After dealing with Orias' bird problem, the party got word from one of their kobold helpers, that the only known entrance to the River kings lair was in the sewers. Kyle went about gathering information about the cities sewers, and this is what she learned:
1. just about everyone in the city had running water and proper toilets.
2. no one official was incharge of these, what did you call them? sewers?
The kobold was further questioned on how he got his information, and explained he spied on some local thieves. Orias and Zelara decided they would try their luck at spying on said thieves. Having found them in a tavern in bad part of town, our two adventurers nonchalantly followed the theives until the went to "the bathroom". After some distractions and quick lock-picking, Orias got into the same bathroom to find not a toilet, but a small tunnel and ladder leading down into the sewers. While Orias explored down below, Zelara needed to distract the barkeep to make sure she could follow her ally. This is when we learned that Zelara would make a decent theif or assassin, or possibly a bad-ass vigilante.
Our sneaky heroes found an alternate entrance/exit to the sewer, Orias checked for traps praying there were none. His prayer was answered. After making it outside to the river, they fund a ladder going up back to town, and a staircase going down into the river. Zelara checked the stairs to see where they went, finding they lead to the bottom of the river. She spotted to people swimming underwater towards the stairs, but they had not spotted her. Zelara quickly got back up, and she and Orias climbed the ladder back into the city, made sure to mark where it was hidden, and went to find the rest of the party.
Our heroes, now having a way into this crime lords den, debated if it was better to go immediately or wait until day when thieves where less likely to be working. Not having an actual schedule of the activities going on in the sewers, they decide to go immediatly. I'm assuming they left the kobolds with Eorin.
They went back to the sewer entrance by the riverside, Orias, sneaking ahead, found that there where two gillmen (knowledge local: race of humanoids that breathe water, somewhat handsome, but gills!) they seemed to be cleaning out a filter of anything valuable, they spoke to each other in Aklo in hushed towns (linguistics: they speak in a manner of someone who was raised speaking a language, rather then in the dramatic tones of a cultist or mage who speaks in a strange language to sound more impressive.) Ilythan is sadly not as stealthy as the rest of the party, and is spotted by the gillmen, they seem to only know the words "go away" in common. Orias kills one of the gillmen with a well aimed crossbow bolt, and does a non-lethal shot to the other. The dead gillman's body falls into the filtration device, which is re-veiled to be a series of gelatinous cubes. After some moral debate on what to do with the non-murdered gillman, he is left outside the sewer, and our party of murderhobos starts to explore the sewers.
The sewer are clean, too clean. The design resembles that of the ancient azlanti style. Kyle stares at it all mind boggled, attempting to figure out how the whole thing works, when dire rats attack!
Illythan launches a fireball to deal with the problem, amazed that one survives. Kyle shot some arrows into the last one, the first arrow seeming to fell the beast, the 2nd seemed to turn it into a human. Worried that she had murdered an innocent Kyle quickly treated the naked, formerly a rat, man to find he was mostly feral and rabid. Zelara did a mercy killing. Illythan and Orias proceeded to dump the body into the sewer water. Then Kyle was shot by a hidden archer, with an arrow that stung more then it should have. Zelara spotted a bugbear and pointed it out. Illythan, being ever quick on his feet, shot a ball of lightning in the general area of where the arrow came from. The bugbear seemed unharmed but the lights from the spell made the would be sniper more easily seen, allowing Kyle to return fire and kill him. They searched the body, took its loot, and proceeded to explore, finding the bugbear's nest, which, like the rest of the sewer, was too clean. Apparently the bugbear had dug out of the sewer into the towns graveyard where he could collect bramble to make bramble-sick brandy.
Our party then proceeded down a ladder into the lower sewers to find where the water was purified and three more tunnels which only had a slight trickle, at the end of each of these tunnels was a series of valves, levers, and pipes, each set very similar to the other. After experimenting they found a valve which released more water, but this water was murky, like there was something in it (but not like poo water). The more water that was added to the center purification chamber, made a hidden doorway rise out of the center of the room, so the party turned all the water valves on, flooding the chambed and finding the secret door which lead to a teleportation circle which activated only what it was fully submerged under water. The gang went underwater swimming through the odd mucus that made the water cloudy, and went through the circle.
They where transported to a flooded basement, the water reach to just below (Zelara's) shoulder height, there was a staircase leading up. But before the party could proceed, Illythan found that air had become impossible to breathe. Orias realised that the mucus in the water must have been aboleth mucus, which allows people to breathe water, but not air. He jury rigged his water skin into a breathing mask so he could follow the party into the mansion.
The mansion was of grand design, and Zelara determined it was still underground. There where statues of armored guards and things where gold plated. The 2nd chambed was similar except the statues along the wall where locked into an eternal orgy, Orias was, in his usual jovial manner, pretendng to be part of it and realised these statues were all really well made.
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