"That sounds like a plan. Neutral party does the counting?. He squints slightly looking at the target "  And does tha bird count or is it a penalty?"

Ekaterina has finished assessing her injuries at this point and stands nearby with a dart ready at hand to throw at the target when the two of them are finished discussing the particulars of their bet. She believes she can hit it before either of them can. … or maybe she’ll just aim for the bird…

 Aftari thinks about it for a second or two longer than necessary. "Ah, well, it should probably be a penalty. I hate to shoot someone's pet, plus it would slow us down to wait for him to re-summon it."

Buddie, Shelley the owl is perfectly fine perched atop the orb. As if it noticed you all ready to shoot at the orb though, Shelley launches in the air and Aftari, Haliday and Ekaterina take it as their signal to shoot:

Make an attack role, the DC is 18, the closest person wins!

"Alright then.  One....two....three"

Attack roll. 5

"Well hell"  

Attack: 23

Attack: 9

"Damn!" As her own shot clatters off onto the floor she looks around to see who else had joined in the competition.

     Dr. Buddie sighs audibly and steps back away from the globe everyone is shooting at even as he raises his left arm for Shelley to land upon it, safely away from the various projectiles. Honestly he had considered letting off a Fire Bolt to show them all up but such actions were beneath him.

     "When your games are over, we do have a job to do," he reminded them in a tired voice.  

Ekaterina grins triumphantly towards Aftari and Halliday. “I guess both of you now owe me a drink to declare that I’m the best shot among us… Or am I not part of your little wager?”

Aftari gives a good-natured laugh. "Fair enough! You won the wager and are most definitely the best shot of us all. I will buy you your first drink when we are back in town. Now about that orb..." And she turns her attention back to the other room to see if the orb was knocked out of the hand.

"And i reckon ill get the second" Haliday says while examining the hand crossbow

Ekaterina's Dart had indeed kocked the orb loose, and as the dust settles on the wager, you see it gently roll towards you. Neither the dart nor the drop seemd to have damaged the golden orb.

Ekaterina scoops up both her dart and the orb. “Doc, what do you reckon this does?” She asks inquisitively as she inspects the orb. 

     Dr. Buddie will examine the sphere without actually taking it off the hands of Ekaterina.  He looks to see if there are any carving or symbols directly upon the sphere or if it is entirely smooth.

     “From a medical standpoint, I do believe it is decorative in nature,” the good doctor does declare.

(OOC: I do not have identify or detect magic… anyone else wish to check out the sphere,?)

Aftari waits for something to happen when the orb is picked up. If nothing does then she will say "Probably the decoration that goes in one side of those big doors. I'd wager there's another or through the other doorway, the one on the opposite side that we came through to get here."

"Shall we then?"  Looking at Doc. "Your call what next?"

(does nothing happen with removal of the orb?  Does it continue to glow?)

     “Hmm, perhaps poke at the mound of silver coins in the other room?” Dr. Buddies suggests with a bit of a shrug.  “Still d t think we should weigh ourselves down, per se, but at the very least it would count as finishing off inspecting everything here…”

The orb still seems to shine with an internal light, but there's otherwise nothing magical about it and as far as you can tell nothing about the room has changed, other than the fact that the orb is now in your hands, rather than the skeleton's.

Getting bored with the orb Haliday goes over to the silver. Calculating in his head how much he would need he slowly moves a number of coins away from the pile.   Once he has them seperated he places them in a pouch and puts it in his pack with the powder

     As usual, Dr. Buddie hangs back and watches from a distance.  Walks are trapped, skeletons loitering about, he felt a wariness about what might be under the pile of treasure…