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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigwyn the Unruly" data-source="post: 3451616" data-attributes="member: 20345">The merry party crashes through the brambles and finds itself in a squared depression in the rock wall. Though the area is heavily choked with ivy, you can make out several features of the niche. Straight in front of you is the outline of a large stone door. A morbid scene adorns the great stone door. The image depicts a robed and hooded man administering a potion to an enshrouded, skeletal corpse that lies upon a bier. Behind these figures, an open sarcophagus yawns. There does not appear to be any obvious opening mechanism or pull-ring on the door.Many of the curling vines have been haphazardly torn down from the side walls, and behind them you can make out bas relief carvings in the face of the stone wall. Upon the left wall is carved a tall, life-sized figure in a long, hooded robe. Though his countenance is grim, he stongly resembles the man depicted on the central wall. A life-sized skeleton wrapped in a death shroud is carved into the right-hand wall. The grooves of the relief are deep, giving the impression that the skeleton is about to step out of the wall. Though its arms are folded across its chest, the skelton's jaw hangs open wide as though frozen in a silent scream.[sblock=Lazarius]Search check 20 + 5 = 25. You notice that the door is false and that the bas relief on the right is actually a secret door. A fine crack is just barely discernable around the skeletal carving, and the shadowy niche that is the skeleton's mouth is deeper than it first appears.[/sblock][sblock=Norbrit]Search check 15 + 2 = 17. You notice with a dwarf's stonecunning that the door is false.[/sblock][sblock=Aust]You recognize the scene on the door as that of an acolyte of Soleth administering to a member of the faithful their peculiar draught to stave off undeath.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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