Kyne feels the warmth and heat of the fire inside the wood, heating it up. But suddenly he feels an extreme cold coming from the wood. As if it has being left outside a house during a winter storm. In fact he can feel the palm of his hands cooling of when he stops canalising his energies due to the initial surprise. 

Perhaps it will be a little bit more difficult to set the wood on fire that he had previously thought.

     "I suppose you wouldn't tell us if there was another way in?" Hurosk grabs the man by the scruff of the neck and hoists him back to his feet. "So why don't we just head back upstairs and you can be part of the welcome wagon when this mistress of yours arrives?" He ushers the man up the half way up the stairs to give the others room to operate.

The man doesn't puts any resistance, he seems in the brink of uncounciousness. 

"No other way in... or out..." he says pointing to the door and he turns upside where Hurosk leave him, not moving, just concentrating on breathing. After a few seconds he passes out. 

As Hurosk drags the man upstairs, Mathilda decides she'd rather not bear witness to any further potential torturing. "Let me take a look at that door. I have picked a lock or two in the past, maybe I can find some way in..." She begins unpacking her tools from her backpack and takes a closer look at the door.

(Investigation 11 on Discord)

If Mathilda doesn't find anything, then Kyne borrows her crowbar from her pack and with her help they begin tearing planks off the door.

(Athletics 24 rolled in Discord)

Mathilda checks the lock of the door and sees that it is, indeed, locked. She cannot say if there is a wooden crossbar or not at the other side as the hunter suggested. She could try to pick the lock if she wants.

Mathilda gives Kyne a sideways glance as he grabs the crowbar from her pack. "I guess that's another approach, eh? Let me try and see if I can pick this lock." She attempts to open the lock on the door with her tools.

(14 thief's tools on Discord)

Mathilda checks the lock with an expert eye and nods to herself. She starts to insert some small tools into it, trying to activate all the dents of the lock, but for some reason, she can't reach all of them. The frustating thing about it is, when she finally had most of them, one slips and return to its closed position, so she must start again. After a few tries she gives up. There is something wrong with this lock. 

With a sigh, Mathilda stops working on the door and packs up her tools. "There is something not right about this lock, this door... I'm sorry, I can't get it to open." She steps back to let the other's work, joining Hurosk upstairs with the pretend-hunter.

Kyne lets out a string of obscenities in dwarven and kicks the door and then curses some more, because he hurt his toe.

He stalks off upstairs and the others hear him rummaging through the hunter's possessions in the cabin. After a short while he returns with a woodcutting axe.

He hands it to Hurosk, who seems one of the stronger members of their group, before testing the door with fire magic again. The wood creaks and groans audibly.

"Whoever is on the other side is using ice magic on the door to stop it burning down. If we keep going it will give. Hurosk, Lyreis? Can you take the axe and crowbar and work it while I keep hitting it with magic? Be ready. The moment it goes down, we'll likely find ourselves under attack."

Kyne backs up a distance to make space and starts to repeatedly hit the door with fire bolt.

Between Fire Bolt blasts, Molly slams the door with her shield. After a few tries, she steps back and prepares a Ray of Sickness against the spellcaster behind the door!

(Readied Spell rolled on Discord)

"I'm ready when you are, just get the damned door open and we can go and make a new friend." Lyreis has his scimitar sheathed as he works with the others to get the door open, using brute force if possible.

The party had enough from the door. Mathilda saying that she can't pick the lock was it. 

Kyne throws a couple of firebolts to it, making it burn. But the flames doesn't spread to much. Moltaris bash her shield  one, two three times against it, each of the slams make the door shatter in its hinges. At the same time, Lyreis, using the axe cuts some parts of it, making a hole where they can actual see a thick wooden crossbar helping to hold the door closed. 

Still, there's something with the door, for it keeps itself in place with almost a sentient stubbornes. Kyne is going to cast more fire on it to blast it and burn the hell out of the entire place if necessary but then Hurosk come in. 

Mathilda hears from the door the war cry of the half-orc and the rest of the party makes way to the charging ranger who, when he was in the middle of the stairs jumps in the air and throw a double kick to the door!. He drops to the floor after beating the door and with a louder scratchy sound it finally falls into the darkness behind it. It hits the ground and breaks into a thousand of pieces inside the room below. 

They stops for a second. Hurosk stands and they try to see something in the inside. They see nothing. Just darkness. They wait a few seconds to their natural darkvision to adjust but hen they see a flicker of light. A little flame appears in the middle of the black curtain and it begins to fly in their direction. As it goes towards them, the flame also spins and rolls and begin to be biggger and bigger. 

¡RUUUN! 

Nobody is really sure who said that but they all try to reach the other room when the ball of fire reach them and ¡¡explodes into flames!!

( I need Hurosk, Kyne, Moltaris and Lyreis to make a DEX ST throw please. ST 17 or suffer: 28 fire damage. Half damage on a succes ) 

Even when they see the small ball of fire going their way, Moiltaris is able to see how it dimly illuminates a waving hands that makes it. Even as she starts to run to cover herslef she unleashes her own magic, ready to get launched at the first enemy. 

In truth her spell was guided by the Gods for she launched it without even looking anymore, but she could swaer that she had heard a muffled grunt just before the fireball explodes.

Lyreis Dex save 25

This time, Kyne is ready for the explosion of flame. He rolls to the side, barely dodging the blast and throwing up his hands behind him to shield himself from the blast.

(Dex ST 17, followed by Absorb Elements. Initiative 21 rolled in discord.)

DC 17 Dexterity Save rolled on Discord - 17 - 14 HP damage taken
DC 10 Concentration check to keep readied spell rolled on Discord - 14 

    Hurosk squeezes on the neck of the hunter, 'assisting' him to take a seat. "Please, dont go anywhere." He takes the axe from Kyne and gives him a nod. "The old fashioned way then... Well here goes." 

DexST 22

Initiative 18

 When the flames subside the companions are scattered in the stairs and Lyreis find himself stepping in the first lines of a summoning circle. He is in a dim illuminated room, with the front wall covered with shelves that contain books, scrolls and cristal jars with things that he rather don't know. There are two large tables full of cristals and pots and alchemist things. Behind one of the tables he sees a human, grabbing the edge of the table as if he had received a hit in the stomach. He wears plain robes and its bald, with a white beard growing in his face.

Kyne is at E0

Moltaris  and Hurosk can place themselves anywhere between F0 and F3. Lyreis can be anywhere from E4 to G4 I will update the map with your positions after the first round of combat.

(Hurosk would be likely at F3 having just broke the door down.)