I can understand why do males never made it out of the village packing up is rough! I keep thinking do I need this or should I take that? Finally I decided to only take the basics; my axe, two changes of cloths, and some travel expenses. I’ve never really had to use gold here in the village everything is just charged to the family account and mom takes care of it. So I’ve never bothered to try collecting myself a travel sum until three months ago when I started to plan.

So far I have 3 gold which in my mind equates to nothing. Don’t main chars in those novels always end up with thousands? I guess I’ll just have to acquire it. For good purposes. Anyways anything important is kept in the family treasury, I once tried to slip in and modify my little sisters birthday present (a wand) so it would shoot out water at whoever used it. Sort of like the rubber banding your faucet trick.

Anyways I didn’t even make it through treasury door so now I need a good plan. No guards will stop me from wandering in the main house the problem is with the maids seeing me. No wait I’m gone after today it doesn’t matter if they see me! Awesome lets have some fun with this then...

Finally I set my plan into motion I decided to keep everything a secret and still sneak in so I can prank them as I leave. As I get to the main door of the house I notice that there are 3 guards there. 'What in Gaia there should only be two why is there three today does someone know my plan today? But no that’s impossible I haven’t told anybody it must be coincidence'.

The wood on the outside of the mansion is smooth but there is a small trellis on one side that goes two stories up and onto the roof. 'That’s my in' I think to myself. I sneak through the shadows when the guards aren’t paying attention. Their muttering voices loud enough to cover my light footsteps. “Did you see that shadow wolf yesterday on patrol? - Guard 1. “Yeah I wonder of captain will send us out to subjugate it soon. No sense in letting it grow to big” said another.

I made it to the trellis! Now to climb. Wow looking at this I didn’t repair this with intent to climb it. The crisscross pattern of the trellis is made of small interlocking weave of branches, dead branches. “This is kind of scary” I say “I really hope this supports my weight.” putting one hand onto the fixture I test it and hear it creak. I repaired this a few months ago so it should hold me right? Only one way to find out. As I start climbing I decide to evenly put my weight between my hands and legs. No point is stressing out the wood further than I have to.

It creaks as I slowly make my ascent. “No problem” I tell myself it’s just the movement causing it to make noise, its doing fine. Three quarters of the way up I feel the branches start to give under my left foot. I freeze and the branches continue to break. 'What next I fall?' my blood is pumping in my ears as I slowly shift my weight onto my other three limbs and try to lift my foot above the weakened portion. Finally I’m free and finish making my way to the top. I'm still breathing hard in adrenaline rush from the climb focusing my thoughts to calm myself i admit 'that freaked me out.'

There is a sky light from the roof into the attic I make my way over and apply some oil I brought in a small waist pack onto the hinges. Opening it up it makes noise for a second and then immediately begins to move silently. 'Perfect' I think to myself. Sliding down into the attic I try to figure out just where I am in the house. I hear noise coming from the front to the left that sound like my mom so that should be her office.

In that case the treasury room should be around 30 feet towards the north of her office. Stepping carefully on the rafters so I don’t break through I make my way to where it’s supposed to be. It’s one door down from the office so I need to make sure I come down into the right room. Using a keyhole saw I brought with me, I slowly make a hole big enough to see out of in the ceiling. Looking down and... That’s someone’s head! I slowly put the pug back into the ceiling. Thank goodness I cut it in a way that most of the dust came out on top. How to take care of the guard... after a few min of thought here’s my idea.

1. Drip water on guard using water magic through ceiling. 2. The guard will go tell groundskeeper that roof leaks. 3. When guard leaves shut and jam the door so it won’t open. Commence plan “AQUIRE”

To start I make a pinhole in the ceiling above the guard so that the water will make it to her quickly (no one wants to wait for it to seep through the ceiling, I mean common) then I use magic to accumulate the water on the ceiling above the hole… 5 min later, “how long does it take stupid water to get through the ceiling this is taking forever.”

After a few more minutes I hear the guard grunt “where did this water come from? Oh man the mistress will kill me if she sees a stain on this uniform. I can’t leave my post…hmm ill just wipe it off in the bathroom real quick.” Yes! She is finally leaving. Not like I intended but as long as it gets her out of the room. I listen as she pulls a bucket under the drip and opens the door to the bathroom. Opening a larger hole I jump down into the room and notice. She left the door open!

Hurriedly I hide behind a shelf that’s close and look towards the open doorway. I try and sneak towards it so no sound gets out and slowly shut it. Using my tools I jiggle the lock closed then fill the keyhole with earth magic. To make sure that no mage can open it quickly I jam my knife into the keyhole and using my weight break it leaving the tip of the knife within the door.

“That should do the trick” I mutter. “now let’s see what we have in here… wow there’s not as much as I thought there would be I guess I was expecting piles of jewels or something but there are only shelfs with items and gold neatly stacked onto them. ‘I guess it makes it easier to count if it’s in order.’ Hmm lets grab a third of the gold in here I can’t use any of the items and who knows how many have tracking sigils on them? Goldy Goldy here I come.

Halfway through stuffing the gold into a sack I hear the guard come back, “what in Gaia? Why won’t the door open? Hey! Is anyone in there? No maybe I think I hear noise. I better go get the mistress.” As I hear her walking away I pick up the pace. Thinking crap now she is coming this will be bad if I am still here. Now instead of setting stuff in the sack I’m throwing it in. time to go I tie a rope to the sack and crawl into the ceiling holding the end. As I slowly the sack up after me I hear the rafter shift a little under my weight. ‘Man this is heavy, how am I getting out of here the trellis will never support all this weight’. I need a distraction.