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Message: <blockquote data-quote="THEMNGMNT" data-source="post: 8008580" data-attributes="member: 6809274">3rd session of my mashup of Dragon Heist with the Deck of Many Things. Players characters are 2nd level. Halfling rogue, half-elf wizard, half-orc fighter.Last session, they recovered a card from the Deck of Many Things from an abandoned estate in Waterdeep. This session they brought the card to their mysterious patron at the Yawning Portal. It was nearing midnight and the tavern was bustling. The characters got a table near the well that was being cleared and cleaned by an old crone. They bought drinks for the bar and boasted of their recent accomplishments to their server. And then...A gazer floated out of the well, followed quickly by four grimlocks. They attacked the characters before the other adventurers in the tavern could react. The characters managed to avoid most of the gazer's eye beams. A combination of oil and burning hands incinerated the gazer, and the fighter and rogue quickly dispatched the smoldering grimlocks. And then...A mind flayer levitated up from the well. This mind flayer, Tassatar, was a minion of the Xanathar that had killed the wizard's parents. With a single mind blast it dropped the rogue and fighter, as well as half the customers in the bar. Durnan, proprietor of the Yawning Tavern and a former adventurer, grabbed his greatsword off the wall and sliced Tassatar across the chest. The mind flayer quickly teleported away before it could do any serious harm.Soon back on their feet, the characters rendezvoused with their mysterious patron...who turned out to be the old crone that had been cleaning their table. She proceeded to tell the players a lot of backstory which is a bit of a challenge to explain here. But, here goes:A generation ago, a group of adventurers called Fortune's Fools found the Deck of Many Things in Undermountain. Drawing from the Deck, they gained many boons. They continued to draw from the Deck and eventually it lead to their doom. The crone was actually a former adventurer who was the "boon" from drawing the Knight card. Ever since, her fate has been intertwined with the Deck and Fortune's Fools.She tells the characters that the cards of the Deck are now scattered across Waterdeep. She wants to find all the cards and reassemble the Deck. The crone says the possessor of the completed Deck will be able to find a missing fortune called Tymora's Gold, a fortune of nearly one million gold pieces that resulted from a series of lucky draws from the Deck. The fortune is hidden in a secret vault, and the only living person who knows where the vault is located is the architect that built it. But the architect is in a prison called Grimshackle Jail. Their mission, should they choose to accept it, is to break the architect out of prison -- tonight!And that's where we ended...EDITED FOR CLARITY</blockquote>

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