Waterdeep: Dragon Heist Thoughts & Tribulations -Adventure Review (session 2 & 3)-

The below post will contain my up-to-date review of the published adventure, as well as notes for future sessions. It includes spoilers gallore, so if you are a player, please turn back now, while you still can!

1. Finding Floon

I had planned on having the characters do more exploration, but they played the interaction with Captain Hyustus Saget fairly deftly, so he revealed to them the information he had about the sewers and the kenku. 

Captain Hyustus Saget took a shine to Silvo, the dwarf. If he  runs into them again, he will be inclined to aid them as much as possible

After that, they investigated the area and found the sewer entrance.

     2. Xanathar Hide-out

Even with 4 players, they were so cautious that they were almost unharmed by the time they reached Floon. So the mind-flayer did not retreat immediately. 

    3. Ranaer is cautious

Ranaer trusts Gwen (due to background) and only after Floon is rescued, does he confide with the players why he thinks the guilds were after him.  (He does not remember the full name of the stone of Golorr "The stone of... something"

    4. Morningmist is innocent

She gets attached easily to Myta and Gwen, but specifically Myta as she embodies beauty and strength.
She is devoted to Selune for lifting her from the filth and abuse she experienced at the hands of goblinkin before. Humans are bad, but goblins are much worse in her mind.
She would easily die for Selune and her mission - even when she has no idea what that mission is, or what life and death are for that matter.
She loves beautiful things and wishes people trasured her like they treasure beautiful things.

Character updates

Myta - very impulsive, fearless, absolutely refuses to back down when a promise was made

Gwen - compassionate and party-support role

Ruz - strategic, ruthless when necessary, great at inflitration

Silvo - strategic, smooth-talker when necessary

Character subplots:

Gwen is looking for her childhood friend, who was last seen in the house of Rober Vanrak Moonstar. 

Ranaer uses his noble connections.

What happened with Julien

- favorite of the lord, Julien became a close confident

- one night, he forgot his lire in the lady's bedchambers and when going to fetch it, he unwittingly stumbled upon a cultist meeting. He quickly retreated but servants saw him on the way out and he feels like he has been watched ever since. Other than guests, the house staff is pretty much confined to the Villa, and he has been unable to slip out without raising suspicion.

- the lady, enamored with Julien, has recently started inoculating him into the cult, and he has been forced to go along, but Rober suspects he is biding his time, so he has been forced into "seclusion" before the initiation rite

In recent weeks, the cult has been meeting less as it's members are busy with tracking the stolen "Ring of Winter"

Character subplots:

Myta is looking for her lover, who betrayed her and possibly tried to kill her, as well as answers to what secret she found in the Feywild and who saved her.

(Possible plot: the fey have opened breaches inside the oceans, attempting to take control of the seas, for whoever controls the seas controls the Material Plane.

The breaches are kept open by powerful ancient artifacts, imbued with fey magic. Myta's merfolk lover is in alliance with the fey, as well as his merfolk clan.

Myta unknowingly is wearing a powerful magic item. It is inactive and cloaked with powerful shielding magic so it cannot be scried on or activated - until she reaches lvl 15, when it will activate. It is sentient.

Selune as goddess of the moon and a major creator God, is more attuned to the slight imbalances in power than other gods, even if these imbalances mostly exist in another plane. At the same time, she is the goddess of lost causes and has hated the abuse goblins go through.

Morningmist would normally become a priestess of Selune, except she would not be accepted as anything but a sister in Waterdeep. But she is a tool of the goddess towards redeeming the goblins - those that want to be redeemed- and stopping the fey incursion once it starts.)


Vajra Safahr Goals:

1. Gain power and knowledge 
2. Protect Waterdeep

At first, she would not be interested in Morningmist, as she would look at her as a tool of the gods and she has no interest in religion.

She would however be very interested in the magic item Myta carries and the magic the fey are using to merge the worlds and possibly consider exploiting the events towards finally getting rid of Laeral.


Calendar: 

Day 0 - New Moon         
Day 3 - Waxing Crescent
Day 7 - First Quarter
Day 10 - Waxing Gibbous
Day 14 - Full Moon



Adventure starts Marpenoth 30th - half moon (last quarter)

1.     Gralhund Villa - party meets each other
2.     Meet Volo, quest to rescue Floon
3.     Rescue Renaer Neverember
4.     Meet Captain Hyustus Saget

Uktar 1st 

1. Meet Gwen
2. Rescue Floon

Uktar 2nd

1. Get deeds to Trollskull Manor
2. Register the party 
3. Meet Fortune Cookie
4. Meet Vajra Safahr
5. Meet Hlam

Uktar 3rd

1. Morningmist on rooftop, Myta has vision of feywild, jewelry grows
2. Meet Davil, quest about elf murders
3. Belnimbra watchpost, rorden Tirul Thelance, meet Seth Grosbaton 
4. Ettercap disaster in sewers

Uktar 4th

1. Investigation at docks, gambling
2. Renaer talks with Gwen about his suspicions. He has heard the Black Viper hit the Moonstar Manor. The Harpers would be interested in recruiting the Black Viper
3. Gwen starts investigating Moonstar manor

Uktar 5th

1. Investigation at docks
2. Meet Pootsy Jewelfang
3. Meet Shippy Mcshipface
4. Attacked by draw

Uktar 6th

1. Went back to Davil with information
2. Davil asked them to kill the draw in exchange for a favor
3. Gwen figures out there are performers coming in and out of manor

Uktar 7 - New Moon 

Uktar 8

  

1. The party prepares for the fight with the drow (Gwen performs, Silvo sells jewelry, Myta asks Morningmist to make jewelry for her which she sells)
2. Silvo buys the housedog:Bobbler the Mastiff
3. Night of Uktar 8, the drow attacks them, goes after Myta with a vengeance but Gwen almost ends up dying 

Uktar 9

1. Tell Davil the drow is dead, ask for favor of meeting with Black Viper
2. Gwen overhears Volo complaining about his friend Binet
3. Gwen manages to piece together that the people coming in and out of the Moonstar Manor are Binet's men
4. Gwen asks Volo for meeting with Binet
5. Meeting with Black Viper, vampires in Moonstar Manor, death of Bran's partner was due to a magical accident
6. Get a flying bird from the Black Viper and the map of the house

Uktar 10

1. Meeting with Binet does not go well
2. They meet Rictavio (van Richten) who was sent by the Black Viper to help them 

Uktar 11

Uktar 12

Uktar 13 - First Quarter

1. Party prepares for going in the manor to rescue Gwen's friend
2. They trigger manor defenses (armor) due to not wearing the proper uniforms
3. Bran dies by getting bitten by the bruxa
4. Silvo uses money he made to revive Bran, but he is left with memory loss 

Uktar 14

1. Vajra visit about amnesia
2. met Arnamir, sent by Temple of Gond to investigate and put an end to the Xanathar x Zhentarim war
3. Fireball
4. Davil gets arrested by City Watch
5. Reneaer sends them to invvestigate Gralhunds

Uktar 15

1. High priestess of Selune has been absent for 1 week, temple disarray
2. Xanathar guild has been taking over parts of Dock Ward
3. visited Keppiyan's Flurmayster's House
4. Lyra visits Book Wyrm's Treasure
5. Darween searches for her bear

Uktar 16

1. Zoo
2. Leopold and grandfather mage

Uktar 17

1. Investigate Gralhund Villa
2. Capture Urstul Floxin but he dies when interrogated by the Watch

Uktar 18

1. Pootsie's Tiger goes missing
2. Temple of Gond visit, nimblewright ^ detector
3. Dock search

Uktar 19 

1. Further investigations in city
2. Mimi the almiraj
3. Zhentarim released due to lack of evidence

Uktar 20 - Last Sheaf Party on Zardoz Zord boat

1. Tiger is rescued but blind
2. Leopold flees to exile
3. Silvo meets Lady Rosznar

Uktar 21 

1. Ruz returns
2. Town crier news about automaton, found destroyed
3. Map to Thrakkus, ambush, underground in sewers
4. Uncovering human meat trafficking
5. Ruz goes to Blackstaff
6. "The Cutting Block", "Cuttle's Meat Pies"
7. Visit to "Cuttle's Meat Pies", the stone gets away
8. Grun joins the party

Uktar 22nd  - Full Moon - Selune's Hallowing

1. Finding Davil at "Eat, Pray, Love"
2. Morning Mist goes missing
3. Mistshore, but no discoveries
4. Selune's Hallowing
5. Morning Mist is killed, but the jewelry is recovered

Ukrat 23 

1. Grid search stone of Golorr
2. Windmill
3. Ruz sends Pyra to Blackstaff tower
4. Manshoon captures Arnamir
5. wizards sent to house & windmill
6. Attunement to Stone of Golorr, finding out location of vault, long rest

Uktar 24 - The Vault and Manshoon's Tower

Uktar 29 - Last Quarter