By now Vincent should notice something about the Cask. It hasn't been changed but apparently someone placed a kind of luck entropy hex. Loki didn't do it.

Vincent would have had time to get a sense of Loki's flavor of magic when he ad tried to track Audhild down. It looks like Amora is trying to help screw Loki and the Frost Giants over.

Now though there is a snarl from the peak just above the cave. A large dragon carved from ice and snow is about to attack. Apparently it is the security system Loki has in place.