250311

A nesting doll of conspiracies is uncovered beneath Skullport

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We open a double door into a workshop, see a dwarf, eyeball monster and a chute with gears at it's base. The dwarf says Kressando_Rosznar is in the extraction room. Gimbal tries to get him to tell us how to get there and he gives us directions through the central chamber.

We open the door we hear celebrating from and find stairs down. The voices that come up seem to be celebrating the promotion of a new captain of the guard.

We go to the main room and enter the southern door. Immediately we are hit with a booming voice saying:

KRESSANDO IS IN CHARGE, DO WHAT HE SAYS.
LEAVE NOW!"

The source of the voice is a large, weird looking beholder floating inertly in the chamber. Beyond it is a dwarf in funny, tentacled hat. He tries to shoo us out, all the while the floating beholder is repeating his message.

There is a large fishbowl-like tank in the middle of the room complete with aquarium decorations.

There is also a regular-sized fishbowl with a plain old fish in it. The funny-hat dwarf is very protective of the small fishbowl, so Ceol grapples and binds the dwarf while we examine the room.

On the wall is a mirror with "ZOBLOB" enscribed upon it's frame. Ceol speaks the word and is able to see a street scene. Gimbal quickly identifies it as a place in Waterdeep. Jitters tries to use it to scry on his graveyard home, but it only shows the same street view.

To the south is a gigantic magic bowl on a crystal lattice with a filthy pallet bed under it; powerful abjuration magic that negates magic fills the bowl

We return to the funny-hat dwarf, he is named "Otto Stealstoes" and discover that his fish is named "Silgar." By threatening Silgar, we get some information out of Otto, but he's obviously not all there:

To the east we head towards the extraction chamber and run into a pack of Kua Toa. They go down quick, especially under Arin's Shatter. The last one is a Kua Toa whip, he makes a run for it but does not get very far.

Suddenly, out of one of the doors pops Kressando_Rosznar himself! Then a Mind Flayer & Intellect Devourers pour out from behind him. The mind flayer immediately stuns Ceol, Arin & Mira.

Jitters hits the lot with a Vitriolic Sphere that injures them all and wipes out the Intellect Devourers. We focus the Illithid, Nihiloor, and take him down, then turn to Kressando.

From another door a Grell appears and grabs Gimbal and a drow weirdo, (Nar'l Xibrindas) is close behind and casts a black tentacle spell that hits Jitters and Mira.

A pitched battle ensues with Ceol fighting Kressando, Arin going down to Kressando's daggers and Mira, Jitters & Gimbal fighting Nar'l and his grell.

Mira goes down to Nar'ls lightning bolts, and Ceol almost dies to Kressando's dextrous attacks, but the tide turns. Ceol slays Kressando and an Intellect Devourer pops out.

The grell dies and Nar'l flees. Ceol stomps out the brain monster and gives chase with Jitters while Gimbal stabilizes Arin & Mira heals them.

We chase Nar'l down into the dark, and scare the shit out of a chef. We corner him in a dead-end room and kill him.

In the chamber beyond, Ceol finds crystal tanks full of old dead beholders and funerary urns. The western wall has a carving of a beholder flanked by cyclopean wizards.

Examining the room, Ceol finds switches in the cyclopean eyes of the carvings and a secret door. He calls in the expert, Gimbal, to determine how to open the secret door safely. Turns out the eyes and door are not linked, so we just open the door. It has stairs leading up and they have a sign that reads "Arena."

We agree not to mess with the eyeball switches, but Ceol lingers behind and triggers one after everyone leaves. A disintegration ray barely misses him. He strolls out with a pucker.

Back upstairs, we examine the Extraction Room. We find a pool full of magic-imbued brine that grows or nourishes the intellect devourers. Ceol destroys it.

In the next room we find a drow strapped to a bloodspattered chair. The drow asks to be freed, identifying himself as Saibon Auvryndar. Ceol immediately decapitates him.

The next room as multiple torture platforms with two humans strapped to a pair of them. They are barely conscious. A quick examination of the contents of the room identify them as Fire Cultists. A debate on their fate ensues, before Arin frees them from their bonds.

The party moves on to the last door in the complex, discovering prison cells beyond it. In one of the cells is imprisoned a Waterdeep guard captain, Cressa Galavarco. While they are freeing her, Ceol dispatches the helpless Fire Cultists.

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