Working together, it takes the two of you about ten minutes to search the roughly forty feet of walls at the end of the hallway. On the right side of the tunnel, you notice that bugs are scurrying in and out under the wall through a small crack against the floor through which you can feel air movements that indicate there's a space beyond. Make a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check to figure out how to open it in under ten minutes. If you and Aluzira are working together for advantage, describe how you are helping each other.
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As they find the crack under the wall, Anakis and Aluzira search the nearby walls, running their hands over the expanse as they look for any buttons or levers built into the wall surrounding the doorway. Their search expands from the suspected door to nearby walls and floors as they go (Investigation: 9).
“Of course,” Aluzira says before moving up to help Anakis.
(OOC: Sorry for the inactivity guys. I’m going to try posting more often again starting tomorrow, though you both pretty well described what Aluzira would do so far Lol. Thank you for that! ^^)
Your examination of the wall leads you to deduce that pushing on a stone that seems out of place will open the hidden portal. As it is depressed, a section of wall swings open revealing a hallway parallel to the one along which you have been travelling.
Nicolas is surprised to see there was a secret door there all along that had escaped his notice. "Hmm, maybe I'm not very good at looking for secret doors," he says. "Would anyone else like to take over the duty? It seems there's more than one down here."
"Sure, I'll bite," says Ash. "Detection is one of my fortes. Could I bother you for a light?" He holds out his spear to Nicolas who takes some moss from a pouch on his belt over which he mutters a short incantation, and the tip of Ash's spear begins to glow.
On the other side of the secret door, a ten-foot hallway runs in either direction. To the left, the hallway runs for eighty feet and ends in a door. To the right, it bends to the left about thirty feet away from you.
“It did take a bit of searching to be fair,” Aluzira says with a chuckle in response to Nicolas. “Shall we see what’s on the other side of the door since it’s closer by?” She asks the group, “afterwards, if it’s nothing, we could turn back and make our way down the tunnel.”
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Anakis chuckles at Nicholas then nods to Aluzira. She makes check of the tunnel around the entrance of the secret door to make sure there's no traps. Then she moves into the newly found tunnel and turns left to head towards the door. As she arrives, she puts an ear to the door to listen for anything on the other side (Sneak: 10 and Perception: 19).
Torrent moves alongside you, Anakis, torch in hand, scanning the tunnel for danger with the awareness of one who is in tune with the elements. A short way up the tunnel he says, "Stop, Anakis! I think there's another one a' them pit-trap things up ahead." He points to a ten by ten piece of the hallway just in front of you where the stone of the floor seems to be of a slightly different color than the bedrock from which the tunnel is mined, as if it was patched in to cover a pit. The door is still another sixty feet away.
Anakis stops and looks at the floor surrounding the pit, along the walls especially. She tries to figure out if there is enough of a ledge for the group to shimmy across and avoid the trap (Investigation: 22).
As you look closely at the floor on either side of the pit, you can see that the stones that form the cover of the pit come all the way to the wall on both sides, leaving no ledge wide or solid-looking enough on which to cross over to the other side. You also notice, however, that some of the beetles and small centipedes, seemingly unconcerned with triggering the trap door due to their tiny size and crawling this way and that across the floor, are disappearing into a crevice between the edge of the pit cover and the bottom of the wall on the left. Leaning down, you can see there is a small gap at the base of the wall about five feet long, similar to the gap that revealed the presence of the secret door you just came through.
Anakis turns to the others, "There's another secret door here I think. Can you help me look for another button to open it?" And once again, Anakis runs her hands over the walls, looking for a trigger to open the door, hoping that it's on this side of the floor trap (Investigation: 14).
Your investigation of the wall discovers an embedded rock that depresses slightly as your hand runs over it, and a grinding sound can be heard coming from the floor over the pit in front of you.
"Maybe that was to de-activate the trap," says Ash. He prods the pit cover with his spear to test its strength. "Seems solid enough," he says and crosses over to the still closed secret door. "Look, there's another stone just like that one over here on this side," he says. He moves the stone, and the door opens revealing a long, dripping hallway going straight ahead into the darkness.
"That's handy," Anakis says as she makes a mental note of the button for any future traps. As they make their way to the door and open it, Anakis sniffs the air as they look down he dripping hallway, "More halls. This place is a maze!" She sneaks off down the hall, keeping an eye out for traps and secret doors again (Sneak: 19 and Perception: 8).
After walking down the hall for some time, it branches into two twenty-foot wide passages. You can see that the left fork runs into a dead end not far from you, while the right fork goes a similar distance before turning left into a ten-foot wide passageway.
"Dead ends seem to be bringing the most fun lately!" Anakis says to the others as she looks left and right, "We should go left and see if we can find another secret door."
"Agreed," says Ash, and as he approaches the dead end, he points out a section of wall on the right the grain of which doesn't align with that of the rest of the wall. "This looks promising," he says, scratching one of the small horns poking through his hair, "but how does it open?"
Working together, it takes the two of you about ten minutes to search the roughly forty feet of walls at the end of the hallway. On the right side of the tunnel, you notice that bugs are scurrying in and out under the wall through a small crack against the floor through which you can feel air movements that indicate there's a space beyond. Make a DC 12 Intelligence (Investigation) check to figure out how to open it in under ten minutes. If you and Aluzira are working together for advantage, describe how you are helping each other.
As they find the crack under the wall, Anakis and Aluzira search the nearby walls, running their hands over the expanse as they look for any buttons or levers built into the wall surrounding the doorway. Their search expands from the suspected door to nearby walls and floors as they go (Investigation: 9).
“Of course,” Aluzira says before moving up to help Anakis.
(OOC: Sorry for the inactivity guys. I’m going to try posting more often again starting tomorrow, though you both pretty well described what Aluzira would do so far Lol. Thank you for that! ^^)
(OOC - no worries! It's a pretty busy time of year. I just made assumptions based on previous stuff we'd come across :) )
Your examination of the wall leads you to deduce that pushing on a stone that seems out of place will open the hidden portal. As it is depressed, a section of wall swings open revealing a hallway parallel to the one along which you have been travelling.
Nicolas is surprised to see there was a secret door there all along that had escaped his notice. "Hmm, maybe I'm not very good at looking for secret doors," he says. "Would anyone else like to take over the duty? It seems there's more than one down here."
"Sure, I'll bite," says Ash. "Detection is one of my fortes. Could I bother you for a light?" He holds out his spear to Nicolas who takes some moss from a pouch on his belt over which he mutters a short incantation, and the tip of Ash's spear begins to glow.
On the other side of the secret door, a ten-foot hallway runs in either direction. To the left, the hallway runs for eighty feet and ends in a door. To the right, it bends to the left about thirty feet away from you.
“It did take a bit of searching to be fair,” Aluzira says with a chuckle in response to Nicolas. “Shall we see what’s on the other side of the door since it’s closer by?” She asks the group, “afterwards, if it’s nothing, we could turn back and make our way down the tunnel.”
Anakis chuckles at Nicholas then nods to Aluzira. She makes check of the tunnel around the entrance of the secret door to make sure there's no traps. Then she moves into the newly found tunnel and turns left to head towards the door. As she arrives, she puts an ear to the door to listen for anything on the other side (Sneak: 10 and Perception: 19).
Torrent moves alongside you, Anakis, torch in hand, scanning the tunnel for danger with the awareness of one who is in tune with the elements. A short way up the tunnel he says, "Stop, Anakis! I think there's another one a' them pit-trap things up ahead." He points to a ten by ten piece of the hallway just in front of you where the stone of the floor seems to be of a slightly different color than the bedrock from which the tunnel is mined, as if it was patched in to cover a pit. The door is still another sixty feet away.
Anakis stops and looks at the floor surrounding the pit, along the walls especially. She tries to figure out if there is enough of a ledge for the group to shimmy across and avoid the trap (Investigation: 22).
Aluzira watches as Anakis investigates the area, “If there’s no way across, maybe we could make a way across. Would that be possible?”
As you look closely at the floor on either side of the pit, you can see that the stones that form the cover of the pit come all the way to the wall on both sides, leaving no ledge wide or solid-looking enough on which to cross over to the other side. You also notice, however, that some of the beetles and small centipedes, seemingly unconcerned with triggering the trap door due to their tiny size and crawling this way and that across the floor, are disappearing into a crevice between the edge of the pit cover and the bottom of the wall on the left. Leaning down, you can see there is a small gap at the base of the wall about five feet long, similar to the gap that revealed the presence of the secret door you just came through.
Anakis turns to the others, "There's another secret door here I think. Can you help me look for another button to open it?" And once again, Anakis runs her hands over the walls, looking for a trigger to open the door, hoping that it's on this side of the floor trap (Investigation: 14).
Aluzira nods and begins to Help her look for the trigger.
Your investigation of the wall discovers an embedded rock that depresses slightly as your hand runs over it, and a grinding sound can be heard coming from the floor over the pit in front of you.
"Maybe that was to de-activate the trap," says Ash. He prods the pit cover with his spear to test its strength. "Seems solid enough," he says and crosses over to the still closed secret door. "Look, there's another stone just like that one over here on this side," he says. He moves the stone, and the door opens revealing a long, dripping hallway going straight ahead into the darkness.
"That's handy," Anakis says as she makes a mental note of the button for any future traps. As they make their way to the door and open it, Anakis sniffs the air as they look down he dripping hallway, "More halls. This place is a maze!" She sneaks off down the hall, keeping an eye out for traps and secret doors again (Sneak: 19 and Perception: 8).
“Indeed,” Aluzira says in agreement following Anakis into the new hall also watching for traps.
Perception: 5
After walking down the hall for some time, it branches into two twenty-foot wide passages. You can see that the left fork runs into a dead end not far from you, while the right fork goes a similar distance before turning left into a ten-foot wide passageway.
"Dead ends seem to be bringing the most fun lately!" Anakis says to the others as she looks left and right, "We should go left and see if we can find another secret door."
"Agreed," says Ash, and as he approaches the dead end, he points out a section of wall on the right the grain of which doesn't align with that of the rest of the wall. "This looks promising," he says, scratching one of the small horns poking through his hair, "but how does it open?"
“Shall we take a look?” Aluzira asks, offering to help Anakis investigate further. “Maybe there’s another button like the last one?”