Daggerford: Khemed is Sus

 Game Date: 9/4/2021

Location: Roll20
Campaign: Daggerford, Session 20

System: D&D 5e
DM: Mike

The Party:
Azul (Cliff) Dragonborn Fighter

Nikolice Gomez (Steven) - Human Fighter 

Khemed (Rusty) Half-Elf Wizard
Navine/"Spider" (Steve) Elf Rogue
Vanya (Matt) Half-Elf Bard

The Session:

When we left off, we were running around the halls of Dragonspear Castle, and ran straight into a jailbreak.  Several humans, elves, and halflings were fleeing from Red Wizards and Undead.  We changed perspective to see what Khemed had been doing at the same time.

While we had been exploring last session, Khemed had been working with an apprentice wizard, who wanted to overthrow the imposter leader of the Red Wizards.  The apprentice had mistaken Khemed for their true leader, so Khemed played the part.

The apprentice showed Khemed around their operations, including the prison cells guarded by wights.  Khemed tried to bluff his authority over the wights, but failed.  The wights attacked.  The apprentice fired off a fireball spell, hitting all the wights and himself.  The fireball also destroyed the cell doors, causing the prison break the rest of the party encountered at the end of last session.

The apprentice prepared to throw another fireball at the fleeing prisoners, hoping to raise them as undead slaves.  Before he could fire, Navine fired an arrow at the apprentice.  Khemed then pulled rank and ordered the apprentice not to fire.  Finally... somehow... we managed to deescalate the fighting, and reached a truce.  We took a short rest.

We left our Dwarf allies and ex-prisoners in a room full of Dwarven ale barrels, and we accompanied the Red Wizards as we explored more of the castle.  Navine scouted North to look around the corner, and saw where two wights were still guarding the Dwarven King's room.  She fired off a shot at one wight, then ran back to the party.  We all prepared actions, but the wights didn't attack us.  Navine went back to the corner and looked again, but the wights were gone.

We headed back to the room where we fought all the suits of armor last session.  There were a couple of doors on the North wall that allowed you to regenerate hit points and spell slots faster.  We opened the doors to find some animated armors waiting for us.  An imp joined the fight, but was taken out almost immediately.  Khemed enlarged Azul, who fought two armors in a doorway.  Nikolice killed one armor with a psionic strike, and Khemed killed one with a firebolt.  Navine finished off the final one by firing a shot between the enlarged Azul's legs.

Vanya used the spell recovery room, along with the Red Wizards.  She chatted with them, playing up Khemed's false identity.  They were skeptical, but Vanya rolled high on her deception check.  Azul and Nikolice used the hit point recovery room.  Meanwhile, Khemed explored some of the nearby halls, discovering some barrels of tar.  Once we were all rested, we headed South.  In one room, Nikolice found a large, flat, iron coin.  This was significant because we've found several chests with coin slots in various rooms.

Then we spotted some giant rats peeking from around the corner to the South.  Nikolice gave them some rations, but more showed up.  Soon he had seven giant rats staring at him expectantly.  He tried to tame them, but rolled badly.  Then Azul used his dragon breath on them, and they fled.  

We explored more hallways.  At the end of one was a small room, with another one of those iron chests.  There was also a hole in the wall, about Dwarf height.  Navine saw someone staring at him through the doorway, but they ran off.

Nikolice put the coin into the safe, and it opened.  It contained a Climber's Kit, a Healer's Kit, 3 flasks of Alchemist's Fire, a bronze merchant's scale, and a magnifying glass.  We went back South where the rats had been, and found a secret door to the outside.  In another hallway we found some stairs covered in rubble.  

We returned to the hallway East of the regeneration rooms, and headed North.  At the end of the hallway, another hallway ran West-East, with five doors on the North side.  Each doorway led to a crypt containing a sarcophagus.  The middle sarcophagus appeared to be opened.  Nikolice and Navine went to the middle crypt and examined all the frescoes in the room.  This is where we ended the session.