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The party raids The Black Viper to get access her basement, but then are almost defeated by a hypnotic fresco! Find out what happens when the party opens the vault and encounters the large, scaly, red guard!

The party returns to Brandath Crypt in an attempt to unearth the pyramid that will make everyone forget about the treasure! The party shaves a dwarf, battles golems, and pulls of a huge city-wide deception!

After a tense exchange with Laeral Silverhand, the group decides to investigate the mystery tower in Sea Ward where they think the vault of Neverembers Enigma might be, only to find it's owned by Grimm's girlfriend Esvele Rosznar!  They make plans to try to find the Pyramid of Xxiphu and get not only the whole treasure but make sure that nobody knows they've done it! 

A sidequest! Mirt the Moneylender summons Evangeline (and party) to recover an artifact from a well-known dungeon in Waterdeep! Created by a mischievous mage, and filled with monsters, traps, and treasure, what will the adventurers find?

The party frees a demon, then rushes back into the lion's den to get the sapphire! They encounter a powerful simulacrum, an old monk-off nemesis, and Davil! The party fills some hallways with snakes, and moves some more furniture! Will it get them closer to the treasure?

The party sneaks into the Yellowspires of bane, then conducts a police raid on it! After opening an unopenable door, the party sneaks about Kolats Towers, avoiding mages, demons, and (some) golems! Evangeline  gets a peek at a secret pocket dimension, but then receives a poor performance mark on her Zhentarim performance evaluation! How will the party get their hands on that Sapphire?

What do you buy the leader of a bear cult for his nameday? A new tavern! Where he can fight bears! And when the party investigates an increase in undead in the City of the Dead, they almost get spanked by a halfling necromancer headmaster! Manu communes with the Stone of Golorr, and the party begins to investigate Kolat Towers, the suspected site of the last stone required to solve Neverember's En...

The moment we've all been waiting for! The heist is finally here, after subterfuge, research, deceit, surveillance, and preparation! The party moves into the Xanathar's lair with the help of Harpers, City Watch, and Lathanderites! Do they find the Stone of Golorr and the gems? Who is the replacement Mind Flayer? Tune in and find out!

The intrepid party goes on a quest for some dragon dung, and is asked to betray some friends along the way! Promotion ceremonies, spying, planning, and planning for the big heist ensue.

The players meet a new organization, The Cult of the Dancing Bear. Manu opts to fight a bear hand-to-hand, and becomes a member! After a night of drunked celebration, the party then fights Nihloor, with the friends from the Dancing Bear and a small band of Doppelgangers in tow. Webs, fear, and laughter were all had!

Manu the completionist gets his wish! The party returns to the sewer hideout from episode 2, to find out what Nihloor might have been hiding in the room he disappeared in to...

The party nabs the Casslantar butler off the street and feed him to an Illithid! After assuming his identity, they use it to... swap a desk? The party also discovers something remarkable about the eccentric sea captain Zardoz, and pay him a visit to make a deal.

Manu emerges as a half-half-elf, half-machine! Thaern the wizard combined his body with the pieces of the nimblewright, and now he's a bit different! The party seeks the knowledge of Sangalor of the Secrets at the Temple of Oghma, who turns out to know a whole lot! Manu and Grimm cast Speak With Dead with one of the Zhents slaughtered at Gralhund Villa. The party is threatened with a note from the...

The party splits and tackles both a nameday party at the Crommor's for Grimm's brother, and a war between the merfolk and a young Bronze Dragon in Waterdeep Harbor! The party missteps and gets whipped by a cult of Loviatar! Dax joins a new guild, and Manu loses a gladiator fight. After all that, the party rejoins and raids the Gralhund manor! Do they get to the Stone of Golorr, and survive the Zhe...

The Battle of Aveen Street! The party battles an Asmodeus Cult, and barely barely escapes alive! Party members make sacrifices, emotional choices, and death saves! Demons and cultists and leaders and thugs everywhere! 12 rounds of intense battle, and it takes the whole session.

The players have a meeting with Dalakar the Gnome and Renear Neverember, and are planning for it when BOOM! - an explosion rocks Trollskull Alley! The players investigate, interview witnesses, form theories, and give chase to a mechanical Nimblewright! They discover clues, and are treated to Dave's amazing Sean Connery impression as Zardoz the pirate! An eye of suspicion is cast on the Gralhunds,...

Wherein the party explores Brandath Crypt in the City of the Dead! Also some planning/discussion about where to go next!

We pay for tavern renovations and hire some staff! We investigate missing children on a whirlwind tour of windmills! We fight Asmodeus worshipers in their loft apartment! We ambush the Zhentarim by one of their safehouses and find a Xanathar Guild member and his valuable goldfish! We encounter a notorious ghost and Manu pays with 30 years of his life! 

After a recap of the between-session bluebooking and a discussion of financial options, the crew (minus Grimm, out on a date) decide to investigate an underground gladiator competition Manu has heard about, which turns out to be run by the Xanathar Thieves' Guild!  Manu, Dax, and Baldr fight for their lives and (barely) defeat an Orog, a drow, and a bugbear!  They nearly pull off a secon...

Oh no! Our recording failed partway through, so we have a few segments recorded before game start and about half an hour of the gameplay, then Dave read's Jared's excellent session notes so you don't lose the thread.  Sorry listeners, we'll do better! Everyone joins at least one faction and our heroes meet a whole ton of new NPCs as they look to fix up Trollskull Manor, meet the neighbors, and fig...

We dive back into the sewers and infiltrate the Xanathar Thieves' Guild hideout! We make friends with a goblin ratcatcher, fight a gray ooze, beat up some thugs, catch sight of a terrifying mind flayer, kill a half-orc wizard, and rescue floon! We return Floon to Volo, Renaer's locket to him, and the stolen goods to the watchpost! Back at the Yawning Portal, Baldr sings us a drinking song about Ep...

We go on an epic, Waterdeep-spanning pub crawl! We sing the song of the Yawning Portal (37:00)! We help Durnan with a troll problem and get a job offer from a drunken famous author to find his missing boyfriend! Several pubs later, we tangle with some kenku and Manu gets his first official case solved for the Watch! We explore the nasty sewers of Waterdeep and fight a mini-beholder! 

Dave takes over GMing, and forces our heroes to try a new way of making up characters together! Jared's dutybound half-aquatic elf monk solves crimes for the city watch, and is a former rival of John's tiefling bardic scholar scoundrel, who grew up with Rob's hardass half-drow wizard, who is the illegitimate half-brother of Mikey's human noble paladin zealot, who employs Mike's aasimar rogue softi...

We and our minions face off against the Soulmonger, an Atropal, and finally the archlich Acererak himself! We use the word 'strut' more than we expected to! We nearly lose our minotaur several times! We discover that Dyrax the Evoker is the best counterspeller in the universe! Lothar finally sticks to a plan! We free a captive librarian and restore peace and resurrectability to the Forgotten Realm...

We raid the tomb of Shagambi and get Cloudchaser re-possessed! We all get polymorphed into animals and some of us get sucked into an interdimensional mirror! Our party grows even more when we release all the mirror's captives! We steal the Black Opal Crown and find the Level 4 key!  We head down to Level 5 and bid a sad farewell to our unicorn bunny Al Mirage! Amaranth accidentally gets naked...