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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3744792" data-attributes="member: 11146">Hissing in slight pain as he moves over to inspect the rune on the blue southern door, Voadam compares it to the other runes, trying harder to decipher its meaning now that he has some experience with the eastern rune.  Holding up his light coin for a better view, Voadam stands for long moments before the southern doors.[sblock=Voadam]Knowledge (arcana) check result 17.  The large rune itself seems to be a language, foreign as it may be to Voadam and the others.  While not innately magical, the rune is obviously connected to whatever spellcraft surely lies within the gem inside the rune.  Spellcraft check result 8.  Appraise check result 14.  The blue "gem" is no gem at all but rather is merely faux mineral, glass, really.[/sblock]From overhead in the ceiling comes a jolting grinding noise, followed by a series of clicks then a rumble of machinery.  Judging by the noise, a large set of cogs or some variety of gearworks lies hidden above the chamber's ceiling.  Just after Maelicent pulls Gamad over the back of the dead crocodile to relative safety in the hallway, the intact half of the western door begins to slowly swing its way closed.  The ruined half of this former set of double doors lies in rubble and does not move.  A strange whoosing sound, like a wave beating against the shore, comes from somewhere behind the eastern doors.  Water begins seeping from the narrow crack under the eastern doors.</blockquote>

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