Lucky and Sannis head off around the circular hallway and find three more doors that look nearly identical to the first one. They seem to be placed equidistant from each other, roughly at what might be cardinal points of the compass... north, east, south, west, though skewed a bit off from the elevator door... unless the elevator does rotate as it descends.

Lucky and Sannis pass each other at the expected point, compare notes for a moment, and then continue on, getting back to the elevator and the first door.

Erhm.... "Maybe?"  She really wasn't sure but she dutifully turned the camera towards the walls and picked up similar results, "If we're still running with the prison and justice theory, this could be an evidence wall?"  She shrugs as she continues to study what is written there - attempting to pick out anything they might thus far have missed.

When he returned to the group, he shrugged, "Nothing out of the ordinary. Three more doors, pretty well opposite each other. Didn't look in any, but wondering maybe we're getting into the personal quarters? Everything else has been fairly open and these rooms all seem to provide some privacy, or personal space." He suggested, as the layout sort of reminded him of apartments.

"Make up your mind, Sarah," Eric said. "Either the suspended animation tubes are their cells or else this level is."

"Besides, this is consistent with the upper first level you explored earlier, which was determined to be a habitation level... like Lucky said."

"These pictures look like family photos. It's a great technology--being able to transfer images onto a stone wall like this, but I don't see how that could help us defeat the Goa'uld. Still, if we can find out how they do that, maybe it's something we can adapt for another purpose."

"Of course, it appears as full color imaging to us, with our video tech, but we don't know if these Dwarves see them in color."

"Let's go ahead and see if we can get this door open."

"Kylie, Sannis... see what you can do."

Sarah just gave Eric a squiff look, "Even if I had all the facts, I'd still not be decided.   Jumping to conclusions is however something the military do very well."  Honestly.   if the Major wanted to have the final say on all the evidence, then why'd he bring her along?
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Sannis takes the lead and walks over to the door. As it was reported on the upper lever, just standing there for a few seconds could conceivably cause the door to open. He was perfectly aware that there could be other factors in play. The upper door might not have been 'locked' when it was abandoned. Or perhaps it was openable because of the robot. It might have been some sort of janitor robot.

He was almost disappointed when this door didn't open.

"Looks like you need to do your thing, Kylie," he said to her. "I suspect it has some sort of magnetic lock."

"Thanks," Kylie replied a touch sarcastically. "Let the girl face down the giant killer robot!"

However, she went over to the door and examined it more closely, though she wasn't expecting to find anything out of the ordinary. Stone was stone, even after these people worked their magic on it.

"I would think the locking mechanism is either going to be to the left of the door or to the right," she mused out loud. "It could be in the door... or the floor or the ceiling... and it could even be voice activated. It's possible that the sound could be picked up through the stone."

"If it's magnetic, it should be at a height that's convenient for them. Hmmmm... I wonder... could it even be disengaged if we chipped into the stone and destroyed the mechanism?"

"Not suggesting it... just speculating."

She couldn't recall if they'd seen anything that indicated these Dwarves might be left-handed or right-handed... and she couldn't recall why humans tended to be right-handed... but, since the Dwarves resembled Earth concept of Dwarves... and may have even come from Earth... that probably meant they were right-handed, too.

So she started on the right-hand side of the door. She twiddled with the dials on her device, adjusting both the frequency of the magnetic resonance and the intensity.

It took about 2 minutes, but suddenly the door slid open!

She jumped back, startled and cautious.

Sannis quickly stepped in front of Kylie, half-expecting an attack by a robot.

If none comes, he scans the room beyond for trouble or anything potentially hazardous... or interesting.

Lucas winced a bit at Sarah's jab. It wasn't focused on him, but he knew it was on the money more cases than not and he was guilty of jumping to conclusions more than once himself. Not wanting to get in the middle, he kept his mouth shut and stayed on watch as Kylie and Sannis went to work.

Sannis, followed by Kylie, enters the room, but he does not spot a robot.

They quickly scan the room. It has a distinct curve to it, clearly seen on the rear wall, which is 20 feet away. It's around 30-feet across from side wall to side wall. There are a number of doors visible: two on each of the side walls and three on the back wall.

To the left of the entry door is a desk with a padded chair, there is a sofa in the middle of the room on the left with a stuffed chair and an ottoman/coffee table, and a dining table with four chairs around it on the right. All the furniture is made of stone... except for the padding.

The side doors on the right open to reveal a kitchinette--stove, counters, sink, shelves, cabinets that hold various dishes and food stores.

The side doors on the left are closets. There are a couple of pairs of shoes on the floor and a few shirts and trousers hanging on stone hooks.

The rear doors open to a bedroom, a bathroom, and another bedroom. The left-hand bedroom looks like it's lived in, but the right-hand one looks more like storage.

There are three 'art pieces' hanging on the walls.

Sarah wondered in after the military types still using the camera to pick out any oddities that she herself might not have noticed given her limited range of sight.

When it comes to the bedroom she notes (what is probably obvious to the others too), "This one looks like it was lived in.  How long ago though is possibly a question someone here can answer?   Can we get DNA, skin cells samples or similar?"

"Oh, absolutely!" Kylie replies to Sarah.

"DNA can last for a million years... depending on the circumstances. The only factor here is the air supply. Whether there's any here may depend on the robots... have they cleaned this place?"

"Check the bed and the bathroom for hairs. That's usually the best way."

Hairs?  Sarah will scan the surroundings to see if she can spot anything 'useful' for Kylie's research but her initial search comes up empty.

Kianan-Meredy opened the door into the right hand bedroom.

Bed - stiff, but better than a floor.
Surplus clothing - interesting, but not useful at the moment.
Crate of stone like tablets - blank visually - possibly containing text in the infra red.
Possible drum - appears to be similar to a small kettle drum - no sticks
Desk - chair, empty drawers, small groove under the desk surface...

Running a finger along the groove, suddenly a display folded up out of the top, a faint tracery of light appearing on it.

Raising her voice, "I think I found something useful!"

"I did not see that coming," Sannis says when Kianan finds the hidden viewer. Truth to tell, it wasn't all that hidden... well, it wasn't obvious but it made sense.

"I was wondering what they did for entertainment. No books. I mean, how many words can you carve into a stone tablet? Maybe if they use shorthand they could get a novella on one, or maybe just a short-story. Really short."

"So, does this place look like a bachelor pad? I don't think he did any knitting."

He wasn't sure it was a computer that Kianan had found, maybe something like a Nook, but he'd leave it to the techs to figure out.

From the doorway Lucky smirked, "Were you hoping to pick up some intergalactic stitch patterns?"

"Need to do something while the eggheads geek out on us," Sannis replies to Lucky. "Which it looks like they are going to do now."

"I think it's safe enough in here. Any problems they cause are going to be beyond our abilities anyway. Maybe we should get out of their way, and go check out the other doors."

"Wow! That was brilliant, Kianan!" Kylie exclaims.

"Did you see a crack in the desk top? I didn't see any. That's thinking outside the box! It never occurred to me that there would be something like that in here."

"I thought the bird-people were alien, but now I'm thinking the Dwarves may be even more alien!"

Lucky shrugged, then looked to Major Brooks, "You want us to hang tight or prowl around a little?" Despite being a pain by times, Lucas followed officer's directions.

"I am not sure why you find it so alien. Many cultures have computers built into deir furniture for work and home use. However, dere is noding genius about finding it, I was looking for a release for de drawers and found de groove under the desk surface. With de Major's permission, I would like to see if we can discover some general information using this terminal. Ideally, if we can flip it into the Ancient language, we will be able to proceed very quickly rather than fighting with translations."

"By all means, Kianan, see what you can find," Eric replies to the Tok'ra.

"I suppose the first thing to do, though, is find out if it really is a computer. We haven't seen anything else that let us think they had computers. And while I'm not a computer expert, can you really make one out of stone?"

Sarah wasn't about to push in on Kianan's discover though she does reply to Eric's comment with a simple, "Ours already are.  Don't forget that Silicone is a crystal-stone."

Kianan-Meredy shook her head,"I think you are looking at it wrong. I don't think this is actually stone - it appears to be more like a plastic matrix encapsulating electronics and the like. Given that we know they were using a digging machine based on Ancients technology, it's not unlikely that they were using the Ancients fabrication techniques also. That could easily accommodate the look and feel of stone rather than the more sterile appearance of modern plastics."

Pulling out the thermal camera, she observed the desk before reaching out to tap a portion of the desk that looked exactly the same as the rest of the surface. A faint glow with half visible images formed on the elevated display; resolving themselves into more runes accompanied by what appeared to be a control surface on the desk itself.

"It looks like it is at least a full computer terminal rather than an entertainment console, if it's connected to the main system, we can hopefully gain some useful data."

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Kylie peers at the keyboard on the desk... there are no keys per se but where the keys would be, glowing symbols are visible.

"Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that's a QWERTY keyboard," she comments to Kianan. "Do you recognize those symbols? They kind of look like a fantasy script or font. I have something like that on my computer at home. They don't actually have meaning--you just convert normal lettering into the new font. If I remember correctly, it's called Futhark."

"Doesn't mean it really is Futhark. I think it's supposed to be something like Celtic or Viking or something. Hey! Sarah! You speak Norwegian, don't you? Does that mean you can read and write it? Maybe you can make sense of this keyboard."

"I do."  Referring to the symbols if not the exact meaning.   "It's much the same as the other signs I've been reading."   Sarah will consider the keyboard and anything that the screen might be 'saying' to her.