Chapter One - The Adventure Begins

Toe, you don't see any trap-like mechanisms from the distance you are standing. You can make out a small diamond-shaped keyhole in each of the doors, to the right of the glyph near the rim.

Toe tries to warn his companions before they head into the room with masks. "Don't go in that room yet! Keygan warned us about trapped doors! Let us examine rest of this chamber and maybe the hallway first."

Toe stays behind for now in the entrance room.

Fhenryl carefully and quietly sneaks up to the half-open door and peers inside:

You immediately spot the source of the light -- a sunrod lying in the middle of the floor. It sheds enough light for you to make out the contents of the room, which seems to have been a barracks. Gnome-sized cots line the wall, each with a small wooden footlocker at the end. Dust and cobwebs blanket the room, and you can smell the must and disuse. Tiny spiders scurry across the floor and up the walls. You don't see or hear any other movement in the room.

Directly across from the door you're looking through is a circular tunnel bored directly into the wall. It's approximately 5' in diameter and relatively cleanly cut. A small pile of rubble lies on the floor near the tunnel's entrance. You can see by the light of the sunrod that the tunnel goes straight back a few feet before branching off to the left and right.

You can't see the far end of the room without going in, but you're pretty sure that you can't hear or see any creatures from your vantage point.

Toe discovers that the empty torch sconce is on some sort of rotating mount. He turns it to the left until it clicks. Then all of a sudden the floor underneath him tilts upward, sending him tumbling down the stairs. He takes a few bumps on the way down, but manages to roll up onto his feet as he hits the bottom of the stairs in the room with the masks instead of landing sprawled out on his face.

Fhenryl takes another careful step through the half-open gear door, he senses keenly tuned in to the entrance of the tunnel. He fails to notice the flash of movement to his left and right as a portion of the stone wall on either side takes on humanoid shape. The skulks, bearing their filthy, chipped short swords, each stab at Fhenryl's sides as he turns to guard himself.

Fhenryl takes another careful step through the half-open gear door, he senses keenly tuned in to the entrance of the tunnel. He fails to notice the flash of movement to his left and right as a portion of the stone wall on either side takes on humanoid shape. The skulks, bearing their filthy, chipped short swords, try to stab at Fhenryl before he can turn around and counter. The half-elf spins around the first blade and deflects the second with his own weapon.