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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3851664" data-attributes="member: 29014">"Greetings and salutations, my friends.  Your actions of yestereve were valiant, and they proved that you are all mighty indeed.  Julian, even though you may have fallen early in the fight, your words of inspiration stuck with us for the rest of the battle, and they were crucial, I believe, to our eventual victory.""Early this morning, I found compelling evidence that Vanthus Vanderboren killed his parents in an attempt to steal their fortune.  He has not yet succeeded, however.  But I have a plan to trap him that will put me in great danger but will probably work.  But first we need to go see Lavinia."  [SBLOCK=Don't read this]First, we need to sneak Lavinia with us to the vault--we don't want her to go there openly for several reasons, her own safety paramount.  I would simply allow her to stay while we checked the treasure if not for an unfortunate requirement that a blooded Vanderboren be present to open the vault.  Of course, that requirement will aid us immensely on phase two.""Getting to the treasure should be trivial with the ring, and the scrap of parchment is probably used to find the path through a maze or the combination of a vault at the end, so that should also be no problem.  Once we remove all the treasure for Lavinia clandestinely, we move on to phase two.""In phase two, you all will stay in the vault and ready an ambush.  I will then contact Vanthus through Rowyn and tell him that I found the ring to open the vault but I need a blooded Vanderboren also to open it.  I will tell Rowyn that my offer is to split the treasure 50% to me, 50% to her and Vanthus (and if she quibbles, I will fight hard but maybe eventually let her go to a 40/60 split.  I will also mention that I know a secret combination (which will be true at that point, hopefully) that they need at the end, so that way they don't kill me after the door is opened.  Then, we ambush Vanthus.  That should be all of it."[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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