Menzoberanzan

You make your way to the house exit. To do so you pass through a long narrow tunnel filled with numerous deadly traps and then a solid adamantine door and beyond that a walled keep were a goblin tribe lives. The rest of Menzoberanzan assumes the tribe are slaves, the truth is that they just live there and have done so for a long time giving tribute to the house. Numerous times the Matron Mother or her wives have tried to explain that they don’t require Tribute but the goblins just don’t seem to really understand. In their world the less powerful tribes pay tribute to the stronger.

At least the goblins don’t bother you as you pass through and finally exit into the city proper. You note the westrift and look down on Blade street. There forges down there are strangely inactive and there isn’t the usual pall of smoke that generally stays over that area.

You start heading east towards the Bazaar passing by some of the other houses as you do so. You move along Hag’s walk and then immediately south avoiding Manyfolk where House Higure live. You enter the Northwest of the Bazaar passing the guards there and are about to head onto the Stumble when you note a commotion within the Bazaar.

A group of men, it looks like a number of Cultists from the Cult of Vhaeraun, are attacking a priestess and her entourage. T’rissae immediately recognizes the priestess as her ally Arduva Melarn. Arduva and her entourage look as if they might not win the encounter and the rest of the Bazaar looks on waiting to see who wins before snatching up the scraps.

Silver heads towards the fight and shouts "Filthy males , stay away from the Priestess!" The Priestessappearsto be an ally of the house and one must keep up appearances

The battle is joined and Trissae is able to meet up with the Scion of House Melarn. In a somewhat familiar manner, the two women find themselves fighting back-to-back once again. Arduna laughs, "Hey there Triss, just like old times huh?"

The cultists of Vhearaun themselves are far more numerous than you'd first thought with some coming from out of the onlookers to attack you screaming their anger and discontent as they attack. You can almost understand their anger, you know all too well the unfairness of life outside House Platin walls and while some of you might accept that murder might further your goals you know that this chaotic and utterly useless attack will do nothing for anyone right now.

Silver waits until one of them is wounded, then Silver raises her hand, and the sound of a bell echoes through the air towards one of the wounded males. He suddenly feels a wave of necrotic energy flow through him.

The battle ends with more than twenty dead cultists. The Vhearaunites fought to the last and now the rest of the Bazaar is waiting for you to take any spoils before they descend on the bodies.

Arduna and her guards look at your group. The women of the guard waiting for the politics. Arduna steps to Trissae and bows deep. "My house will recognize a debt owed to House Platin for this."

Where the guards can’t see she signs, "Contact me later, this may be an advantage for both our houses."

With that, she and her guards quickly head to her House. Then, you continue on your way.

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You make it fully across town on the eastern side of the city. House Baenre occupies the highest tier in the main cavern of Menzoberranzan, at the eastern end of Qu'ellarz'orl.

The compound is roughly oval in shape, three-eighths of a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, surrounded by a magnificent and magical fence that has the appearance of a silver spider's web wrapped around the general blue hues of the Baenre compound twenty feet high, this barrier is formed of iron strands as thick as a Drow’s arm, and enchanted so that anything touching it becomes stuck fast until the matron mother of the house wills it to be freed. Rumors suggest that not even the sharpest of drow weapons can put a nick in this Lolth-given gift.

Entrance is gained through one of several symmetrical web-gates, the principal one being set between the outer compound's tallest two stalagmites, which spiral out, creating a circular gap.

It is at one of these web-gates, that you find yourself right now. One of the elite female warriors of House Baenre looks upon you with disdain, "What house sigil is that? House Baenre has no time for commoners."