Waterdeep: Dragon Heist - Session XIX

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Out of Game Date played: 2020-04-25

Session Title:  A Botched Infiltration

In-game Date:  Tarsakh 21 1583 DR

Location: Waterdeep

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

Grahlund Villa
The party decides to investigate the Gralhund Villa ( instead of The House of the Inspired Hand, where the nimblewright presumably fled several months earlier), where the presumed third party member of the 3 of the Zhentarium  Manshoon faction fled after the fireball attack.

Juliancharms the groundskeeper into letting him in. When he attempts to bring the rest of the party but the groundskeeper only allows one other. Julian chooses Gooz & they continue into the walled compound. Thola sends an arcane eye after them to monitor what they are doing while Choo-Cha scales the wall to keep an eye on them.

On the way to the Mansion's main entrance Julian sings an impromptu song about Hurv the groundskeeper in which he doesn't mind & grooves along to the tune.

When Julian & Gooz enter they demand to speak to Grahlhunds concerning legal case they are working on. One of the two people in the main entrance starts going up the stairs. Thola's arcane eye observe that there has recently been an altercation in the main entrance as there are traces of blood around the room, she also detects that there is a battle happening inside the villa on the second floor & that both of people in the main hall are part of the Zhentarium  Manshoon faction.

Outside Järna decides to look for another entrance into the building. She rounds the northwest corner of the building & decides to scale the wall to enter the ballroom on the second floor. She smashes the locked window with her fist & entered a luxurious ballroom. After she enters some guards hear her enter & swiftly take her down.

As the altercation is going on upstairs Gooz hears battle noises & decides to shoot a Firebolt towards the remaining guard in the main hall. The guard who just started up the stairs turns back & starts to attack Gooz while Julian feints that he doesn't understand what is going on & goes on his knees, putting his hands on his head in a surrender position. This happens to coincide with Järna becoming surrounded with House guards herself.

A smattering of house guards & Zhents spill downstairs as the fighting between the two (unbeknownst to the party) spills downstairs. Julianurges Gooz to surrender as well after becoming pummeled by a half-orc bruiser 3 times in a round with a morningstar.

Choo-Cha disguises them self as a monkey/ape & scales the building to follow Järna into the ballroom. The disguise brought more attention to the party as street-goers made a ruckus gaping at the ape on the building. Thola quickly scaled the building as Choo-Cha came down. Thola cast Command & the two Manshoon Zhents in the room to flee out of the room down the stairs giving Thola the opportunity to stabilize Järna. After she throws Järna out of the window & egresses herself. Many civilians screamed at the Half-orc being thrown out of the window. Choo-Cha sensing that this was going to become a bigger deal cast Invisibility on herself, Thola & Järna & spent the next few hours discretely getting back to Spooky's.

Once that Gooz starts to surrender Juliancasts hypnotic pattern in which all the Zhents become charmed but not the house guard which angered at the attempt turn their attention to Julian. are charmed. After actually surrendering the Half-orc puts both Gooz & Julianin iron & moves them to an offshoot room to the east before the Zhents comes back to their senses all the while he observe two Zhents coming down the stairs (due to Thola 's Command spell).

Tyr is having sex with the horses in the stable while being transformed into a miniature show pony named Lil' Lancelot that was brought into the city for breeding purposes by Carp Alderleaf.