<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">DM's Notes</div><div class="spoiler_body">DM Notes:  Module played is DDAL07-03 titled "A Day at the Races"<br/>Currently Approved Players: <strong>Hamadryad</strong>, <strong>Stendarr</strong>, <strong>greenknight</strong>, <strong>RedPhoenix</strong>, <em>[3 Slots Still Available]</em><br/><br/><strong>REMINDER:  ALL NEW PLAYERS ARE AWARDED <span class="bbc_u">1 FREE POTION OF HEALING</span></strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Faction Assignment (Harpers)</div><div class="spoiler_body">Faction Assignment (Harpers). The Harpers are always on the lookout for anything that might unhinge a delicate political situation, such as that left when Amn withdrew from Chult. Rumor is circulating suggesting that sects of indigenous yuan-ti have an interest in Port Nyanzaru, and no rumor is too small to investigate. Members who find any involvement of the yuan-ti should report with haste, but without their suspicion. <br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Faction Assignment (Order of the Gauntlet)</div><div class="spoiler_body">Alastar Bol asks members of the Order of the Gauntlet to report to his villa for what he unabashedly admits is a trivial task. Alastar frequents the races but has recently come down with a rather bad case of “it’s too damned hot outside.” He asks members to attend Na N’buso’s Haka, and place a bet on his favorite dinosaur—Mountain Thunder, an aging dimetrodon for him.<br/><br/><em><strong>“I hear they’re retiring her soon. Be a good sap, put 5 gold down on her. Bring me the ticket for keepsake and I’ll let you keep any winnings that she is bound to bring in.”</strong> He winks, then wipes sweat from his creased brow and second chin.</em> <br/></div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Maps"</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Chult"</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://ddoplayers.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TOAMap1.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Port Nyanzaru"</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.imgur.com/ldnCu2L.jpg)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Map Legend</span><br/>1. Beggars' Palaces [Old City]<br/>2. Executioner's Run [Old City]<br/>3. Refuse Pit [Old City]<br/>4. Goldenthrone [Merchant's Ward]<br/>5. Merchant Prince's Villa [Merchant's Ward]<br/>6. Grand Souk [Merchant's Ward]<br/>7. Temple of Savras [Merchant's Ward]<br/>8. Temple of Gond [Merchant's Ward]<br/>9. Temple of Sune [Merchant's Ward]<br/>10. Jewel Market [Merchant's Ward]<br/>11. Royal Docks [Harbor Ward]<br/>12. Statue [Harbor Ward]<br/>13. Harbormaster's Office [Harbor Ward]<br/>14. Lighthouse [Harbor Ward]<br/>15. Fort Nyanzaru [Harbor Ward]<br/>16. Warehouse District [Harbor Ward]<br/>17. Dry Dock [Harbor Ward]<br/>18. Red Bazaar [Market Ward]<br/>19. Fish Market [Market Ward]<br/>20. Grand Coliseum [Market Ward]<br/>21. Hall of Gold [Market Ward]<br/>22. Public Bathhouse [Market Ward]<br/>23. Dye Works [Market Ward]<br/>24. Temple of Tymora [Malar's Throat]<br/>25. Dinosaur Pens [Tiryki Anchorage]<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Do not be afraid to request information regarding each area.</strong></span><br/></div></div></div></div><br/><br/><br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/>-------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/><br/><br/>Port Nyanzaru has the following general features.<br/><strong>Weather.</strong>The weather in Chult fluctuates wildly (and Port Nyanzaru is no exception. It’s consistently hot, humid, and plagued with incessant rains.<br/><strong>Light.</strong>Between storms, the Chultan sun sheds bright light until nightfall, often it maintains even through the rains.  The wealthier parts of town enjoy shade from some of the higher canopies of the surrounding jungle.<br/><strong>Smells and Sounds.</strong>The fragrances of Port Nyanzaru’s middle and upper-class help escape the pervasive stench of sweat, dinosaur dung, and sewage.<br/><br/><br/>Each party member had responded to a personal request from Ekene-Afa, one of the more respected Merchant Princes of Chult.  She has requested that you investigate concerns surrounding race fixing and any obstacles to the economic windfall of the wildly popular dinosaur races that the city hosts.<br/><br/><strong>Assuming there is The adventure begins at the foot of the Tiryki Gate, just inside the Market Ward. </strong><br/><br/>When all are accounted for, a short, dark-skinned Chultan female materializes at the base of the steps. Her beady eyes smile up at you as she brushes back wire-thin curls over her balding pate. A rich purple sash over loose layers of vibrant yellows and oranges denotes her station as a Port Nyanzaru bookie.<br/><br/>“Nay-um’s Mowbula. Yuhs look like da mob dem owls said me. Cooee close!”<br/><br/>The climb up the stairs seems to take forever behind Mowbula but gives you plenty of time to piece together, but not place, her dialect.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">"Mowbula'</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Dark skin. Balding pate. Friendly smile. Harper contact.  Mowbula’s rope belt sags under the burden of bulging coin-pouches slid to the knot. Although she seems to be oddly uninterested in money, she is quick to produce a ledger for recording betting or illegible notes about those nearby. Her beady-eyes betray a mental alacrity underscored by choppy, muddled common. A slight whistle accentuates her “S” when she struggles to translate a term.</div></div>