Talon Vekadrin reaches the little room above the Green Leaf Inn, where pipe weed smoke clings to the rafters and cold night air slips in through the eaves. His quarters look untouched, the bed neat, the window barred, the few stolen trinkets where he left them.
Below, the tavern murmur thickens into a restless churn. Footsteps pass the stair. A chair scrapes. Someone is searching, and they are searching with care.
Maddie Potholder
Up there, then? Keep your voices down. I need this place calm, not in pieces.
Maddie’s voice carries from the room below, tight with calculation. Helena answers too softly to make out, then falls silent.
Talon Vekadrin
The room is clear. The noise below is not.
From the stairwell comes a lighter tread, hesitant but not blind. Someone pauses at Talon’s door, as if weighing whether to knock or break the quiet.
✓ Quest Accepted
Stay hidden in the inn room
✓ Quest Accepted
Escape Waterdeep
“Talon quietly climbs in the hidden wall compartment and pulls it closed peering out through the peek hole”
SUCCESS (Superb Stealth, rolled +1)
Talon slips into the wall compartment and draws the panel shut to a hairline crack. The hidden seam swallows him, leaving only a narrow eye to the room beyond.
The chamber darkens around his breath. Through the peek hole, the stairwell edge and the top of the doorframe sit in tense silence, waiting.
Maddie Potholder
Easy now. No one blunder up there unless they mean trouble.
Below, Maddie angles a hand toward the stairs, holding the room with a host's authority while the tavern noise frays and hushes.
Helena
Someone is at the door again.
From Talon's slit of shadow, a figure in the stairwell pauses outside his hidden wall, head turned toward the room as if listening for a second breath.
The knuckles at the front door strike once more, hard and measured, and the stairwell visitor reaches for the latch.
Quest Complete
Stay hidden in the inn room