Robin's heist of Helion Manor

**Robin's heist of Helion Manor** was a raid of the former manor of the pirate lord known as Admiral Edward Linch by Robin Banks occurring in 5AP. It was a one shot which was entitled *The Robin Banks One-Shot.*

Afterwards, the defecting defenders had to face the music of the raid's aftermath, which found them bunkered down near in the town of Echo in order to evade the Knights of Tyr. They formed the Castle Crashers.

## Background

Two years after the Red Crusades, Volkair Rikliv is attempting to consolidate his hold on Ruthwalker by eliminating the multiple enemies still plaguing him. Sending Valrin and a large amount of knights to crush the pirates of the Helion Archipelago, the invaders destroyed the defenders and took control of Linch's lavish manor.

As Valrin destroyed virtually all civilization on the pirate haven islands, including a last stand of 17 ships lead by the admiral, Ruthwalker decimated the pirates and sent an occupying force. Included in this force was the party that Volkair intended to use as meatshields to be disposed of in the case Valrin lost his temper in battle.

Meanwhile, Robin Banks arrived on the isles with information of a powerful artifact that was present at the manor. He intended to steal the item before Volkair knew it was even there in the manor.

## The Raid

After about two weeks of sitting around while Valrin decimated most life around the isles, Robin was rumored to be on the isles. He struck, heisting quite literally everything and circumventing the defenders using a mixture of smoke bombs, ball bearings, magic items, bribes, charisma, and a crowbar.

In short work, Robin recruited the party into his heist, and proceeded to steal everything in the manor. Inside the manor was a lock with three keys that all needed to be turned at the same time to open. Inside this door is the manor's vault. Speaking to various members of the defecting defenders. Robin revealed that Volkair was unaware of the powerful magical item within and intended to 'liberate' the item in order to ensure that it staid that way. The party and Robin opened up the vault, and while Robin mostly left the items in here to his compatriots, he called dibs on one item: a small sphere made of green copper bands that appeared to be a very potent and dormant magical item.

Robin also helped the party evade an enraged Valrin, who was enraged that he had been outplayed. After a diversion which provided the necessary slip from Valrin, the defecting defenders worked together with Robin to create a diversion, steal his sword and fled the island.

## Aftermath

After escaping the islands and fleeing to mainland Ruthwalker, Robin took his leave from the party. Taking the object to Maxwell for appraisal, Robin learned that the device was called an accelerator: A magical device from Dracomiras capable of sustaining a concentration spell placed within it at 9th level. The spell placed within the device was a powerful barrier capable of effectively erasing its contents off of the map, isolating from the world indefinitely. The two discussed the Red Crusades, and Valrin's razing of various villages, including the pirate port city of Helion and numerous other towns in Ruthwalker and the other atrocities committed during the Red Crusades. This device horrified Maxwell, who described the device as damnation for it's victims.

Robin thanked Maxwell before taking off into the night with the accelerator in hand.

Afterwards, he provided tips to the Castle Crashers as they were hunted by Valrin and his Knights.