"Two Auras: the one on the floor is very powerful while the one on that bookshelf, he points to the offending bookshelf, "Glows of moderate magic. Let me focus on them closer..."
Phar concentrates and focuses on the two auras in the room. The first one that covers the floor is an extremely powerful evocation aura that seems to be concentrated on ever tile of the floor. It is obviously some sort of magical trap that will go off if anyone enters the room. However, there is something quite unusual about how it might function. Phar senses that the trap might not be confined to the room, but he can't see any auras in the corridor. Could it be both magical and mechanical?
It makes him quite nervous.
"Just for the record, Phar, when I said I'm resistant to elements, I meant normal ones, fire, cold, acid, don't do great booms with me in the room please."
Litrix looks over the pairs shoulder, waiting to see if anything jumps out at them.
The second aura on the bookshelf is not as powerful, but Phar senses that it could also be a dangerous trap of some kind. It is an abjuration aura. Phar isn't sure if entering the room will set it off. More than likely it is tied directly to the bookcase.
"What's the verdict?" Aureus asks Phar. She notes that Phar keeps checking the corridor around them.
"Wait! Did I miss something?"
The hutaakan freezes in place behind Phar. She glances towards Litrix who has moved beside her. She motions for him and the others to stop moving.
Quinn grins blushes as he nonchalantly moves his foot off of the grate then coughs nervously
"Well we are in a desert, so rain in the near future is highly unlikely." He says, nodding in agreement. His face is still a little red, either from the effort of lifting the grate, or is it some lingering blushing?
"Quinn, stay where you are. Don't move," Aureus says to the gladiator-knight. She taps Phar on the back gently.
"Tell me... how bad is it?"
Aureus begins scanning the corridor for anything she might have missed. She bends down to carefully inspect the floor tile below her feet. She sweeps away debris and sand blown in from the desert. She also inspects the sandstone tiles under Phar's feet without forcing him to move. She tries in vain to figure out what has Phar so concerned, but there isn't any sign of the floor that she can see. She inspects the walls as well.
"I- I don't see anything," she says to Phar.
"I think you're safe to switch places with me." She scratches her chin and looks at Quinn and Maur standing next to her and Phar.
Down at the southern end of the corridor, Angus has come up against the table wedged into the doorway leading into the corridor. He won't be able to climb over it, but he should be able to move it out of the way. But, with Aureus' warning, he's not sure if he should touch it. The others did climb over it.
Caerth looks down the corridor. He's certain one of the larger spiders came through here. It left its scent, although it is only faint. He doesn't hear the vermin scuttling. It has likely fled out of the ruins, or perhaps there is another sinkhole.
"Well, we can't all stand here and do nothing." He turns back to note that everyone besides Angus is now bunched together near the trapped room.
"And, I don't think we should all be standing here together if something does happen. Best to spread... or, at least, go back that way and hope Aureus and Phar can handle these traps."
The half-orc druid considers stepping off the grate back the way he came, but, instead, he holds his ground with The Hermit's staff at the ready. He keeps one eye on the corridor ahead of the group and one eye on Phar to see what the paragon elf says.
