Chapter 9 Into the Vault 22/09/24

 
Lucky and Lizbet returned from Espar and met up with the rest of the party at the Rusty Pick. Creska turned up and asked the 2 dwarves if they could help him with a mission. Once they'd left the others caught each other up on what they had been doing before retiring to the Manor House to rest. During the night Solas, Shadow and Lucky were attacked by assassins in their sleep and were all subdued, awakening in a jail cell that they realised was in Talesin's underground warehouse. Talesin sat there with the 5 Vault room paintings and told them to work out the order that they needed to be placed in the door to open it or they would die. The party agreed and asked for food, which was brought to them by Lelaia, a tiefling sorceress, who Lucky remembered seeing die when the thorn creatures of Destruction had attacked. Solas noticed that she had a magical shimmer to her skin as tho something red was using an illusion to appear to be the dead tiefling.
 
The Party rested up for a short while before trying a few ways to escape the cell. Shadow contacted his patron, Oberon and cut his wrist, despite the protestations of the others. The blood flowed and formed into a ruby key which fitted the lock and allowed the party to escape.
 
A naked Lucky scouted out into Talesin's office and found Solas' backpack and Thornsbane, his sentient sword. Getting geared up they took the lay of the land and saw that there were only 2 guards on duty in the warehouse, a human barbarian and an elven Archer.
 
Using his newly acquired Ring of Seeming he cast the spell on himself to make him appear as Borthus, Dwarven assassin lieutenant of Talesin, to enter the warehouse and speak with the guards. Doing his best Dwarven accent Lucky quickly dominated the pair with his performance and sent the elf off to fetch him armour for himself and this companions before
 
Gathering the others they put on the armour and searched more thoroughly through Talesin's office. They discovered all of their equipment hidden behind a secret door in the escape corridor that Lucky had been in before that lead to the Vault room.
 
Fully kitted out again the group were going to escape the warehouse when they heard Talesin and his minions leaving the Vault Room. Realising that they would be seen they used the escape corridor to reach the Vault room. Solas summoned up Eme, the incredibly annoying Modron, who told them the order in which the paintings should be place to open the vault doors. With the doors now open the party saw a room full of heaped piles of gold, chests and barrels with a dragon shaped fountain in the centre.