Lavinia Vanderboren was delighted when the party returned with her father's ring, together with a scrap of paper which seemed to hint at a way of unlocking the family vault:
Chimera Looks to sunrise
Cyclops looks to sunset
Medusa looks to sunrise
Umber Hulk looks to sunset
Basilisk looks to sunrise.
Wasting no time Lavinia ordered her servants to get her carriage ready and the party hurried over to the vault at Castle Terkanian. After a minor skirmish with the vault guardians they reached the door to the main vault, which was locked. After several minutes trying to work out the combination, Lucius eventually realised that there was a clue in the riddle they'd found, the number of revolutions correlated to the number of eyes of each creature, with the sunrise, sunset referring to left or right.
With a great creak the vault door swung open, however the vast majority of the chests bar two had been emptied. In the remaining chests were some thousands of gold pieces, together with a ledger and a diary revealing that the Vanderboren family had interests far to the south on an island called the Isle of Dread. On leaving the vault Cal asked the nearest scribe if anyone else had been in the vault recently. The scribe then revealed that Vanthus Vanderboren had been there too!!!
On returning to the manor, Lavinia informed the party that she was worried about her brother and wanted them to find him. After a few false leads they discovered he had been seen heading out to Parrot Island, in the bay. Hiring a boat they followed him and found a trail leaing to a trapdoor with a rope hanging down. Scrambling down the rope one at a time, they suddenly saw Vanthus at the top of the shaft, he cut the rope with a mocking laugh and slammed the trapdoor down. It was dark and the party realised they had not brought any light sources. Fortunately Jack found a sunrod so they at least had some light. Coming toa waterlogged room Jack ,moved ahead and was ambushed by some small crabs, quickly falling over, bleeding profusely. After being healed the group found the dead body of man called Penkhus who had written a lengthy diatribe against Vanthus Vanderboren. After another hour of searching the group found a tunnel which lead back to the beach and they sailed back into Sasserine.