16-09-2020

The open lord of Waterdeep
Asking around the adventurers found Daniel Silverhand is the brother of Laeral Silverhand, the current Open lord of Waterdeep. The obvious course of action for the party was to go to the palace district and tell the Lady about the assassination attempt. The guards became tense when the honest adventurers mentioned the reason for the visit. The lady was understanding of the situation and offered them an option: she would deliver the head of her brother in 2 days if the adventurers returned to her the pet goldfish of Xanathar. She mentioned the beholder was not the first to hold the title and all gained an obsession with the goldfish.

The party accepted and went to get some money in these two days.

The plan was simple: exchange the fist for a double, Jaheira in the form of a fish so Xavier can communicate with her from a distance. Then convince the beholder to sleep and get the manifestation of his dreams. Bhog would handle the switch and the rest would run distraction. While the plan was hatching a Gnome Artificer called Greg'ory joined them at the table. He was send by the priests of Gond in Amn, as the party gained a reputation for mischief and unusual quests. Introductions were made and he quickly was let on to the plan.

Finally the head of Daniel Silverhand was provided in a metal box - to the shock of the party.

The gold fish heist
Back into the catacombs Xanathar was nowhere to be seen. So the party investigated the rest of the rooms and finally found him in his bedchamber playing with the fishbowl. He did return after some time and the prize was shown. When asked about the dreams Xanathar said he was not sleepy. Greg'ory tried to get it to sleep by boring him with a lot of gnomish tinker experiment details. Bisque thought to speed up the process so he used the trident of fish command to communicate with the goldfish. Surprisingly it was a normal gold fish, no telepathic link, nothing. It seemed like a good idea to make it play dead. Xanathar noticed and went berserk using his eye rays on the party and screaming for them to fix the fish. Elnaril and Greg'ory were caught in the blast. The rest were still exploring and heard the screaming. Xavier and Bhog raced to the room as they had the extra fish and skill to pull off the switch. Nyarlathotep must have been watching because Xavier pulled off the lie that they had a fish shaman in the person of Bisque with them and he could fix the fish if Xanathar left. Reluctantly he left the room and Bhog pulled off the switch. When Xanathar returned the fish (now Jaheira) was just fine. One more hurdle was that he did notice Jaheira's glowing eyes but the party waved it off as an after effect of the healing magic.

Elanril went to a room full of healing potions they uncovered earlier. To his surprise the potions were some sort of mimics that hugged his face. After a few tries he gave up.

Bisque went to work in convincing Xanathar to get to sleep. He used magic to make his voice sound as if coming from the fish and told the Eye he wanted to dream. This made the dream come in the form of a one meter sphere around the gold fish bowl. The party decided to cut the sphere, Greg'ory provided the tool needed and make a fantastic light show to distract the last eye stalk that was looking.

The party legged it to the exit as soon as possible.