Mervin looks quizzically at being volunteered, but doesn't say anything. "Care to assist?" he asks Riardon.
[sblock=scroll use]Ok so my understanding is that using the knock scroll will cost 5 minutes, 35 gp's of reagents, and 1 healing surge. It's an arcana check with a +5 bonus against the lock on the chest; others can help. (I'm assuming others just need to beat a static DC arcana check to add 2... oh, and that check just got changed from 10 to something like 10 + 1/2 level or something, I can't remember all the crazy changes, but I guess in this case it'd be like 12 then? Who knows.) Who wants to help? It's my understanding that anyone can roll (you don't need training); the only limitation is the total number of helpers, which has to be reasonable for the situation; there's only 4 of us so it seems like 3 helpers isn't completely unreasonable (HMG, your call).
Mervin doesn't mind paying the healing surge cost, but here's a little snag: if you want to be super-technical, he only has 30gp of reagents on him. Anyone else have 5? HMG, do you care, or can we just use gold? Also, would everyone mind chipping in for the cost of reagents? I kind of hate how the ritual system works in 4.0... Anyway, that's a side rant...[/sblock]