Heist, Heist, Baby
Informational Note: A full party has randomly appeared!
First a brief flashback:
Ycks having left Jericho and Silbiiah at the Inn, Ycks headed for the docks to search for Sunny. They spent 3 hours scouring both the east and west docks and did not find their ship or Sunny. They were about to give up hope when they spotted a familiar purple skinned, black haired tiefling swinging down from a mast of a ship titled Plank’s Constant. As the tiefling landed on the dock in front of Ycks, greeting her former captain, was Raven, formerly the rigger on Ycks ship. She informed Ycks that Sunny had returned to the ship he’d come in on in a hurry after encountering Ycks and had left town with the ship immediately. Raven also mentioned to Ycks that while she was glad to see them alive, she would love it if they forgot they ever knew her since they still run head long into things. Ycks agreed and bid Raven farewell heading to meet up with the party at The Market.
We return to find our adventurers:
The entire party is making their way from The Market to Helmer’s Wall - a popular tavern for college students in Silverymoon. Arriving at the crowded tavern during the lunch rush, the party manages to find a table, orders food, and begins to talk strategy. Mott presents his plan:
They go now, during daylight, and split into 3 teams: Team 1 is Silbiiah and Jeri who will make a distraction in the streets outside the garden. Team 2 is Lunaris, Eta, and Fianna who will wander the garden and be on stand by if needed. Team 3 is Ycks and Mott who will be going in.
The party debates about this for an extended period of time- going back and forth about should they/shouldn’t they. During this time they are eating and Lunaris, who has gotten Mott to buy him ice cream, casts enlarge on his second bowl of ice cream, momentarily distracting the party from their discussion, but a minute later it shrunk back to it’s regular size, leaving Lunaris a little sad about not getting to eat it. Mott getting fed up with everything, especially the shenanigans of the new comer, tells Lunaris that he should leave and go back to the library and if he sees Baltar to tell them they need him. Lunaris simply lets this roll off his back and the party heads out to the palace.
Upon coming up to the gates of the palace the party start to separate into their smaller groups. Lunaris breaks off and heads up to the gate pulling a scroll from his pocket to attempt to deliver it to Taern. The guards question him and after checking a list, they tell him he won’t be permitted entry as he and the library are not on the list for Taern today. The guards do also indicate after a question from Lunaris that Taern is here right now. Lunaris is warned that should he go into the garden and try to approach Taern’s apartment he would be arrested. Lunaris does relay this to Mott. Silbiiah and Jericho ask another set of guards if they can put on a fighting demonstration and they are asked if they have a permit for such an entertainment. When they said no, they were told that they would need to get a permit at The Star Court if they wanted to do that, but they were of course free to peace bond their weapons and take a stroll in the garden- so they head into the garden. Everyone else at this point just decides to head into the garden to see what they can see. Not too long after they enter the garden a servent emerges from Taern’s apartment and runs to the main palace, shortly returning with a large pile of items including food- dropping an apple and a pear on the way. Lunaris picks up the dropped fruit and attempts to approach apartment 6 to deliver the items, but five feet from the door finds himself magically frozen and guards immediately swarm him.
While the guards are questioning and hauling Lunaris out, the rest of the party wisely decides to get out of there because clearly this is not the time. They decide to head back to The Wall to come up with a new plan. Lunaris breaks off to head back to The Vault because he needed to check in.
The party sits down feeling defeated in a much less crowded tavern than the one they had left after lunch. They debated tactics and what should happen next and during this time Eta overheard a conversation of two noble college students saying that Taern was in charge of a party at the Stag Stand tonight. Eta shared this information with the party and they decided to attempt the heist again tonight, after the start of the party. At this point they were unsure of how to relay this information to Lunaris when what appeared to be Lunaris swaggered in and approached them.
But this dark elf was different. He spoke with a harsher voice and said Lunaris had told him about them and that he was Moondancer and he would help them with their heist. Taken aback the party asked a lot of questions, but eventually decided they would let him come along. So the party heads out making their way back to the palace area.
It is decided that Eta, Silbiiah, and Fianna will keep watch and that everyone else will go in. After doing some quick perimeter scoping, they were ready to begin. Silbiiah used her wings to get entry party over the fence and then went and joined Eta and Fianna across the street to keep watch. Ycks, Mott, Jeri, and Moondancer headed over the lawn, jumped the patio wall and began their infiltration of the apartment.
They entered and immediately found themselves in the bedroom of Taern and the clock they were seeking was directly on the wall. While Moondancer was checking for a magic- which seemed to be all over, the other three had a brief discussion and decided to snag the clock and then look for other loot. Before Moondaner was finished with his check, Jeri reached up and took the clock off the wall, triggering a glyph of warding and setting off a cold trap. Luckily it didn’t take anyone down and though they were a little worse for the wear, they decided to look around to see what else they could find. Ycks uncovered a bag of gems in the nightstand next to the bed, but didn’t find anything in the bathroom. Mott and Jeri took the clock out onto the patio.
Moondancer upon further exploration of the apartment discovered a study but upon entry he was immediately grappled by a rug of smothering. Just managing to get a warning out and calling for help, Ycks, and Mott rushed in to help. The rug was defeated and Moondancer and Ycks took a look at the desk in the study, but missed that it was trapped. They each took some poison needles and were not looking good. Moondancer having snagged a coin purse from the desk with only Ycks seeing it, decided he’d had enough and headed out to meet up with Jeri on the porch, while Mott and Ycks decided that at this point they might as well finish the search.
After finding the kitchen and deciding to leave it alone, they entered the lounge where Mott found a statue of a Silver Raven. He decided that was interesting and took it. They then advanced to the last room on the other end of the apartment- a formal parlor. A quick search of the room left Ycks taking an interesting looking crystal globe and then the two headed back out.
During all this time those watching from across the street had no issues, though they knew if they lingered much longer the returning guard patrol would find them pretty suspicious if they were still here on their next pass. But just as they thought this, the interior party emerged from the building and started across the lawn. Moondancer holding the clocked had misty stepped over to get the large clock out and let them know what happened.
With some quick thinking on Moondancer and Silibiiah’s part they shrunk the clock and put it in the bag of holding. Moondancer then took the bag to head back to The Wall to meet up with the party after. Fianna and Eta also started making their way that way. Silbiiah quickly crossed the street as Mott used heat metal on the fence. Then Jeri and Silbiiah bent the fence so they could all get out. Silbiiah healed Ycks of the poison damage, but was still supporting the injured and drunk seeming Ycks as the party hurried away from the area just as the next guard patrol arrived. As they turned the corner to start their trek to The Wall, they could hear the guards starting to send up an alert that something was wrong with the fence.
And so we leave the party fleeing the scene of the crime…
