Cori moves with the group, staying near the front and keep a hand on her sword hilt.
"At most there should just be a guard or two, if everyone is at the feast," she whispers. "I vote for the quickest route in and out. If that means jumping, so be it."
Despite whispering, her tone is one of firm resolve to get the job done.
Moving at half speed so as to not take a penalty to his stealth roll Stanislav tries to keep up and stay out of the way.
"Hurry up! We'll be in for it if we're late!" Ci Ci forcefully whispers at Slid's side, acting as if she were accompanying him.
The guard barely gives Slid a glance just waving him trough "Go on then"
You quickly make your way upstairs. A few men are seated at the nearby tables having a conversation.
"You focus on on not drawing attention to yourself, I will check the door for traps and try to unlock it" says Kilik to slid.
Vinnick, once invisible and inside, vinnick casts-
Spider climb , Heightened awareness and Detect thoughts And would have used a scroll of mage armor prior, just to be safe. He also keeps up detect magic while inside. Looking out primarily for abjuration effects. He also
"The spell lasts as long as you concentrate on it. Concentrating to maintain a spell is a standard action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity"
Well Slid manages to hide and remain unnoticed, while Kilik works and he manages to disarm a trap and unlock the door "It should be safe to open but I don't think we can open this door without the guys over there noticing
whispers Kilik.
We need a distraction. Maybe throw something? Ghost sound? What have we got?
"If I weren't armed and armored for this incursion, I'd give them a show I guarantee would keep them distracted," Cori whispers. "But a full plate strip tease would be just a bit suspicious."
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Noticing four guards, Slid thinks that if there is a minor noise, they won't all go check it out. Instead, he sneaks to the westernmost side of that floor and looks for things that would produce a very loud noise, so that he can jury rig them to fall a few moments after, when he is back at this position.
She had a long discussion with Ajikisshochraos, explaining why it would be best for her to remain behind, while they went to replace the fragments with fakes. Besides also guard the house.
Once she was satisfied with Ajikisshochraos remaining, she joined the other at the agreed meeting point. Once Slid opened the door for them to sneak in, she quickly moved with the group, ensuring she had one hand on Vinnick's robe.
She remained standing next to the door, while waiting for Slid's distraction to draw away the guards.
I considered what would be around that you could rig to use to make a noise and examining it the only thing I could see would be making a chandelier fall. However Stannis has a point that this would likely attract a lot more attention than just those four guys.
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Slid has another idea. He tells Kilik to unlock the door but not to open it. Meanwhile, Slid takes a few steps down the stairs and scans the party looking for an ranking officer from the shadows. Once found, he moves back up and uses his medallion to turn into this officer.
Once upstairs he looks to the soldiers at the table and says feigning boredom "All quiet here?" and waits for their response. Once they answer, he says "Carry on." and walks over to the intended door. He takes out an imaginary key from his pocket and uses it to open the door which Kilik opened. After walking through, he adjusts his belt as the party also walks through.
"Guest have started arriving for the downstairs feast and everything is fine so far, the special guest for the upstairs feast haven't arrived yet so were just waiting." replies one of the guards.
They give you a curious looks as you enter the reliquary but just go back to their conversation.
Beyond the first door you see a plain 20 by 20 room with another door on the other side.
Well done at the door Slid. Let's be done and gone before that special guest shows up. Stanislav begins to examine the room. Reemember, we must leave no sign that we have been here.
She scans the room with detect magic and sight, while listening unusual sounds. She starts with the area near the second set of double doors.
You carefully examine the room and find there is a number of pressure plates in the room, you also find a secret cavity hidden in the wall with a lever, pulling it up you disabled the pressure plates making it safe to go forward.
You open the next door and find a long hallway the door at the end of it leads to your objective but a number of other valuable relics are store in the side chambers to the side.
Eying the other relics Stanislav reminds both the others and himself. Reemember, we must leave no sign that we have been here.
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Before moving on, Slid makes sure the traps are reset. He comments to the others "It's better if they don't know we were here."
He walks clenching his fists. He stops himself from going for any of the relics, as they are probably trapped. Still, he doesn't stop himself from saying "Can we come back after for these other relics?"
Along the room, he continues checking for traps.
Stanislav helps with the scan for traps or other things unexpected.
Well, they will realize the items we are here for are missing eventually. A few extra relics wouldn't hurt. Perhaps something valuable is here. Once we accomplish our primary objective, I say we come back here and get ourselves a few trinkets.
with detect magic.
You move down the hall finding no more traps along the way when you all reappear.
"Looks like that's it for the invisibility, we will have to improvise from here, we better hurry." says Elise.
Kilik checks the door to were the shards are stored and finding no traps unlocks and opens it peeks inside and quickly closes it again...
"We have a problem...There is a guard inside. Not human but human-ish, has a dog's head, red skin and a big sword. Pretty sure it knows were here."
Then we may have to fight. Can we mask he sound?
Cori recognises the description as that of a hound archon.
Hound archons look like well-muscled humans with canine heads typically resembling those of noble-looking wolves or dogs. Well trained, they prefer to make use of their greatswords in battle, though they are equally adept with their natural weapons. Hound archons loathe killing mortals and prefer to disarm or incapacitate even evil individuals when they can. Against evil outsider, undead and the irredeemably corrupt, though, they show no mercy.
Hound archons are disciplined soldiers and sentinels. Occasionally good-aligned deities send them to watch over specific places and individuals they take a particular interest in and sometimes clerics can summon them with planar binding spells to act as guards for holy sites or important relics.
Needing neither sleep or food they can stay in place and guard a location for years sometimes decades at a time without moving.
”It’s a Hound Archon.” Ci Ci replies in a hushed tone, recognizing the description from her Master’s tutelage. She quickly and quietly gives a summary of its abilities and nature .
"A complication but I think I have an idea. We make it look like we failed to steal anything. You engage the hound archon but don't beat it just keep it distracted, I sneak in and replace the shards without it noticing and then we run and make it look like the archon did it's job." says Kilik whispering after you move away from the door.
"The noise will likely attract attention, it might be able to telepathically alert others as well. I can freeze the doors shut to buy us some time but we might need to fight our way out if we go with that plan." says Elise.
”Well, there’s not likely anyone more distracting to that thing than me,” Cori says. ”I’m going to go ahead and pick a fight, unless there’s are any objections?”
I got your back.
"Alright, pass me the fake shards I will try to make this quick, I have a way to make a potion that will make me invisible but it only works on me. While it's distracted I will sneak past and swap the shards." Says Kilik.
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Slid turns to Stanislav and sends him an angry look. He is not happy that they are giving the stranger such an important job, even less that they're leaving him with the real shards after the trade has been made. But he remains quiet and unsheathes his rapier and dagger. Fighting is not something he is great at, but it seems there is no other way around it.
"We want to give it the impression it chased us off, so we put up token resistance just long enough for the switch," Cori says softly. Nodding to Stan, she draws her sword and steps forward into the room.
"The smell in here is so sweet, its sickening," she says in a condescending tone. "What else can one expect from a perfumed lap-dog?"
She assumes a guarded, but aggressive stance.
"Do you have a means of making yourself invisible? My extract only works on myself and if the guard dog sees you making the exchange then the whole plan is ruined, even if we kill the guard they can summon it again to ask it what happened. My plan is simple you attack the creature, I run in and cut the class, make the swap, I use my wand of mending to repair the glass and then we run. Once we are safe I give you the real shards you pay us and we go our separate ways." says Kilik to Slid.
Seeing that you've come to an understanding Kilik grabs the fake shards from Stannis "You only need to keep it busy for one minute and I will be done" he says taking his extract to make himself invisible.
Cori opens the doors and challenges the creature, the archon waits sword in hands between the door and the altar with the shards.
"The guards know about your intrusion, surrender and your blood need not be shed...Enter this room and I wont hold back." it says.
Elise moves to other end of the hall and gets to work freezing the door shut.
Lets roll init.