Manny sees that it appears to be a perfectly ordinary wooden mannequin.
"None taken." Shae replies to Manny with a chuckle, then floats over to the Maul. "This sounds interesting." she says. Hopping off her disc, she kneels next to the the maul, reaches out to touch it, and tries to divine if any magical power rests within.
Manny sees that it appears to be a perfectly ordinary wooden mannequin.
Manny squints at the wooden mannequin.
"Kind of a fancy suit for a tree stump, isn't it?" He muses, scratching at his whiskers.
"This is a product of vileness."
Manny feels the same sense of unease that Akahale felt. Study of the armour reveals the following to them both:
"Unquestionably constructed for a vile purpose, but nonetheless imbued with potent magic."
Shaeryyn reaches out and touches the weapon...
"Well, Idon't want it!" Manny says, pointing at the leather armor.
"It gives me the creeps. And Leather chafes me something awful."
"You can take it. That thing gives me the creeps anyway..."
Akahale thoughfully stows the leather armour for future consideration. He is disinclined to strip in the presence of his comrades. Manny's sensibilities are always a consideration.
Hadarai examines both doors but neither seems to be trapped. They are both, however, locked.
Meanwhile, Akahale looks carefully to see if he has missed anything. The conflicting arcane auras distress him immensely.
Akahale sees nothing more than has already been seen.
Perception trap on the Maul -
Grafire picks up the maul and slings it ion his back with the aid of a strap on the handle.
Grafire
"What were you all saying?? I thought I heard something. Hmm, must be from the Maul."
Grafire turns to his egg brother, "Akahale I must let you know about this. If these voices do not stop I may be in danger. But I feel there maybe a greater use of this weapon and it may come at a time against its creator. Its just a hunch though."
"Rest assured, egg brother. Should you fall to abomination, I will excise it with a firm hand."
Akahale moves to the door to the right of the central statue.
"Let us proceed."
Akahale finds that the door is locked.
Akahale tinkers fruitlessly.
"Hm. Looks like THIS calls for another application of "Mandrake's Magnificent Multi-Use Knock Spell'. The elderly mage says with a gleeful chortle, rolling up his sleeves. He lowers his staff and orb at the doorway that dares to impede their progress, obviously planning on unleashing another volley of mystic bolts into it,...
"We're not blasting this door down too. Out of the damn question." Otto once again attempts to pick the lock.
Under his bushy beard, it's hard to tell if Manny is irritated, or amused by the sudden appearance of Otto's back in his firing zone,...
But he lowers his weapons of mass destruction with only a muffled grumble.
Unable to open the lock by himself, Akahale's earlier experience is at least useful to Otto.
"Ah, Mr Samir. I do believe there is a small insert to the left that you have missed."
And with that, the door is unlocked.
"Now let us proceed."
Akahale opens the door and peers through.
The room contains three large stone chests decorated with images of eyes and tentacles. Nothing else can be seen.
Pointing triumphantly at the tentacle flavoured chests, Akahale scans the room for threats before advancing any further.
The dragonborn espies nought but the chests.
Grafire is on guard near the door.
Determined to end the threat of tentacles wherever they may be, Akahale attempts to prod open the lid of the nearest chest with his rod.
Prodding open the chest, Akahale finds it to contain heaps of coins and gems. There is potentially a great deal of wealth here.
"These are the wages of abomination!" Akahale's eyes whirl and he backs away - possibly for fear of contamination.
"What IS that lizard blabbering about this time?" Manny grumbles, edging his way in for a better look.
"And people say that I'M easily distract,... Oooo, shiny,..."
"I agree, my egg brother. A nice full chest of loot....hmmm kinda suspecious. Better check for traps. Although look at this place. Rather lavish for the likes of a demon."
Hearing that we may need someone to spot for traps, Hadarai will come in and investigate the chests for traps.
"Someone may want to check for any arcane trickery here, too. Beyond that, Shay may have to make some room on her floating disk, if we're going to reclaim some of this wealth."
Hadarai finds no traps on any of the chests.