Dragon Heist

Session 1 (12/01/2019)

 * You met in the Yawning Portal tavern in the city of Modan, each of you either hailing from Modan or having made your way there for your own reasons.
 * After witnessing an altercation between a member of the Zhentarim and some Xanathar guild members and a brief skirmish with a troll which had climbed up from the depths of Undermountain, you met Volothamp Geddarm or just Volo for short.
 * He asked you to look in to the disappearance of his missing friend, Floon Blaggmere, whom he last saw while drinking and gambling together in the Skewered Dragon Inn in the Docks Ward.
 * You questioned some of the locals at the Skewered Dragon and found out that Floon met up with another friend there after Volo had left, one Renaer Neverember, the son of a Major Noble house in Modan. Upon further investigation, it transpired that the two had been kidnapped by Zhentarim thugs and taken to a nearby warehouse.
 * You investigated the warehouse and found the Zhentarim slain, seemingly by agents of the Xanathar Guild, which was confirmed when you found Renaer hiding in a store cupboard having escaped his captives during the fighting. However, Floon had been taken by the Xanathar guild mistakenly, Renaer believed, because they were really looking for him.
 * It transpired that both the Zhentarim and the Xanathar guild believed that Renaer's father had embezzled 500,000 gold pieces and hidden it somewhere in the city. The only way to find the gold was using a magical item called the Stone of Golorre, which up until recently had been in possession of the Xanathar guild but then it had been stolen by someone.
 * You tracked the Xanathar agents to their lair in the sewers where, amongst the usual goons, you encountered an utterly alien creature and its abhorrent pet, a brain on legs. Although the larger creature left, you did battle with its pet and the Xanathar guild agents, ultimately prevailing and rescuing Floon before returning to Volo at the Yawning Portal.
 * Volo had no money to pay you the rest of your fee but instead offered to trade you a property he owned in the city, Trollskull Manor located with Trollskull Alley, a reasonably affluent part of the lower city.