Session Summary: Sewer Jazz, Contractual Murder, and the Milk Maiden’s Voyage
Tags: dnd session-summary campaign
Campaign: Tip of the Diceberg
Session date: 2026-04-28
In-game window: Post-Moghammer afterparty through first-light jungle departure
Start: Xibalba, after the dinosaur race and boat party
End: First light, leaving Xibalba by canoe with Lilith down a large creek into the jungle
Status: Complete
Previously, on Tip of the Diceberg
The party had blown up the Biscar operation, cured Elza Toth, humiliated the local racing establishment, and accidentally turned Moghammer into Xibalba’s newest sports celebrity. Jibari Muchtow was exposed, Waddo was turning against him, and the jungle was starting to pull every loose plot thread inward.
This session began as jungle prep. It ended with a written death contract, a glowing bard invitation, a sewer pasta wizard invoking the Symposium, a meadery business plan, and a fully Hot-Wheels-tattooed battle toad.
Normal Tuesday.
Lilith and the Jungle Lead
The party met Lilith, a jungle guide looking for her missing crew: Mosquito and Chago. This immediately mattered because Mosquito is Flea’s father.
Lilith last saw them at the Temple of Cayochan. The plan is to meet at first light at the ship, bring a canoe, and head into the jungle.
At session close, Lilith arrived at first light and explained the route: the party will take a canoe down a large creek to get deeper into the jungle.
Legrand’s War Briefing
Legrand returned to the ship with a serious political briefing.
In one month, Waddo plans to raid Jibari Muchtow’s villa, one of the highest-security places in Xibalba. Waddo has heard of Jibari’s betrayal, and now it is time for Jibari to go.
Legrand framed the coming conflict as princes vs. gladiators.
The raid is being delayed for one month because they want to find Artus Cimber first. Artus has the Ring of Winter, which could turn the tide. He has been traveling in the jungle for about six months, and Legrand is heading out solo to find him.
Shopping, Schimitaurs, and Cassidy’s Basket Days
Jungle prep got strange immediately.
Bonzo ate the raven feather from Balm Bitdoom, activating its magic. He can now turn into a raven 3 times per day.
Isilrod went looking for a canoe and bought 3 healing potions.
Faf went to the salty docks of Xibalba looking for a fight. He spotted a shadowed tusk and scimitar in an alley: another minotaur with a scimitar. He lost sight of it, but it seemed to be watching the party. Faf, correctly, dubbed this phenomenon the schimitaur.
Convinced no one would believe him, Faf went retail-therapy shopping:
- 6 jugs for 15 coin, after scaring the merchant down from 40 gp
- 2 sets of picking tools and a jar of honey for 40 gp
Meanwhile, Bodius found a pygmy ogre merchant who looked a lot like Futch. This was Cassidy. After Bodius laid on the charisma, he bought:
- Cassidy’s Trademark Any Color of the Rainbow Package, ink and paint in every color
- climbing rope
- a bag of marbles
Isilrod then played Cassidy a song that reminded him of his “basket days.” This turned out to be literal: Cassidy had been sent down a river in a basket as a baby, Moses-style. Moved by the performance, Cassidy gave Isilrod Volo’s Guide to Everything.
The Bathhouse Chest Finally Pays Out
Bodius picked the small chest Faf had found underwater in the bathhouse plunge pool.
Inside:
- a map
- a Hat of Water Breathing
The map marks the location of the Bouty, a ship lost after Captain Robin disappeared while searching for Arameg’s lair. Arameg is the giant turtle the party met on the way into Chult.
The Hat of Water Breathing lets the wearer breathe underwater. Faf gave it to Bonzo, where it makes him look like a Peaky Blinder.
Then Faf put a dead rat inside the chest and slammed it shut, because every party needs a signature move and apparently his is “ominous container rat.”
Down the Manhole
The party remembered the Balm Bitdoom obligation. They had promised to make contact within seven days in exchange for the strange gifts he had given them.
Faf popped a manhole and hopped in “Tallyho” style. Bodius followed with a classic billow entry using his Hyperspectral Peddler’s Cloak. The rest followed.
The sewers were dark and grody, but everyone had darkvision.
A zombie attacked. Bonzo spanked Moghammer, who charged past Bodius and knocked the zombie back. Isilrod ran up and finished it with a swipe of the scimitaur.
At the end of the tunnel, the party found a sweet little hobbit-hole door. Smooth jazz leaked through it.
Balm Bitdoom’s Sewer Cottage
Inside was not a normal sewer room. It was a cozy cottage. Tomatoes were cooking. A bald, long, gangly man with giant goggles, a mustache, and pots hanging all over him was reading in bed. The whole vibe was Kamaji from Spirited Away.
He had been waiting and had pasta prepared.
The party realized this was literally Balm Bitdoom, who had somehow made it to Xibalba extremely fast.
Balm Bitdoom pulled out two pipes and tossed one to Bodius. It floated through the air. Bodius took a pull and rolled a perfect d20 smoke figure: a ring in a ring in a heart, struck by an arrow, then transmuting into a phoenix that flew back into the pipe.
Balm Bitdoom gave Bodius the Pipe of Smoke Monsters. While smoking it, Bodius can use an action to exhale smoke in the form of a single creature, like a dragon. The smoke disappears after a few seconds.
Isilrod and Bonzo then performed an epic duet for Balm Bitdoom. It was, on the official record, legit as fuck.
The Midsommer Invitation
Balm Bitdoom loved the duet, but he could not accept it as debt remittance.
He did, however, give Isilrod a piece of glowing parchment: an invitation to Midsommer Night’s.
Text:
Welcome Brotherbard. Join us in 5 nights time at old Tin Tops Juke Joint and Casino for an evening of Song.
Balm Bitdoom said Old Tin Tops Juke Joint and Casino is somewhere in the jungle.
This is now the clearest Midsommer lead so far, and it gives the party a hard 5-night clock.
The Real Balm Bitdoom Debt
Then Balm Bitdoom named the actual price.
He wants the Kilburg Card Deck from Ras Nsi’s pocket.
Terms:
- Deadline: 3 months
- If delivered: the party can keep Balm Bitdoom’s gifts, except for 1 item
- If not delivered: Balm Bitdoom kills one party member
Bonzo asked for the whole thing in writing. The party got the contract.
Privately, the party held a whisper conference. Balm Bitdoom is charming, hospitable, pasta-forward, and extremely suspicious. The current table read is that he may be big-bad-adjacent, or worse. One possible plan is to level up, come back in 3 months, and kill him instead of handing over the deck.
Then Balm Bitdoom vanished. Right before he disappeared, he said:
Don’t forget, the Symposium is always watching!
Poof.
That line is enormous. It ties Balm Bitdoom directly to the Symposium thread, which already connects to Throbbin Willowmist’s murder and the algiz rune.
Milk Maiden’s Meadery
After the sewer contract nightmare, the party pivoted to entrepreneurship, as one does.
While the party is away, the boat operation will sell milky mead:
- Flea runs the taps
- Dr. Jack Aubry makes the mead
- Syndra Sylvane runs the operation
The business is Milk Maiden’s Meadery, with the tasting room also known as Syndra’s Slop Shop. The party expects great profits while away.
This uses Lazlo Toth’s six-tap purple-heartwood bar with milk-maiden tap handles. It is probably fine. It is definitely profitable. It is spiritually dangerous.
Moghammer Gets the Flames
Using Cassidy’s rainbow package, the party completed Moghammer’s Hot Wheels flame tattoo.
Moghammer is now not only a race-winning amphibious celebrity toad, but a fully tattooed race-winning amphibious celebrity toad.
Where Things Stand
Major active clocks:
- 5 nights: Isilrod’s Midsommer Night’s invitation at Old Tin Tops Juke Joint and Casino
- 1 month: Waddo’s planned raid on Jibari’s villa, ideally with Artus Cimber and the Ring of Winter
- 3 months: Balm Bitdoom’s Kilburg Card Deck contract, with a death threat attached
Immediate travel plan:
- Lilith guides the party by canoe down a large creek into the jungle
- Goal: search for Mosquito and Chago near the Temple of Cayochan
Big unresolved threads:
- Balm Bitdoom is now tied to the Symposium
- Ras Nsi has, or is believed to have, the Kilburg Card Deck
- Midsommer Night’s is real and imminent
- Artus Cimber is somewhere in the jungle with the Ring of Winter
- The Bouty / Captain Robin / Arameg map is a new water lead
- Jibari knows Bodius’s face
- Milk Maiden’s Meadery may become the party’s greatest financial asset or their dumbest liability
Next-session launch pad
The party leaves Xibalba at first light with Lilith, heading by canoe down a large creek into the jungle.
They are chasing Mosquito and Chago, carrying a glowing bard invite, a written death contract from a suspicious sewer wizard, a map to a lost ship, and at least one party member who looks like a Peaky Blinder underwater.
Also, Moghammer has flames now.
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