MB's Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Rayner ties up the unconscious bird, and signal’s the situation is under control. He will after that start investigating the warehouse for the location of Floon, either on rooms or trying too see if there’s secret compartment’s.

Investigating:8

Valen leaves the captives and bodies to the others and starts walking around the warehouse.  He will help the others who are investigating  the building.

"Auric, can you heal this one up a bit? I want to ask him some stuff, and I'm not sure how much time we have."

Rayner uses Valen's help investigating.

Investigation:18

Auric:

Auric, who must have been just about to find something useful, breaks off his search and comes over to the unconscious Kenku.  “Of course,” he says, and reaches down to let a small trickle of healing energy flow into the creature (1 hp from Lay on Hands).

Mal’thrae puts a foot on the tied-up kenku’s chest. He draws a dagger.

”Listen here, you little bugger. You’re going to tell us where Floon is, what you’re doing here, and what that is.“ He points over his shoulder to the pile of dead bodies.

Intimidation: 24

"You guys wouldn't find your noses if they weren't attached to your head looking like that." Valen grumbles and takes a bit of the looking upon himself.  He has Rayner give him a hand htis time.

Investigation: 11 (adv if available: 19)

The kenku looks properly terrified, and opens its beak and says in a deep, orcish accented voice: “Xanathar sends its regards.”

The rest of the party seems overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff in the warehouse, Valen and a Rayner launch a thorough search. In the back, Valen finds what looks like a small storage closet behind a lot of junk.

"That's the ticket, pumpkin. Where's the guy you took, and who the hell is Xanathar? Might as well tell us everything you know before I turn my sword into a rotisserie spit."

It opens its beak again this time with a thin, nasally voice: “Tie up the pretty boy in the back room!” and “Follow the yellow signs in the sewers.”

It thinks for a second, then in a scratchy voice: “No time to loot the place. Just get him to the boss.”

Urukar leans on his greataxe as he listens to the interrogation of the kenku with a smirk on his face.  "More, little bird, sing for us more."

Valen opens the closet door he found.

Auric:

Returning to his searching, Auric looks now at the rest of the warehouse instead of the dead bodies.

Perception:  17

The absolutely terrified bird reverts back to the orc-voice: “Xanathar sends its regards.”

Auric, as you turn away the bodies, something catches your eye on one. It has the same winged snake tattoo that is the Zhentarim symbol, and so do 4 of the others on further inspection. One of the other bodies has a tattoo on the back of his hand that looks like a circle with 10 spokes radiating out from the circumference.

Valen, the door to this back room hangs loosely on broken hinges. The cramped chamber beyond smells strongly of sour fish and vinegar. It is filled with discarded ropes, canvas tarpaulins, and splintered wood from smashed barrels. You can hear ragged breathing from a tarpaulin in the north side of the room.

"Whomever is back there best come out nice and easy." Valen says with a glance to see where the others are.  "We just took out those bird men.  Best not to be stupid unless you want to end up like them."  He bangs his glave's haft on the broken door.  "You under the tarp there, you hearing me?"

P-please...do not hurt me! I'm Raenar Neverember...did you really kill all of them? A well dressed but bedraggen young man crawls out, marred by grime. He looks up at Valen hopefully.

"We captured one I think." Valen says with a shrug.  "Need to find out what he knows about this guy we are trying to find."  He waves the well-dressed man out.  "Come along, the others will want to talk with you I'm sure."

Rayner: "Lord Neverember! Is your lordship wounded? Do you want us to call your father's stewarts?"

Auirc:

Turning from the dead bodies, Auric says, "Looks like some kind of gang war between the Zentarim and maybe those Xanathar people the bird creature is going on about.  Does a symbol of a circle with ten spokes mean anything to anyone?"

At the new voice, Auric looks up quickly and is prepared to leap into action, but it seems they have found one of Floon's companions instead.  As Rayner seems to have the situation well in hand, Auric moves to continue searching the warehouse for anything useful (since he was distracted before by the bodies).

New Perception check if needed:  17

Valen turns the well-dressed guy over to those who seem to recognize him and moves to help with the checking of the place again.

Perception: 16  Passive is 14.