ChillVampire's Vashian Heist Oneshot

Technically, a continuation from ChillVampire's Midland's Oneshot.

Be me, DM playing Gloria-Etalia in dnd 5e

Be not me, Maid Barbarian (same one from the Midlands oneshot), rouge, rouge, and rouge

Game is a 3rd level Vashian heist oneshot

We explained that Maid Barbarian is here because the last one shot was just a “nightmare” that she awoke from

This will become important later

Rouge PC’s are Arcane Trickster, Simi-Mute Hobo (same guy as Old Farmer Warlock), and a half elf inadvertently dressed as a black and white movie pimp

They were hired by Maid Barbarian to case and rob Herika Verrun’s mausoleums for her tigers

Maid Barbarian was sent out by her boss, a down on his luck lord who has information that the mausoleums are a secret location to store the Verrun’s illegal documents

Blackmail papers, trade deals, insider knowledge, everything one needs to become extremely wealthy

The party goes to the Verrun park where the mausoleums are located

Admission is 1gp and the rogues decide to hop the fence while Maid Barbarian pays to get in

They all get inside and after a bit of pickpocketing they get to the mausoleums

On a hill overlooking the park are the three massive structures

Pic but with made of the finest marble and brand new

Inside is a giant statue of one of her tigers, a massive tapestry, and stain glass windows of the same tiger, and a small marble door in the back

Armed guard in the corner watching the party enter

describe him with a green key on his belt

Tapestry as the end features one of Herika’s tigers which has green fur

Was expecting party to go into the three mausoleums, figure out which key goes to which door from the puzzle, and steal the keys off the guards without them noticing

Simi-Mute Hobo walks up to the guard and puts 5gp in his hand and doesn’t say anything

Does this without talking to the party

Guard refuses the money and and asks him to explain himself or leave

Tries to put another 5gp in his hand

Guard refuses and pulls out his sword slightly

Simi-Mute Hobo then tries to grab the sword the guard is holding without him noticing

Fails and gets the sword pointed at his gullet and is asked to leave immediately

Arcane Trickster takes this opportunity to easily fish the key off of the guard

Simi-Mute Hobo takes out a massive bag of 500cp and throws it on the ground in front of the guard

The guard’s interest is piqued, picks it up, and when he realises what it is he gets mad

Demands that the entire group leaves

Pimp Dressed Rogue (PDR) manages to convince him that he and Maid Barbarian are not with the other two

Other two are forced to leave and the guard checks his pockets to make sure nothing was stolen after that weird encounter

Realises that his key was stolen and runs after Simi-Mute Hobo

Simi-Mute Hobo throws down some ball bearings to block his path and seeing this the guard blows a whistle

Two other guards appear from the other two mausoleums, a goblin and a half elf

Chase ensues, Simi-Mute Hobo tries to hide, gets spotted by the goblin, and tries to bribe her by shoving a giant bag of coins in her mouth

While this happens,  PDR and Maid Barbarian tries to pick the lock on the door at the back of the mausoleum

Doesn’t investigate it, which would have revealed an alarm spell that triggers when the door is opened without the correct key

Alarm alerts the mage who could wreck them

PDR tries to pick the lock, gets a 9

Tries again with disadvantage, gets a 9 again

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Arcane Trickster come back with the key and they open the door

Maid Barbarian checks for traps right before they do this, and realises what could have happened

They open it and find a stairway spiraling down

PDR investigates the stairs to see what she finds

Gets a nat 20

Spots a illusionary wall with a 22 spot check right next to the door, and they head inside

Completely avoid the dead end room of traps awaiting below them and skip to the prize

Room is full of piles and piles of documents and a rug with strange markings

They investigate, and find that the rug has a permanent transportation circle woven into it

Arcane Trickster, who is a forger, picks out a few documents with signatures and handwriting from high lords and merchants for himself

The rest are loaded up and they head out

They never did an investigation of the room, which would have revealed the glyphs of warding by the door

Is triggered by the documents, and a 4th lvl sleep spell and a alarm goes off

Knocks out Arcane Trickster and the alarm freaks them out

Shuts off after ten seconds and they try to make a run for it

Simi-Mute Hobo runs back into the mausoleum and notices them leaving

Runs to them and they all head back into the passageway

The guards see this, and run to intercept

There are four guards now with the newcomer being an older man that takes charge of the others

Party runs down the stairs, triggers a trap on the step, and realises that the room will kill them

Runs back into the document room as the door slams open

Arcane Trickster tries to activate the portal and fails

Guard pokes his head into the room and gets decapitated by Maid Barbarian standing at the ready

Screams are heard from the other side of the wall as the guards yell out for their fallen companion.

Cautiously, the leader (vetaran NPC) enters the room with the goblin guard behind him

Asks them to surrender and when they refuse steps back out of the room

After a few high tension minutes, the party sneaks a peak outside

Sees only the vetaran and the goblin guard, poised to strike and anything that comes out

Maid Barbarian goes out and tanks a few hits from the guard’s held actions

Initiative is rolled and the two guards roll two nat 20’s

PDR and Maid Barbarian roll two dirty 20’s, with the Arcane Trickster rolling a 19

Maid Barbarian is not happy when they get to attack her again and takes some damage

The three rogues take their turns to run past the guard and into the mausoleums, leaving Maid Barbarian to die

Maid Barbarian takes another round of hits, and shoves the two guards down the stairs

They fall and hit the trap, with the goblin guard taking 10 damage out of her 11 hp

Vetaran gets back up and runs after Maid Barbarian, shooting at her with his heavy crossbow

The rogues are long gone by this point, scattering out of the park into the city

Maid Barbarian is severely bloodied, and keeps getting hit by the crossbow trying to run away

After ten minutes of chasing, she goes down

The vetaran stands over her and declares that she will die for killing his man in a unhonorable and hideous manner

He plunges his sword into her back

With her dying breath, she softly says  “Master.., I have… failed… you”

The rogues go to the meetup location

When Maid Barbarian doesn’t show, they assume the worst

Arcane Trickster starts a forging business, now having the handwriting, seals, and signatures of anybody who is anybody in Vashian, and a few people who are not

The other two make a small fortune selling their papers to him, and they all rise high in the Vashian underground

A month later the papers declare that a Lord Tito was executed by the order of the first citizen for treason, conspiring against the First Family, and theft

As for Maid Barbarian...

She opens her eyes, and realises that she is falling

She sees only back at first, but as she falls she soon starts to see distant stars

She is falling faster now, and more stars come into focus

Faster and faster, and one of the moons pass her by, then another, and in quick succession the other 5 fly past her as she falls

Faster now as she is pulled ever downwards, and soon comes face to face with the red star of the planet

Falling past it all, with the entire galaxy stretching across her vision until suddenly...

Sweat stained and heaving, she jolts up in her bed in the servants quarters

”ah… another nightmare...”

If anyone is interested, the PC’s names are

Lief Saneric, for the Arcane Trickster

Fey for the Half-elf rogue

Hades Allmond for the Simi-Mute Hobo

And Evelyn for Maid Barbarian

My first Heist oneshot that I’ve ever ran, I hope y’all enjoyed reading this.