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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8958628" data-attributes="member: 6879661"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Who are the Golden Vault?</strong></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>A benevolent secret society founded by shape changed gold dragons to right the wrongs in the world that can’t be resolved by legal methods?</p><p></p><p>…Not likely.</p><p></p><p>The Golden Vault is a front for one of the four evil organizations. Which one I haven’t decided yet. The most obvious candidates are the Zhentarim (Manshoon is a mastermind after all), The Cassalanters (it’s a very Asmodean style plot to corrupt the actions of the good) or Braegan D’Aerth who are masters at getting someone else to go the work.</p><p></p><p>The key thing is that each heist while benevolent on the face of it, has to have an underlying benefit to the evil organisation it turns out to be. For instance while superficially the party are stopping a Far Realm Event in the heart of the city what they are actually doing is handing the Golden Vault a time bomb - that they can repurpose as they like.</p><p></p><p>There need to be some clues that the Golden Vault isn’t all it seems to be but not so many that they refuse to work with them. By the time the party have the stone of Grolor though and are searching for the keys they should have their own reasons to want to find Neverember’s Vault. The final reveal will be in the vault when the city’s only gold dragon explains that dragons cannot enter the city without his permission and his confident assurance that there are no other gold dragons within 100 miles of Waterdeep. At this point things should move quickly towards a resolution. The false Golden Vault moves quickly to put in place it plan - using all the results from the heists to date to obtain the stolen fortune and effect a nefarious plan.</p><p></p><p>I’ve thought hard - and I think Bregan D’Aerthe are the best folks for this ruse. Their actions in the module lack some of the villainous punch of the other organizations whom the party will want to confront of their own accord. The reversal will be all the better when Jarlaxle uses all the stolen/acquired mcguffins to perpetrate the most daring heist on the party and steal the prize from under their noses. Leading to a great revenge heist against their one time benefactors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 8958628, member: 6879661"] [SIZE=7][B]Who are the Golden Vault?[/B][/SIZE] A benevolent secret society founded by shape changed gold dragons to right the wrongs in the world that can’t be resolved by legal methods? …Not likely. The Golden Vault is a front for one of the four evil organizations. Which one I haven’t decided yet. The most obvious candidates are the Zhentarim (Manshoon is a mastermind after all), The Cassalanters (it’s a very Asmodean style plot to corrupt the actions of the good) or Braegan D’Aerth who are masters at getting someone else to go the work. The key thing is that each heist while benevolent on the face of it, has to have an underlying benefit to the evil organisation it turns out to be. For instance while superficially the party are stopping a Far Realm Event in the heart of the city what they are actually doing is handing the Golden Vault a time bomb - that they can repurpose as they like. There need to be some clues that the Golden Vault isn’t all it seems to be but not so many that they refuse to work with them. By the time the party have the stone of Grolor though and are searching for the keys they should have their own reasons to want to find Neverember’s Vault. The final reveal will be in the vault when the city’s only gold dragon explains that dragons cannot enter the city without his permission and his confident assurance that there are no other gold dragons within 100 miles of Waterdeep. At this point things should move quickly towards a resolution. The false Golden Vault moves quickly to put in place it plan - using all the results from the heists to date to obtain the stolen fortune and effect a nefarious plan. I’ve thought hard - and I think Bregan D’Aerthe are the best folks for this ruse. Their actions in the module lack some of the villainous punch of the other organizations whom the party will want to confront of their own accord. The reversal will be all the better when Jarlaxle uses all the stolen/acquired mcguffins to perpetrate the most daring heist on the party and steal the prize from under their noses. Leading to a great revenge heist against their one time benefactors. [/QUOTE]
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