A 5e D&D campaign starting at 1st level in and around the city of Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms.
Waterdeep: City of Splendours, seat of many thousand plots. Are they opportunities for success, or for an untimely demise?
Will the adventurers sit safely in their comfort zones? Or will they risk their all to carve out a slice of Realms history with their names on it? Puppet or puppeteer?
The group go back to their individual activities, temple research, befriending street waifs and so forth until it's time to meet up at seven bells in Weirdbottle's Concoctions. The potion is ready. It's in a small earthenware vial with a tight-fitting coarse thread stopper. The potion fizzes if one listens carefully and a single drop on one's finger tickles slightly. The liquid looks like blue water. When Jim, Woody and Sue finish their business with Skeemo he ushers them out and locks the door behind them.
The rendezvous in the Purple Palace is at nine bells but it's strictly by invitation. Only one may be admitted.
What next?
====== Mundane tems listed in pHB can be bought from the markets without consulting the GM. Just deduct the gps and add the item to your character sheet. You can tell me if you want, but it's fine if not.
Chris1234 wrote:...A perusal of stalls in the open air market on Bazaar Street shows a single onion costs one neb whereas a sack of onions costs nine shards. [How many in a sack? "Lots, mate! A sackful! Ha!" Actually a hundred or so; weighs about fifty pounds.]...
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This includes onions, eiher individual or sackfuls.
"I'm out of idea as I don't have anyway of communicating with you when I'm inside. Let's go scope out the place before the party starts. Maybe we can get some idea or sneak you in."
The landmark to find the Purple Palace is the Old Xoblob Shop on the northwest corner of the meeting of Fillet Lane and Slut Street. The festhall is an anonymous four story tenement bookended between the Old Xoblob Shop and Aurora's Realms Catalogue Shop.
Metal shutters cover the windows of the festhall's two lowest floors; those above are secured with bars. Entrance is through a heavy-looking door cut into an arched gateway. It's unattended.
A calash* pulls up outside the door and the coachman, dressed in a navy blue cloak and long-brimmed cap, scurries round to place steps for the heavily cloaked passenger's descent. The hooded cloak shimmers in the torchlight. Two others alight, both men, one thin and robed, the other heavy set and clad in platemail. Sue recognises the guild crest on the thin fellow's bracer: the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors. The other fellow looks around for threats, then nods. The pair escort the shimmering cloak safely through the doorway and then start to head back to the calash. The coachman is already aboard.
What next?
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*A calash is a light horse-drawn vehicle with a folding top. This one has four wheels, seats four and is pulled by a pair of fine horses.
OCC
I need a reminder of why we are here. We have a meeting with whom and about what? Can someone jug my memory so I don't need to go over all the old messages.
We should come up with a plan to see if Woody can have his bodyguards enter with him when he is in disguise.
====== The boss of the deceased Taffis Bornam left something for Taffis at a dead drop in the Hanging Lantern. It was a numbered invitation from 'Yellow Canary' (the boss) for the 'Red Parrot' (Taffis) to a party at the 'Bird Sanctuary' hosted at The Purple Palace at nine bells. The invitation gains entrance for one.
