There are two tick-tocks marching in front of the wings. The party disguise themselves before entering the bank. Bosley closes the door on the four waiting customers and secures it with a crowbar. There are two clockwork guards inside the building. There is a barred gate covering the area before the vault. There is a table off to the corner inside the vault, but the party members can’t quite see what’s on it.
Audrey Rose throws a bottle of lightning at the guard closest to her. The guard convulses and turns its attention to her. Hendra charges the other guard and does high levels of damage to it. The two guards start ringing loudly. Hendra and Zita are deafened by the siren. The two guards attempt to punch Hendra and Audrey Rose and miss. Sabrina is certain that there is more ringing coming from within the bank.
Bosley attacks the guard on Audrey Rose with Shocking Grasp. Dol summons snakes by the backdoor. Sabrina runs towards the tellers, “Let me in. I don’t want to die. They’re trying to kill me.” Zita strikes at the guard on Hendra. Audrey Rose takes a five-foot step and casts a shield spell. She hears someone yelling through the front door.
Two more clockworks show up. They pull out javelins; one falls on the floor and the other bounces off the wall. Bosley stabs at the clockwork and misses. Zita double-daggers the guard. Audrey Rose fumbles her bomb causing splash damage to the guard. Hendra runs the sword through the clockwork, and it collapses into a dismantled heap.
Bosley hears attempts to batter the door down. He ignores the sounds and slashes at the clockwork, skewering it right in the power supply. Sabrina examines the dismantled tick-tocks and fails to take a fist full of parts. Zita unlocks the teller’s gate, and Audrey Rose makes her way through the door. Dol summons a wolf and threatens the tellers.
Hendra sees a big, locked steel box on the table. Zita unlocks the backdoor and sees a room with tables and chairs. Audrey Rose throws a bottle of lightning at one of the guards outside the vault. The guard retaliates by attacking the wolf; it disappears. The second guard closes in on Audrey Rose and punches the wall behind her.
Dol attempts to vault over Zita and scrambles up the steel door, slipping, and falling on top of Zita. Sabrina helps Zita up. Zita tries to vault over Dol and grabs a hold of the vault door, but her foot catches on Dol, and she’s back on the floor. Audrey Rose throws a bottle of lightning at the guard; it gets hit by a turquoise cascade of flurries and falls into a heap of smoking parts.
Bosley attacks the other guard with Shocking Grasp. Dol stands up and offers to lift Zita. It doesn’t work. Sabrina walks into the conference room and starts opening doors. Zita stands up and disguises herself as one of the tellers. Audrey Rose blows the head off the last guard. The siren is finally silent, but all our ears are ringing.
Hendra yells at the tellers, “Down on the floor, face down, hands behind heads!” The tellers follow suit. Bosley runs into the vault and attempts to lift the box; it’s too heavy. Sabrina walks into the vault door and loudly announces, “This is easy!” Zita attempts to pick the lock on the door that Sabrina just vacated. She successfully unlocks the door.
At this point, the ringing in their ears stops and they can hear normally again. Audrey Rose tries to shove the box into the bag of holding but she’s not strong enough. Bosley also tries, but the box isn’t budging. Dol greases the table and pushes the box into the bag.
Sabrina goes to examine another door. Someone hiding behind the desk fires at her. A crossbow bolt sinks into her shoulder. A dwarven woman with a repeating crossbow is standing there. Sabrina casts Hideous Laughter on her, but the dwarven woman resists the spell's effects.
Zita goes to examine the escape route to ensure that it’s safe. She yells to us that the way is clear. Audrey Rose goes to help Sabrina. She throws a bomb at the dwarven woman; she misses but the woman still takes splash damage. Hendra steps into the room and yells, “Drop the crossbow, and you’ll be fine.”
Bosley goes to a safety deposit box to examine it; it requires two keys. The dwarf shoots at Audrey Rose and misses. Audrey Rose yells, “I told you to put the crossbow down.” Sabrina leaves the room and empties one of the teller boxes.
Audrey Rose throws a bomb and retreats per Hendra’s instructions. The front doors batter open and the sirens start again. The party retreats. Sabrina empties the last teller box. The dwarf yells at Hendra to get out. Hendra responds, “Anything for a lady,” and she runs out.
The tick-tocks attempt to chase us down and slip and fall on the grease spell. The four customers run into the room and yell, “Get them. We’ll be rewarded handsomely.”
They continue retreating full speed ahead. Hendra sees that people are coming from both ends of the alley; they look like guardsmen. The party all run into the entrance of the scrapyard. Dol places another grease spell outside the scrapyard. There is a particularly tall tower of junk inside. Perched on top of an old folding chair is a goblin. He yells, “Come through here. Come through here.” Zita trusts him, so we go that way. As the last of them run past, the tower of junk collapses blocking the way.
The goblin leads us around a wall of junk. His name is Goback and is a member of the Nail biters tribe. He likes that they pissed off the guards. The Nailbiters have recently been joined by some War Forges. He wants to introduce them to Lord Glass. Goback leads them around a corner to an encampment. Goblins are sorting through junk and Warforges trying to fix things. There’s a goblin on top of an apparatus that is a cross between a bicycle and a roasting spit; cockroaches are being roasted. “It’s a Roachtisserie,” says Hendra. Everyone groans.
All the goblins surround us and offer to sell them thundersticks to fight gnolls. A goblin in a big floppy tophat introduces himself as Lord Glass. He’s wearing a shirt with embedded glass. He asks the group to fight the gnolls that are between them and the storm drain. Lord Glass offers to give them the best junk in return. He shows them a lump of metal that Audrey identifies as Cold Iron. There’s enough to make one weapon. The group agrees to take out the gnolls.
The way to the gnolls is blocked by a big metal box. Munsey (one of the goblins) knows how to operate the crane; he went to go do something about the gnolls and hasn’t come back. There’s also an airship blocking the way. We head to the crane.
There is a big box sitting in fetid water blocking the way. Dol summons crabs into the water. Bosley climbs into the cockpit of the crane. There are several handles. The control panel has been removed revealing the cables and wires underneath. Bosley goes to sit down and is ankle-deep in roaches.
Dol casts grease on the roaches. There’s now a swarm of roaches following Bosley. Zita goes as far away from them as she can. Audrey Rose throws a bomb at them. The others aren’t sure what to do and run away. Hendra runs to the goblin camp. Audrey Rose throws alchemist fire at the swarm. Hendra buys alchemist fire from the goblins; it’s a balloon made out of a rat. Zita also gets two rat bombs. They all return just as Audrey Rose destroys the swarm.
Bosley climbs into the crane and operates it successfully. The big metal box is moved out of the way, unblocking the path. Dol summons Tweetie-Bear. They proceed through the fetid water. Sabrina casts prestidigitation on the party members. What looks like an oil slick is moving toward them in the water.
The players get 1,066 XP
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