Sack Won a Halfling (GB005)

4th Eleasis, 1492 - Beneath Waterdeep
Things get weird. er.

48 hours after his street game of Bones, we learn that Sack may have won a halfling. Who appears somewhat dishevelled from Sack's seemingly bottomless backpack with bones (intentional) and toenails (unintentional) in her hair.

Wistie the halfling rogue urchin joins the Good Boys on an assumed equal partnership, though this is not formally discussed.

Wistie (as a Waterdeep native) recalls that people have been found murdered lately, with their heads and feet cut off and the feet missing. It's assumed to have something to do with the podiatry shrine they find themselves in.

Moving on into the dark, they encounter a cesspool and Steve recounts an old legend of one of the old Masked Lords of Waterdeep who opened a portal to the Demiplane of Filth to dispose of the city's sewage, before it was closed due to an incursion of extraplanar filth creatures.

Sack for some reason chooses to cannonball into the sewage. Wistie (still riding papoose) bails just in time, and Sack is immersed up to his waist. The disturbance triggers the appearance of a glowing green tentacle from the sewage, which constricts Sack before Moloch (who is a sniper with her recently acquired sling) sends it slithering back under.

Moving on the group spot a juvenile brass dragon trapped in a rockfall, being harassed by two Darkmantles.

Sack, charging in, promptly has his head eaten as a ball of darkness envelops the squid-like beings. While Friend in wolf form, acting on scent alone, drags the limp Orc from the darkness, Wistie gets her first taste of Good Boys combat and similarly has her head eaten. With Green Steve and Gorkoh providing covering fire, Moloch the Sniper dispatches both Darkmantles and revives Wistie before moving to speak with the wyrmling.

Friend reveals during a dragon-racism tirade that his village was destroyed by a dragon, and storms off into the darkness followed by Sack and Wistie who help him to calm down. Meanwhile Moloch rescues and bonds with the (very young) dragon Dabshabah.

Though only Moloch can understand it, and the party have to trust that she is translating accurately, Friend is reluctantly moved by its story of being chased from its mother and home by a large Green Dragon, and sullenly agrees not to murder it while Moloch takes responsibility.

Soap opera music plays and the curtain falls on the episode.