The Forge of Fury

Lana looks at Spirit and points up to her as she begins to climb the rope behind Bel. Spirit jumps up to the top of the ledge and looks around as she is ready to pounce on anything that would come in the room. After Lana reaches the top of the rope she begins to pull the excess up and wraps it in an oval to attach back to her pack. "Shall we continue" she ask them.

Traversing through the cool, breezy calm of the Glitterhame, your way is once again lit by the glowing, giant fungus stalks. No artificial light is needed here, allowing you to save your torches for when you need them. It takes you several minutes to get to the other side of the vast cavern via a meandering path, which eventually leads to a 10-foot-wide staircase hewn into the rock and terminating at a short wall. 

Cut into the cavern wall is a small but strong-looking door of iron plates, about five feet tall and four feet wide. Heavy rivets stud its surface, and a tarnished silver rune—Durgeddin’s smith-mark—gleams on the door’s rusted face.

Bel begins checking out the door for traps and looking at the lock.

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"Now THIS.....is what I was talking about."

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Bel begins checking out the door for traps and looking at the lock.

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After giving the door a push, you deduce that it is indeed locked. 

Aregarak will try PULLING the door then hehe

The door remains locked, and the keyhole lock seems to be in good shape despite the rust on the outside of the door—a testament to dwarven metalcraft. 

Lana looks at the others then at the doorway "I feel like we have gotten a key on our journeys already" she reminds them. She starts to look in her pack.

/ooc didn't we pick up a key way earlier in our adventures?

// It is possible that one of you has a key! 

//I believe we found it in the jail cells earlier.//

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Aregarak will try PULLING the door then hehe

 This is one of my favorites!

(OOC - I figured because your roll was so low - you were just trying to open the door the wrong way :P hehe

but yes -  I believe someone has a key from the corpse we found in the jail cells below the waterfall area)

Bel pats his pockets looking for a key, “ I don’t think I have it. Didn’t you get it from the drunkard Big Guy?-no offense GB”

Lana puts her pack back on her shoulder "I do not have it either, I hope that Jane does not have it" she tells them. "Bel can you not pick the lock if we have lost the key" she asks the rogue.

/ooc jane left game?

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Bel walk over and picks up the purse. He reaches in and pulls out the key “this might come in handy if we find the lock it goes to” 

 
// AH - HA! found it - Bel has the key we found on the dwarven corpse //

As he pats his pockets, Bel is surprised to find his fingers closing around an old, iron skeleton key. He belatedly remembers picking it up after the other members of the group had passed it around and ultimately discarded it.

Bel, feeling a little silly, walks to the door and slowly inserts the key, then gives it a turn. Bel remains on alert. This door makes him nervous.

Aregarak draws his longsword and offers to open the door and go in first after Bel unlocks it

Lana steps back a little and readies an arrow just in case something comes charging out of the room. Spirit readies herself after a low growl.

The turning key produces a loud clank inside the iron door, and it opens easily as Aregarak pulls. A flight of steep stone stairs, similar to the one you just climbed, is revealed behind the door.

As you cautiously climb northward, the stairs end after about 30 feet at the entrance to an octagonal chamber. The floor is inlaid with cracked, dusty blue tiles, and the walls are dressed with polished marble. Large doors of iron-bound oak exit to the northwest and northeast.

Three cast bronze statues, almost ten feet tall, stand by the west, north, and east walls. Each depicts an armed dwarf. The eastern and western ones carry axes and shields. The center statue is armed with two axes. The ceiling rises in a dome almost thirty feet above the floor.

From somewhere in the distance, you can hear the faint ringing of hammer on anvil.