Yrwin throws another fire bolt at the last standing dog. 

Attack: 25 Damage: 1

Crit damage: 1

Yrwin shows off, with flare, great technique hoping to end the pup! 

The firebolt causes a small explosion that blows dust every which way and that! Surely, the metal dog is downed!

Nope, it's still up, but you see pieces of its body have fallen off. It can't last much longer.

Willie, it's up to you!

Willie fires a burst of purple energy at the dog, who was already glowing purple. It staggers, glowing even brighter!

Oof! The last metal dog falls!!

You have prevailed. With your adrenaline falling, you hear a few clicks. The foreheads of the two dogs you defeated have popped open. A rod protrudes from their heads. A preliminary examination reveals there are two paths leading out of this room, discounting the hole in the ceiling. There is the way you came, and there is a large, heavy door.

What do you do?

Darnic will examine these dogs before moving on. He’ll try pulling the rod out and on the other, pushing it in.

The rod comes out without any resistance. Examining it with his keen eye, Darnic sees intricate grooves along the sides of the rod and the end of it is oddly shaped, yet it looks familiar too. It has jagged edges that seem to have no reason or rhyme. For the other dog, trying to push the rod back in simply causes it to spring back out with a pop. Seems the rod won't rest inside the metal skull of the dog anymore. 

He also has a sense there might be other things in this room to discover if given the time.

 "Try turning it." Archy says from behind the open door.

Darnic shakes a finger towards Archy, “Good idea.” He turns it.

In any case, he will Investigate: 7

Willie does her best to look around the room as well. "Are you hungry?" she asks Yrwin.

Yrwin looks at his cuzkin with an obviously nervous smile upon his face. "When in situations like this? Always! What do you have in mind?" 

Darnic twists and turns the rod inside the dog's head, but it only manages to make a scraping sound. Nothing fruitful comes from his investigation with regards to dog foreheads. He turns his attention to the room at large. Between Archy and Darnic, they turn the place up as the other pair of cuzkin begin planning 3rd lunch. Along the shelves on the wall and in the corners, they find objects obscured under oilcloths. The searchers manage to find several items of interest:

• A suit of scalemail 
• A masterwork chain shirt
• Three small steel shields
• A masterwork longsword
• Two sunrods

Darnic gives a hardy laugh, “Well, look at what we have here! Catch!” He tosses the chain shirt to the Halfling while he gives the blade a few test swings, “Oh that’s pretty... This’ll do.”

  "Hmm, the engines didn't start?" Archy says, a little disappointed to have not somehow gained a mechanical dog pet. He'd heard that's what all the kids were into these days.

After taking a bit of a breather and searching the room he decides to use the fine chain they'd uncovered, storing his studded leather in his pack.

He helps with lunch. That is he helps eat it, anyway. Then steels himself to press on through the doors. "Let's get that artifact and get outta here." 

 Archy is annoyed by the weight of his pack now, so, when Darnic isn't looking he stuffs the Studded Leather in his friends pack along with his Hunting Trap. (Stealth: 16)

One over his passive! Bah!

Darnic feels heavier today. Must be guilt...

Through the doors, you find a forge and furnace combination. For those of you that have been to Cannith workshops, you have seen a similar version, though much sleeker and compact compared to the one in front of you. The forge and furnace fill about 10 feet of the room on its own. The floor in front of the furnace is comprised of metal tiles about 10 feet out. 

Darnic sees three depressions evenly spaced atop the forge. They are of different shapes - a pentagon, a triangle, and a square.

Other than the forge, there seems to be nothing else of note in this room.

Archy flips through the book again. "She didn't say anything about needing three keys or anything..." 

“Great. Looks like we’ll need to rely on instinct...” Darnic is going to walk up to the indentations and trace his finger in them. He’ll try to press them to see if they move at all.

Yrwin enters the Cannith forge very carefully. "Awfully dirty in here.." As he spots the large furnace he chuckles nervously and looks at Willie. "..hehe.. imagine the steaks you could roast in a furnace like that, cuz. More than the oven at my place.. thats for sure.." The kithkin walks up to Archy. "What are we looking at here, cuz? Oooh, nice shirt." 

Willie looks at the shapes curiously. "We were studying these in school, I remember", she says brightly. "The shapes have three, four, and five sides. Could that be the order in which they should be touched?