Story 12/23/2020

The session started off with the group split apart in the Golden Agora, a callback to the 5/6th and 1/6th land from the start of the campaign. Khaelis, Lunashe, Beorn were led to a back room, and Erevan and Shalara were tossed in with them. Klon meanwhile attempted to fight off 4 bouncers subduing him in the main bar area.

In 5/6th land, an Eladrin (the Gambler) was flanked by 2 half orcs. Beorn got to business right away, and told the Gambler in thieves cant that he was no longer safe. Lunashe also mentioned that the group knew he was the Gambler. He responded back very pointedly that he didn't care that they knew, and that he didn't believe he was in danger. He had made a lot of enemies along the way, so he was always in some sort of danger.

Erevan, Shalara and Khaelis enjoyed some of the refreshments laid out for the group, and Beorn continued to press. Eventually Lunashe was able to figure out that the Gambler seemed to know who Sekuja was, but not Carmina.

In 1/6th land, Klon was able to fight off the bouncers attempts to subdue him, but he eventually was getting overwhelmed, so he activated his Spectral Wings and flew into the air. This drew the attention of the entire bar, and the bouncer on his back fell off and was injured in the fall. He flew forward and landed in the VIP area, and eventually burst into the room the group was talking to The Gambler in.

Upon the door being kicked down, one of the half-orcs next to Eladrin revealed he was the real Gambler, and he used a decoy for safety (a fact that most people didn't know).

He became genuinely convinced the group was right, and he was in danger. He explained to the group that in order to keep the Vice-Den leaders civil, they all shared a common vault beneath the city. Each Vice-Den leader had a key to their vault, and a key to a random other one's that was changed as an insurance policy against each other.

He also mentioned that Sekuja had given him a small box to keep safe in his vault, in exchange for lots of little favors over the years that made his Vice-Den the biggest and best. He never checked what was inside it, for fear of retaliation from Sekuja.

He asked the group to get his stuff out of the vault, and in exchange they could take whatever the wanted from his random key, which he thinks belongs to a man named Armando's vault. He couldn't go to the vault himself, because when the group stole from the vault it would alert the local authorities, and he wanted to be nowhere near that when it happened so he wouldn't be culpable.

Eventually Klon took the keys, with it unclear whether they would help The Gambler or not. The group went to the vaults, got through the upper layers via some instructions The Gambler gave them, and then found the small box inside the vault. It seemed to be magically protected, and when Lunashe disarmed the magic, a nearby vault guard who had been looking for magic spells going off was alerted. He ran up, smashed a button, and the entire vault floor dropped down.

The group landed a few feet below in a series of catacombs below the fault along with all the treasure in that room. They noticed in the flooring above them a bunch of different vault rooms, more than there were doors with keys. The catacombs themselves were ornate polished walls with well kept flooring, not dingy tunnels like The Gambler had claimed.

The group raced through the tunnels, dodging a wide array of traps and Drow guards dropping down on them, until they eventually found an exit which led them to the outskirts of the city. Before leaving, they had looted the treasure that fell with them, and found 7000g, the Ring of Spiritual Devotion, an urn piece, and Ecrozahr's pipe. They were 1 urn piece away from having all of the artifacts together....

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