Session Date: 12/09/2024
The Wandering Vault
The vault itself is very nice and has a very bank-like feel. There is some music playing and there is nobody in sight as we enter. There are arrows pointing to different places in the building. There is a woman’s torso that appears in the window that asks how she can help us. The torso is a robot that is definitely not sentient and she asks for a letter of recommendation, and
We make it to the waiting room and there’s a Warhawks representative there that clearly has no desire to speak, and then a small man who introduces himself as Salaavethor. He introduces the Warhawk as Major Hieronymus Flint. Faylen recognizes the name from the academy, but doesn’t recall what the actual context of his mention was. Salaavethor asks that we call him Sal, and he asks what we are doing here. Bosch speaks up to start a conversation and explains we are needing to get some tools to fix a tool, and then lies to imply that he’s the one that broke it - which Sal believes.
He offers us some tea and anyone who said yes looks down to find themselves holding the tea. When Faylen asks for a couple of sugars, he glances down to watch them plop into his tea and a spoon appears on his saucer to stir it. Bosch asked for the letter T, and Sal produces a small stone T and hands it to him. Tabby comments that it fits Bosch to a tee, and one of the Warhawks chortles, which causes Major Flint to glare at him. Bosch begins to talk about tools and pulls out a crowbar and gives a small lecture about it and how the steel is worked into it, and then makes a demonstration of breaking it with his bare hands, making some of the Warhawk lesser guys nervous.
Sal asks Faylen if he’s a student of magic. Beitris has to elbow Faylen to get his attention, and he admits that he is. He explains that he is a student that was going to the University here in Jewel, and Sal asks if the construction on the Ahagan Wing is finished. Faylen is clearly confused and mentions that there’s been no work no that wing in a few decades, and Sal comments he’ll have to visit. Sal helps remind Faylen that he actually helped write some of the texts he uses in school and Faylen grows flustered at being next to what he considers such a legend.
After we converse, Sal eventually offers to let us go before him to speak to the manager as he realizes that we have some more pressing matters - his eyes shifting to the spot where the Seal of Infinity is in Mary’s pack. He comments he has nothing but time so it’s fine if we go before him. This makes Major Flint rather upset so Bosch starts to bother him, trying to goad him. Bosch manages to embarrass Major Flint, who then takes it out on his lackeys and refuses to interact further.
We keep referring to Sal as fey so — if Sal was a fey anything there would be something to his name - something closed because of the magic around the fey and names. Sal’s name isn’t one like this.
The manager calls for the next people and we go inside. Faylen explains the same thing: we were sent to pull items out of Zeth Seegmiller’s vault and we weren’t given a letter of recommendation due to the rushed nature of it, and we would be let in because we have his notebook. The manager mentions that it’s highly unusual, and Faylen mentions the party with the whole undead fight. The manager believes him but makes him sign for it, and Faylen agrees.
The vault doors open after Faylen inputs the combination. As Faylen steps into the vault they realize that there’s a small dimensional jump and realizes the specific vaults themselves are in different voids, but we are walking through a dimensional door type of situation. We couldn’t explode the doors to break in as it would destroy the portal.
Seegmiller’s vault is a smaller room that has three buttons on a wall. Faylen had explained earlier that Zeth is rich enough to have three entire vaults. Mary pulls out the Seal and can tell that the third vault is the one with the piece of the Seal of Infinity there. This third vault is The Archive — some place in here is the fragment, but all of the documents that Seegmiller wants protected are in here.
We go inside and there’s a door in the wall and a statue of a minotaur. When the Seal is brought near the minotaur the eyes of the statue glow in a sickly manner, and Mary can just about feel a pulse. Faylen can tell that they’re reacting in a way that implies that the statue has the Seal. Faylen finds the shelf with the magical documents that we will need to sort through, and the door itself is magical. This door doesn’t make much sense because there is a return button in the outer vault, so this doesn’t make much sense as it seems to be independent of the actual door system. Faylen mentions this and Bosch moves a table in front of it just in case things get hairy.
Faylen expresses his concerns about the statue possibly coming alive, or otherwise setting off an alarm and causing forces to come in.
Bosch manages to break into the minotaur statue and the piece of the seal that was inside of the statue - smaller than ours - is absorbed into our fragment. As this happens, the mysterious door unfolds and a huge construct is there, saying that an intruder is detected.
Faylen and Beitris feel a pull - they appear in vault 1, which is filled with gold. Two constructs look at them and ready for combat.