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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 9038073" data-attributes="member: 2012">Aureus studies the iron doors carefully while they wait for Caerth to be ready to help open the door. Phar has explained it all to them, as best as he knows. The half-orc druid has also been able to give a few minor insights, so far, regarding these Boots. She looks at each of the sigils and tries to decipher what it all means. Then, something in her mind clicks and she sees a sort of bypass that will trigger the magic mouth that Phar told them about.She hesitates. It could still be trapped. 'No', she shakes her head. Phar has seen all the auras and she's fairly certain that there aren't any physical traps. She runs her hand over the stylized boot and knows that if she connects puts her fingers on four distinct runes the magic will be activated."Careful," Quinn cautions.She turns to him and Phar and smiles. "I've got this..."She takes a deep breath and uses both hands to touch the runes at the top and bottom of the boot across both doors. She presses down hard and the something in the iron doors seems to shift. The four runes begin to glow... then fade. The magic mouth appears and Aureus steps back.“Welcome to our hidden heart. We, the Boots, are gone. I am Stratesus. Life is a balance. Understand and enter.”The voice is loud enough for them all to hear, yet it isn't so loud as to disturb the scorpion. Caerth knows that hearing his master's voice would likely have sent the beast into a very excited state. His own heart is beating wildly. Stratesus is speaking to him from across the ages. The half-orc's skin is tingling!The iron doors don't open, however.Aureus sighs in frustration. "Of course it's not going to be that simple!"She looks at Phar. "The magic mouth is the lock and a riddle. We need to touch the sigils in the right order, starting with the hermit sigil. I'm still not sure of the order, but I don't think we need to worry about setting off any traps.""What are we supposed to understand?" Quinn asks.She thinks, 'What would Lorien do?' The hutaakan sighs again and shakes her head. no. It is likely some sort of hidden lore she won't understand. This is not her world. What she knows of it is very limited."I have no idea."She looks at Phar. "But I think something about the doors has magically changed. You might want to check again. I'm not sure if I can help, but I'll try. And I might be able to decipher more, but I don't know if that might be risky. These doors are magical, but I think the aura for them has been obscured in some fashion. Of course, you're the expert."[OOC]<a href="http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=279893" target="_blank">Aureus - Bardic Knowledge check (+6): 1D20+6 = [1]+6 = 7</a> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL    :ROFLMAO:"  data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /><a href="http://roll.coyotecode.net/lookup.php?rollid=279894" target="_blank">Aureus - Spellcraft check (aid another): 1D20+6 = [6]+6 = 12</a> (success)Phar gets a +2 to his next Spellcraft check to try to understand the next part of the process to open the door. The DC is 40. If he succeeds, Phar will know the correct sequence for the sigils and who among the PCs should touch each sigil, which should allow them to open the doors (bypassing the next part of the riddle). Touching the sigils in the right order will activate the next part of the riddle, regardless of who touches each sigil.Both Decipher Script and/or Use Magical Device can also help and the DCs for those rolls are 30. Aureus can only succeed on those rolls if she rolls a Natural 20.[/OOC]</blockquote>

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