Our Skyscrapers & Sorcery campaign continued last night.
Vroom Vroom the Kenku Monk, Fredd the Warforged Warlock and Skarsnik the Goblin Druid were in pursuit of Vroom Vroom's stolen elemental vehicle, an Earthvan. Asked by the mysterious Mr. Jones to retrieve a package from it, they tracked the van to a lonely house on the cliffs north of New Aurora City. When we last left our heroes, they were about to enter the cellar when they heard a blood-curdling scream...
Descending the stairs, they found an abandoned wine cellar with a corpse lying in the middle. Kneeling to inspect the body, Skarsnik suddenly was overrun by milky white grubs! Vroom Vroom enters the fray but soon two grubs burrow under his feathers, making a go for his heart. Lighting a small stick, Skarsnik and Fredd succesfully burn the grubs after which Vroom Vroom disposes of them in a fell swoop.
After resting for a bit, they find a secret door leading to a large basement. But the basement is being guarded! Three thugs, armed with a wand, try to incapacitate the heroes but the heroes manage to gain the drop on them.
Inspecting the basement, they find a scrying screen displaying the news of the day, a sixpack of 1Up healing soda and a rattling cage. In the small cage, a pseudodragon is held captive. Fredd and Vroom Vroom free the pseudodragon, who immediately takes a liking to the warforged. The noise he repeatedly makes can only be described as "Smaug."
Leading from the basement are a stairway, a normal door, a door with "DANGER" written in chalk all over it, and a secret passageway into a network of caves. Skarsnik continues into the caves to narrowly avoid being eaten by green slime. He reconnotoirs a few passages and returns to his friends. The trio then inspects the room behind the normal door, finding a trenchcoat, a spellbook and three common books, including a tome about the Cult of Phaeton the Sun God and their diabolical customs.
The party enters the cave network, going into the unexplored portion of the passages. There, they find a well lit cavern with four humanoid figures. With a well-placed cantrip, Skarsnik snuffs out the torches and the heroes engage their foes in darkness. Vroom Vroom engages a hobgoblin and a bandit. Skarsnik immediately goes for their leader, a spellcaster, who gets a nasty slash from the goblin's scimitar. Fredd meanwhile fires his eldritch blast arm-cannon at the hobgoblin, staggering him. Vroom Vroom finishes the job and drops the bandit soon after. The magic-user uses color spray to temporarily blind Skarsnik and escape, but to no avail. Even blinded, the little goblin manages to cut down the mage. The remaining humanoid, an archer, surrenders.
The party searches the bodies and interrogates the archer. They find papers of Eldrich Anatomy, a wealthy medical guild, and an imbued wand (+1 damage with cold spells). The mage, who is identified by the archer as "Sanbalet", wears a leather jacket of charisma which is quickly acquired by Fredd. They learn that Sanbalet hired the thugs to perform crimes in the city and that the mage has ties to shady types at Eldrich Anatomy. The archer, who gives his name as Sam Garrett, tells the party that he'll cooperate if they keep him out of prison and offers to lead them to stolen/smuggled weapons. The party follows him back into the caves...
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