The Manor

Skeeve replies, "Nothing in this place makes much sense. My hope is that we can eventually find this Tutor that was mentioned by that little blue light. I figure we're more likely to find them/it/whatever by going deeper in rather than playing in the periphery. It's just a working theory, though.

"I am *so* getting one of those sigils when we get out of here!"

To Blornvid, Ealdwig says incredulously, whadaya mean, it doesn't shoot arrows? Smiling, Piece of junk.

Ealdwig takes the homunculous from Blornvid, thanks. Have you used it? What does it do?

"Nah, haven't used it. Never found the right time." He pulls a little metal figurine from out of his pack. It's a foot tall with wings. "I was told that it has two functions.

"If you wind the key in the back of the figure then use the strap that holds the key as a headband, you can project your mind into the figurine and control it for 10 minutes. During that time you control the figurine and see and hear everything it does. However during this time you can not see or hear anything from your own body and only your sense of touch remains. It can fly and even swim.

"The other function seems to be only usable once. You pull this small ring out of the back of the figurine and give it a single command, like fight or protect or something. The thing then suddenly grows to 8 feet in size. It will stay animated for 2 minutes after which it crumbles to dust. It can fight, fly, and swim."

Wow! Thanks. This thing is huge. Putting it on the floor and comparing it's height to himself. It's almost to my waist! If all the doors in this place were not closed we could use it to scout.

"We might still be able to use it to scout in some of these circumstances."

Skeeve examines the door for traps and such before we try to open it. Detect for magic, too.

Did Skeeve find anything with the door? If not, we'll open it or, just for fun since we forgot about it, have the homunculus open it.

Roll for checking traps, as opposed to the general look I had before.

Oooo. That's not good ...

Well, if it was trapped, I'm just gonna assume it went off. Lemme know how it goes for me ...

😶

Skeeve recommends opening via magic to keep Blornvid and the homunculus from potentially getting damaged. But that's just his suggestion.

Seeing Skeeve be a little leery of the door, is the door trapped? Can you do some of that magic stuff to open it? If not we could use the homunculus. Smiling, Or Blornvid could do it. He has stout armor. It should keep him safe, enough.

Only kidding BV.

"Lad, if you'd seen me the time when I opened a door and a fireball roasted us, ya wouldn't be kiddin' about that."

Skeeve breaks into a huge grin and says, "That was cool! Let me try that again!"

He will then open the door another time to see if it does the same thing again. Assuming it does, he'll move up closer, but still outside the action of the moving wall and do it a third time, hoping to get a better view into the next room, and to also get a better view into how the wall moves to see if there is a center point that isn't subject to the full force of the movement. He will then activate it yet another time if he needs to: once to see into the other room and once to see if there is a safe point to ride it out in.

Heck, he'll activate it a couple more times, claiming he is checking for the safe point, just because it gives him joy.

Oh! Wait a minute! After having fun with a few spins of the wall, he'll remember the two metal centipedes. "We can drag them up next to the wall and see if we can use them to jam the mechanism!" We'll put both of them together along the seam in the wall on the side where it closes again* and see if the combined bulk of the metal constructs can stop the rotation. (Worst case, it'll shear through them both and that'll still be cool. Not useful in that case, but still cool to look at.)