A Curse of Strahds [IC]

This place is too fancy. Let's try the last door.

(There are two doors facing you as you exit this room, nearly side by side.)

Embir opens the door on the right.

You see a cloak room with several black cloaks hanging from hooks on the walls. A top hat sits on a high shelf.

Seeing Embir try the door on the right, Lae takes the left shaking his head.

Lae opens the door and sees the same large dining room as was seen from a previous door.

Wait, two of these rooms are identical? There has to be some kind of trick here. Everyone look around these rooms.

16 Investigation

Not identical. It is one dining room with two doors that open into it, one near each end. With your investigation, you notice that the wood paneling in the dining room has twisted faces carved into the tree trunks and wolves lurking amid the carved foliage.

“I think we’ve tried every door... maybe the door to the basement is hidden?” Lae walks out to where Necros and the children are waiting. “Children, how do we get down to the basement? Is there a lever, or something we need to pull?”

"We don't know. We have never been down there. Our parents wouldn't let us. It was too dangerous."

(There is still the staircase going up.)

(LOL I didn't think we'd have to go up to get down)

Zander heads to the staircase and carefully looks up to the next landing as he climbs them.

Lae goes into the coat closet and starts pulling on the coat hooks in an attempt to see if one of them is a lever.

You pull them off and they fall to the floor, slightly bending a few of the hooks in the process 

“Oops..” Lae sighs.

Lae goes back to the room with the cabinets and opens the unlocked one. He pushes against the back paneling to see if it opens.

You find a small box containing a deck of playing cards and an assortment of wine glasses. The back paneling, however, does not move.

Frustrated Lae smacks the locked cabinet with his mace.

(Roll attack and damage in case it hits.)

Attack: 7 Damage: 7

Attack: 17. Damage: 9.