Vault, The

The Vault is an extradimensional storage location Eric built to house souvenirs of his long life, the sort to be locked away, kept safe, never to be lost to accident or theft or time.

Almost nothing is known about The Vault. Most of what is known is only about the Door, and even on that subject there is precious little to be had. Eric understands that if you keep something a secret, it's harder for anyone to find it or break into it. He has, however, dropped comments to people around him on scattered occasions, leading to this assembly of possibilities.

There is an undefinable aura of menace around the Door. Its appearance is as of brass, tarnished black. It is frigidly cold to the touch, as though the Vault interior is frozen solid. No bolts are visible, so they are presumably set within the Door, as is typical for lesser vaults. Built into the center of the Door is a lock, approximately four feet from the ground. Rumors about the design of the lock abound, but what is certain about the lock is the three-part design utilizing magic, technology, and precision machining to fend off even the most well-prepared and skillful of thieves.

### Other rumors, which can be neither confirmed nor denied without more information:

The Door is more than a barrier. It is also a guardian.

The Door may or may not eat souls. The impression one gets upon seeing the Door is to wonder what it eats, which is not the first thing one usually wonders about a door.

The Door possesses some sort of sapience, so that even if the proper key is stolen and used, *the Door will know*.

The Door can only be destroyed by casting it back into the fires in which it was made. What fires were involved and where they are is indeterminate.

The Door was forged from the brass from the only metal trumpet used at the walls of Jericho. A variation on this theme uses the trumpet of Revelation's seventh angel. Another variation says it is alloyed with the melted-down, primal Antikythera Mechanism--the one that moved the heavens instead of merely copying and predicting them.

### A partial list of things that may be housed in the Vault:

Crayon drawings: Owls, dragons, unicorns, houses, rainbows, pentacles, runes, dogs, sun & moon, martians, cars, spaceships, trees, Fred, bears, Mr. Stuffins

Pictures: Phoebe, Mr. Stuffins, Gus

Vacation photos: Everywhere! (Space suits, Bridge of the Birmingham, top of the Sphinx, with a gladiator, etc)

Notebook for birdwatching, including: Phoenix, Roc, Giant Eagle, Cockatrice, Griffin, Manticore, Harpy, Thunderbird, Turul, Simurgh, Stymphalian birds, Dodo, Great Auks, Passenger Pigeon, Elephant Bird

Weatherbeaten sneakers, kiddie sizes 3.5 through 5

Sneakers, big kid sizes 1 through 7

Bramble-damaged dress, Wonder Woman rompers, Wonder Woman costume pieces, kid-size, functional

Batgirl utility belt, kid-size, functional

Pink fluffy blanket

Fifteen "I Love You" Father's Day cards, addressed to Papa (9) and Pop (6)

Wooden dollhouse with animated wooden figurines

Green Army Men collection, animated.

Loose-knit scarf in pink and black.  Two neckties, both black.  One necktie, Vantablack.

Chess set.  Animated pieces.  Pawns with signal horns, bishops with mitres, knights with horses and armored figures, etc.

Science projects: Electromagnet, Lemon-powered clock/potato-powered clock comparison, Window glass and aluminum foil capacitor, Water purification still, Egg Drop airbag, Baseball catapult, Baseball trebuchet, Volta's Piles, six, using different metals and acids

Wooden blocks with unenchanted magical runes for letters

Wooden crib mobile.

Hand-carved wooden figures: horse, duck, dog, serpent dragon, winged dragon, knight, wizard, princess, car, fire truck, train engine.

Glass eyeball, solid white.

Trophy: 2116 Le Mans

Oven mitts, quilted, blue fleur-de-lis on the backs.

Video Collection:

Battlestar Galactica (original), five seasons

Carnivàle, nine seasons

Doctor Who: 36 regenerations!

Dollhouse, six seasons

Firefly: Seven seasons.

(he doesn't watch season seven. They really had problems with it after the death of <spoiler>. The season/show finale, though, redeemed all the so-so episodes and then some!  It was the crossover episodes that made season seven so silly. Encountering The Doctor could have been EPIC! No. Played it for laughs. Introducing aliens? Could have been a huge boost to a show running out of ideas! Nope. Aliens took one look at humanity and noped right out, leaving us to ourselves--and they played it for laughs. Eric was deeply disappointed in season seven. Still loved the finale, though. \*chef's kiss\*)

Heroes, eight seasons

Looney Tunes, the complete collections. (Six versions)

The Lost Boys movie trilogy

Star Trek, TOS: 5 seasons

Star Wars, Episodes I- XII

The Thing, four movies (Don't bother with the fourth one)

Twilight Zone, by Rod Serling, seven seasons

Twin Peaks, four seasons. (And the two-episode finale was a brain-bender!)

Scrolls and folios written in Greek, marked as the property of the Library of Alexandria.

A handwritten certificate proclaiming "Johnathan Kent" is made, by royal appointment, the official architect and builder of civil and public works to these United States of America for the duration of his life.  Signed, Norton I, Emperor.

Books:

"The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"The Lost Road," by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Alice's Journey Behind the Moon," by Lewis Carroll

"The Emperor Over the Sea," by C.S. Lewis

"The Song of Ice and Fire" series, all fourteen books, by George R.R. Martin

Autograph book: Katheryn Hepburn, Nikola Tesla, J.R.R. Tolkien, Samuel Clemens, His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Norton I-IV, Albert Einstein, Robert Goddard, Gene Roddenberry