Necey giggles as Caerlan motions to Golver. As the light of her lantern hits the almost hidden fireplace, she says, "Maybe our friend could light that on fire..? It looks like it hasn't been used in some time."

As Necey points out the fireplace, Golver will quickly spin and launch a firebolt into it. "haha! I am sure that will do... something!" the dragonborn will shout as he stands proudly.. not sure what to expect.

(If Golver misses the fireplace, Necey will quickly light it with druidcraft to "save his pride".)

(I really wish that my breath weapon wasnt a one time thing because I would have had him stick his head in there and blast flames into it)

As the dust clears, you see a gnome with a wide grin pushing strands of bright pink hair out of her eyes with one hand while the other rests on a metal horn with a ridiculous amount of gears and wires sticking off of it. She squints at all of you, looking half-excited, half-perplexed. "You're not my group! Who are you guys?"

Con ST: 12

Katerina is affected by her own fumbled attempt to disengage the trapped door as the rest of the party too are affected by the loud echo and flash in the small room!

OOC: Remember CON saves DC 14 if pass 1/2 of 7 points of dmg but if fail full 7 then are blind/deaf for 1 minutes. Outside of combat we'll say everyone posts a reaction with saves and that'll be a 'minute' be patience until EVERYONE checks in!!

Golver Con Save 15

Con save for Caerlan 6

"By the gods this place hates us! WAIT A MINUTE, DID YOU DO THAT?" He says seeing the newcomer, then adding "if it wasn't you then I'm terribly sorry, it could well have been the dragonborn, it usually is."

ConST 21

   "Well that was unpleasant," Necey says moving her jaw attempting to pop her ears. Catching sight of another she begins to clap excitedly. "Oh another short folk! How nice! We could sit on each other's shoulders and be as tall as him!" She jerks a thumb at the dragonborn.

Aura tries to shield her eyes, but the light and sound being everywhere in the room makes it harder to avoid.

Con Save: 7

As the dust settles everyone who lost them regain their eyesight and hearing as a pink hair gnome enters the room from the barely hanging door she's just burst through!

Looking around Katerina notices a desk, large windows facing out onto the still raging storm and five other prospective students: another gnome, a halfling, a dragonborn, and an air gensia. They are huddled around a blackened and cold fire place 5ft away in a 10ft wide by 40ft long room.

"Guys! Look what I did! I summoned another creature to help us! Why... my power seems like it knows no bounds!" The dragonborn would shout to the others as he sees the Gnome emerge from the dust and smoke. "Well I hope that the new gnome isn't as grouchy as our other one" Golver would say with a playful smile and wink nodding towards to Caerlan. "I am a little disappointed that you aren't another dragonborn.. but then again.. having two dragonborn on the same team would HARDLY be fair to the other teams!" Golver would say rubbing his chin and moving closer to the new comer, sizing her up. "So what kind of magic can you do?" the gold and silver scaled dragonborn would ask as he leans forward and his glowing red and white orb hanging from his neck sways back and forth. 

Katerina grins widely at Caerlan. "Oh no, that was me," she informs him with a wide grin. "I just couldn't resist the door! Wasn't that great! It was so loud!" Turning the grin on Necey, she adds, "I love sitting on shoulders! I can reach up so high there! Or people get distracted and I can put stuff down low without them noticing!" Finally, at Golver's comment, she giggles. "I don't think you summoned me...but wouldn't it be great if you did! What if you accidentally triggered that trap door I fell into? I make stuff, and sometimes it's magical. Like this horn! It's my latest project. It makes the ground shake, and also tells me what stuff does! But I've been trying to figure out how to make it work longer, it keeps needing to be repaired." She waves the horn around a little, nearly hitting Golver in the face with a protruding wire.

Aura had her eyes closed, and was placing her hand on top of it, while at the same time not hearing anything for a while, when she recovers she notices the excited gnome talking at length. "Oh, right... Because this group wasn't loud enough..." She talks to herself and looks down, before returning her attention to the newcomer. "Oh, hello? What's your name, and how did you get here?"

"Katerina! Nice to meet you." Katerina grins. "I was here to try for the school, and I was a little ahead of my group and then this trap door opened! And so I sort of was wandering around, and I found this door, and I was going to open it, and then BOOM-you know the rest."

Caerlan turns to Necey and mouths "grouchy? Me?" whilst looking mortified. "Boom indeed, at least I think you said boom my ears are still ringing somewhat! Caerlan at your service, let's hope we are nearly finished with this task, it's been quite dangerous at times, although it's still better than having a large dragonborn hanging half naked upside down covered in his own vomit if I'm honest with myself. But we can all swap stories later. What's next?"

    "I wonder if that what happened to our other two..?" Necey muses aloud. "I'm Necey," she replies with a bright smile. "It will be good to have another set of helping hands. Though with him," pointing to the dragonborn, "most things are well under control." 

     Necey shrugs then holds up a hand with thumb and forefinger out. She mouths back, "Maybe a little...?" She giggles.

"The name's Aura." That is all that leaves the genasi's mouth for now, as the initial discomfort of meeting new people hits her again, and she just goes silent, focusing instead on her own head for a moment. She suddendly snaps out of it, as her concentration helps her remember something. "Oh, about the puzzle... What exactly should it have done? Was it really meant to bring someone to us? That sounds a little bit weird..."

A fair amount of time has passed while in the room but no one ever mentioned a limit. The party however then hears the ominous chiming of a distance clock from somewhere in a nearby room chiming out the hour. It is 1 o'clock and they've spent nearly ab hour riddling out very little bur making a new ally has to count for something.

Katerina give me a investigation roll on anything in the room as described.

Meta gaming pigeon says *coo coo tell her about the riddle coo coo*