📎 Waterdeep – Job Report: “The Gilded Ghost” (✖️FAILED)
Delivered via a blood-stained note stuffed into a rusted birdcage outside your safehouse.
🎯 Target: House Husteem’s ancestral crypt, North Ward (artefact theft – “The Ghost Pendant”)
💥 Attempted Take: Enchanted necklace once worn by Delendra Husteem — said to grant spectral misdirection
🧥 Plan: Masquerade ball distraction. Two crew in disguise, third underground through wine tunnel.
🕳️ Complication: Noble heir never left the crypt. Undead. Hungry. And very aware.
💣 Crash Point:
“I swear it blinked. The pendant blinked.”
⚠️ Fallout:
- Two Watch members injured by summoned wraiths.
- Local priest of Kelemvor has begun “spiritual cleansing” patrols.
- Clutch escaped through the catacombs. Brin left his cloak behind.
🔥 Heat: +3 (noble family witnessed attackers, divine attention drawn)
Current Total: 4
🐍 Whispers:
“Word is some new crew tried to rob the dead and got caught by ghosts and gossip.”
Report intercepted by Madame Verrel’s courier. No return address.