06 - The Fireball
General Summary
Murder at 7am. Preposterous!
Our heroes are rudely waken up by an explosion just outside their windows. A fireball has killed 11 people. As they investigate the scene and ask witnesses, more details come to light. There is a dead dwarf, and 2 dead Zhentarim with snake tattoos. Someone survived, grabbed something from the dwarf and fled. A weird creature was seen throwing something from the roof just before the explosion. A child found a broken necklace that fell from the sky, or maybe the roof.
The clues lead them to the House of Inspired Hands, Waterdeep’s temple of Gond where they find a nimblewright (magical construct) Nim that matches the description of the weird creature. He is not able to leave to temple, but admits that he created another nimblewright out of loneliness. A month ago the other one fled out of confusion and Nim built a device to find it. The priest of temple - Valetta, asks them to destroy the nimblewright and offers money and a choice of artifacts, but they ask for Nim, hoping it could help them to run the inn. Valetta agrees, but first wants to see proof that the other niblewright was destroyed.
Taya talks to Zhentarim mates and is told the possible identity of the survived Zhentarim and what his last known contract and location was - Gralhund Villa. The adventurers go there, using the nimblewright detector on the way. As they arrive at the villa, they find that the nimblewright seems to be inside.
After some investigation and unsuccessful attempts to pick the locks, Ulbur uses his magic hand to tie a rope around a tree inside the villa courtyard and they climb in and are attacked by a ghastly looking groundskeeper and big dogs. They quickly dispatch them and investigate the surroundings, finding some hidden gold and a lot of corpses.
Inside the villa a battle still rages and they are jumped by a couple of thugs. Taya gets in eye to eye with them and gets badly beaten on the head, but Ulbur and Xantina quickly dispatch of them, as StoryTeller wonderful tunes make Taya feel better and forget about injuries. They quickly look around the ground floor and find that someone injured and burned was tied in one of the rooms, but seemingly got free of the bindings and killed two guards. They also find and take a mysterious slightly magical locked tome from the library.
There are sounds of battle coming from upstairs...
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