Halloween Heist

31st November 2022

## Adventurers Attending

* Bearhugger
* Fizz
* Uannos
* Creak
* Todon
* Sharian Naetris
* Giff
* Karn Ironfist

## Mission Notes

The Halloween heist has begun, to see which group of adventurers can become the Best Adventurers/Geniuses of all time! Everyone headed up to the heist tower where the competition was to take place.

Whilst Fizz and Creak distracted the guards, Bearhugger (as a spider) climbed up to the second floor window and had a scout around and Uannos was busy gumming up the lock to the back door.

Whilst they were doing this, Sharian, Karn and Jiff simply walked in through the front door. Taking a look around, they entered the store room. Sharian, having found nothing of much interest went back downstairs. Jiff meanwhile ate a lot of custard, found some floating body parts and opened a box marked ‘DO NOT OPEN’. A brief and fiery scuffle with some mummies occurred, and the scorched remains were shut back in the box. Grabbing some razor wire and destroying a book, Karn and Jiff descended from the store room. They quickly traversed the trap, Sharian had sprung, suffering no ill effects besides property damage. They headed up to the 3rd floor.

Bearhugger, having now determined the store room was clear, hurried the rest of the group into the room. They all climbed up through the window and had a brief look around. Similarly deciding opening a box labelled ‘DO NOT OPEN’ was a good idea, Creak opened the box discovering the skeletal remains of the mummies. Deciding fighting wasn’t the way to go, they fled the room, slamming and locking the hatch behind them, leaving the skeletons roaming free to attack any other party that came that way.

Down on the ground floor, Uannos quickly checked the side door. Discovering sleeping guards, Fizz rigged up a booby trap to alert the guards if anyone attempted to open the door. Little did they know that an arcane lock was already in force to keep the guards at bay set earlier by Sharian. Todon, deciding that was enough fannying about, decided to head upstairs, unfortunately triggering the recently reset trap. The group spend some time climbing through the spiky trap and Fizz spread some acid, and glass shards around to add a little extra spice to the already painful trap.

Meanwhile upstairs, Sharian magicked his way through one of the blocked doors, discovering a large, dark chasm. Using his handy broom, he hovered over the chasm, getting all cold and shaky in the process. He settled in to wait for the rest of his party who had decided to go the other way. But where had they got to? Little did Sharian know, the stone-obsessed Karn had gone to the other door and, with the help of Jiff, was busy hacking away at it. For a while!

The larger party came up to the smoke filled room. Working out that the large Jack-o-lantern wanted a trick or treat, they decided to be kind and give it some coins and a goodberry. In exchange, it gave them a fancy hat and unlocked a way up and out of the room. They followed the path up to the chasm. After Uannos unsuccessfully attempted to shoot a rope across, Bearhugger misty stepped across. He tied the rope off and the others nimbly clambered across. All except Fizz, who, whilst attempting to sabotage other groups, slipped from the rope and began to fall. She eventually was able to grab hold of a rope shot at her by Uannos and they all helped to drag her out of the ghostly chasm.

Heading up to the top floor, Uannos charged ahead to grab the prized coin on the centre pedestal. Unfortunately, the coin was guarded by a fierce dragon! However, it was a dragon that liked shiny things. A deal was quickly made, exchanging the one special coin for a whole pile of gold coins. Creak even made a replica to appease the great and tiny dragon. They then somewhat successfully rappelled down the side of the tower, their prize in hand.

Meanwhile, Jiff and Karn had finally broken through the second door. There they discovered a room full of dust and cobwebs. A little spring cleaning (with fire) revealed a dusty and decrepit old jester sat atop a throne. His eyes creaked open and he spoke briefly in a rough voice before the excitement got to him and he crumbled into a pile of dust. Collecting the dust, and the jester’s sceptre, Karn and Jiff ascended the ladder to the top floor, joining the now impatient Sharian.

On a plinth in the centre of the room lay the dragon, curled around his treasure. When asked if he would part with it, the dragon declined, gesturing at the large pile of gold and large pile of bodies that was his newly acquired hoard. Offers of friendship were tentatively accepted, but after declining to drink tea with Sharian, the unsteady truce was broken. Sharian challenged him to a contest of strength, but tricked the poor dragon and stole his coin before quickly teleporting away Glimmergate to see an old friend. Jiff and Karn chose to stay to deal with the wrath of the dragon and Jiff suffered quite badly from it. Eventually the dragon was calmed down and it lay peacefully on the floor in a tangle of tentacles listening to dad jokes from a fairy until it fell unconscious. Jiff then drop-kicked the tiny dragon from the tower and stole his hoard, before they too departed.

As the end of Halloween night drew to a close, the two groups huddled round their prizes, waiting to see who would be anointed. As the clock struck 12, the coin in Uannos’s hand began to emanate a soft glow and he felt the power of the dragon flow through the coin. Sharian, on the other hand, felt nothing from his coin. And upon, closer inspection discovered it was actually fashioned out of someone’s mess tin! He had been fooled!