Tombs of Scoria: Episode 06

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== Synopsis ==
The McGary Brothers embark on a mission to Kronwikk to steal magical items that could help them against Scoria. They prepare meticulously, outfitting their carriage with hidden compartments for their gear. Upon arrival at Kronwikk, they navigate the keep’s layout, experimenting with invisibility spells to understand their limits. During a grand dinner, they execute their plan, but it only partially succeeds as the enchanted candles fail to put everyone to sleep. Despite some setbacks, including a guard's scrutiny, they manage to steal several magical rings. Their success is shadowed by the need to frame a prisoner of war for their theft to maintain kingdom trust. The mission stirs moral debates among the brothers, and they return home with their loot, ready to face the consequences and new challenges.
==Recap==
=== July 19th - 22nd 1511 ===
The McGary Brothers are to travel to Kronwikk to steal magical items that may help against Scoria.
Before leaving Wikkthronrarenta, the brothers get their two of the four midnight candles and one grey candle, added with wax that should go off after an hour, the candles will go off together.
Their carriage got a secret hidden compartment, large enough for weapons, hidden but not too hidden, if someone was looking they would find it. And then they wanted an ultra hidden secret compartment, that would open with a button, flush with the floor, and small enough for a bag of holding, and maybe a dagger.
=== July 22nd 1511 ===
Tyrael and Anton argue about inventory management, as Imrik waits at the Bon' May docks for them, whilst he hangs out with old blokes and listens to them telling tall tales and smoking some pipeweed.
=== July 23rd-30th 1511 ===
The boat takes them to Whalers Bay. While on the boat they talk about their plan on how to get the Prince of Kronwikk, High Prince Siegfried Kronwikk's magical items.
Once at Whalers Bay, they take their carriage up the hill-lands to Kronwikk.
=== July 31st 1511 ===
They take their carriage through the city, and they get taken into the keep. Inside the keep, they get asked three rooms or one room. Imrik and Anton share a room with individual beds. Tyrael has a room for himself. Anton complains the room is small.
In Tyrael's room, Anton gives Tennes a ribbon, tells him not to do anything just focus on the ribbon, and Imrik casts on Tennes. They take a long path just strolling around in the keep, as though they were passing time, but actually trying to find out where invisibility breaks. They find out that it breaks at all the entrances.
The brothers out in front of the keep, in front of their windows, they climb up the walls, they both manage to climb up the walls, and Imrik says that Tyrael made it first, a cover for making sure Tyrael could climb the walls, else they would need to come up with another plan.
They head back into their rooms, and sleep for 20, as a servant knocks on their doors and brings them out in the hallway. High Prince Siegfried Kronwikk meets his honored guest. He says the keep was built by his grandfather. They schedule dinner before tomorrow's party. Them three, the Prince, his wife, and daughter.
The dinner goes excellent, it goes surprisingly well, leaving the Kronnwikk family with a different impression of the McGary family.
=== August 1st 1511 ===
Day of High Prince Siegfried Kronwikk.
During the day time festivities, Imrik takes part in an archery contest, doesn't quite win but does well above average, and gets acquainted with the leader of the city Outlast, High Prince Wilhelm Tuulwikk. Outlast used to be called Tuulwikk before The Unforeseen War. They quickly take a word together that Tyrael is feeling upset. Anton goes back to the gaming tables.
Imrik checks out the dinner tables. All looks in order.
As the day progresses, Imrik talks to different people, Tyrael and Imrik talk about the candles and , making sure everything is accounted for. Imrik then casts the spell on Tyrael. Downstairs Imrik informs High Prince Siegfried Kronwikk of Tyrael's absence from the party due to a depression over the death of a loved one in the war against Mistrya. With the High Prince Kronwikk is High Princess Sela Suulwikk.
They dance with all sorts of people. Imrik spends most of his time speaking with young noble ladies. And because of his necklace, it makes it easier, but he doesn't need it. He talks with the daughters of the Tuulwikk family, three daughters, Mary, Shelly & Heather. Just before dinner begins the invisible Tyrael sneaks into the dining hall and switches out the candles as planned.
The dinner begins, with Anton being weird about mice, Imrik with the three daughters. And the candles go off, people start talking about it like if it's a part of the dinner, the wizard inspects, and people start falling asleep. Total timeout for lots of people. They measured it wrong, they thought in a radius, not cubes, and so the sleeping doesn't go to plan, however, High Prince Siegfried Kronwikk falls asleep and Tyrael takes the rings, just taking jewelry, to disguise the robbing of magical rings. They intended to make it so everyone falls asleep with the midnight candles, but it doesn't quite work out.
Anton makes a big show of trying to drag someone out, but when he tries he takes a big breath of air and falls asleep. Tyrael tries to swipe more jewels, but the adrenaline is kicking in, and he just get a few pieces before running back to his room, storing the coin pouch in the ultra-secret compartment in the carriage. Back to the keep and in his room, punch a pillow to break the, and lay down in bed. The captain of the guard, questions them, Tyrael acting, and them bluffing. Anton swears he has no vengeance against the Kronwikk family, the captain seems satisfied. The captain goes on to question other people but gives him the look of he's not done yet. Later everyone is gathered into the ballroom. The captain, tells them that this assault was a cover-up for theft, and he says everyone's possessions need to be checked however they find nothing. And then the interrogations of the servants begin, and one guy isn't accounted for. He was also here to steal but wanted to wait later when everyone was drunk. Imrik tells the young Archmage, Durian. that he cast an spell on this servant, and can read his mind, Durian asks him to help with the interrogation. He pleads guilty but that he didn't do the crime, though his intentions were to steal. Imrik says he is shrouding something. Imrik doesn't want to frame him outright.
Imrik makes a good impression on the daughter of the Tuulwikk family, Shelly Tuulwikk. They hang out in the parlour, and she tells him to write when this is all over. (14 hotness, aged 26)
The guards check with four other servants. And he seems to be innocent. The guards announce that the items haven't been found yet, so they need to check the whole keep, everyone's personal belongings, everything. Everyone is a little frustrated, but it's okay because they didn't do it.
When they check the carriage. They find the first secret compartment, they get asked to open it because they don't know how, and seeing that the jewelry isn't there only a magical chain mail and other magical items they move on. Not finding the second ultra hidden compartment.
=== August 2nd - 11th 1511 (A few days and boat travel.) ===
Everything drags on, nobody can find the magical items, the night draws on, people get put in bedrooms, but there isn't enough. They can't keep them forever, so people can go back to where they belong, for a few days they ask people to stay in the. They try to find the items via locating object items, and after a time, they get let go, they can't keep the items forever.
Because of this event, everyone is on guard. But they have prepared and planned so well, they just get away.
On the boat, they chat about the morality of stealing.
Anton says he feels a nice sense of vengeance, from stealing, he feels cheated.
Anton teaches the mouse to count.
=== August 11th 1511 ===
They arrive back in the capital and go thought the secret path into the Royal Castle.
Queen Vuularia Wikk says she heard what happened at the party. Tyrael quickly jumps over what happened. She says she is concerned, this might be detrimental to the trust within the kingdom. They talk about having a Mistryan "spy" be executed for this theft, actually just a prisoner of war, killed for a crime he did not commit. And having all the non-magical items returned. Making it so the damage is done would be less.
They got a ring of protection, not sure from who they got it. Anton takes it. And the two other rings of the from the Prince, a ring of fire resistance. And a ring of protection from petrification.
== Experience ==
350 each experience split between classes.
* 400 quest exp split between their classes.
* 200 priest exp (50 exp per useful spell level cast)
* 300 wizard exp (50 exp per useful spell level cast)
* 200 rogue exp from climbing
* 6600 (including 10%) rogue exp (2 exp per gold treasure obtained)
* 200 exp to Anton for withholding from easy routes.
* Clever Idea exp: Anton gets 600, (300x2) exp spit between his two classes.
* Clever Idea exp: Imrik gets 400 exp spit between his two classes.
* Clever Idea exp: Tyrael gets 800, (500, 300) exp spit between his two classes.
* Tyrael's rogue experience gets a 10% bonus for having 16 dex.
Tyrael and Anton level up in fighter
Tyrael levels up in rogue.
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