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<blockquote data-quote="Qik" data-source="post: 5687340" data-attributes="member: 6673727">Saranna moves to inspect the chest and is glad to find that it is untrapped.&nbsp; It is when she moves to have a work on the lock that she notices it's unusual construction.The chest is gilded in gold and ornately decorated with vaguely plant-like images.&nbsp; More importantly, however, is it's locking system: the chest is actually held closed by six locks, one on each corner and one each in the middle of the longer sides.&nbsp; Setting to work on the first one, she first fails - *click* - then succeeds at undoing it.&nbsp; Stepping back to survey her work, she can see that, although she's opened the one lock, her failure seems to have activated some sort of auto-lockdown mechanism.&nbsp; She's not sure how many more chances she'll have, but it seems as though the chest's locks will clamp down and be unable to be opened if she fails enough times.&nbsp; As she considers her next point of attack, she spies some odd writing on the top of the chest...[sblock=OOC]This is chest is actually a skill challenge of sorts.&nbsp; The lock can be opened by a certain amount of successful DD checks - can I get, say, 7 more, Songdragon?&nbsp; It's also worth mentioning that successful Knowledge (Engineering) or Linguistics checks will provide Saranna with a bonus on her DD checks.&nbsp; The language is in Sylvan, but if I remember correctly, none in the group speak it.[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Qik, post: 5687340, member: 6673727"] Saranna moves to inspect the chest and is glad to find that it is untrapped. It is when she moves to have a work on the lock that she notices it's unusual construction. The chest is gilded in gold and ornately decorated with vaguely plant-like images. More importantly, however, is it's locking system: the chest is actually held closed by six locks, one on each corner and one each in the middle of the longer sides. Setting to work on the first one, she first fails - *click* - then succeeds at undoing it. Stepping back to survey her work, she can see that, although she's opened the one lock, her failure seems to have activated some sort of auto-lockdown mechanism. She's not sure how many more chances she'll have, but it seems as though the chest's locks will clamp down and be unable to be opened if she fails enough times. As she considers her next point of attack, she spies some odd writing on the top of the chest... [sblock=OOC]This is chest is actually a skill challenge of sorts. The lock can be opened by a certain amount of successful DD checks - can I get, say, 7 more, Songdragon? It's also worth mentioning that successful Knowledge (Engineering) or Linguistics checks will provide Saranna with a bonus on her DD checks. The language is in Sylvan, but if I remember correctly, none in the group speak it.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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