RotDQ: Episode 25

Day 108 (3rd Marpenoth 1489 Cont'd)
The party are given a cleaning assignment. They go into a restricted room, the observatory. Maven Mirkana rushes in to investigate a massive telescope, but 4 gargoyles appear and attack, knocking him out. The gargoyles then turn on the rest of the party. Trior Hizon stabilises Maven with magic as the others go into melee. The Korbal Tallfort manages to destroy one of the gargoyles and Croak grapples another one. Korbal then finishes off the grappled gargoyle. Maven kills one with a fireball. Korbal finishes off the last gargoyle.

With the fight over, Maven recongises the telecope as the farseer of Illusk. Croak looks in the telescope and sees it is aimed at Voaragamanthar's lair, the home of a Black Dragon. Croak then sees a black dragon land and then it start talking with a black dragon coming out of the cave. Voaragamanthar isn't one dragon, but 2 different dragons.

Croak goes to a table with papers on it, and created several fake documents in different handwriting, one set claiming the cult is going to betray the lizardmen, the other set claiming the cult is going to betray the bullywugs. The rest of the party clear the gargoyle rocky remains out of the room.

The party return to Streaks in Azbara Jos's Quarters. They finish cleaning it up and report back to Slizard the Large.

Slizard the Large leads the group to the chapel. The statue of Tiamat there was constructed by Lizardmen. The party head upstairs and find themselves the library. Croak pickpockets a cultist and finds a list written in Draconic. Maven translate the list as a list of topics the cultist leadership is after: Travelling though portals, "Dragon Masks" (Fictional or Non-Fiction), and books about Tiamat. Maven gets to work reorganising the books into categories, hoping this will help find the books he is after.

The rest of the party heads upstairs to Rezmir's Office. There is a note about a magical portal in the basement of the castle, and that treasure is being taken though it. Croak finds a note written in Draconic, so copies it to a pieces of paper.

In the next room is Rezmir's sleeping chamber. Trior comes across a locked wardrobe, which is trapped. Croak tries to disarm the trap, but fails, causing the acid to explode, coating everything in the room, and knocks Croak out. Trior heals Croak up with Cure Wounds. They loot a ruined 2 foot statue of a Black Dragon into Croak's bag of holding.

The party return to Maven, who is still organising the library. Maven translates the note and it is instructions on how to operate the magic portal in the basement, and the command word for it, "Draezir".