Forebodingday, the 7th of Drowning, 5060
After Valess returned from her exploration, the trio decided to improve their disguise (even with the slight risk of magical detection). Valess changed shape to mimic the guard they’d knocked off the wall. Edane swapped outfits with the guard, and Oervind just used a disguise self spell. As soon as they’d finished their disguise, Valess noticed a strange flux of energy, and the group heard a muffled whinny-like sound coming from the building below. Oervind thought that the horse noise sounded “too complex, like the bark of a blink dog.” They decided to flip the invisible rope to the interior side of the wall, and scramble down to investigate.
Meanwhile on the steppes, Shegger-Gork and Sender were interrupted in the middle of the night by a sudden burst of wind and the arrival of a sylph-like outsider. It said, “You are favored of my lord of freedom. I offer you a chance to aid your allies and further my lord’s cause. Your colleagues have need of your skills, and I can take you to them. Do you assent?”
The duo agreed to the sylphoid’s offer, and it started a whirlwind around them to teleport. As it began casting, it urged them to prepare themselves with any useful enchantments. They each cast a few spells, mounted up, and braced for transit.
The wind picked up around Edane’s party, and suddenly Shegger-Gork appeared before them. Edane explained the situation (and in the process discovered that an invisible Sender was also with him), and they went to investigate the source of the sound.
The horse-like noise turned out to be a pegasus stallion bound with a magic bridle, held in the stables. Valess undid the bridle, Shegger spoke with the pegasus, and then they decided to polymorph the pegasus into an owl to facilitate his escape. He gave them one of the feathers from his mane, and promised to meet them again soon. Then he accepted Oervind’s polymorph, and took wing.
Shegger talked to one of the horses to persuade it to participate in the next leg of their stable plan. They put the pegasus saddle on the horse, and loosely attached the bridle, then polymorphed it into the pegasus’ form. The horse, on cue, bolted out of the stables and took to the air. Mass chaos ensued throughout the keep. This provided the party ample cover to scramble back up the wall, run across the roof of the stables, and enter the main keep via an adjoining tower.
In the entry of the keep Valess (still disguised as the guard they’d dispatched) crossed paths with a servant of the keep. “Hurry!” s/he cried, “I’m coming to grab magic weapons. Which room?” The servant waved in toward the keep, “North end, center door.” Then the servant rushed out of the keep into the thronging chaos. At one point, Sender observed blink dogs that a few guards had, apparently blinking into the air to try to catch the pegasus.
The party headed north deeper into the keep, then found stairs down, into a short hallway where every door was locked. Sender cast knock to open one door, where he found wine, documents (including a few scrolls), and cheese.
While Sender was looting, Valess picked the locks on all the remaining doors. The party found the contraband, gathered what additional loot they could, had Oervind cast shrink item as many times as he dared, and then fled once the commotion seemed to be waning.
Edane and Oervind teleported back to the shop, while Sender used dimension door to take the others out of the keep. They stopped to retrieve Edane’s clothes and meet up with Valess’ friend waiting outside, then they fled into the night.
The group gathered back at the shop, and reviewed their haul.
- stolen crates (gears, metal and ceramic plates, springs, bars… reminiscent of some strains of Tulani golemcraft) – these crates are marked with dwarven brands
- Assorted potions
- 5 cure light wounds (CL 5)
- 2 bull’s strengt (CL 3)
- 3 invisibility (CL 2)
- 1 barkskin (CL 3)
- 5 alchemist’s fire
- 4 grease (CL 3)
- wands
- 12 sleep arrows
- 6 arrows of slaying (humanoids, human)
- 3 arrows of slaying (monstrous humanoids)
- money chest (3,000 Tarsh florins (TF): local baronial currency worth 3000gp in Tarsh, 1000gp elsewhere)
- items from the baron’s ceremonial closet: coat of arms, badge and sash of office, ermine-lined stole, short cloak with coat of arms, fancy booties
- 3 chests of objets d’art
- ear cuffs, silver with gem flecks
- ear piercings, large, gold
- painting, portrait, elderly human nobleman
- painting, landscape, castle
- painting, landscape, pastoral
- tapestry, battle of Whyte’s Peak
- tapestry, elven pattern
- tapestry, family portrait
- bust, nobleman
- brocaded cloak, full-length, brown and gold with blue accents
- ring, silver with blue stones
- ring, onyx with carved pattern
- ring, silver with black stones
- ring, silver and gold braid
- ring, gold, plain
- torc, hammered gold
- torc, hammered gold and copper
- torc, unknown silver metal
- candelabra, gold and silver, ornate
- box, small, fine wood marquetry
- box, small silver filigree
- box, small silver filigree with inscription (Tarshakan, “for my sweet”)
- tin, unknown metal, full of (non-magical) unguent
- tin, brass, full of (non-magical) unguent
- tin, brass, full of bitter white powder
- glass philtre, scented oil, reddish
- glass philtre, scented oil, brown
- glass philtre, scented oil, milky green
- glass philtre, scented alcohol, clear
- glass ampoule, oil (unknown)
- glass bottle, sealed, label illegible
- glass bottle, sealed, with label (Hobbit, “Seaton Valley Estates, Spring #32”)
- glass bottle, sealed, with label (Hobbit, “Seaton Valley Estates, Fall #30”)
- glass bottle, sealed, with label (Tarshakan, “from Eolmagandr’s horde”)
- druidically-crafted wooden bottle, sealed, with label (Elven, “tears of Ioun’s passion”)
- flask, bronze, with inscription (Dwarven, “Jukki F. Druggrsgalgr, Lt. Sergeant, Cidin Kazar”)
- box, fine wood, full of white pastilles
- box, common wood, full of dried herbs
- box, fine wood, full of incense resin granules
- cutlery, engraved, alchemical silver with ivory handles (16 knives, 15 spoons)
- charger, 36", hammered brass with gold inlay
- bowls, carved stone (3)
- bowl, ceramic, white with painted patterns
- bowl, ceramic, white with gold and blue patterns
- 1 chest of assorted masterwork arms and armor (est. market value 2000gp)
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