On Silverhand's Orders (For Real This Time)

The Courthouse

• #DragonHeist The party leaves the Open lord's estate and returns to the Waterdeep Courthouse with their pardon for Fenerus Stormcastle from The Open Lord. Fenerus describes a ruin of an old Wizard's tower in the South of the city where he's hidden the Stone of Golorr.
  
  

The Dock Ward

• #DragonHeist The party arrives at the old wizard's tower in the dock ward, led by Fenerus. It's a crumbling two story stone building. Emmaera casts detect magic, but the entirety of the tower appears to be an empty void in her detection sphere. Kal scans the second floor windows and from the corner of their eye notices something moving, becoming visible only just as it reenters a window. Larys opens the door into the tower and notices a sword laying in the middle of the room. He turns to the party and tells them not to touch it. In response to this, Kal immediately touches it, by kicking it out the door of the tower.
  
  

The Ruined Tower

• #DragonHeist #Battle The moment the sword exits the threshold, it begins to levitate and head towards Emmaera. In response, Emmaera casts a bolt of lightning which knocks teh sword back to the ground. Inside the tower, Kal hears rustling coming from the second floor, as well as someone speaking with a Drow-accented Elvish "We're made, you two grab it and run! I'll hold them off". Kal rushes up the stairs and is met at the landing by a Drow who immediately fires a poisoned arrow into their shoulder. Outside the tower, two more drow jump out the window and onto a lower roof and take off at a sprint. Busvine still outside, sees the fleeing drow and hits one of them with a scorching ray and takes off on the ground in pursuit. Larys sprints up the tower stairs past Kal and using his momentum swings his greataxe into the drow remaining on the second floor with critical force doing a substantial amount of damage. Emmaera climbs onto the lower set of rooftops in pursuit of the two fleeing drow and slivers the mind of one of them. Kal rushes towards the drow still in front of them, maul in hand bashes in his kneecaps, bloodying him and knocking him prone. Busvine, still in hot pursuit of the furthest drow outside nails him with a hail mary radiant strike from over 30 yards without even slowing down, and the drow takes substantial blinding damage. Upstairs in the tower, the drow drags himself to his feet and pulls out a short sword before lunging at Kal, missing with one slash and hitting them with a second. Kal faulters slightly but quickly steels themselves before riposting with their maul. Larys flies off the handle and swings at the drow in front of him but the drow ducks as sparks fly off the edge of the greataxe from its contact with the stone wall. Emmaera uses her magic to hold one of fleeing drow, he struggles to free hismelf to no avail. Kal winds their maul back before driving it into the trunk of the drow with a sickening crunch. Onlookers peer out of windows at Busvine as she runs through the streets of Waterdeep in pursuit of the most distant Drow, her radiant light pummeling him again and again, spilling his blood all over the roofs he's running across. Back in the tower, the drow attempts to dodge and flee from Kal and Larys, but they both swing at him. Kal misses their attack, but Larys lops off the drows legs at the knees, knocking him to the ground as he quickly bleeds out on the floor. As Emmaera and Busvine continue to fling spells at the two fleeing drow, Kal and Larys leap out of the second floor window of the tower onto the lower set of roofs and take off towards the drow in pursuit.
  
  

Dock Ward Rooftops

• #DragonHeist #Battle The entire party in now in pursuit of the held drow, and the remaining fleeing drow. Emmaera, Kal, and Larys are chasing the drow from the rooftops as Busvine is on the street below. As Kal and Larys sprint across the rooftops attempting to catch up to the other half of the party, Emmaera strikes the farthest drow with three magic missiles. One of Busvines spells goes awry and hits a mayonnaise jar held by a peasant on the ground, who drops it on the ground, creating a mess that causes Busvine to slide, but she deftly recovers and continues her pursuit without missing a beat. Despite this recover, several more spells hit objects along her path, creating a cacophony of various spills, turning Busvines path into a veritable ice rink causing her to slip and slide all over the road. Kal and Larys catch up to the previous held drow and they both crash into him causing him to tumble to the ground as he cries out in equal parts terror and pain. He manages to stagger to his feet long enough to strike Larys with a shortsword, inflicting poison damage. Emmaera comes up to a 10 foot gap in the roofs ahead of her. Out of the corner of her eye she sees a rope she manages to climb over but it slows her down.
  
  

The Dodgy Docks

• #DragonHeist #Battle The party reaches a set of docks filled with a ton of shady characters. The party loses track of the drow with the stone into a cloud of magical darkness. Emmaera holds up a few gold pieces and yells into a crowd "Two gold pieces for anyoen who can find me that Drow". A number of dock workers immediately point further down the docks, betraying the location of the Drow. She jumps down from the low rooftop and immediately eats shit into the dock below. Kal leaps from rooftop to rooftop and fires an arrow into the drow they've been chasing and it strikes him in the back. Busvine encounters a field of rubble and despite her small stature she deftly moves through the field without losing any speed. The rooftop drow turns and fires at Kal, his bullet barely missing Kals head. He uses this as an opportunity to jump across to the next roof Larys jumps across to the rooftop Kal is on, and then to its edge before stopping and throwing a handaxe at the drow. The handaxe lodges into the gut of the Drow and he calls out in pain but manges to stay on his feat. In the distance, Emmaera can hear what sounds like a tea kettle coming to a boyle, from a location just off the edge of a dock. As she's running down the dock, Emmaera detects the magic of the stone just behind the stern of the beached ship on the dock, meaning the drow is closer than she thought. She notices the tea kettle boiling sound is coming from only a few feet away from where she's detecting the magic. On the other side of the docks, Kal fires an arrow into the neck of the other drow, and he falls to his knees dead as he gurgles his last breath. Emmaera shots to Busvien the location she detected the stone, and Busvine rounds the corner of the beached ship, and into her view comes the drow on the edge of the docks, and behind him a 20 ft seection of the sea appears to be boiling and foaming away. The drow notices Busvine and fires a shot at her, but she deflects it with her shield. In one swift motion, Busvine twists to lower her shield with one arm as the other raises her holy symbol as a flash of light engulfs the remaining drow, and he immediately crumples to the ground. From the ocean, what appears to be a mechanical dragon turtle erupts from the sea. From the head of the device, a gnome pops its head out and its eyes dart from the dead drow, to Busvine, and he yells back down to an unseen person below. The gone closes the head of the device, and the begins to descend back into the ocean. Busvine notices the sound of a pressure valve about to blow coming from the vessel. Busvine realizes a steam explosion is imminent, and she grabs Emmaera and drags them both into cover behind the beached ship. A ludicrous amount of steam erupts from the turtle, and screams can be heard from people atop the ship. Busvine's skin is slightly burned, but she and Emmaera are otherwise unscathed.
  
  

The Dodgy Docks Part II

• #DragonHeist Emmaera searches thew body of the dead drow at the edge of the water and pulls a stone from the body, the power of the magic from the stone pulsates in her hand. She recognizes the stone as the real stone of golorr, and notices that it's something that must be attuned to. Meanwhile, Kal loots the body of another drow for it's pistol and smoke power pouches. Emmaera pays 100 gold to each of the dock workers who helped her locate the drow, and dons her Lord's Alliance pin before handing them some additonal gold to buy their silence. Emmaera has given the works at this dock so much money, that she's inadvertently bought the loyalty of 19 workers of the Kraken's Folly (The beached ship). Emmaera notices the stone calls out to be attuned to. The power coming from the stone is noticeable even to Larys, and he realizes that the stone wants to be attuned to because it wants something.
  
  

Jorkin's Tavern

• #DragonHeist the party returns to Jorkin's Tavern and pays Euthasol 1 GP to identify the magic of the stone. She tells the party that the stone is a transmuted Aboleth. She describes some effects the stone has. The major effects of the stone are that you may ask it any question, and it will answer it if it knows the answer. If you unattune from the stone, you must rely on your wisdom or else your memory will be wiped, back to when you first attuned to the stone. The stone's alignment is lawful evil. It is intelligent and charismatic. It can be destroyed only by an antipathy or sympathy spell targeting abberations, but that will release the Aboleth. While Euthasol is studying the stone, it reaches out into her mind and tells her that it knows where the vault is, as well as the "keys" that open it.
  
  

The Yawning Portal

• #DragonHeist The party visits The Yawning Portal to speak with Renaer Neverember and fill him in on the stone. By this point Emmaera has attuned to the stone. The stone calls to her and tells her that the stone would like to learn more about Renaer. The stone has revealed to Emmaera the the location of The Vault of Dragons, which is Underneath a converted windmill in the sea ward which is the home of Kalain, a famous artist who painted a portrait of Daggult Neverember. The two began a torrid love affair, but when Daggult began to neglect her in favor of his focus on the restoration of the city of Neverwinter. She has since become a recluse. Stone stone also reveals to Emmaera the location of the three keys to the vault. The first key is a "Drunken Elf". The second key is "At least 1,000 GP worth of Gems". The third key is a "Unicorn". The party shares all of this information with Renaer. Emmaera remembers that both Laerel and Vajra could summon a unicorn with the "Summon Celestials" spell. The party realizes that Laerel and Mirt both know the party is looking for the stone, but only Renaer knows where the vault and keys are. The party takes inventory and put together that they have the first key, "1,000 GP worth of Gems" from their prior fight with a trio of dragons.
  
  

The Open Lord's Estate

• #DragonHeist Later that same evening the party heads over The Open Lord's Estate and presents Laeral Silverhand with the Stone of Golorr, and fills her in on the details of their treasure hunt. The Open Lord offers to summon the Unicorn as one of the keys. The party returns to Jorkin's Tavern to rest for the night.