Prologue - The Vault Heist

Players
Bear, the Dwarf (Nick) (First Appearance)

Drog the Dreg (Fletcher) (First Appearance)

Tinkflink Wobbledink (Gianni) (First Appearance)

The Vault Heist
Our story begins in the Inn of the Leaping Bush. Three men chased by the shadows of their past were here to meet a contact calling himself Mister Wick. After muscling some drunks out of their meeting place, the three were joined by a nervous wizard. Their contact had prepared a teleportation spell to reach their target, and offered only this cryptic advice: Once you have secured the Vault's contents it will be your means of escape.

With that, the three found themselves in a dusty storeroom. Picking through the tunnels, they encountered guards in strange gilded armour and began to wonder exactly who the target of this heist was going to be. Only when the thieves found portraits and libraries dedicated to Emperors past did the horrible realisation begin to dawn. They were in the belly of the Imperial Palace, and escape was becoming increasingly unlikely.

Arriving finally at the Vault, the true nature of their mission was revealed. The Gnomish Summoner Tinkflink sliced down the rope bridge behind the rest of his party, trapping them in the vault while he signalled the Imperial Guard. Their earstwhile companion was, in fact, an undercover investigator working for the Lords' Coalition. To make a bad situation worse, the men trapped in the vault were also undercover investigators, Drog working for L'Academie and Bear for the Desjic Court. With no treasure to claim, it would seem that their target was one step ahead of them, and put together a job with no actual criminals.

Captured by the Imperial Guard, the three confessed to their true affiliations. The guardsmen chided them on being unfamiliar with the codename used by their betrayer, Mister Wick, before throwing them bodily into a circle of teleportation. They found themselves on the surface with no loot, no leads, and nothing to report to their superiors... for now...