Session 0

You decide the sewers sound good.  You start to fly off before saying so, then stop yourself.  "Sewers!" you call back.

"Have fun, make sure you take a bath later!" she calls back.

You remember her mentioning entrances near the docks and that's where the big guy is, so you make your way over there as fast as possible.  Which, it turns out, is quite quick.  You find the half-orc just starting to leave when you see him, so you dive at him.

"Gah!" he swats at you in surprise, and you backflip out of the way.

"Hi!  We're going to explore the sewers today.  C'mon, let's go!"

"Ugh... Stinky, small sewers..." he growls.  "Easy for you.  Small, easily fit.  Me, big.  Orc, strong sense of smell."

"Wow!  I didn't know that."  You barely break pace as you head over to one of the big sewer grates.  You take a quick look around to make sure no one's looking at you, then you slip between the bars.

"Wait-" he calls behind you.  You pause and hear the sound of the cover being pulled off, then slammed back on.  While you wait, you decide the bit of light slipping through other entrances isn't good enough, so you brighten up the area so you unleash some dancing lights around you.  Much more convenient than human lanterns!  Or torches.

"Stay close!" you tell him.

"Mmmph," he groans, hunched over and struggling to move at a quick pace without falling in the water.

But this place is plenty big for you.  It's really annoying having to go so, so, so slow for him.  But at least all the really giant rats run off when they hear him coming!  Loudly.  And indelicately.  And... giving up any chance of stealth you'd have...  It's better than having to punch a bunch of rats because they think they can take you on because you're small.  But this could be a problem.

After a few minutes of wandering around - you think, kinda hard to keep track of time down here - there's finally a sign of anything interesting at all right near a big T-shaped intersection.  No footprints, no suspicious trash or ritual materials, nothing useful... but finally a bloodstain!  If you're doing your math right (and poking your head out of the nearest grate makes you think you are), it's pretty close to the scene of the crime.  There's... a lot of blood.  Someone de-e-e-e-efinitely died here.  And the trail doesn't really seem to go anywhere.  Maybe the body got picked up here, or disintegrated, or eaten by a sewer slime, or teleported... or turned into cookies!  Witches do that sometimes, and you think you remember something about a coven of evil witches around, too?  Not the cult you're chasing, probably, but if you happen to run into clues while you're investigating one, might as well make a note of it!

Well, if you had to guess which way someone would've gone from here after murdering someone, looking at where the blood is...  It probably went off to the north!  Through the droopy part of the T.  You stare down that way, and you see... nothing.  Just a tunnel of sewers that seems to continue, unending, gradually fading as it stretches off into the darkness around your lights.

(A) Grab your friend and investigate down that path!
(B) Leave your friend here and try sneaking down that way, quiet-like.
(C) Actually, enough sewer time.  Let's go try something else (pick).

Tru A, You can fail a stealth check you can't fail a buddy check

Witches is also good A

You keep exploring the sewers.  And exploring, and exploring.  Eventually, your lights run out and you have to stay close to your big friend and his torch, which is really annoying.  Really, really annoying.

And even with all the exploring you don't find anything.  You stay for hours.  Probably.  You go through 2 torches so that's probably about right.  Between your partner's constant grumbling, your lights going out, and all the nothing you're finding, it is... annoying.

There's something here.  You know there's something here.  You don't know if it's witches or cultists or a really big, sneaky monster or a thieves' guild but there's something here.  And you can't find it and it's annoying you.  You don't even find any more clues.  But it's close and you can feel it so why can't you see it?

Annoyed.

Eventually your partner says he's had enough of the stink and the crawling around without any clues, so he's taking his torches and going to bed.  And with no other light source, you're forced to abandon the hunt.  For now.

As you get out of the sewers, your partner starts back to the docks.  "Others nap.  Stinky pixie, go bath first.  I river."  He doesn't wait for an argument.

Annoyed.

(A) Stinky pixie, go bath
(B) Go get some more torches and get back in the sewers (give up resting before the mission)
(C) Try to convince one of the others to come with you (give up resting before the mission)
(D) Go check out somewhere else (give up resting before the mission)

A

B.