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Ah'Sereen takes barely a moment to open the shackles and they fall open in her hands.

The woman blinks at the two women, then stiffly, painfully pulls herself to her feet, rubbing her wrists. She let's out a delighted laugh and throws her arms around Aura's neck.

"Thank you!! You have no idea how long I have waited for this!"

She hugs her tightly for a moment and then lets go, taking the opportunity to test her legs as she shakily circles the room, leaning on the walls for support. As she walks, she talks, ignoring Dain completely:

"This place is a prison. When our three queens vanished, I, Cadamosto and Dogon set out to find them and return them to their rightful place in the world. We followed the trail to this maze, and though we found riches, we also found Psathyrella the Medusa. She is the jailor here, and utterly evil. Be wary of her, but destroy her if you can and seek out the sisters! They must be set free to take their rightful places as the queens they are!"

((I assume that Aura and Ah'Sereen are standing near the shackles in the centre of the room, but where is everyone else standing?))

((Thought they had locks?))

Aura seems happy that the woman is so relieved to be free, and nothing bad is happening!

AND DEFINITELY NOTHING BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN EITHER.

((Ready for everything to go wrong in 3.. 2...))

spiderwrangler wrote:((Thought they had locks?))

((They do, but you rolled a 28 and they just weren't very good))

Art would have been standing between the painting and where she had been shackled.

thinkslogically wrote:

spiderwrangler wrote:((Thought they had locks?))

((They do, but you rolled a 28 and they just weren't very good))

((Oh, did you mean Ah'sereen rather than Aura? I was getting really extra suspicious of this woman if the cleric is able to touch her shackles and they fall off...))

((yes I did. Except Aura still got the hug because she's been consistently the nicest of all of you ))

((I posted before, if you missed it Thinks))

Dusk9 wrote:

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As he waits, Warryn has Erik listen at the door.

Erik Per (hearing) check: 2D20.HIGH(1)+3 = [4, 16]+3 = 19

If the ghost doesn't return after 1 minute (when his spells run out), Warryn recasts them both. He then opens the door a crack, having Erik peek his little weasel head through to get a good look beyond.

Erik Per check: 1D20+3 = [18]+3 = 21

Dain is standing off to the side where he can keep an unobstructed view of the woman. He's still primed to fire if anything funny goes on. Since it's likely to be out of 10 ft. range, he'll have rotated off to having Ray of Frost prepped.

((I totally missed that, thanks!))
The woman circles the room as she talks and ends up standing near Art, next to the painting.

Ah'sereen watches the woman's behavior as she moves closer to the painting...

Insight: She getting ready to run?: 1D20+9 = [14]+9 = 23

"Are you opening the door for us before leaving?" he asks in a slightly irritated tone. If she was just a prisoner he is glad she will be free, but he feels sorry for whomever she is going home to!

She looks at Art and laughs, draping an arm over his shoulder.

"But of course! Just pull on the chains and the door will unlock. Forgive the small deception, there is no magic barrier."

Dain growls at her. "Stay put until we check. Is there anything else you know about the other side of that door? Once we've checked to see it's unlocked you can go." He adds soto voice "And good riddance."

The woman shrugs.

"You can ask me as many times as you like! I still don't know what it's become. It was empty last time I saw it."

She chuckles.

"No, it's not."

"Why didn't you just say so? Were you worried that we'd not let you go if you told us..?" Aura asks... Before pulling down on the chain.