Waterdeep: Dragon Heist - Session XXI

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Out of Game Date played: 2020-05-09

Session Title:  An Assimar & a Nimblewright

In-game Date:  Tarsakh 21-22 1583 DR

Location: Waterdeep

Player Characters: (Alphabetical order)
 * Choo-Cha (Cory)
 * Gooz (Aaron)
 * Järna (Claire)
 * Julian Bellafontaine (Matt)
 * Thola (Julianne)
 * Tyr Dithias (Garrett)

Back at Base (Tarsakh 21)
When Choo-Cha, Thola & Järna get back they see Gooz & Julian 69'ing on top of bar. They stop & Gooz & Julian describe how they escaped the Gralhund Villa. After they talked they rested for the night.

News & an Invitation (Tarsakh 22)
While eating breakfast they read the new issue of the Waterdeep Wazoo published on Tarsakh 22 cover story that reads as follows:

The party determines that there was a lot of falsehoods in the newspaper article and that they should visit  Barnibus Blastwind  to set the record straight.

A Meeting with an Investigator
Everyone, except Julian & Choo-Cha wait outside while the rest of the party talks  Barnibus Blastwind . They attempt to help old women cross the road but no-one wanted help.

Gooz, Thola & Järna tell  Barnibus  that the Gralhunds were working with the nimblewright & that the construct was not aligned with the Zhentarim. Barnibus, skeptical, asks how Gooz how he knows this. Gooz reveals that he was in the villa at the time because he did have a legal case that he needed to talk to the Gralhunds about. Barnibus still slightly skeptical but nevertheless happy about this new statement asks about the other "lawyer" / "famous bard", Gooz, lies & says that Julian is injured & that is why he could come & give a statement. Barnibus  writes down the entirety of the statement now believing ''Gooz. ''

When the party exits Barnibus's office they are confronted by a large Fallen Aasimar (Dithias) being release from custody & Carp Alderleaf following afterwards who is visibly angered.

Thola recognizes Carp & asks what is wrong. Carp says that Dithias killed his prized show pony, Lil Lancelot, & since the crime did not happen in the City, so Dithias cannot be charged. Dithias vehemently denies that he killed the show pony. Thola tells Carp that she will talk to ''Dithias. Dithias tells Thola that he has never met Carp ''in his life. Thola clarifies that Dithias was on a quest with her recently & knows for a fact that he has met Carp. She decides to leave calling him an asshole.

When Thola regroups with her party she points out Dithias as that asshole. The party starts talking to Dithias skeptical about her judgement of character & grows a liking the Dithias that ends in including her in the party. Thola & Dithias get into religious fight about their respective gods Selûne & Eilistraee.

House of the Inspired Hand
As they approached a mechanical sparrow is sent out from a silhouetted figure from the top of the Temple of Gond. Dithias says this mechanical bird is an abomination to nature attacking it with his trident shattering the mechanical sparrow. Choo-Cha picks up the pieces to return it to the temple.

They enter & inside the Temple of Gond is open & abuzz with activity there acolytes & many marble pedestals with wondrous creations or miniaturizations of larger creations made by members of the temple through the years. Valetta, dragonborn priest of bronze dragon ancestry seems like the ____________. The party asks after the escaped nimblewright named " Helux ". She dismissively says that makes sense many people are looking for the nimblewright now that it has committed several serious crimes, but it has been wanted for months now. She gives the party some information about the nimblewright, saying that  Helux  just appeared & no one took credit for it's construction. When pressed she reveals that it is odd because nimblewrights are only ever gifted to the temple by Lantenese wizards.

Choo-Cha asks if she can see the nimblewright that is living in the temple so she can have a frame of reference & see this magnificent wonder. Valetta agrees & leads the party up a long flight of stairs to the top of the tower. When they arrive she curses as Nim has changed the lock again, Julian casts knock to unlock the door. Valetta thanks him & he kisses her hand allowing her to go in first. The players enter a domed sunlit workshop with long forgotten, as well as some half completed creations. Eventually, Nim the nimblewright comes out using simple sign language towards Valetta.

Dithias casts Necrotic Shroud upon seeing Nim making Choo-Cha, Julian & Gooz frightened. Valetta casts a spell towards Dithias wiping out half of her health commanding her to stop. Dithias drops the shroud & Valetta drops her spell, angrily expressing that if she does anything like that again she will cast again & that the party can ask a few questions but no more as her hospitality has run out.

Choo-Cha asks Nim about the nimblewright Helux' in which Nim reveals that he was Helux's' creator & that he did it because he was lonely, only to have Helux run away months later. Valetta who is conveying this over sign language is angered by this revelation. Choo-Cha & Gooz press on further to ask if there was any way they could help Nim's friend. Nim gives the party a magical device of his own construction named "Nimblewright Detector" that can detect a nimblewright other than Nim up to 500 feet away.

Valetta ushers the party downstairs & offers the players 600 GP if they can bring proof of destruction of Helux to herself. Julian presses why & Valetta retorts that a sentient nimblewright like Nim is unique & special but if Nim continues to create new & possibly sentient nimblewrights that spells trouble for humanoid species. Dithias asks what the reward would be to destroy Nim & Valetta, visibly disgusted with the Fallen Aasimar, replies that she does not wish that to happen.

The party heads back to Spooky's to rest up before their city wide search of the missing nimblewright beginnings.