Of Eyeballs and Shitbirds

I wake up in the kitchen where I passed out the day before, and folks are already up and all around. “Shit, I forgot to put back the little figurine" I think to myself, quickly wrap it in a piece of cloth, and put it back into my bag. I think no one really noticed or they didn’t care. Even better. I don’t want folks asking me about something I don’t understand myself.

With the map we found, Pyotr sends out his network of street urchins to investigate the route we could take to the spot marked with a Xanathar thieves guild sign. Ideally we get there by street rather than through the sewers. They come back with three potential sewer entrances close to what we think could be some kind of hideout. We find one of these entrances in a dead end street where we can stay reasonably hidden from onlookers. Down in the sewers it’s pretty dark and Pyotr sneaks up to a door before we all follow. The rusty hinges scream at me as I open it. If someone is around, they definitely heard us.

The hallway behind the door has a room to the right and some slats. This could be an ambush. Eira turns invisible and sneaks ahead, but it looks like she got hit by a bolt, or an arrow. I guess it was an ambush after all. Then suddenly we hear her voice from the other side of the room although she’s her. That freaks us out a bit to be honest, how is that possible?

“No one hurts my friend” I find myself saying, and so we go in and start fighting. I hear someone running, and I dart after that Kenku, a kind of giant bird-like person, but I get stopped in my tracks: suddenly there’s an Ogre and a big fucking flying eyeball in front of me. Great. That thing has some more eyes on eyestalks even, and they seem to try some magic on me. That shit freaks me out, I’m not going near that. I haven’t been so afraid ever in my life. But I can still kill the Ogre and the Kenku. Which I do. Suddenly the fear is gone. I guess this was just some magic eyeball trick after all.

A second flying eyeball emerges from a doorway and Eira kills both of them with some of her cool magic again. We’re getting quite good as a team in getting rid of monsters I have to say. We investigate the bodies and crates and it looks like the drow folks we met earlier at the mansion came through here possibly 1-2 days earlier. The smell of powder still hangs in the air and the bolts in the bodies have some poison on them. Eira finds a bit of money and a note signed by some Ahmaergo on them. It seems to point to a connection with the hideout on Elsambul’s Lane which Pyotr and I had been investigating a few days ago.

The plan is to get up through a trapdoor either back into the street or into some building and regroup with Kallista. Pyotr and Eira want to investigate a chest in the back of a small room downstairs while I’m already up on the ladder. That’s when I hear some noise coming from that small room and the screaming starts. What are they doing?