Waterdeep: Dragon Heist - Session XVI

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Out of Game Date played: 2020-03-01

Session Title: The Contractor

In-game Date: Hammer 12 1583 DR

Location: Waterdeep

Player Characters: (Alphabetical order)

* *Choo-Cha* (Cory)
* Järna (Claire)

## A Requested Favour

*Choo-Cha* has been hired by *Julian Bellafontaine* to complete a task that was given to him by the Harpers for 60 GP. The task is to help an old woman rescue her cat from her shop from hideous monsters. *Julian*, having put off this task for a tenday is anxious to have to task completed quickly as not to tarnish his standing with the Harpers.

Believing he needs help he went to the Yawning Portal to meet with *Davil*, leader of the Zhentarim Doom Raiders to possibly get a lending hand. *Davil* agrees due to the help that both *Choo-Cha* & *Gooz* have done for the Doom Raiders he gets *Yagra* to fetch a half-Orc mercenary who is currently in their employ from the bar named Järna.

Järna agrees to help *Choo-Cha* for 5 GP since this is a favour owed from the Doom Raiders. They set off to the Trades Ward to find *Uza's* shop named "Curiosity & Satisfaction". Once they arrive they find it locked with a note saying that *Uza* is at the bar named "Felzoun's Folly" a block away.

## Finding Uza

Once *Järna* & *Choo-Cha* arrive they find a tavern that is bustling and busy with merchants and trade-hands alike enjoying drinks. The only odd thing to note on this busy day is all the patrons are giving a wide birth to one of the booths i particular. It's occupant, a loudly crying woman, has littered the table with various books & drained Neverwinter Nectar bottles.

They approached and asked her about the "Monsters" in her show terrorizing her cat. She explains to them that there are four (4) floating heads with a large eye on them and several small stalks on top of it with eyes coming out from their tips. She closed up shop a week ago and has been waiting for the Harpers to help her ever since.

Both *Järna* & *Choo-Cha* assure her it will be okay and they will deal with these monsters and rescue her cat. She leaves the key to the shop to the players and they head to the *Uza's* shop.

## Four Small Problems

As *Järna* & *Choo-Cha* arrive to *Uza's* shop they enter with ease but detect that something may be lurking inside. They proceed to get into a spat in which *Järna* leaves the shop. After she leaves *Choo-Cha* hears the voice of *Xanthar* himself booming within the shop. She luckily perceives that this is in fact not the real *Xanthar* but an imitation or illusion and commands the intruders to show themselves. Four (4) floating head monsters appears and command *Choo-Cha* leave as they are searching for a cat that has done harm to them. *Choo-Cha* does not back down and a battle quickly ensues.

After hearing a commotion, *Järna* reenters the building and helps *Choo-Cha* with the floating monsters. The cat seeing the front door open bolts to attempt to get out of the shop but suddenly stop as if they were actually to afraid to go outside. *Järna*assists with the skirmish which ends the whole debacle quickly. They gather the dead bodies of the monsters & the cat to bring back to *Uza's*.

When they arrive *Uza* is overjoyed see her cat and give the players a spellbook to learn from. She stumbles back to her shop leave her debris-ed table behind.

*Choo-Cha* then tells *Järna* that the job isn't finished quite yet and tells her to bring the dead monsters and follow her. *Choo-Cha* then proceeds to the closest taxidermy shop and pays the shopkeep (who is a grandmaster in the craft) to stuff the four (4) monsters in a comical scene and have it delivered to Spookies.

After they leave the shop, *Choo-Cha* pays *Järna* 10 GP instead of the 5 GP promised for a job well done and invites her back to the bar she part owns: Spookies. *Järna* agrees & they set off.

## Associate from the Noticeboard Guild

Once they arrive at Spookies they are greeting by an enthusiastic member from the Notices & Noticeboard Guild of Waterdeep. He vehemently describes a way to get more foot traffic into the bar and create Spookies as a focal point of the community with placing a noticeboard inside the tavern itself. *Choo-Cha* agrees citing that she is allow to make unilateral decisions about the tavern too, that privilege is not only for *Gooz*.