The Shadow Thieves

Make your way to Gaelan Bayle's Home in the Slum District. He will tell you that his masters have agreed to accept 15000G.

Hand over the gold. Each member of your party will receive 45000XP. Gaelan will give you a key to access the inner sanctum in the Shadow Thief Guildhall.

Shadow Thief Inner Sanctum: If you want to see Aran Linvail immediately, go through the concealed door in the east of the room. To explore, you can encounter Shadow Thieves training. In the northeast lounge area, speak to a Shadow Thief who suggests Aran Linvail's position is vulnerable. He is executed for his treachery; loot the Ring of Lock Picks from his remains. Return to the entrance area and go through the door to the northeast. Follow the path to Aran Linvail's quarters.

Aran requires you to protect a shipment of goods. He gives you a Ring of Protection +2 and the Amulet of Power (grants immunity to level drain).

Task 1: Protect the Shipment: At night, go to the Shipyard Docks in the Docks District and speak to Mook. A vampire named Lassal will appear. Have a protected party member engage Lassal in melee while others use ranged attacks. Lassal will retreat after taking damage.

Report back to Aran. Each party member earns 28500XP. Aran gives you your second task: deal with traitors Jaylos and Caehan.

Task 2: Deal With the Traitors: Go to the Five Flagons Inn in the Bridge District. Find Jaylos and Caehan upstairs in the room with the pipe organ. You will fight them regardless of your approach. Loot the Contact's Note (points to the Graveyard) and a Two-Handed Sword +2 from the contact who appears after their demise.

Report to Aran for 28500XP each. Aran reveals the rival guild are vampires and tasks you with eliminating them in the Graveyard District, providing four stakes.

Task 3: Eliminate the Vampires: Go to the Graveyard District. Take the right entrance to the Lower Tombs, which leads closest to Bodhi's Lair. Kill spiders and use Protection From Evil. Head north to find Haz and a Golem. The Golem breaks open doors where Lassal and four Grimwarders await. Haz is killed, but the Golem assists against the Grimwarders. Loot Haz for a Staff Mace +2.

Continue to the main room. Lassal challenges you to meet him in the inner sanctum. A vampire named Gellal attacks.

Passages lead off the main room. The southeast passage leads to a surface exit (Graveyard District barred entrance) and more wooden stakes.

Take the west passage. A Clay Golem is present. Vampires killed may retreat to the three tombs here; interact with a tomb twice to stake a vampire for 9000XP.

Go through the concealed entrance to the north. In the next room, fight a Fledgling Vampire, a Greater Ghoul, and a named Vampire, Durst. Return to the previous room to stake another vampire. Search the Pool of Blood in the northern room to retrieve the Mace of Disruption +1 (requires Illithium Ore).

Go through the concealed door to the east, returning to the main room. The upper passage on the east wall leads to another level.

Fight Greater Ghouls in the passageway leading to a room with three Fledgling Vampires, two Grimwarders, and two Grimwarder Archers.

From this room, the upper left door leads to a storeroom with a trapped chest containing a Katana +2 and a suit of Ashen Scales +2. The other door leads to a room with an altar where Lassal challenges you. Head back upstairs.

At the top, cast Chaotic Commands on your designated vampire hunter and send them down the other corridor alone. You will encounter a Fledgling Vampire and a named Vampire, Tanova (a Mage). Use Breach on Tanova while your hunter attacks her in melee. Other party members can attack the Fledgling Vampire with ranged weapons.

Have your vampire hunter proceed east into the room with floor spikes. This room contains an effect...