Kestrell is picking all of the Brazil Nuts out of his trailmix and tossing them down the stairs next to he and Phaedra.  "That's fine with me too, could get the stench off of us that way.  But, i can keep going as well, don't need a rest yet.  If we do rest, let's hole up in one of the corners, maybe that room up there."

He points to the north east corner of B7.

"Fine, let have a quick rest then.." she says with a roll of her eyes.

"There seems to be a lot of houses that have access to the sewer system."

You all, except Elon, bed down on the stone floor in the largest room (B7) and fall asleep. About 2 hours into his watch Elon thinks he hears something and looks up to see a very surprised Thorvin Twinbeard standing at the edge of the room with shock on his face. Before Elon can even say anything the dwarf starts yelling "What are you all still doing here? Ye killed the entire crew and stayed? Do ye have bats in ye belfries? You gotta go before other Xanathar find you here. If they knows you did it, the whole guild will put a price an ye heads!" As the various members of the party wake up Thorvin continues, "You all have a reputation, thought ye were smarter than this." Looking directly at Phaedra, "It be like ye harps have some broken strings or something!" Looking to the rest of the party he starts making shooing motions, "Come on, the lot of ya, get it going. There's another crew coming to check on this one for not reporting in. Git gone and I'll tell 'em it was like this when I got here!"

As some of you try to talk or ask questions the dwarf continues to cut you off and talk over you. He herds the lot of you up the stairs and through a door that opens into an alley. The door closes behind you and you see there's no knob to open it from the outside. As you all look around you see that you're in a dark alley, and you estimate it's probably not even midnight yet.

OOC: Everyone gets the benefit of a short rest

Selinae begins the long bleary-eyed walk towards Trollskull.

Kestrell nods "Yeah, you are right, we shouldn't have tried for a long rest."

Hit Die: 15

• "When our beds are near..." she says in an accusatory tone.

Silver just stands up checking his gear and begins to walk. Keeping quiet most of the way.

Elon trails behind the others feeling a little embarrassed.

Phaedra marches them back to Trollskull.

"We that got us nowhere except at the bottom of a pile of dead. We need to rethink how we are going to do this. But first... everyone what a hot chocolate?"

"Sounds great.  With Marshmallows?"

While everyone sips hot chocolate Kestrell asks: "What are we trying to do?  We want to find this shady dude who stole something from the other shady dude in that house we looked at before we went down in the sewers?"

Selinae nodded eagerly but her eyes were already close to closing again...

"Everyone is after it because it is the key to untold riches. If someone unscrupulous gets it, they will have the money to buy and do whatever they want."

"I came here to help stop the fighting yet we just wipped out an entire hidden base. Someone will get the blame."

Silver just takes some whiskey and pours it into the hot chocolate. He listens, sipping quietly before speaking up “Naw only one guild will get blamed.” He says nodding to Elon “Apparently his guild and my guild ran into each other looking for the stone and had it out. So most likely Xanathar will see it as retaliation and will escalate. At least, let’s hope that is what happens because the other option isn’t pretty for us in this room. At least in the other situation it may wipe out some of the supposed bad guild member that Elon’s been going on about.”

He takes a sip “The real question for us is what do we do with the gem. If it’s that powerful and sought after I’d only trust one guild with it.” his eyes resting on Phaedra before he looks back down at his hot chocolate.

"Well I know that once we get it off Fenerus Stormcastle that it would be safe with the Harpers until things are sorted, but in the end it would be best with the Council of Waterdeep. Having said that, I am not sure where the allegiance of Waterdeep's nobles are at the moment, especially seeing they have devil worshipers among them. I still don't think we have seen the last of them. Lady Gralhund did not make a deal with the devil to just roll over and let us ruin her plans."

Kestrell notices Silver pouring the whiskey into the hot chocolate and holds out his mug, motioning for a bump as well. 

"Yes, yes.  That makes sense.  OK, so let's go back into the sewers first thing in the morning and find this gem."

He pauses and thinks. Then adds.  "Well maybe after some hotcakes." with a wink at Selinae.

Selinae is drooling slightly against the wall, fast asleep....

Soon everyone washes up to remove the smell of sewer and heads to bed. When you arise the next morning you hear a lot of joyful noises coming from the taproom. There you find three familiar children all playing with Lif. The ghost is flying around and through Squiddly, Nat, and Jenks as they attempt to grab him. You also find Vassa standing to the side with a grin as he watches the kids play and you see Jorn and Bason carrying out boxes of glassware and placing it behind the bar.

OOC: for those keeping count, it's now 21st day of Marpenoth and the 14th day since this adventure started.

"Kids!" Phaedra beams. "You came to visit after all... I am impressed that Lif here did not send you running for the hills! Have you had breakfast?"

After a good rest, Elon wakes to the commotion and walks out to see the children and Phae.

He approaches Phae "I believe Silver is correct that no faction in Waterdeep can be trusted. If we find the jewel then the Harper's should take it out of Waterdeep for safe keeping. Even the Counsel is corrupt" he then sits down to watch the children play.

Silver just pours into Kestrells mug waiting for him to tell him to stop.

-----in the morning----

Silver chuckles as he pats Elon on the back "Glad we agree on something at least." he says walking to the bar and pouring some rose wine, cheese and bread. He just looks at the kids running around and gives a faint smile "After you all eat, how would you like to earn some coin? We have some chores that need done around here." he says holding up six silver pieces.