Komana rocks the Kasba with another bowshot.
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Komana's arrow again slices through the air, rushing past Zareth's right ear and through the space where Iacobus's head used to be merely seconds ago, piercing the skeleton through its nasal cavity. The skeleton, with a small look of surprise at an arrow sticking out of the middle of its face, crumples to the ground, lifeless and unmoving.
Smiling broadly Komana turns to her companions, 'Let's get out of this grisly corridor, somebody open that door, carefully mind.'
'I'm unscathed, everyone heal up and we'll try this door.'
Komana searches around the door with detect magic and for traps.
Before you choose to open the door marked with the axes, may I suggest you look at the map I've given you once or twice?
'Okay,' Komana exclaims loudly.
'By the sword or by the axe...'
'What was our riddle again?' she says aloud.
'Long have we to find our way.
Emerge from blood victoriously.
Go safely among blade and axe.
And do not suffer violent facts.
Constantly rises enemy again and again.
You must protect thy LEGACY.'
Komana ponders aloud. 'Well we've obviously just passed the emergin from blood, and long way parts. Now we need to go safely among the blade and axe.'
Komana searches for hidden doors in the hall between the sword door, and axe door.
Sighing aloud Komana turns to her companions.
'Go safely among the blade and axe.'
Komana takes out the special wayfinder and places her glowing stone within.
"Well, we just went safely past the blades, so..." Zareth looks at Soven, then gestures at the axe door.
Soven looks at Zareth, Dird, and then Komana, upon which he opens the door. or tries to if its locked.
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The door marked with the axes opens slowly outward, as though heavily weighted by something. In the darkness beyond the doorway a flash of something gray and solid swings past with a whirring noise. Just behind it, a second axe swings down from the ceiling, and a third beyond that. Like giant pendulums, many heavy axes swing across the narrow corridor in front of you.
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Iacobus appraises the swinging blades, checking first to see if there is room for a figure to crawl safely past them, and looks to Dird. "Could there be some way of jamming the mechanism, either on an individual basis, blade by blade, or all at once, by damaging whatever system of weights is used to keep them in motion?"
He attempts to peer past the blades, as he speaks, looking for some sign of a lever or similar device on the far side.
Iacobus appraises the swinging blades, checking first to see if there is room for a figure to crawl safely past them, and looks to Dird. "Could there be some way of jamming the mechanism, either on an individual basis, blade by blade, or all at once, by damaging whatever system of weights is used to keep them in motion?"
He attempts to peer past the blades, as he speaks, looking for some sign of a lever or similar device on the far side.
"Well, I could conjure a mass of webbing to stop the axes, but I'm afraid it wouldn't leave us much room to maneuver."
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"Well I'm not sure if it'll help us any now that we've gone ahead and opened the thing, but there were...mechanisms in the door, I couldn't tell what their nature was but there were three of them, and there are three axes."
Studying the door, Dird will unpack his thieves tools and attempt to disable the mechanisms in the door.
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Dird, the mechanisms you are looking at are present on both sides of the door, but they are significantly smaller than what you are used to working with. It seems likely that they are outer indications of gears and other mechanical structures within the door itself (which is surprisingly heavy for a door of its size).
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"Perhaps the door itself is the counterweight, and the way to stop the axes motion is to close the door? It would require a leap of faith, and the ability to withstand or foil the initial strike while we pile into the corridor before closing the door, but might be an option..." Iacobus muses.
"It sounds crazy enough to be a 'test.' Then again, it might also simply chop up anyone foolish enough to think so..."
Perhaps, we should see what lies behind door number two, with the swords painted on it.
'I was thinking that blade and axe represented the sowrd emblem door and axe emblem door.'
'That's disturbing.'
Komana casts detect magic and watches everyones back as they ponder the axe laden corridor.
Soven stares at the horrific scene before them with a sense of deep regret.
"Well, if you don't mind standing here for a few hours, I might be able melt through one of the axes. I doubt it would be an efficient use of our time. Perhaps we should see if there are a another series of swinging blades behind the sword door or a switch to turn these things off."
'I agree with Iacobus, but first.'
Komana closes the door and listens to see if they can hear the axes stop swinging.