Sando's confident greeting to the bard is covered up with the sounds of gears turning. The east end of the floor turns up, unceremoniously dumping the group of you down the flight of stairs and into the room with the masks. Lia is nowhere to be seen.
Reflex Saves
Carrach, roll of 2 on d20, +3 Reflex, total 5, failure
Qoll, roll of 3 on d20, +2 Reflex, total 5, failure
Rothgar, roll of 20 on d20, automatic success
Sando, roll of 1 on d20, automatic failure
Vorik, roll of 13 on d20, +1 Reflex, total 14, success
Results
Carrach takes 4 damage, 14 hp remaining.
Qoll takes 10 damage, 7 hp remaining.
Sando takes 3 damage, 11 hp remaining.
OOC: What happened? Well, first things first—Sando botched his disable device check badly (I rolled a 2). This is why he was so certain that turning the device counterclockiwise would spring the door. The rest of it comes from the assumptions I've made based on his post above. If you go back to my initial post, it says that turning the sconce counterclockwise should open the door, freeing Lia. In the future, I'll try to be a bit clearer with my diction and sentence structure, as I can see where that may have caused Argent to make the assumptions he did. Good news is, no one's hurt badly.