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.