Session 14 - Xanathar's Lair Heist

In the midst of the Bregan D'aerthe assault on Xanathar's lair, The Party found themselves escaping the fighting pits down a tunnel deeper into the lair. Krebbyg emerged from the shadows and joined them, providing a few minor potions for the beleaguered adventurers, while Kassodar remained behind fighting at Jarlaxle's side. The stranger that they fought alongside in the pits was nowhere to be seen, and Ranear had not been seen since the Mind Flayer attack that led to their capture.

Waiting at a gate to a circular hallway until the flow of Xanathar forces running through it to join the ongoing battle had subsided, The Party snuck through the lair. Skipping a large stone door, they split into two parties and engaged some Kuo-Toa in battle in a slippery room. After overcoming the creatures, they examined a series of rooms in the corner. Finding first a drarven prisoner in a state of complete insanity, followed by a body stapped to a table whose skull had been emptied, they paused outside the final room in the corner and heard bubbling coming from within. Inside was The Mind Flayer, dipping a brain into a pit of black tar. The Party fought and killed it, remarkably. They also found a prison with a single prisoner, a goblin wearing two sets of armour, who they freed.

Descending to the level below, The Party encountered Nar'l Xibrindas, agitated and under the supervision of the Grell. Krebbyg was prepared to kill him, but Lanzu initiated combat with the Grell and Nar'l took this opportunity to betray his new master. Having made a pact with the Xanathar that he could not escape from, Nar'l initiated a plan to ignite some barrels of explosives that he had smuggled into a secret room beside his study. He warned The Party that they had 10 minutes to get out of the lair.

On their way out, The Party examined the adjacent room to Nar'l's Office, and found a mausoleum of Xanathars past, where Golorr's Eye was mounted inside a Beholder statue. Retrieving the eye, They activated a large silver mirror, which turned out to be a scrying screen giving the perspective of the Beholder in The Old Xoblob shop. They also upset an urn bearing the ashes of a former Xanathar, and the grave dust took the form of a Beholder and roared at them.

Wasting no further time, the party, sans Krebbyg, ran back out through the circular hallway and found a spiral staircase upwards to the sewers of Waterdeep. Emerging back into the city, they returned home and had a rest.

Zeela consulted The Stone of Golorr and received the riddle towards the next eye.