Waterdeep Bombings

On their way back towards The Guildhall in the small hours, Hymn, Kiddir and Locke heard the approaching thunder of hooves and a carriage as it hastened down city streets in their direction. Locke also spotted a pair of shady figures tracking their progress through the city.

As they engaged their uninvited company, the horses and carriage arrived shortly afterwards, bringing with them another armed combatant to the fray, who leapt from the cart as he brought it careening to a halt across the street, nailing an impressive landing to boot.

Gymnastic Prowess aside, the part dealt with their assailants, sparing the life of one who after revealing that the wrath of the Sanguine Raiders was definitely focussed toward the Party was sent back to his masters at the Scab with a message; the Wildcards should not be trifled with.

As the surviving Raider disappeared, the group's attention turned to the carriage and it's horses. The fight had made enough of a commotion to attract the attention of the City Watch, who had dispatched a unit of armed men to keep the peace.

Whilst looking to appropriate the carriage as a means of escape, the Wildcards noticed that the windows were all blacked out, blinds drawn, and Kiddir found the doors to be trapped. When they did find a glimpse of the inside, they found it was packed from floor to roof with explosives.

Unable to quickly manoeuvre the carriage from it's current orientation, and with the noise of the guards approach growing nearer, the three resolved to free the horses from the carriage and just managed to escape into the city streets by horse (or in Locke's case, as horse) before they were detected.

They knew they had to put distance between themselves and the carriage, but the explosion that followed from where they had come from was still a shock. The peaceful city night was rocked by a thunderous boom that seemed to echo across the districts, and the dark, cloudy night sky was illuminated with a fiery orange hue from below as fire spread quickly in the wake of the initial damage. All around them the sleeping city awoke abruptly, and people got busy fleeing or fighting fire.

In the morning, the smoke from the smouldering fires still hung low in the city streets. The Wildcards would learn that several bombs went off in the city that night, all in carriages just like the one they had encountered, but scattered through the Market District and Palace Ward. The efforts to fight the fires from the first explosion had drawn the City Watch away from the sites of the other bombings, meaning the fires had taken longer to quell in those other locations, and the death toll was even higher.