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The Afterlife Casino is the current target of the crew's heist planning. The transcript places it in or near Neverwinter, reached by leaving town and following a narrow road to a dark cavern entrance.

The casino is designed to make patrons feel as if they have crossed into another world. Guests descend by gondola along a subterranean waterway, arrive beside a deafening interior waterfall, and enter a closed economy where the house controls movement, money, spectacle, and rules.

Every employee described in the transcript is a tiefling, dressed in sharp black and red. Security wears the same house colors with flexible leather armor worked into the tailoring.

• Primary target site for the current operation.
• Located underground near Neverwinter.
• Reached by gondola through a cavern waterway.
• Contains gambling tables, slot machines, a lounge or bar, a spa, employee-only corridors, and a circus pit.

Verity Kai hires the crew for a recovery job, not a free-form casino robbery. Her former gambling partner, Quentin Togglepocket, stole her life savings and disappeared into the Afterlife Casino's orbit.

The goods she wants recovered are specific: five thousand gold pieces and a valuable statuette. The crew's compensation is deliberately modest by heist standards, which makes this job feel more like a grievance contract than a normal profit split.

• Tiefling client.
• Former gambling partner of Quentin Togglepocket.
• Lost 5,000 gp and a rare or prized statuette.
• Offers each crew member 100 gp, a crude casino map, and access to a bag of holding for the recovered property.

Quentin Togglepocket is named as the person who stole Verity Kai's savings. One transcript cut describes him as her former gambling partner; another goes further and says he owns the Afterlife Casino.

Because the AI transcript versions differ on his exact relationship to the casino, the wiki should treat him as the theft target and casino-linked antagonist until the raw session notes clarify whether he is owner, operator, guest, or merely hiding behind the house.

• Accused of stealing Verity Kai's life savings.
• Associated with the Afterlife Casino.
• Connection to ownership is transcript-variant and should be confirmed from raw table notes.

The job is tightly scoped. Verity wants exactly five thousand gold pieces and a specific statuette recovered from the casino, not a generalized looting spree.

The bag of holding is a mission tool rather than a blank check. The transcript repeatedly stresses that the bag is meant for Verity's gold and statuette, which creates a useful future table tension: the perfect smuggling tool is available, but using it for anything else would violate the contract.

• Recover 5,000 gp.
• Recover the stolen statuette.
• Crew payout: 100 gp each.
• Bag of holding is restricted to mission property.

The route into the casino begins with a gondola ride down an underground river. The transcript calls it the River of Sticks, a name that clearly plays on the mythic River Styx while keeping the table's house flavor intact.

The gondolier is a silent, cloaked tiefling staged like the Grim Reaper. Nick tries to break the act by tugging at the robe and asking questions, but the gondolier refuses to drop character beyond a tired demand to be allowed to do the job.

As architecture, the river is not just transport. It separates patrons from the surface world, primes them to accept the casino's authority, and makes the venue feel like a controlled underworld.

• Entry route into the casino.
• Operated by a silent tiefling gondolier.
• Ends near a 100-foot interior waterfall.
• Patrons are warned not to enter or drink from the river.

The casino posts rules at the docks before patrons reach the main floor. The rules establish the house's authority immediately and help the crew understand what behavior will trigger enforcement.

The transcript names several rules: weapons must remain hidden or sheathed, patrons must stay out of the river, green-trimmed doors are employees-only, and cheating is framed with the ominous warning that cheaters never prosper. One transcript cut also mentions a warning not to eat the food; this may be a garbled line and should be confirmed in raw notes.

• Weapons hidden or sheathed.
• Stay out of the river.
• Do not consume river water.
• Green-trimmed doors are for employees only.
• Cheating is explicitly threatened.
• Food warning appears in one transcript cut and needs confirmation.

The green-trimmed doors are one of the crew's most important reconnaissance discoveries. They mark employee-only spaces and conceal the routes the guards use to respond to disturbances.

When a proxy brawl breaks out on the floor, guards emerge from behind a green-trimmed door in under a minute. When Sterling tests another door with magic, the door resists and a guard quickly intervenes, proving the doors are watched both physically and magically.

• Employees-only access points.
• Connected to the casino security response network.
• Protected by arcane lock magic.
• Likely require a password, authorized person, or carried bypass object.

Sterling identifies the green door protection as an arcane lock, an abjuration effect that cannot be defeated by ordinary thieves' tools.

The transcript interprets the lock like a magical encryption layer. The crew concludes that getting through the door requires acquiring the right authentication: an authorized person, a spoken password, or a physical bypass object carried by staff.

This discovery changes the plan. The crew cannot simply sneak, pick, and pry. They need social engineering, pickpocketing, or a forced security response that exposes the bypass system.

• School: abjuration.
• Found on at least one green-trimmed employee door.
• Standard burglary tools are not enough.
• Likely bypass routes: authorized bearer, password, or key-like object.

The crew identifies security mirrors as part of the casino's surveillance network. The proxy brawl is staged near one, and the response shows that the house notices even low-grade physical disruption quickly.

A later magical probe suggests the guards are also watching for spellcasting tells. One transcript describes guards spotting Sterling's somatic components and asking him to dispel the magic before things escalate.

• Mirrors are actively monitored.
• Physical disturbance triggers a fast response.
• Somatic spell components can be noticed by trained guards.
• The casino appears to monitor both behavior and unauthorized magic.

To map the casino's response time, the crew manipulates an intoxicated patron named Georgie into confronting an innocent bystander near a security mirror.

Georgie is too drunk to land a real punch and only manages a weak slap, but the severity of the attack is not the point. The house treats the disturbance as a breach: guards restrain him, two armored responders emerge from a green-trimmed door, and Georgie is removed by boat.

The transcript cuts disagree on whether Binker or Ralph cultivated Georgie as the proxy. Both versions agree on the operational result: the casino response window is under sixty seconds.

• Proxy: Georgie, intoxicated patron.
• Trigger: slap against an innocent bystander.
• Response: guard restraint, two armored responders, removal by boat.
• Measured response time: under 60 seconds.
• Attribution conflict: Binker in one cut, Ralph in another.

Georgie is encountered wandering the casino floor while looking for his friend. The crew identifies him as exploitable because he is already drinking and socially adrift.

After being fed a rapid string of cheap drinks, Georgie is convinced that an innocent patron stole his cigars and insulted him. His failed punch becomes the crew's cleanest measurement of the casino's guard response.

• Human patron.
• Looking for a friend.
• Manipulated through alcohol and false grievance.
• Removed from the casino by boat after the disturbance.

Sterling plays Three Dragon Ante as part of his cover. He plays aggressively, goes all in, and walks away up six gold.

The win is not just money. It establishes Sterling as a plausible casino patron: loud enough, confident enough, and normal enough to become part of the floor's expected behavior.

• Played by Sterling.
• Result in transcript: plus 6 gp.
• Useful cover archetype: confident winner.

Life and Death is described as a direct twenty-sided die roll-off against the house dealer. Ralph ties the dealer, chooses to double down rather than surrender half, loses the tiebreaker, and drops four gold.

That loss gives him a believable emotional mask. A disgusted gambler chasing or mourning losses is exactly the kind of person a casino expects to see.

• Played by Ralph.
• Mechanic: d20 roll-off against the house.
• Tie option: surrender half or double down.
• Transcript result: Ralph loses 4 gp.

Nick searches the casino for a bathroom and discovers a staggering architectural gap: the transcript says the Afterlife Casino has no normal restrooms.

Instead, staff direct him toward a luxury spa where he pays two gold for a private bath behind bamboo screens. This accidental privacy lets him ritual-cast detect magic away from the mirrors and guards.

• Costs 2 gp for a private bath.
• Uses bamboo privacy screens.
• Nick uses it to cast detect magic privately.
• No normal bathrooms are found in either transcript cut.

The crew buys a large flask or jug of delayed gastrointestinal transit potion, which the transcript politely frames as an industrial-strength laxative with a one-hour trigger.

The intended use is asymmetric disruption: a biological crisis should force evacuation or drag staff away from their posts without triggering the same lockdown response as an explosion or weapon attack.

The plan hits a problem when the casino appears to have no bathrooms. The lack of plumbing turns the potion from a contained distraction into a potential floor-wide catastrophe. The transcript cuts disagree on whether Sweetness or Sterling purchased the potion.

• Price: 15 gp.
• Delay: approximately one hour.
• Intended effect: mass biological distraction.
• Operational complication: casino has no bathrooms.
• Attribution conflict: Sweetness in one cut, Sterling in another.

Sterling spends the ten-day journey learning tactical sign language from Sweetness. The goal is not fluency; it is casino-floor utility under surveillance.

The core vocabulary is directional and operational: north, south, east, west, up, down, left, right, danger, and safe. Through Nick's relentless fake-religion proselytizing, Sterling also picks up three bonus signs: Mr., awesome, and super.

• Teacher: Sweetness.
• Student: Sterling.
• Core signs: north, south, east, west, up, down, left, right, danger, safe.
• Bonus signs: Mr., awesome, super.

The crew learns that every casino employee is a tiefling, making staff impersonation too risky for most of them. Their pivot is to look like eccentric gamblers instead of invisible professionals.

Binker buys a five-gold formal outfit described across cuts as a threadbare tuxedo, top hat, or flashy hobo formal look. Sterling buys three-gold breezy robes with local patterns. Nick purchases a white rhinestone-studded Elvis or ice-skater style jumpsuit with tinted glasses and glued-on sideburns.

The absurdity is tactical. In a luxury casino, eccentric wealth is expected; a man dressed too strangely to classify may slow the guards' threat recognition instead of accelerating it.

• Staff disguise rejected because all employees are tieflings.
• Binker: top hat and threadbare/formal eccentric outfit.
• Sterling: local-pattern open-air robes.
• Nick: white rhinestone jumpsuit, tinted glasses, sideburns.

Nick is the crew member most associated with weaponized absurdity. He travels while evangelizing a fabricated deity, buys the most conspicuous outfit possible, harasses the underworld gondolier, searches obsessively for a bathroom, and ultimately talks to the casino's performing baboons.

His behavior looks like chaos, but it repeatedly creates operational value. He draws attention in a way that confuses threat classification, gains private access to the spa, casts detect magic, and plants a religious idea inside the casino's entertainment assets.

• Disguise: white rhinestone Elvis/ice-skater jumpsuit.
• Deity: Mr. Mister.
• Uses speak with animals on casino baboons.
• Hands out a pamphlet marked with a handlebar mustache symbol.

Mr. Mister is Nick's fabricated religion, introduced during the road trip and later pitched to the casino's performing baboons.

The transcript treats the belief as ridiculous and tactically dangerous. Nick promises the baboons magical power if they accept Mr. Mister, and the baboons respond as if they have received a revelation.

The holy symbol appears to be a handlebar mustache, stamped on a pamphlet Nick gives the baboons.

• Invented and preached by Nick.
• Associated phrases/signs: Mr., awesome, super.
• Holy symbol: handlebar mustache.
• Current converts: at least three performing baboons.

The Afterlife Casino's circus includes baboons dressed in black and red house suits. They juggle pins, balls, and eventually one another as part of a polished recurring show.

Nick casts speak with animals and preaches Mr. Mister to them as they leave the stage. The baboons are stunned that someone speaks to them, accept the pamphlet, and imply they will make use of the revelation.

The transcript frames this as a zero-day exploit in the casino's security model: the house expects its animals to be controlled entertainment, not a new religious cell inside the building.

• Perform in the casino circus.
• Wear black and red suits.
• Capable of coordinated juggling routines.
• Converted or at least influenced by Nick's Mr. Mister sermon.
• Potential future complication: primate theological rebellion.

The casino's entertainment pit hosts a major live show. The transcript describes a lion leaping through hoops of fire lit by tieflings with firebolt spells, French-style acrobats contorting into animal shapes, and baboons performing elaborate juggling routines.

The circus is meant to keep eyes on the center of the room and away from the green-trimmed doors. For the crew, however, the spectacle exposes a new route for chaos: trained animals are predictable until someone changes what they believe.

• Includes fire magic, a lion, acrobats, and baboons.
• Draws crowd attention toward the pit.
• Baboons perform on a recurring schedule in one transcript cut.
• Potential operational use: distraction or internal disruption.

The transcript ends before the actual vault breach begins. The crew has mapped response times, identified the arcane lock problem, seeded several chaos vectors, and discovered the bathroom problem, but the score itself remains unresolved.

Several details should be confirmed against raw session notes: whether Quentin owns the casino or is only hiding through it, whether Sweetness or Sterling bought the delayed laxative, and whether Binker or Ralph manipulated Georgie.

• Vault breach has not happened in this transcript.
• Need confirmation: Quentin's exact casino role.
• Need confirmation: purchaser of the delayed laxative.
• Need confirmation: who cultivated Georgie as the proxy.
• Likely next payoffs: guard credential theft, biological crisis, and baboon revolt.