Smoll embiggens the privy hole of Denny’s basement. The party drops yet again into the Waterdeep sewer system, a.k.a. Waterdeep public transportation system, and locates the underside of the street access noted by Smoll during the previous evening’s stakeout. Togy reckons another side passage puts them directly beneath the boarding house targeted by Laeral Silverhand as the possible location of the pilfered Stone of Golor.
A pair of secret doors on opposite sides of the sewer passage look promising. Smoll sticks her head into the southern option and observes some dwarves involved in some sort of dwarven tinkering and dwarven talking. Togy selects the non-dwarven northern option, a neglected room of stone pillars and arches that appears relaxingly abandoned until troglodyte after troglodyte violently emerges from concealment. The party beats back the troglodyte infestation without too much embarrassment and, despite Reade’s unspoken inner conflict, eradicates the brood mother and her egg nest.
Janky, off to explore an adjacent room to the east, gets muddled by a gibberish of voices. In a moment of clarity he puts an arrow into the room’s gibbering mouther occupant. The gibbering mouther retorts with a phlegm glob of blinding light. The party swiftly defeats the aberration before it can fulfill its terrible potential.