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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9026182" data-attributes="member: 277">DDEX01-06 SessionThe Scroll Thief orMurder Goes BoomDay 14 Morning to Day 16 MorningPC Killed 1 Monsters Killed 82 Villains Captured 17 Villains Escaped 8Start Time 6:30 End Time 10: 10Take a level. 10 downtime days. 500 GPMagic item Scroll of Dispel Magic, Scroll of Hold Person, Potion of Healing, Potion of Greater Healing, Headband of Intellect.Story Award Favor of Ellison Berenger. You arrested and only kicked him in the knee once. No immediate benefit.Story Award Burr on Burral. You followed orders and killed not one person. He will give you raises on future jobs.Story Award R.I.P. Rythnax. You threw a bomb in his face. He is scared of you. Social Checks with Advantage next time you mean.I had a very strong group of six. Chris human paladin 2. Thraz KrakenScale Lizardfolk Warlock 2. Barbarian Path of Beast Hadozee 3. Rolen Sorcerer Half-Elf 1. Myrddin Artificer 1 Wizard 3 Elf. Graara Death Cleric 2 Variant Human.DM, “Take three points of damage. You in chains. Bruised. You hear Burral yelling.”The group is marched into Knight Aleyd Burral office in chains. Two deputies with clubs are behind them. Each of them is the proud owner of a new shining black eye.Burral quietly, “Deputies outside. Close the door.” The door closes and he continues, “RIOTING IN MY CITY. BREAKING MERCHANT BOOTHS. ASSUALTING COMMON CITIZENS. ASSULATING UNCOMMON CITIZENS. KNOCKING NOBLES ON THE NOGIN. PUTTING YOUR THUMB IN MOTHER HUBBER’S PIE. I AM GOING TO FINE YOU SO HARD YOUR ANCENSTORS IN THE TWENTY THIRD AND A HALF CENTURY WILL STILL BE PAYING THE FINE. Do you have anything to say for yourselves?”The group had just walked out the Laughing Goblin when they were caught up in a book riot. They did not draw weapons which led to a couple of extra bruises. “Ok. Fine. You are hired. The town has been having rash of book thefts recently. Started while some of you were working on the lighthouse job. Bring the suspects in alive please. Talk with the Scribe Master Cassra Brandywine. No, she is not a drinker Buster but she does have a good head on her shoulders. Brandywine works at the Mantor Library which is on the opposite corner where you were busted Buster. She will have more information. Go through processing. Pick up your patron slip. Get a healing word. And GET OUT OF MY OFFICE.”The group is not happy. But a job is a job. Brandywine’s office is stacked high with scrolls and books. A humming is heard from a stack of books. “We are working for the Black Fist about your robberies.” Brandywine moves some books to the top of two stacks. The books would make a Jenga Tower weep in amazement. A blonde halfling with blue ink on her fingers, lips, and left appears in the tunnel she just created. A quill with fresh blue ink is behind her ear. She dips her second quill into a well. “Cassra Brandywine. Let me update my employee’s work cards. And I will be with you.” She updates some notes and tucks the second quill into her robe.The facts of the case are the following. Three Rare books have been stolen. Rare as either rare to a collection. Or rare to the owner. Aya Glenmiir had an extend loan of “The Weave: A Collection of Impractical Observation” stolen from her shop in the Scholar Square. Marten Foss had asked for Volume 17 of the “Adventures Notes and Observations Ren the Red Nose Ranger of Phlan”. Mr. Foss has loaned his collection to the library for access to the inter library loan from Candlekeep. Last night “The Lords and Lineages of Phlan” was stolen from Lord Agin Lamarck shop. He does research on noble lines and coat of arms for visiting nobles. The Weave is the only book bought with library funds which she wants returns. She does care if the thief is brought back alive. But paper cuts and lemon juice are offered as a punishment.Buster decides Glenmiir would be the best choice to talk too. Her shop has a boarded-up window as if a paladin or barbarian had toss townsfolk halfway through it. Aya, “Let me close up shop. Then we talk.” In the back room is two-foot glass case which had covered the book when Aya was not using it. It has tiny preservation runes, cleaning runes, an alarm rune etched into the corners. The alarm rune had a precise drop of acid dropped on it to destroy it. The front door had been picked. She mentions on the sly, she did not make a full police report. A horn of blasting, scroll of hold person, scroll of fireball, and detect magic are missing from her personal stuff. All her ink was stolen too. She gives them a bonus of 100 GP if the book is found and the thief is injured. The group agrees and sets off for the heraldry house. Myrddin notices Aya opens a new bottle of blue ink.Lord Lamarck shop did not take much damage during the riot. He is a researcher for noble houses. Rolen makes comments about a noble getting ink on his fingers which ticks off Lamarck. Thraz and Myrddin talk the rest of group into taking an early lunch down at the tea house. Myrddin casts Detect Thoughts on the noble. He is hiding stuff. It does come out one his greats grandmothers fake his line. The book does cover some the noble lines which disappeared when Tiamat last tried to take over. But other copies of the book exist in noble houses. He will kick in 50 GP if they find the book, and keep his secret.On the way back to tea house an elf states he has information for Thraz if they follow him to a quiet play. Reading his thoughts Myrddin knows it an ambush and sends his familiar to get help. (HEY the spell should be long gone. Oh well.) The ambush is counter ambush by the two spell caster friends. All four of the Welcomer’s are captured alive. Soares is marked by a cult of the dragon tattoo. The other thugs were just hired by a person in a black mask who had blue ink stains on their fingers. A note to Soares reads. “Just get it done. If they find me, then the last four months are wasted. Ensure the Whisper’s Faith in us is not ill placed.” It was signed by B. Soares does not know who “B” is.Arriving at the dwarf’s shop of “You 2 Can be Adventurer” they meet Marten Floss who retired from adventuring when a black dragon ate his left arm below the elbow and his teen-age daughter Vera. She is mouthy but can’t trick anyone into fighting her. Floss wanted to check some notes in Volume 17 of the “Adventures Notes and Observations Ren the Red Nose Ranger of Phlan”. Ren Ranger was the person who help break the charm spell casted by Tyranthraxus which controlled a bronze dragon who was ruling Phlan during Tiamat’s last rising. Tyranthraxus fled to the Pool of Radiance located in Valjevo. A rough map of the keep was in the volume. Mr. Foss only a master lock on his door. The book was just place in the hallway bookshelf.After tea and biscuits, they decide to talk with the head scribe about Brandywine and Burral. Master Opanrael is not happy. Not happy his tea is being interrupted. Not happy with adventurers. Not happy with two of his employees not showing up for work. Not happy with the workers not going to sick call. Not happy with sassy adventurers. Myrddin and the Master get into a heating yelling match which leaves Opanrael spitting mad. Brandywine gets between the two and takes the group to the scribe sleeping quarters. No clues are found either room but the beds were made.Taking the group to the basement to scene of the first crime, the group discovers the body of the senior scribe. She had her head bashed in. Her key ring is missing. A used Detect Magic scroll is near her body. Ren the Ranger Volume 17 and The Weave books are near her body. Both books are missing pages. And. BOOM. BOOKS FALL. Shelves fall. And Myrddin takes damage. The explosion happened in the sub-basement. Brandywine give up her key ring to Rolen.The sub-basement has a huge hole in it. “DM you are forgetting the four shadows.” Chris. After a quick battle and short nap. A broken horn of blasting is found. A chest with treasure in is found. But no sign of Ellison Berenger is found.Entering the sewers, they get sick to their stomachs but push on. At a small drop they are surprise by carrion crawlers. The crawlers think the Hadozee is very tasty. They group cut their dead friend out the monster’s stomach and find around the next corner a dead by fireball crawler. In Ellison’s backpack they find the missing pages from the books. An empty blue ink well, a map to the local swamp. They fall back to the town for a bath and raise dead. (Raise Dead puts you at -4 penalty for lots of rolls but is mostly ignore because it happens between sessions.)After a quick spell casting, long rest, and horse borrowing in the middle of the night they leave for the swamp. Arriving at the location on the map they find a well-rested by burned and battered Ellison. Also, the black dragon wyrmling Rythnax is present. He has strapped to his chest a passenger pigeon document holder. Ellison admits the dragon has copies of the pages his stole about the Pool of Radiance. The group charges and Myrddin breaks the weave by using catapult to toss three bombs in the dragon’s face.Suddenly darkness surrounds the dragon who runs away and the thief surrenders.The End.DM Note. No to bombs strapped together. Oil flasks and Acid Vials up to 3. All equipment bought must be from the PHB equipment lists. D&D Beyond and the SRD does list the bomb as a common item. Also, it is an action to light a bomb.No harm. No foul. Yes, we are still learning.The module gave the dragon lair actions.For those who have played or ran the module. No passing. If I call for a decision roll a die to make a decision.End of Session 427</blockquote>

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