Vasha stands in dumbfounded amazement, "And here I've been screwing around thinking I could get you to ask for crackers without mimicking someone to do it..."

Olen returns his daggers to their hiding places, as Kinnik draws the symbol in the dust.

He moves forward as Kinnik finishes talking and brushes the symbol away with his foot.

A huge smile spreads across his face has the full import of the revelation hit him.

"You can speak! Woohoo!"

Olen steps forward and grabs Kinnik swinging him around,

"This is incredible! It's like we have been separated by a glass wall all this time, limited in our communication, and the wall just up and vanished!"

As Olen is watching and listening to Kinnik, he turns his head to observe Copper for a moment, his smile still in place.

"Isn't it amazing Copper? Thank you to House Cannith, for your strange magic's!"

Using a sign during the last part, Olen signals back uncertainty in Thieves' Cant.

"House Cannith... they certainly have strange magic," Copper's mood seems to turn grim, "Havin' fools like that in the world is dangerous, but-" his mood brightens, "at least the bird can speak now! Hahaha!

"So," Copper points to the exit into the hallway, "What do you say we get that schema and hit the brothels? Maybe we can get into a bar brawl Downstairs - oh, why not both!"

He seems incredibly excited.

"Right, why don't you lead the way forward? You seam a little more durable than the rest of us, and who knows how many more home defences they may have left lying around for us."

Olen holds his hand out in the direction of the stares back up, waiting for Copper, and following him as he begins to moves out.

Cap is dumbfounded by all of this, but when Shroud is done swinging Kinnik around, Cap lifts him up and crushes him in a giant bear hug.

"I-I can't believe it! It's... I... You can speak!"

"Gah!" Kinnik laughs. "Okay, okay! Enough hugging, big guy!" Kinnik says. "I wasn't kidding, you know. This place is horrible. Let's find the... schema," Kinnik draws out the word, savoring the sound of it. "Let's find Boss's schema and scoot."

Kinnik picks up his torch and heads to the stairs motioning for Copper to scout ahead of him. "C'mon, fox. Let's get rich." 

Vasha reluctantly follows along behind the rest, "Is no one else questioning how our mascot-pet suddenly learned to talk fluently? Something tells me something nasty is going to pop out of either his chest or head by the end of this."

Kinnik grins as he prepares his very first burn. "Nasty stuff pops out of your head all the time, Vasha, and we still drag you along."

"True enough!" Copper leads the way out. "And if something does pop out of Kinnik, well," Copper nods toward his axe. The blade seems to sheen with the gesture. 

Together, you enter what appears the largest chamber of this foundry, the laboratory itself. The room, excluding entry, is roughly 30 by 30 feet. There are a total of eight vats of various sizes by the walls. All of them are six-feet tall but of varying volume. They are filled to the top with liquid substances that radiate a faint green light. It could not be water, not after this long. The liquid inside the vats is blue or green but it appears to be thicker than water. The way it bubbles, it appears similar to oil. From where you stand at the entry, the vats do not appear to be empty.

The floor is littered with metal implements, rusty instruments, and all kinds of laboratory paraphernalia. It looks as if someone had trashed the place before abandoning it. It was not a recent event; the dust layer is thick in this chamber too. 

There are two metal tables in the middle of the room. One is empty, but the other one has something on it. The object on the table radiates faint green light.

Copper sniffs and cautiously throws a glance at the rest of you, "Well, if it ain't obvious, that glowing thing is magical. Think it's the schema? This place sort of gives me the creeps."

(Before leaving the previous room)

Vasha gives a pleased, almost flattered smile, "I may be a spark away from a wildfire, but the problem with you professional thieves is you get stuck by a locked door for 30 minutes until someone like me comes along."

(New room)

"Th'hell is that thing? Glowing things aren't usual, but I'd like to know what it is first," her fingers dance and twirl as another mote of flame spins in her palm, "I could just poke the bear again."

"Easy there pyro, let's give it a good look first." Copper goes to step towards the object, but pauses halfway through the motion. A few short lines of whispered gibberish come out of his mouth before he shakes his head and rests back on his heels. Copper looks around the room with a grin, seeming to take it all in. "Well this looks promising! And that thing is magic! I can smell the reward already." he says in his usual voice that you're all familiar with. Again he goes to step towards the object, this time going on normally and stepping up to the table to inspect it.

(cast false life again cuz it only lasts an hour, and rolling for investigation on discord)

Kinnik walks up to the vats. Cognizant that creeping monstrosities would enjoy bursting out of one of these, he peers closely, readying an attack if something tries to get the drop on him.

(Rolling on discord)

Investigate: 6 (first roll)

Advantaged investigate (if Cap is willing to lend a hand): 21

At Coppers change of voice, Olen throws a concerned look in Kinnik's direction.

Olen heads over next to Copper to examine the magical object.

"So what do we have here then?"

Investigation check on the object: 8

(How are you examining said object? With eyes? Manipulating it? Licking it...??)

To Kinnik... those are definitely weird things floating in those vats. 

(Olen is looking, but not touch right away. Touching of unknown, but obviously magical, items comes after first looking. Licking comes after smelling, but before eating :P)

The object is definitely the schema Boss showed you guys. Its glowing green, but otherwise nothing really sticks out to you. There don't seem to be any strings or other contraptions that would set off a trap attached.

"Well, I'm going to poke it, see what happens."

Waving everyone back, Olen takes out one of his daggers and at arms length, with his face turned away in case of explosion, gently pokes the schema. Olen jumps back after poking it, waiting to see what happens.

Just as Olen is doing this, Kinnik (standing next to one of the vats) says,

"Does it strike anyone as odd that a random room would have enchanted defenses but the treasure hold doesn't?"

Still super ready for an attack. Creeping behind Cap again...

Stealth: 12

"Gotta agree with you there." Vasha keeps her dancing flame handy as she looks around the room - articularly at the glowing vats - to see if anything jumps out.

(Perception: 15. Readied Firebolt)

You reach for it with your dagger. Once you give it a good old poke, ancient artifact begins to vibrate; a thumping low-pitched vibration you can feel in your core. The vibration is stronger and weaker in a pattern similar to that of a heartbeat. The schema rises from the table, floating a few inches from the table’s surface.

Everyone, something catches your attention. The little trinkets and pieces of laboratory hardware littering the floor vibrate and start moving. Smaller objects collide into bigger ones to create an exponentially larger thing. Before you stand, within several heartbeats, 6-feet tall bodies made mostly of metal. The don’t have hands but instead, their arms end up in sharp blades. In the middle of their faces, eyes of green light glare at you from beneath foreheads bearing identical cog-shaped ghulra sigils.

There are clear differences but no one would blame you if you said they were some kind of warforged. Your eyes are involuntarily drawn away from the scene as the schemas vibrating pitch changes. Suddenly, the strange warforged-like creatures violently lurch towards you.

Oh boy, another fight!

Initiative Order:
Cap 
Copper 
Kinnik 
Shroud
Vasha 

(Can't make a battle map yet, but here is a map from the other game to give you an idea where the enemies stand. Where are you guys standing exactly?)