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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6815059" data-attributes="member: 11146">[ooc]I don't see where Kamael removed the caltrops he shoved under the door.  Last I read in the OOC, he proposed doing it, but hasn't declared so in the IC.  I think they're still in place.[/ooc]  Brinn tried the door but the caltrops wedged beneath it by Kamael had been shoved in tightly.  Brinn got the door open a hair, then it wouldn't budge.  He closed it and kicked the caltrops out of the way.  Trying the door a second time, it creaked open, its hinges crying in agony into the darkened interior room.  Light from Kamael's spell flooded the interior space, revealing a room fifteen feet across and twenty feet long.  Brinn spied a door to the north that opened to a small ten foot square closet.  Both spaces had natural stone flooring and walls of poorly hewn natural stone.  Brinn's eyes fell on a line of four skeletons all sitting upright and immobile against the far wall; dead men, long since rotted.  Pitted short swords lay in their laps or rested at their sides.  Their armor was leather covered in mold from the damp of the stream.  A shield, however, lay intact at the feet of one skeleton.  Nothing stirred in the room.Across the stream, Jimjar climbed up to the top of the earthen berm.  Shuushar answered Raza's question about fish in the stream with a sorrowful shake of his head.  "I think not.  The waters are frigid, too frigid.  Some say a sorceress lay a spell on them many years ago.  They flow from a surface range, and by the time they reach us here in the Night Below, they are twice as cold as the glacier from which they spring, if such a thing is possible.  Fish like them not.  Other things, however, like them very well."  The kuo-toa cast a wary look at the stream, then ambled north a bit and peered off to the northeast.  Turvey bolted into the closet and busied himself with feeling his way around its perimeter.  In short order, Kago and Raza followed after Solace.  Multiple light-producing spells brightly lit the closet and star room.  For her part, Solace strayed inside the star room.  She eyed a pair of runes splashed in red streaks on the side walls flanking the doorway that led from the star room to the short corridor.[ooc]Intelligence (Arcana) DC 14 to identify the meaning of the runes.[/ooc]<img src="http://i.imgur.com/0v41gs0.jpg?1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Dz_SGxDMJm7CAsOQLTmIaFwI2Aq3mdhg7nQYSn0FRPI/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1Dz_SGxDMJm7CAsOQLTmIaFwI2Aq3mdhg7nQYSn0FRPI/edit</a></blockquote>

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