These past few days
have been a bit of a blur, what with the binge drinking and ultimate
frisbee on the campus quad. However, I did attend a few classes with
Meda and learned a few things from Tandem. Well, and a few through
independent research, but some progress is better than none at all.
We had noticed a rather annoying amelodic chiming of bells that
occurred at random points with no real rhyme or reason coming from
the second floor of Pathfinder U. Meda asked Tandem and he gave some
bullshit answer about celebrating a new artifact being discovered by
the Pathfinders, but Whitmore claimed it was far too often for
artifacts of true importance. I decided to go upstairs after class
and investigate the bells, poking a couple of them to see what they
did. Nothing terribly interesting happened until a man appeared,
carrying a rapier. I tried to pump as much information out of him,
but with no real success, resulting in me getting dragged off by
campus police. Whitmore, however, noticed my plight and was able to
sneak up and look at the bells later on, and was able to figure out
the order they rang in, as well as noticing it seemed to activate a
portal that lead to what we assumed was the Pathfinder vault.
As all of this was
going on Soma managed to break into Tandem's office and stole a few
items, including Tandem's Wayfinder, which Festivus had told us
allowed Pathfinders to access the vaults. Soma decided to also
experiment with the Wayfinder, putting different Ioun stones into the
slot resulting in interesting effects. But when Whitmore put a stone
in the slot the Wayfinder exploded, which, needless to say, was not
according to plan. Soma was able to craft up a replacement Wayfinder,
but held off on putting it in Tandem's office.
In class the next
day Tandem was a little....irritated to say the least. He went into a
very long lecture about responsibility with magical items and
demanded to know who had stolen his Wayfinder, which was now missing.
As Soma had decided class was beneath him, he wasn't there to return
the Wayfinder, so we got treated to a boring-ass and mostly made-up
lecture about a poem that totally wasn't the secret key to opening
the vault. Except it was. Man, they have terrible security. After
class Soma had managed to put the replacement Wayfinder in Tandem's
office, and we decided we should try to steal Venture Captain
Amavor's Wayfinder next. I gathered a couple of my bros for a frisbee
game and “accidentally” threw the frisbee through Amavor's office
window. As expected, Amavor stormed out of his office, swearing and
leaving the door unlocked behind him. This allowed Soma to slip into
Amavor's office and quickly search for Amavor's Wayfinder while Meda
kept lookout and Whitmore kept an eye on Amavor. Soma didn't manage
to find anything we could use, but Whitmore noticed Amavor kept his
Wayfinder on him at all times, meaning we'd have to obtain one from
someone else if we hoped to be successful.
After everyone had
left campus for the day, we broke back into the building and rung the
bells in the proper sequence, opening a portal. Soma went through and
performed a quick reconnaissance of the vault, confirming that we
needed a Wayfinder to even begin looting the hell out of this place.
Unsure what our next move should be, we decided to wait until
tomorrow and see what the day would bring.
Tandem
had found Soma's replacement Wayfinder, but informed us that despite
it being a very good Wayfinder it was not in fact his because it
lacked the appropriate clearance codes. This did not, for whatever
reason, stop him from giving us each our own Wayfinder to mess with.
(Granted, these were without any security clearance so I suppose the
threat was rather low.) By a random coincidence the combination of my
Ioun stone and the Wayfinder I was assigned resulted in me being able
to use disguise self
at will, albeit limited to only three disguises. Seeing an excellent
opportunity I chose Amavor as one of my disguises, as well as that
Corrister fucker, and a generic nondescript disguise. I briefly
considered getting into all sorts of shenanigans, but my party
members suggested I use my Amavor disguise to get Hewron's Wayfinder.
I will say it was a little dicey considering I'm not the best at
convincing people, but I managed to get Hewron's Wayfinder by
admitting there had been a security breach with the vault. Hewron
said he would be keeping a closer eye on the vault and would let me
(i.e. Amavor) know if he noticed anything strange. I think if we're
going to pull this job off we're going to have to hit the vault
tonight, before Hewron gets even more suspicious.
- Krinsblag
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