Tax Haven

Tax Haven was a recently established offshore bank established by the The Alaran Empire and Kuravia. It serves as a center of wealth and diplomacy between the two nations. Its wreckage is located in the middle of the ocean, roughly halfway between the South East point of Meathe, and the North West point of Kuravia, though the raging Customer Service Bear renders the island uninhabitable and the bank is in ruins. 
== History ==
Recently, the Alarani and the Kuravian leadership had reached a sort of peace, establishing the base as a symbol of the two nations' notorious levels of wealth. Tax Haven is specifically Alarani built, though heavily accustomed to the Kuravian way of living. Currently an ancient magical staff that once belonged to Xin is being kept there as a peace offering from the Alarani to the Kuravians, where it will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The Kuravians intended to crack it open in order to access Xin's domain, pulling out its power in order to transform the bank into its own demiplane for the Kuravians to utilize.
At some point after the Duet of Dungeons arc, a shipment of magical artifacts being sent over to the bank was intercepted by Thog, who stole all sixteen of the items. Despite this, the items are still registered in the bank's database.
The bank hasdonly just opened, and was still partially in construction. However, even though the bank was still in its earliest stages, the Alarani and Kuravian factions had begun to distrust one another, with the Kuravians assembling an army of skeletons with magical artifacts to steal the take the staff by force, while the Alarani, predicting this eventuality, have fortified the vault. 
Xin would go on to hire the Nine Shrines Adventure Agency to retrieve his staff from the vault, and on opening day they would begin their infiltration which involved getting sheep to unionize, pouring piss jars on skeletons, and pretending to be skeletons. At some point during his infiltration of the East block, Thog descended from the rafters of the bank and grabbed people and drank their blood or something, pretending to be a vampire. This took out 5 guards. 
Shortly after the opening of the bank, the Alarani and Kuravians would turn on each other, the Kuravians wanting to steal the staff from the Alarani due to not trusting them and the Alarani preparing to stop the Kuravians from stealing the staff due to not trusting them. In the chaos, the team, joined by Gregor and Mercedes , ventured into the chaos of the bank to retrieve their relic. Eventually, in a joint infiltration of the bank, Markus, Chardonnay, Harlock, Emile and Xanthe would arrive at the core of the bank by pretending to be skeletons, before joining the Kuravian front as they rode towards battle, while Thog made his way into the ranks of the Alarani guarding the vault. 
Eventually, in these innermost areas of the bank, a rouge spell by Markus accidentally triggered a Customer Service Spell, transforming it into a rogue entity of immense power and destruction, with a mixed desire to both feed and serve. Though the crew was successful in penetrating the innermost area of the vault, retrieving Xin's staff, the Customer Service Spell would serve as their final barrier to leaving the island, absorbing the power of every artifact it consumed in its fiery growth. At one point a part of the best transformed into a Customer Service Bear due to the power of the artifact in one skeleton thrown at it that transforms those that touch it into animals. Navigating through the wreckage left in theirs and Viper Squad's wake, the team managed to finally return to the entrance of the bank and sail back out past the horrific place. 
In the aftermath, the demonic pair of Ven and Adivian patrolled the ruins, with Adivian pulling out survivors while Ven surveyed the situation, irritated. 
== Mechanics ==
The bank on Tax Haven is designed with heavy security, ensuring no meddling from either Alaran or Kuravia. Any significant uses of magic or even outstanding works of strength are immediately detected by the scanning spell placed on the bank, which will alert the guards to the location. However, there is a notable exception to this, being that of the objects stored within the bank itself. Magical artifacts require semi-regular use in order to ensure their magic doesn't coagulate and decay. As such, magical artifacts stored in the bank are allowed to fire freely in massive rooms without alerting security. The bank itself is composed of numerous floors, descending as the items get more powerful and expensive. 
Moving through the bank, one encounters various different holding rooms all with different manners of either containing magical artifacts or guarding the inner layers of the bank, such as a laser room.
Within the bank is a laboratory where a group of Kuravian Necromancers place magical relics into the skulls of skeletons. Skeletons deemed successful are tossed down a chute while those that aren't wind up in a river of lava where they terrorize other denizens of the bank. At the bottom of the chute, the skeletons may either enter tiny coffins and be buried underground for all eternity or attempt a series of trials so they may participate in some the Kuravian effort to steal the staff from the Alarani. Of the skeletons down here, their magical artifacts give them a range of powers including creating bubbles, catching on fire, blowing up, summoning birds as long as birds are actually nearby, and irreversibly turning into meat. 
The inner section of the bank has a password that is set on the hour by a commanding officer guard on the front known only as 'big chief'. Before he was eaten by skeletons, the final password he set was "OH GOD THEY'RE EATING ME! THEY'RE EATING ME!!!" 
Further into the many rooms of Tax Haven also serve as a place for rich nobles to larp as poor people, which sucks and is weird. It is a vast space, covered in what seems to be real dirt, with water and various huts. The ceiling is made of a magic tile that creates the illusion of a real sky. Connected to this area is another room of the bank that acts as a preservation of the value of the ideal life. Much like how in our world, measurements such as a pound are calibrated based on a stored reference object, small replicas of an ideal Alarani life are preserved here as a reference point over time. This area was quickly destroyed and overtaken by a group of rampaging skeletons known as the Viper Squad. The ideal retirement is considered to be a compost heap. There is also a model of the bank lobby connected to this area. 
Past more and more rooms, guarded by Alarani and Kuravians against one another, one can finally reach the center of the bank, a golden room filled with lethal lazers, with the staff located at the very end. 
== Characters from Tax Haven ==
* Viper Squad
** Soapy Meaty
* Skteven Fineman
* Bank Manager
* Big Heroics Idaho
* The Customer Service Spell