"Oh. OK then."
He breaks down the wall.
"Forty feet. Door at the end."
He glances around.
Percep
Tatsuo looks at the bird, a faint smile on his lips. "I don't think that is yet necessary. We are all capable of walking down the corridor, and your ability to fly might be of greater use in the future. I thank you for your offer though. It is most brave." He nods his head in a slight bow.
The bird tweets happily. "I just want to help."
you see that the door is intended to be opened by the application of force in some way. you also notice that it's a door.
proceeding down the short hallway is uneventful and the door appears to have not been uses in many decades checking the door it is obviously locked.
you find no evidence of any traps on the door.
Having no success opening the door. Tatsuo returns to the wine cellar. "The door appears to be locked. I don't suppose one of you would know how to open it?" He glances at the more martial looking people around him. "Preferably quietly. It would be nice if we didn't announce our presence to anything inside unnecessarily."
"Is that where the keys go?"
Mickey asks simply. He could probably kick the door down, if worse comes worse, but he'd rather not kicking anything else made of wood or rocks right now.
there is but a single old keyhole and its shape does not match the keys you have.
"It does not look like it. Besides, the will said the keys were for deep inside the vault."
Sam shrugs and leans down, whispering to the door. "Won't you please open for us?"
As he whispers, his eyes examine the door, the lock, and the area around it.
Sam examines the door the only thing he notices is the very tight seal between the door and the frame. but no signs of any kind of trap., at least not an intentionally set trap.
He then examines the locking mechanism. he soon discovers that the lock is rather old but still functional. apparently the age worked against the lock and with barely any effort, Sam hears the familiar click of success.
the door is unlocked bu remains closed.
Mickey steps to the side so that he is not in the way of the door.
"Thank you, my friend" Sam says softly, and steps back. He gives a slight bow to Letha. "I believe I have convinced the door to open."
Then, making a sign against evil spirits, he turns the handle and opens the door?
Mrimmy giggles at Letha's comment, stepping back as well.
"Well you did ask if I could persuade it to open," he smiles.
The door is a bit hard to open, its as if there is something on the other side pulling against you as you try to open it.
unfortunately it seems Sam is having difficulty persuading the door to reveal its secrets
Air is sucked through the opening as the seal is broken.
the door open to reveal a rectangular chamber 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep. you are entering from the center of the southern wall.
the room is full of wine bottle racks and barrels line the walls to the east and west.
this room has remained sealed for some time. some of the bottles of wine are labeled but due to age they are difficult to read. you can make out that these wines are fairly valuable.
as you peruse the wine bottles you notice some are most likely made here on this island and are probably nearly 75 years old. all of these wine in this collection together most likely will sell for about 5000 gold.
Tatsuo enters the room, glancing warily around for hidden foes.
on the northern wall there appears to be a section of wall that was once bricked up but has since been torn apart. beyond that section of wall is a 20 foot by 10 foot alcove and what appears to be an iron door that is closed and chained shut. the chains are locked by six pad locks.
Tatsuo moves closer to examine the door and locks.
Mrimmy, feeling a little useless, looks around the room for something that will help, as does Arura.
there is no magic on the door and when you try your key, the lock opens, you cannot remove the key for some reason. but you discover that when the key is inserted a magic aura (faint) emanates from the lock now.
"Well, I'd say this seems to be the place to put our keys. Although to be honest, I thought it'd be much further in and harder to reach."
Tatsuo steps away from the door, giving anybody else plenty of room to use their key if they so wish. He waits with his back to a wall, his eyes warily flicking back and forth from the door to the wine cellar. Other than that, he gives no other outward sign of his unease.
Sam ponders a moment before putting his key in the lock.
If the others don't work, she tries hers.
there are 6 locks and six of you each with a key.
Mickey is the last to put a key in a lock, he grudgingly removes it from the braid it hangs on, replacing that around his neck and lodging the key in its home.
forgot to answer a question about the brick wall section.
the section of wall was obviously destroyed from the cellar side to gain access to the locked door you are standing in front of.
While he waits, Tatsuo looks at the torn down wall. "A curious thing" he says, mostly to himself. "I wonder, did someone tear down this wall only to build the previous one? What purpose would that serve? Or was someone trapped in here and sought freedom?" He shakes his head slightly in puzzlement.
once all the keys are placed the locks all pop open and the door is free to open.
The door open to reveal a 10 foot wide corridor that extends into darkness. There is a faint flicker of light approximately 100 feet ahead. the walls and floor are smooth, made of solid stone, and they show the makings of superior craftsmanship. the only sounds you hear are the sounds of your own party.
the east wall (to your immediate left) is what looks like the word "BETRAYER" scrawled in blood also about 10 to 15 feet in there are two used sunrods and a bent crowbar
The person that opens the door finds that once the door seal is broken all six keys are now in his/her hand.
Mickey pushes open the door.
He glances inside and registers the writing on the wall. His eyes open a bit larger, but he hands the keys out to the others, nonetheless.
He takes his, being able to tell from the nick of an arrow blocked by it once.
He holds them out for the others to take theirs.
Tatsuo frowns at the words. He lightly touches the wall and drags two fingers along one of the letters, attempting to determine how fresh the words are and if it really is blood. He closes his eyes, focusing briefly and then turning his attention further down the hall towards the rods.
As he focuses down the hall, a small dragon appears to climb out of his robe, perching briefly on his shoulder before climbing down his outstretched arm to sniff at the "blood".
Mrimmy looks around the hallway but is much more concerned about getting her key back. "Could I get my key, possibly?"
The blood is real blood but it is nowhere near fresh, most likely more than a year old.
i also believe Mickey did in fact hold out all the keys for each to take theirs.
the light from the wine cellar extends down the hall about 10 feet. (normal vision can see about 15 feet down the hall, (low light vision can see another 10')
about 40 feet down the hall, the corridor branches to the left and right as well as continuing on straight.
with Connor's glowing halo those with low light can also see what those with dark vision can see.
Sam accepts the key from Conner with a curious smile on his face.
"Thank you," he says, and then nods at Letha's suggestion. "I'll take the left."