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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3758379" data-attributes="member: 11146">Brakkus joins Voadam at the southern doors.  Finding no hint of how the stone doors might open, Brakkus is unable to be of much assistance to Voadam's search.  After the Green Wizard details his lengthy theory on the hexagonal chamber, however, Brakkus sizes up the behemoth and the stone doors lying in a rubble to the west.  Judging by the size of the crocodile and the brute ferocity of its bite, the beast must have possessed fearsome strength and certainly was far stronger in life than any human, dwarf, or goblin.  Save for the rune and the blue gem, the southern set of doors could be a twin to the western doors; the stone is smooth, well-mortared and, if the western doors are anything to go on, thick.Just as Gamad suggested with regard to the western doors, Voadam finds that the southern doors bear no visible opening mechanism.  The stone stab hangs from hidden hinges and while it does sport a crack running vertically lengthwise down the middle, the stonework throughout both sides is smoothly joined.  Clearly, these portals will be opened most readily by magic.  Failing magical means, the crocodile's partial egress would indicate that the application of extreme strength may also meet with limited success.The Gudwulf perches atop the dead behemoth and prizes a third tooth from the beast's mouth.  Despite the poor condition of the crocodile's eye and its bruised jawline, the thing's teeth are of stout quality and in good shape--a worthy prize.  Looking up from his perch, the goblin spies no sign of any of the three slugs back in the mushroom cave.The water coursing from underneath the eastern doors continues and shows no sign of abating, but the gearworks overhead slow after a moment then soon cease their grinding and clicking altogether.  After ten seconds or so, there is enough water in the hexagonal chamber that Brakkus, Chev, and Voadam find the liquid laps at their boot heels.  The dead crocodile jammed in the broken western doors serves as a temporary plug; the hallway beyond the room remains dry, for now.</blockquote>

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