start chewing through them. The last 4 bugbears surrender and are bound with rope by Ceol.

We find a silver key on Shunn and use it to open a treasure chest. We leave off questioning the prisoners until next game.

TREASURE

• Silver key from Shunn Shurreth (Jitters)
• Night Swords from Shunn_Shurreth (Gimbal) for sale later
• 100GP from Shunn Shurreth's treasure chest divided
• 14GP x 7 divided

FOES

• Shunn Shurreth
• 12 bugbears
• 7 thugs

SESSION MAP

NEW QUESTIONS

• "How many stars does Xanathar have?" 10 pointed stars branded on 240123 bugbears
• Is the Zombie Beholder what remains of Xanathar?
• What is going on with the melty gold / screamy face room?

SYNOPSIS

• Recon of Shunn Shurreth's territory turns into a brawl
• We destroy one of the two Xanathar gangs on 2nd Level

FOR NEXT GAME

• What do we do with our Xanathar bugbear prisoners?
  • Interrogate
  • Hand off Rizzeryl? Kill?
• We need a Long rest; go to surface for better shopping and rest?
• Talk to Rizzeryl:
  • show him the head of Shunn Shurreth
  • see if we can get more details about Nadia the Unbent
  • ask if Zhents have an outpost in Skullport to rest or trade in
  • ask him about Yek
  • ask him about Speak with Dead
• Try to talk to Yek?
• List of Speak with Dead QUESTIONS for the Drow
  1. What are the names of the people or groups were you working for when you died?
  2. What are the names of the people or groups who have Ilbratha?
  3. What are the names of the people or groups who paid you to kill Azoun?
  4. (Clarification/follow-up on above OR questions about Level Three)
  5. (Clarification/follow-up on above OR questions about Level Three)

AI Transcript

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