031 - 250630 - Raiders of the Lost Vault - Lost Vault I
Date: 446 PC, Brightwane 25
Players:
Loot:
Dinner plate-sized purple scale (Raven)
Ledger (Ragnum)
Fancy Circular Red Rug (Odett/Raven)
7 bottles of quality wine and spirits, ~450 years old [Scholars Tent]
magical ice bucket, keeps ice cold for centuries [Scholars Tent]
3 x 100gp gold nuggets (can be used for crafting, 60gp worth of gold each if we divide it up) [Scholars Tent]
metal rope from gilded spiders [Scholars Tent]
Chipped Gold Signet Ring (~15 gp) [Odett]
Sapphire-Glass Hookah Mouthpiece (~25 gp) [Ragnum]
Valet’s Satchel: Contains worn gloves, a griffon-head wax seal stamp, and a tin of lavender shoe polish. [Scholars Tent]
Red-Lacquered Writing Set: A dry inkwell, a pair of fine quills, and a scrap of verse on expensive parchment: “Coin cannot quiet wings / nor ledgers balance longing…” [Scholars Tent]
Pair of Silk Viewing Gloves: Stained at the fingertips, once used to handle sensitive or high-value objects. [Scholars Tent]
Unlabeled Iron Key: Doesn’t match anything you've seen, but might open something further in... [Ragnum]
That night in a whispered voice around a table in the mess tent, Ragnum shared what Dev, Keres, Raven, Odett, and he found on their search for long forgotten wealth in the city...
We found what looked like a well-heeled district after a bit of poking around the city, and once we did we immediately came across The Tharnic Imperial Trust Bank. However, it looked like we weren't the first people to think that the bank might have something worth finding post-collapse. The main door of the massive stone building was barricaded from the inside with whatever furniture was available, and it appeared as if someone had attempted but failed to burn down that barrier during the early period after the city was sealed off. However, whatever protections were on the outside of the bank had long since faded and Raven was able to just climb in a window and help the rest of us up with a rope.
Inside was the main bank lobby, finely carved white and black checkerboarded marble was covered in half a millennium's worth of dust. After spotting a warning written on the wall that read "By the grace of Calvireth, this house is sealed, let any thief be marked by the wings of justice," initially made me concerned we would be facing many magical protections, but after examination, it appeared most protective enchantments had faded generations ago. It appeared that the contents of this room had been used to bar the front door, so we next explored a side office.
There we found seven bodies that had been enshrouded in preparation for burial once the crisis they were caught in had been resolved...clearly no one survived to see to the burial. While their names were written on the outside of their shrouds, there was little indication of what killed these individuals--the bank was such a sterile environment that the bodies had essentially been mummified--or who they were or what their lives were like in the Imperium beyond a magical memento of one man's child. When we return, we should plan to provide them with proper final rites of some sort. Humdrum documents, only believed important to the people of the city in the days before the collapse, were found throughout the office, almost as if to appear unassuming and to help hide an illusory wall blocking a secret corridor.
In the secret corridor, the beautiful checkerboarded marble platform was used to conceal a pressure plate that Raven and Keres triggered, resulting in poisonous gas filling the hallway. Fortunately, we were able to fan the gas away and proceed to a room of ledgers that recorded bank visitors.
The ledger room had the most amazingly soft red rug, which Oddet and Raven decided to bring back to camp with us. And on the wall, housed in a frame reading "For identification," was a dinner plate-sized iridescent purple scale that appears to be from a draconic source--although I cannot be sure, as purple scales are not common among the better-studied types of dragons. It appears to be from a rare dragon species. Perhaps this is from a species previously thought to be extinct, but saved in the rift like a time capsule. I checked the ledgers for any names we would notice, and other than one of the faculty members of the mage tower, I did not find anyone--I specifically checked if High Priest Attit and her assistant Letha appeared, and they did not. I took the most recent ledger in case we find a use for the names, but this room was full of such ledgers, each volume tracking bank visitors for one of hundreds of years. Continuing, we found a lounge for people to observe materials they are picking up from the bank vaults.
The lounge contained some furniture, including a bar cart that housed seven bottles of high-quality wines and spirits that had survived the ages intact. Additionally, among the bottles was an enchanted bucket that appeared to be continuously ice cold. No doubt, this was to entertain bank patrons. When we opened the next door, we immediately attracted the attention of three guilded spiders, which attacked us. We managed to kill all three of the spiders, even though most of our normal physical attacks seemed less effective. Once we searched the spiders, we discovered that they appear to eat metal and excrete it as a special rope and as gold nuggets. However, the shadows were beginning to lengthen, so we decided to return to camp before dark.
After the fight with the spiders
The room is quiet again. You take a few minutes to check the space more carefully. Beneath the dust and broken furniture, you find signs of the banks wealthy clients from centuries past. A few personal items have remained scattered or wedged under debris, forgotten until now.
Chipped Gold Signet Ring (~15 gp) [Odett]
Sapphire-Glass Hookah Mouthpiece (~25 gp) [Ragnum]
Valet’s Satchel: Contains worn gloves, a griffon-head wax seal stamp, and a tin of lavender shoe polish. [Scholars Tent]
Red-Lacquered Writing Set: A dry inkwell, a pair of fine quills, and a scrap of verse on expensive parchment: “Coin cannot quiet wings / nor ledgers balance longing…” [Scholars Tent]
Pair of Silk Viewing Gloves: Stained at the fingertips, once used to handle sensitive or high-value objects. [Scholars Tent]
Unlabeled Iron Key: Doesn’t match anything you've seen, but might open something further in [Ragnum]
035 - 250721 - The Vault Strikes Back - Lost Vault II
Players:
Loot:
2 x Balls of Woven Golden thread (spider cocoons) [Don and Dev]
*Garrnet Cufflinks [Ragnum]
Princess Cut Emerald and Pearl Necklace [Keres]
Platinum Sun Medallion [Raven]
Crest of the house Valdurant (known for arcane, finance, and civil projects)
Lockbox with 78 gp in mixed Thranic coinage [15 gp 6 sp each]
6 Prestine Obsidian Dice [Raven]
Alchemical Aether Extract, dried up [to Merv?]
*Heavy Bronze Hammer, "Stablity through Strength" [Scholars Tent]
Old genealogy records, need to be translated [Scholars Tent]
Collection of Fine Art, nudes [ Leave in Odett's Tend to cheer her up]
*Single left-handed gauntlet, with tools that come out of fingers [Donk, currently can't take off]
Metal Great Club +1 [Donk]
Contents of the house Valdurant Vault
Coinage (387 gp value):
170 gp
1,800 sp (180 gp)
3,700 cp (37 gp)
13.95 gp each = (78+170+180+37)*0.15/5 if we give starshard its full cut
Gems (390 gp value):
10 gp each (×4): Blue quartz, Azurite, Moss agate, Rhodochrosite
50 gp each (×7):
Chalcedony,
Jasper,
Moonstone, [ Keres ]
Quartz,
Zircon ×3
Art Objects (25 gp each, ×4 = 100 gp):
Embroidered silk handkerchief [Ragnum]
Small mirror set in a painted wooden frame
Two carved bone statuettes
Mundane Valuables - Stored in lacquered chests and sealed scroll tubes:
Steel Alchemy Scrolls: A treatise on alchemy etched on rolled steel cylinders
Dragon Epic Scroll: A long poem praising a dragon—possibly tied to the family's mythic history. The verses speak of a bronze-scaled wyrm named Serathun, called the Hearthstorm, known for brokering peace between feuding mortal houses and guarding an ancient vault of memories. The poem reveres the dragon's foresight, compassion, and thunderous fury when roused to wrath. The Valderants write of Serathun as a guiding patron, invoked in times of civil strife and personal doubt.
Hourglass: Filled with shimmering sand, delicate and decorative [Donk]
Magic Items - Neatly compartmentalized in preserved velvet-lined drawers:
Potion of Healing x3 [Dev, Keres, Donk]
Spell Scroll (Cantrip): Sorcerous Burst [Dev]
Potion of Growth [Raven]
Potion of Fire Breath [keres]
Potion of Fire Giant Strength [Ragnum]
Potion of Clairvoyance [Ragnum]
Gloves of Swimming and Climbing [Dev]
Trident of Fish Command [Keres]