The City Underbelly

## Jail Break

* Franz, Yazmin, and Eli are interrogated by Lieutenant Lobe about what happened at the warehouse.
	+ Eli is broken out of prison by her brother Hal who is disguised as Detective Gil.
	+ Franz uses his intelligence contacts to get out of custody. He meets with his intelligence agency contact Vigilence who provides Franz with griffins and help in the form of Hezak.
	+ Yazmin is escorted out of prison by Commodore Norrington who was threatened into helping Yazmin by her patron. Two assassins attack the police van aiming to kill Yazmin. Franz arrives to help Yazmin fight off the assassins. Yazmin escapes police custody.
* The warehouse bombing is portrayed as a terrorist attack by known terrorist Yazmin Vaughns and associates. Sirex Mayor Opal Mallor calls for martial law in the city and the implementation of a city-wide curfew.
* Eli receives letters from Gil and Aranor. Gil tells her that there are Court of Owl moles in the police. Aranor tells her that Yazmin killed the Don's son and he wants revenge.
* Yazmin reveals that she used to work for the Court of Owls, but now she works with the government to take out the Court of Owls. They freed her from prison so that she can accomplish this goal.
* Sarovar has a meeting with Mother, learns about interesting shipments coming into the city.
* Though Soleste survived the warehouse explosion, she has forsaken Dol Arrah and thus lost her cleric powers. Asmodeus whispers to her to head north, so Soleste sells her painting to buy new clothes and weapons and escapes Sirex before it goes under martial law.

## Delphine Attempted Assassination

### The Task

* The party goes to the Bottle and Blade bar to meet with Aneka Rockstriker. The bar has a hidden fight club and to get in, you have to say "You order a drink called the "bed of roses, on the rocks"
	+ The party meets with Aneka backstage, and she tells them that she will give them information about the Court of Owls if they take out Delphine Mendez because she is currently involuntarily employed by Delphine and the only way to get out is for Delphine to die.

### Looking for Help

* The party goes to Semasi and asks if the church can help them assassinate Delphine. Semasi says that the church is only willing to go against the Mendez and the Syndicate in general if they have irrefutable proof that the Syndicate has committed a heinous crime.
	+ Upon learning about Soleste's death, Semasi tells the party about the prophecy about how a child of celestial is destined to kill Dol Arrah and other destined to kill Asmodeus and only one can succeed.
* Eli asks her sister Adalyn (aka Ada), an assassin for help or advice. Ada laughs at her.
* The party meets with Aelis Liadon, an ex-artificer elf who works as a medic for the Bottle and Blade fight club.
	+ Aelis connects the party to Barnabus Brior, a bartender/prostitute handler at Delphine's casino/sex club The Tipsy Snake. He wants to leave the Mendez family and look into his husband's disappearance.
* Telathiel finds the party and says that he is looking for Soleste; he had heard of the Nihilanth that the original party faced in Norbury and he is hoping that they can help him find it so that he can fight and defeat it.

### Doing the Deed

* The party goes to Delphine's penthouse. Eli and Aelis sneak in through the roof while the rest of the party enter through the front. Telathiel and Hezak must fight in Delphine's fight club in order to get noticed and brought to Delphine's residence.
	+ Telathiel fights a knoll and almost kills him.
	+ Hezak fights a Tabaxi and it goes very poorly. Yazmin tries to help Hezak using her psychic magic while Sarovar throws a chair to distract the referee.
	+ Telathiel and Hezak impress the guard enough to be brought to Delphine's room. Aelis and Eli turn invisible and climb in through an upstairs window.
* The party attacks Delphine and her people. Delphine's personal guard, a shadow sorceress named Mira Zin, covers part of the area in darkness, summons her hell hound, and casts fear magic. Delphine turns into a gigantic snake and begins fighting as well.
	+ Franz develops arachnophobia.
	+ Eventually, Delphine is injured enough that she attempts to run away. Yazmin tries to stop her but is overpowered and Delphine escapes out the front door. The casino is raided by Sirex police, and Delphine disappears into the chaos.
* The party investigates Delphine's rooms and finds:
	+ Magical arrows: 5 smoke arrows, 5 blinding arrows, 5 poison cloud arrows, and 2 explosive arrows
	+ Ring of Feather fall
	+ Circle of death scroll
	+ Magic rapier: plus 1 to hit plus 1 to damage
	+ 600 gold worth of gems, and a gem with an engraving that appears to be some sort of ingredient for a magic spell. It has magic energy that is neither bard nor artificer magic, possibly southern magic.
	+ A black book with information on clients, bought politicians, and Mendez family members

## Some Father-Son Bonding Time

* Ivan's son Alexei excitedly tells Ivan about the Court of Owls and how they are led by an actual wizard, Damien Roarke. Ivan has many reservations about Alexei's association with this group, mostly due to his wariness of magic, but his concerns fall on deaf ears.
* Damien tells Ivan that Ivan and Alexei have been given the important mission of assassinating Don Quinn and as many crime family leaders as possible. Ivan agrees to help Alexei and the Court carry out this mission.

## Facing the Don

### Can't Escape the Past

* Aneka is furious that the party failed to kill Delphine. She brings them back to the Bottle and Blade which is empty and leads them to a side room.
* The head of the Syndicate, Don Quinn, appears at the Bottle and Blade along with his second in command, a pale elf known as The Grin, and various mafia members. They tell everyone to surrender or be killed. The party attempts to fight back/sneak out, but Aneka reveals that she had been double crossing them the entire time and helps the Don capture everyone.
	+ The only exception is Telathiel, who The Grin recognizes as a member of his race. He convinces Telathiel to join the Don by promising to tell Telathiel about his heritage.
* The party is knocked out and wakes up tied up in a warehouse. The Don interrogates them about who they are, what they are doing, and why they attempted to assassinate Delphine. The Grin gets party members to talk by stabbing them with a dagger that rapidly ages the victim.
	+ As a demonstration of the dagger's power, they bring out Detective Nadia Gil, who has been aged into her 90s. They also bring out Aranor as another captive, though he has not significantly aged, indicating that he cooperated with the Don.
	+ Franz and Hezak both age multiple years as punishment for resisting the interrogation.
* Mother appears with Meat and demands that the Don release her daughter, revealing to everyone that Eli has familial connections to the Shadow's Hand crime family.
	+ Eli's sister Ada is also there, albeit undetected, helping Eli escape from her binds.
* Ivan and Alexei arrive at the warehouse along with a Court of Owls assassin (the same ones who killed Dewey Fields and almost killed Eli). Their primary objective is to kill the Don, and secondary objective is to kill Mother. They choose to wait and see how the situation will resolve.
* The Don wants to know where Yazmin Vaughns is, so he brings out Yazmin's niece and threatens to stab her with the aging dagger unless someone gives him the information he wants. Yazmin reveals herself in order to spare her niece.

### Everything Goes to Shit

* Yazmin baits the Don into fighting her. Due to her already weakened state, Yazmin is losing the fight, but as the Don is about to strike her down, she transforms into his son as a last "fuck you".
	+ As the Don is about to kill her, he takes Yazmin's icosahedron, separating Yazmin from her patron. Her patron is no longer able to suppress Yazmin's latent Nihilanth infection, and she transforms into a werewolf. Yazmin the werewolf then proceeds to kill the Don, Telathiel (died in combat), Meat (died in combat), and Nadia Gil (noncombatant casualty).
* The party breaks out of their binds. Eli and Sarovar runs to the table where their weapons are stored. Before she's killed by Yazmin, Nadia Gil tells Eli about the SCE radio in her bag. Eli takes it out, turns it on, and shouts that there's a werewolf in the warehouse.
* The metal panther appears and attacks Yazmin the werewolf. The two giant, monstrous beings fight it out while everyone else runs away.
	+ Sarovar jumps out the window. As he's running away, he encounters The Grin who took Yazmin's icosahedron and is going mad from the influence of her patron. Jaque and Eldon appear with a church and get Sarovar out of there safely.
	+ Aelis, Franz, and Hezak run towards to the Church of Dol Arrah hoping that a cleric can cast Greater Restoration and reverse the effects of the aging magic. They are intercepted by the Court of Owls assassin who wants revenge against Franz for killing their partner.
* Eli and Mother run out of the warehouse. Alexei and Ivan intercept them and they fight. Alexei and Ivan down Mother. Eli attempts to stabilize Mother. Ivan yells at Alexei to get out of here, but Alexei refuses to leave until he is sure that Mother is dead. Upon realizing that Alexei is not following him, Ivan doubles back.
	+ Ada helps Eli fight Alexei and Ivan. Alexei is downed and Eli deals the final blow. Ada sets off a smoke bomb, and the two sisters escape before Ivan can retaliate.
	+ Ivan cradles his dead son, and notices that one of Alexei's tattoos is the exact date and time that Alexei died.