Roommates, Mothers and Brothers

1489

Year of the Warrior Princess

Mirtul 23

The past couple of weeks the party has been searching for more information about the break in at the Museum of Antiquities. They have put out feelers and been doing streetwise checks to find Nip Skit's brother Hip Skip. One day while searching they find the shop of Leaf's mother, Rose, vandalized and they hear loud voices inside arguing. It turns out that Rose and Jax's mother, Matron Lillith, are arguing about something important. The only snippets the group manages to hear are: "He's bad news for our boys." and "You know what happened." The ladies stop their argument when the group enters, and Rose promises "other worldly" assistance with their case if they track down the vandals. They search and find the vandals are lead my non other than Billy Barrue, who was trying to silence critics of his father, Walton, who is running for the Merchant Quarters General-in-arms, a post that Ellanzo now holds. The confrontation leads to a fight where Billy and most of the vandals are slain. Walton, Ellanzo, the Waterdeep wizard corps, and a large contingent of press show up soon after and accusations start to fly. Luckily the group realizes how best to handle the situation which is to let Ellanzo do the talking. Hannibal does intimidate Walton into leaving before he can do further damage to Ellanzo's position. Ellanzo impress upon the group that they need to catch Hit Skip soon so they have some positive press. Rose comes through with some valuable information and they track Hit Skip down into a section of the Dock Ward, one of the worse parts of Waterdeep especially at night. After intimidating their way past a number of stalkers, thieves, and drunks, a fight ensues with their target and aiding Hit Skip is the street urchin the group hired to guide them through the Docks. Instead of a 10 year old orphan, they find he is a 30 year old Halfling rogue! The ally is strewn with rubble and garbage making passage difficult. The group gets the better of Hit Skip and arrests him. They find a small chest with some coins and paper work describing a slave trading ring base out of Skullport! Thing are getting interesting...

Exp awarded: 1550