Auburn Family Dungeon

This is the 4th session of the Mysteries of Waterdeep campaign for The Albatross Pirates.

After waiting a few days, the Red Wind was finally granted access to their new home after making the purchase days prior. It was a three story building but each of the floors were unfurnished and only had one or two rooms to them. The Party took their time and looked around their home at all the possible things they could do, trying to find places for sleeping, studying, and alchemical work. After they were finished looking around the upper floors they decided to reconvene on the first floor and decide what to do next.

On their way to the first floor Candace "accidentally" slipped and pushed Toof down the stairs and they both went tumbling. Once Toof reached the landing of the staircase, the wood was fragile enough that it cracked and broke beneath his weight. The two fell 20 feet beneath the floor into a small chamber which seemed to be a basement or cellar of sorts. The party slowly lowered themselves down into the area and started to take a look around. A few of them began to be suspicious of Candace due to a few slip ups, mainly Raven and Morgan, but they decided to let it go and just look around. They found a large iron door that after figuring out the method of opening, they managed to look down into a long and dark staircase. The group decided to go down and investigate soon after.

Firstly, the group came upon a prison of sorts. There were bones of corpses that seemed to have been long dead. They investigated the area for a small amount of time noticing that a lot of the bones here were from unnatural beasts chained down by magical restraints. There was nothing left to look over so they continued.

Next they traveled through a long hallway, getting ambushed by snakes and finding some strange magical rings kept in storage. But eventually the hallway lead to a room with prominent separated tiles that seemed to be a puzzle of sorts. After they all filtered into the room the doors magically shut behind them trapping them with the puzzle. In the end, the puzzles was a simple math game mimicking minesweeper. They all worked together doing their best to get through, but managed to set off more traps from the false tiles then they'd have liked.

Finally they reached a chamber with a large stone golem in it that when approached welcomed Candace to the Auburn Family Sanctuary. Now the group was sure something was weird and forced Candace to explain what was happening. She told the group she was trying to acquire the land here because her ancestors had left clues that their family sanctuary was located just underneath the building. All she ended up wanting was the research that was within the studies but was willing to let the group take any treasure inside. They group settled on that and decided to allow Candace to continue research underneath their home. Taking what valuables they could, the Red Wind returned to the surface to continue their mercenary work.