Breaking and Entering

At Annah’s Brew and Stew in the early evening, after a few drinks, Ralathen brings up that they want to steal Clarabel’s portrait from the Roseburn Estate. The group agreed and laid out some general plans to sneak in and search the estate. As the party headed off, they were stopped at the gate into the farmland. Jukli stepped up and attempted to smooth talk his way past the guard and pose as a delivery person. The ploy was beginning to look like it was ineffective, so Jukli cast Friends on the guard and was able to get everyone through. The party moved quickly down the road and hid off the side just as the guard, who now knew he was magically coerced, went to look for them. Unable to find the party, the guard headed back to his post and the group headed over to the Roseburn Estate.

Arriving at the Roseburn Estate, the party noticed the guard were a little more at attention than usual so they kept their distance and used a secret entrance Ralathen knew about to enter the facility through the delivery building. Getting in was fairly easy, there was just one guard pacing in the building to deal with. Fergus tinkered a candle to make some noise to cause a distraction, which he through over into a corner allowing the party to move out of the building with the help of Ranoa‘s Pass without Trace. Once out into the inner yard off the estate, the group crept around and saw kitchen workers passing back and forth between the buildings. Ranoa used Alter Self to change into one of the kitchen staff and snuck into a door meeting Ornell sitting at a desk scribbling on some papers. Ranoa told him that he was needed in the dining room to get him to leave, and with just a little disbelief, Ornell stopped what he was doing and made off towards the dining room. With the coast clear, the rest of the party piled into the office and slowly made their way upstairs into Ornell‘s quarters.

Sneaking along, either disguised or invisible, the group made their way into the hallway of the 2nd floor and headed towards an area Ralathen had not explored yet. Ranoa redirected another housemaid, who was carrying tea, back towards the dining room on the way. Entering the unknown area, the group found a museum type room being cleaned by a maid, an old armory of fancy weapon props and a downtrodden abandoned bedroom, which contained young boy clothes. The group caused some noise prompting the maid to check on what was going on and when she went to go alert her boss, Jukli clothes-lined her and they locked her in the museum room. As the group went to leave and head towards their next destination, Walsh Roseburn‘s office, another housemaid ran into Ranoa who resorted to casting Command on them to tell them to flee so that they would not be discovered. The group then ducked into Clarabel‘s room.