The Fourteenth Session

After escaping the encounter with the vampire-afflicted guardsmen in the Upper Residential District, the group made their way to the Market District to begin the heist for the Thieves' Guild. Arriving at the Akanax bank branch where the handoff of a crate of gold was happening, Shag and Halrek entered first. Getting the identities of the manager and a teller whose day off it was, respectively named Janet and Pete, they left, leaving Aoth and Yief inside to start a fake fight. Arguing about Yief's love for birds and confusion over the term "branch" in banking as he could only take it literally, the commotion allowed for a now transformed Halrek and disguised Shag to intercept the incoming caravan outside the bank and successfully redirect it to the rear. They convinced the outside vault guards to go in to check out the commotion, and loaded the crate into the vault. The nobleman, Markesius, who was the intended recipient, was there and wondered why Janet and Pete were the ones bringing the crate down. Shag put him and the branch owner to sleep, while Halrek took Markesius hostage to make the guards lay down their weapons and turn away. Shag then ran upstairs as Yief and Aoth made up and convinced the real Janet to attempt to explain the "branch" metaphor to him (unsuccessfully) and brought them down to the vault. Charming one of the guards, Chad, Yief then struggled with but ultimately succeeded in choking out the other one, who was apparently named Chatde (also pronounced Chad). They all brought the crate up to go out the back, with Chad telling the outer vault guards, now back in their positions, that Chatde had knocked out Markesius and the owner and tried to ambush them and steal the crate, and they needed to transport it to the Royal District immediately, and the group were heroes in stopping him. On the way, they talked about wage gaps and convinced Chad to take some more progressive activist ideologies, discovering his middle name was Karl and his last name was Marx. Getting to the city carriage service, they covered the crate in cloaks and did the coffin dance, convincing the carriage people that it was a coffin and they needed to take their dead friend to the Cemetery District for burial. They said goodbye to Chad Karl Marx, and successfully made it back to the safe house.

Bringing the crate into the Thieves' Guild headquarters, they were all paid handsomely. Returning to the Upper Residential District, they all took a long nap for the afternoon and evening to recover from their quite long morning. Yief got drunk in the mean time since he didn't do very much aside from argue and what, for him, was light lifting. He was "9 drunk," as he kept saying to everyone. Once all rested, the group went back to the guard tower at night. Shag and Halrek once again took the underground path, while Aoth and Yief waited outside the ground floor of the tower. Successfully sneaking in, they made their way up until they saw Jacquerie and one of the guards on the top floor. Getting the drop on them, they split into Shag and Yief fighting Jacquerie, and Aoth and Halrek fighting the guard. The surprise attack went well, with the only counter being the guard about to land a hard hit on Halrek, but being blocked by Aoth's incessant jumping in the way of things. Shag and Yief managed to greatly damage Jacquerie. After casting Daylight in the center of the room and stopping the vampires' regeneration, they stopped them from escaping, with Halrek clotheslining and dropping Jacquerie, leading to his being vaporized into an ash pile by the light. Similarly, the guard was able to duck under Aoth's magic weapon, but was also stopped and knocked back by Halrek, vaporizing him as well.