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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DispelAkimbo" data-source="post: 1112719" data-attributes="member: 1916">Jalderin tilts his head and strains hard to make out details of the sound emanating from the corridor. "Sounds like metal moving across stone, I can see a shadow moving in the corridor too."Seeing the cloaked man nearly wriggle out of Jaiders grasp, Zander Helmsblade casts a spell to try and confuse the man, but the spell gets lost in the melee.Eben steps forward and plants a firm punch into the middle of the mans stomach, causing him to double over. Jaider tries to use the momentum to pin the man to the floor, but he struggles too vigorously to allow it.Eager to end the fight before another opponent arrives from the left passageway, Margarian steps up to the grappling pair and plants the butt of his crossbow into the cloaked mans face, causing a broken nose and blood to flow down his face.Before the man can recover himself, Eben plants a quick right hook on the mans jaw while Jaider continues to try and pin the man to the floor."Do you yield?" Eben asks the cloaked man."Let me go and I'll show you how much I yield!" The man replies.Margarian scowls and plants his crossbow butt into the mans face again. The man stumbles backwards from the blow but suddenly reverses the direction of his fall and breaks free of Jaiders grasp.While Zander Helmsblade casts a spell and launches a missile of magical energy, Margarian and Jaider try to grasp hold of their opponent.Suddenly the cloaked figure mutters something quietly and vanishes leaving Jaider, Margarian and Eben swinging at thin air."Footsteps! I hear footsteps receding along the left passageway!" Jalderin suddenly shouts. Margarian leaps the pit trap and sprints along the left hand corridor after the sound of footsteps and towards the metal on stone sound. Jalderin and Eben follow in his wake.The corridor turns a bend and a torch fastened to the wall reveals an alcove with a strange chain mechanism revolving around two metal cogs; obviously making the metal on stone noise that had been heard earlier. The corridor also continues for fifty foot before ending at a large door that has strange symbols carved in the frame around it."It's getting colder." Margarian mutters as he approaches the door and notices a sheen a frost on the door. "Don't like the look of this, looks like magic or something."Eben peers at the symbols around the doorframe. "I don't recognise the alphabet, or the any words, but that symbol there", he gestures to one in the middle top of the frame, "looks like the Low-Khadish symbol for welcome. Strangely enough though I don't feel at all welcome. I suggest caution.""Okay, you two back up and I'll open it." Margarian says to Eben and Jalderin, whom comply with the suggestion.Margarian draws his sword and tries pushing the frost-covered door. He slowly pushes harder and harder and the only result is that the tip of his sword sinks slightly further into the wooden surface. He sheathes his sword and slams a boot into the door with some force. The door quivers momentarily but holds fast."Try the handle!" Eben loudly whispers. Margarian does so and the door effortlessly swings inwards.Beyond the door lies a twenty foot by twenty foot room with frost covering all surfaces. There are racks of wine and crates of ale around the room, implying that the room is a cooled storage area. An iron grate is in the floor at the far end, running water can be heard under it. Margarian, Eben and Jalderin give the room a quick search, but finding nothing, they head back towards the others. Margarian stops and spends a few moments studying the moving chain mechanism.Meanwhile under the watchful eye of the paladin Jaider Lightbringer, the Helmsblade brothers have been searching through the oil covered paperwork trying to find evidence that would incriminate Lord Caervelyn and possibly even prove that he was responsible for the downfall of the Helmsblade house.Suddenly there is a gasp from the young Zander Helmsblade. "Rowan! Sir Paladin! Look, this document is actually written by Lord Caervelyn! It details all manner of badness that he's been committing over the years." He passes the wad of documents to his brother Rowan, who starts to read them too. "Incidentally Sir Paladin, do you still have my brothers House medallion that we gave you for safe keeping?""No, I do not have it on me." Jaider sternly replies. "I often have to put my life on the line, so keeping it on my person would not be keeping it safe. I have left the symbol with a friend in the Temple of Girion. He will watch over it and keep it safe.""Arrrghhh!" comes the cry from the direction of the moving chain mechanism. Jalderin leaps the pit and peers along the passageway. There he sees Margarian with a vicious wound in his side, engaged in a furious fight with the cloaked man."He's back!" Jalderin reports as the rhythm of the fight rises.</blockquote>

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