Killilli’s Dragon Heist

Aimee pulls back to blast but then sees the sword has become a pet.

"Ahhh! Much nicer than blasting it! What's it's name going to be Aldi? Can't just call it sword! That'd be mean!"

She looks in the direction of the illusion wall.

"Who wants to be first? Not Lyss!"

Cico looks over at Edvord and gives him a short nod.

"We shouldn't forget why we came in here in the first place," Cico says then pauses before going on. "Mirt's unicorn."

He then places a hand on the doorway/illusion wall that Aimee is focused on, seeing if it opens easily.

Cico approaches the Northwest wall, to the right of the pathway you came in. The wall appears solid and flat, but you can softly feel cold air around indicating a secret door.

Adrik's sword meekly starts to point towards the west passage where you came in. It is careful not to make any sudden movements for fear of being wrestled again.

Testing the east wall, Cico pats each section carefully, his palms make a dead thud on the flat wall. Reaching the centre, a doorway shaped panel swings outwards revealing a 10ft deep and 30ft wide room. The stone walls are perfectly smooth, free of blemishes or even any features at all. 

Lyss gives the sword a wary eye, she's not in a trusting mood, there have been enough traps, a haunted sword would be just one more thing that wants to kill the littlest and the cutest.

Cico looks at the smooth room for a moment, then he tosses his lit torch into the middle, curious to see if anything happens.

Edvord looks at the smooth room behind the trap door attempting to discern whether the rounded shape of the room has any importance beyond being aesthetically pleasing, looking for any clues as the purpose of the room. "There has got to be more than meets the eye, why hide an empty room?" the mage muses to himself.

Edvord Investigation: 17

Cico’s torch hits the ground of the smooth room with a…. nothing. You feel like there should be a thud or a clatter or something. 

Edvord, the room seems like it was carved out of one single piece of rock, somehow hollowed out from the inside and then transported here somehow. As empty as it seems, you can’t see whats on the walls on the same side of the room as the entrance, perhaps it is not as empty as meets the eye.

Cico looks from the torch to Edvord.

”Strong magic to absorb all sound? We might not be able to talk once we’re in there. Search and get out quickly?” 

Let me try something first, just need to stick a few feet in.

Edvord takes two steps into the room. He turns back to Cico, "Experimenting, experimenting, experimenting... This is my normal voice, can you hear me..? Experimenting, experimenting, experimenting."

Edvord then casts message towards Cico, "Second experiment, second experiment, second experiment... This is my voice with magical assistance, can you hear me..? Second experiment, second experiment, second experiment."

The mage waits looking for a response from Cico to either message. If no response is heard, he will attempt each form of communication two more times before giving up and trying to return to the monk's side.

As Edvord steps into the room, he notices his hears his own footsteps vibrate through his body, his breath is close in his ear, his heartbeat like an unbearable throbbing. Facing Cico, he sees some familiar looking blue text on the inside wall. "A SOFT TOUCH".

For the first experiment, Edvord talks. The vibration of his vocal cords tingles through his body, a grating buzz with each word. Cico hears Edvords voice, though it seems oddly placeless and dead. Everybody else, at least those not standing directly in front of the door hear just a faint whisper coming through the doorway.

For the second experiment, Edvord hears the pumping of blood around his brain as he forms the words in his mind, it almost makes him feel dizzy and nauseous. Cico hears the message, but just at that moment the door swings shut blocking Edvord off from everybody else. 

"And this," Kerri says. "Is why we dont touch things!"

Cico is about to indicate that he can just hear Edvord when the door suddenly slams shut.

He leaps forward trying to open it again.

The door doesn’t seem to want to open. Where it easily swung before it now stays stiff.

((There was no visible lock or other mechanism, correct?))

It seems to be just a smooth wall, when Cico found it he noticed a really tiny gap around it indicating it to be a door. You yourself haven’t inspected it

Lyss will move to the door, inspecting along its edge for any sort of catch or latch that might spring it open.

"Aimee, give me a hand! We're looking for anything that's not quite smooth, a gap, a little lever, stuff like that!"

Investigation (rolled with ADV): 4

((Woof.))

Halfling Powers Activate: 11

Aimee blinks away from a particularly interesting daydream,

"Uh, what are we? Oh, blast?"

She asks hopefully as she follows Lyss over to investigate.

Investigation: 5

Within the crack in the wall, you can just make out a dagger flailing around trying to pry the door open.

((Is she able to get a sense of whether this is a job for finesse (eg, thieves tools) or brawn (eg, not Lyss)?))