There are no traps found on the door, neither by checking nor by opening it. Behind the door in the open space with several possibilities to look down at the lava below and the upper lava flow that falls down, Omari finds a suspicious large brass circle/plate at the wall on the right .
Ohrmizd observes the ledge and finally understands what Omari means "I see. None of us is adept at disabling that kind of stuff. Do you think we can just teleport to the other side?"
"Or maybe the plate is some kind of door leading to another section or the fortress... or to a treasure..." Ohrmizd casts detect magic and specially focuses on the brass piece.
Also, if shield of faith has gone down, he renews it with a fresh casting.
"I do like treasure," Heshan smiled, but looked on at it suspiciously. "But it could also be a trap too. That and I do not have teleportation magic at my fingers."
"This stinks of trap"; it's clear from his tone of voice, Omari is not happy. He continues "the first question is, what trips it? Just passing by it, walking on the floor, or do we have to start fiddling with the plate to kick it off? The second is what does it do? Unless someone's got an overnight inspiration in all things mechanical, the only way I see to figure that out is trying stuff... and that could hurt. A lot... I could ask Erastil for a blessing and summon an earth elemental to move behind the plate, where it could find and break any mechanisms."
"There is another solution..." Rayhan suggests. "Worked on the trap door just fine."
"Yeah, putting an iron wall in front of it probably stops it if it's a trap... But if it's a door we need to get through..."
"Well, if you have a creature able to go through the wall like an earth elemental, he can burrow through and open the door for us, or come back and tell us what is there otherwise" Ohrmizd adds to the discussion "If it really is a trap we can then go with Rayhan's idea, and he can call a wall of stone to just block it"
Heshan smirks. "I may not be able to create a wall of iron... but a wall of stone is well within my means of creation," he smiles.
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"Whatever it is, I think the important part is, that the one investigating it, is protected from falling into the lava." He casts fly on himself and investigates the disc.
As Rayhan takes a closer look at the thing in the magic spectrum and feels if there is a hidden mechanism to open a passage the disc moves.
A gargantuan brass creature with a cone shaped head pushes him away as it charges out of its hiding spot.
"Rayhan!!!" Ohrmizd is frozen in place as the gragantuan brass creature tramples over the sage "I do not think we can easily penetrate the hull of this one. Is better if we just fly or teleport away from it. Rayhan, try to lure it into the lava!"
Khedron, great-hearted and willing, squeezed through the narrow doorway and closes with the enemy... Meanwhile, Omari slips ahead of him and takes a snapshot with his bow.
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Ohrmizd looks worried as Omari goes into the room "We should just have closed the door and planned something. That is not going to even scratch it"
"Heshan, grasp me strongly, we are taking off" the Keleshite points through the door and shouts "Leviosa!"
Both he and Heshan depart in the flying carpet, taking up to a height of 20 feet, and double flying as far as possible "Everyone, let's fly where he cannot reach us"
"Easier for us to do than those two. I did not grant them flying remember?" Heshan looks on with worry. They were not at a point where he would have a line of sight for any of his spells without knowing where the creature was at.
"I agree with Ohrmizd. We shouldn't fight that. Once we're in the narrow part of the passage, I can block it off to stop that from following us."
Rayhan flies after the carpet.
The arrow hits the construct and bounces off, falling to the ground without leaving a scratch.
The construct slams into Khedron.
Omari looks at the abject failure of his arrow and says "Ok, you have a point Ohrmizd, but some of us aren't flying!" as he ducks back through the door and calls Khedron after him...
Heshan waves Ohrmizd off as he flies off to get a good line of the golem. Nodding at the predicament, he casts a swarm of tentacles to restrain the object.
"Tsk!" seeing the scene develop, Ohrmizd commands the carpet to slowly turn around the central piece of rock, and directs himself towards the back of the construct "I will try to create a distraction and lure them towards here so you can get out of that hole"
"Hei oversized maggot! Here!" he moves his arms up and down trying to call the attention of the thing "Want to bash my pretty face?"
Once the spell was off, Heshan followed the carpet where the lava pit was.
The contruct gets stuck in the tentacles. But it pulls itself free and steps out of the rubber patch.
Ohrmizd commands the carpet forward, just to have enough of a sight of the construct, but still flying over the lava pit. Then readies his bow to call the attention and distract the construct "Hey you there! Do you want to eat us?"
"...We would prefer you not to eat us, but you can always try!" Heshan follows the carpet on his own power as he continues to loop around the structure.
Omari pauses, waiting to see if the construct responds to Ohrmizd's taunting...
Omari shouts out
When Rayhan swoops back, close enough to talk: "Ok, that thing is an animated object, right? So it's not intelligent at all - not even like an animal. It's just following pre-established orders, right? So if we all come back here and close the door, it'll go back to hiding in it's niche. Then we can use a wall spell block it off. That will stop it from detecting us when we enter the room, and unless a response to blocking it off that was programmed in, it'll just sit there as it can't detect any intruders?"
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The animated object comes to eat Ohrmizd, steps over the edge and falls into the pool of lava. From there it is slowly floating away into the waterfall and then it is out of sight.
As the animated object comes to the edge to bash on him, Ohrmizd quickly commands the carpet to fly back. The Keleshite contemplates as the thing loses balance and slides down to the lava. He nods approvingly "Well done team!"
Flying back to look through the door, Ohrmizd looks at Omari and Khedron worriedly "Are you two ok?"
"A clever maneuver Ohrmizd, luring it into the lava. Yes, Khedron and I are alright. Khedron took a blow, but he is hardy... Assuming that thing was a guardian, let us see what it was guarding."
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Heshan smirked as he floats back down to the ground next to Omari. "Well someone had to take the fall..."
Checking the room to see if anyone like the joke, he continued. "If not what we were looking for, I hope it is at least valuable."
A river of magma flows into this domed chamber from the northeast before exiting to the southwest. The roar of a cataract can be heard from that direction. A ledge runs along the eastern edge of the magma pool a couple of feet above the level of the molten rock. A grill of thick, scorched brass bars extends from the north side of the pool all the way to the ceiling, blocking passage into the tunnel beyond. Swirling through the air from the surface of the magma to the ceiling above are dozens of burning motes.
Omari finds a secret door set near the ceiling on the west side of the pool. The tunnel beyond leads upwards.
Ohrmizd chuckles at Heshan's joke and smiles "Somewhere down those pipes the mameluks told us about someone is going to have an uncomfortable surprise."
Without further wait, he directs the carpet up into the new tunnel "Ok, let's try this one."
Keeping the bow ready, the Keleshite flies with the carpet up the tunnel, paying careful attention.
Omari looks at where the secret door is - on the far side of a giant lava pool, up near the ceiling - and says "I suppose I should expect this sort of architecture where the locals can fly... Ohrmizd, I will need 15 minutes to prepare for this, don't go to far ahead scouting and get into trouble."
Omari will spend 15 minutes praying to fill his empty 4th level slot with Air Walk. Then he will cast it on Khedron, and ride Khedron above the lava pool and up the secret tunnel.
"Take as much time as you need." Heshan waits until Omari has his spell prepared before joining the others in going into the secret tunnel.
It is a good thing everyone is flying as the tunnel is smoothly polished and almost impossible to climb up. It ends in a room that looks like a garbage storage. Stepping out of the tenn foot wide chute in the northeast corner you come into the room that is sloped towards this chute. A dim red glow emanates from a grate in the ceiling high overhead. You are surrounded by odd bits of debris. The room also has a door.
"There's something about this room that I don't like..." mutters Omari . Louder, he continues, "Ohrmizd, check the grate up top, what's that glow? I'll check the door." Suiting deed to word, Omari air-steps Khedron over to the door, and takes a careful look.
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The door leads to a short flight of stairs that ends in a wide corridor running left to right with two doors in sight. Also the corridor forks on the right side to turn right, bat from the stairs it can't be seen where that leads.
The frightful screams and bellows of what sounds like an enraged bull echo through the place beyond the grate. Beyond the great seems to be outside, as you can't see any ceilings or walls, only a roiling molten sky.
"We could ask the person screaming if they could be of help," Heshan quipped. "As for the corridor, I can sneak in to see if there is anything we need to worry about."
Ohrmizd casts guidance on himself before giving the grate a try " Anyone wants to help?"
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Ohrmizd manages to break the grate loose.
Throwing the grate to one side, Ohrmizd looks up to check what he can see through.
"Mmm... this seems to go up, do you want us to check a bit this level before venturing forward?" the Kheleshite points to the eastern door in the corridor.
"Yeah, I think we look around on this level first. But now that we have exits, let's sweep this room, just in case."
Omari searches the room (with Detect Magic active).
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Noone put a golden spoon into the garbage on accident, much less a magic item. The corridor is empty.
Finding nothing but garbage, Ohrmizd moves to the eastern door "Ok, let's then try to follow this way"
Activating the opening mechanism slowly, he tries to open the door without being noticed. He flies on the carpet, a few inches over the ground, for extra stealth.
"Understood, Omari." Heshan follows Ohrmizd through the door, floating above the ground as he does.