The Creepy Case of the Cursed Curios

The below group investigated the reported of the mysterious magical shop that appeared in Waterdeep. After blagging their way inside, they eventually convinced the female Drow shopkeep, by the name of Ardul'olin that they were more discerning that the other customers, and wanted to see the rest of her stock. She consented, and once she had the party trapped in her parlor, she revealed her true, ghostly form and banished the party to a demi-plane, for interfering with her affairs. Adventuring through the bizarre ghostly dungeon, the party battled many constructs, as well as occassionally encountering frightening tableaus, that when interacted with, animated to tell a story. The group eventually pieced together that Ardul'olin was the daughter of a Drow couple that had been lynced by a rascist mob in the human centric town of Hillsfar, and she had prayed for revenge. Continuing on, Vesryn found the Drow's diary, in a library, and being Half-Drow himself, and able to read undercommon, he could piece together whole story. Upon reading it to the group, the books and diary in the library coalesced into a gigantic magical contruct, with shields orbiting it, and an animated magical staff. After a deadly battle, coming close to ending the parties adventuring career, they triumphed, and the construct melted away.(edited)

As the realm appeared to loose it's coherence and shimmer, the party saw a heap of portraits and notes appear. Redarmande pieced together that the portraits matched the faces of statues in an earlier tableau, and he successfully determined that these were the details of the lynching mob. Red vowed to track them down, and the party suddenly found themselves back in Waterdeep, in the shop, now abandoned, but the malevolent curses had disappeared. Looting what they could carry from the shops now mundane stock, they returned.

Key Events; - A well placed fireball from K'throll saved the party from a swarm of animated murderous dolls. - Vesryn and Red pieced together the mystery from the ghoulish animated plays they were shown. - Sivone dodged 5 attacks, rolled with advantage, while prone from a flying swarms of animated caltrops. - Vesryn was killed by a melee attack from the animated staff while down. He was ressurected after battle, and his ressurection DC is now 11. - K'throll avoided being instantly overkilled by 1 point of damage, when the Living Spellbook burnt it's 6th level spell slot to use it's Mana Burn ability and did 73 damage. - Redarmande received inspiration for a future session, after rolling a nat 20 on insight to identify the portraits.

@Loric | William with Loric,

@zRaptor with K'throll,

@Corbeau with Redarmande,

@Finn with Vesryn and

@Fedd with Sivone