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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 3037878" data-attributes="member: 37105">Dietrich gives the gnome a strangled look, swallowing and turning back to Magyar with a grumble in his stance.  When the proprietor no longer looking, Naomi sticks her tongue out at his back.  Then she swipes a bracelet off a stand of costume jewelry, sliding it up her arm underneath the sleeve of her dress.Troth cannot hear anything through the door.  Taking another glance at the portrait, it looks like a young human woman, maybe nineteen years old, very modest and demure.  Her style of bonnet is puritanical and hasn't been popular for twenty years.  Out back, Denther finds the door locked.  Returning to the rainbarrel, he struggles to move it into position, rolling it along and sloshing a bit of water.  Finally satisfied, he lets it drop in place in front of the door.After a second look at the picture, Troth slips through the doorway.  He finds himself in a narrow hallway about three feet wide and six feet long.  On his immediate left is an opening with stairs leading up.  Halfway down the hall on the right is a closed door.  Another closed door is at the end of the hall.  Troth hears a muffled thwump come from beyond the far door.</blockquote>