I can imagine the weekly financial meeting quite vividly: "Neal you bought another token pack! Honey, thats a buisness expense, I had to". With them finding the proper magic sword, i really do wonder if Neal might be so generous for Luther to actually spend the half year of downtime training with the warrior dude from the Grimey Goblin to actually get that proficiency. He is the stong man of Neal Team Six and its always a huge downer for PC to get a cool item but not beeing allowed to use them.
Could just use a rope ladder instead of a rope (simple/quick to use, no climb check needed) with the end attached to a pully wheel that you can roll up or down as needed.
you guys should make a representation of this lair in minecraft, could be some cool bonus content additional idea: you guys could also make the lair you guys had in tides of death too
What would be sick is a trap that makes the stairs unclimbable if you trigger it. So say they turn into a slide or retract or something. This way if intruders trigger it they get stuck in the dungeon and can’t make out with any loot. Then have the trap reverted by something upstairs so the crew can make it in and out