In reply to Jory Ranglore (msg # 94):

Lam whispers - _{Golbins and Orcs are not the friendliest beast I heard nor by the looks of things that smart,Keestake how much further?}

Deniv follows along, debating his ise of the shortbow, debating his own usefulness in this endeavor.
As he follows the others, he supposes he could drop the bow and use his daggers to carve up an enemy like a roast pig.

Einlian felt like he had been walking in a daze this whole time, helping where he could, staying quiet the rest of the time.  Now though, the disaray of the rooms made him think of home.  A Sharp intake of breath and his head cleared as he thought of his father, the father that beat him when his bed wasn't made or he hadn't cooked enough food even when there wasn't sufficient.

Quietly but with venom "My father would have blown his top at this.  This may not be perfect being out here, but at least I'm not back home.  His hand went to the marks on his body, covered slightly but still a reminder of harder times then to the daggers at his belt, open palms resting on the top of the handles. This aggitation hadn't been seen before by the group but it seemed he wasn't the only one.

He caught himself and relaxed.
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Moving along, following the others as quietly as he could Tath looked around at what was left of what had once been a beautiful place. Wondering what it might have been like when people lived here.

Keestake leads the group down the hall to the East and turns North.  He stops as if to ponder the doors.  "Oh, this one.  It has been more'n 20 years since I've gone down into the catacombs."  He points out a door and leads the group inside.  He points to a bookcase.  "It should be under there, If I remember correctly."

This room looks to have once been used for record keeping.  What remains of the records is a rotting mass of parchment.

In reply to Man in Black (msg # 99):

Moving into the room, to get out of that hallway.
"The chest is under here, or a tunnel to the catacombs?  I thought we were going to simply walk in and find the gifts, not disturb graves to get at them."

In reply to Sal Warth (msg # 100):

Ushering the group in and indicating to close the door and be quiet sshh Lam then asks Jory can you check out the bookcase and see what you can find for a trap door or entry way down. Turns to Sal I hope it is not as bad as that fishing among the catacombs graves for magical items.  But let's first see what we have to deal with when we get down there.  We will need some torches too

Deniv turns to Rebeccah.  I think I prefer searching catacombs to having to take them from orcs or goblins.  Don't you?
He turns to face the door they had come through, not wanting any wandering denizens to catch them unawares.

Jory starts to remove the rotting mass of parchment from the floor in front of the bookcase.
He then searches for a trapdoor on the floor in front of the bookcase.
If there's no trapdoor, he searches for a way to move the bookcase away and looks if there's a trapdoor behind the bookcase.

Having 'woken up' again to the reality of the situation, Einlian helps Jory move papers, being careful to put anything like a book to one side.

In reply to Einlian (msg # 104):

Sal starts searching around for something to make a torch with.  Papers, wooden sticks, anything.

Once everyone was in the room Tath closed the door. Standing quietly against the door he listens for any sign of Orc's or Goblin's approaching while the others searched the room.

Jory searches the area and finds a switch on the wall.  He activates it, but nothing happens.  Keestake just shrugs.

There are old chair legs and old upholstery aplenty for torches for all.

Jory says: "Perhaps the bookcase turns on a pivot, making it sway forward so that one can enter a secret passage."

Jory searches for a pivot at the sides of the bookcase, and removes all rotting papers which would hinder the bookcase from turning on a possible pivot. he then activates the switch again.

In reply to Jory Ranglore (msg # 108):

Seeing what Jory is doing, Einlian slowly goes around the adjoining wall, carefully looking & feeling for changes in temperature, noise and cracks. He'd imagine Keestake would possibly know where the passage, if that is what it is, would be though.

He even closes his eyes for a moment to see if he could sense anything, cold from a long unused passage or a breeze not from the door they came in.

In reply to Einlian (msg # 109):

Sal joins in the searching fun.
On his hands and knees searching the floor for some type of door.

Search for doors  15%   I really just wanted to roll.
09:20, Today: Sal Warth rolled 15 using 1d100.  search.

Rebeccah looks away from the crack in the door to answer Daniv.  "Well, uh, do you think there could be zombies down there?  Goddess!  I think I might prefer orcs!"

In reply to Man in Black (msg # 111):

Seeing Einlian try to sense the air about Lam lights a torch and holds it up against the book shelf, top, bottoms and sides and see if the torch flickers outward or even in ward. If there is a draft, maybe this will find it.  keep clearing out the stuff around the book case.   We may need to force the bookcase to move.

Keestake my freind this is the way down? 

In reply to Lam Durus (msg # 112):

Einlian nods at Lam's words, watching the flame carefully then clearing the area around the bookcase alongside Jory and Sal.

In reply to Man in Black (msg # 111):

He shrugs at Rebeccah's question.  I have no idea.  I just hope we can find what we need and get out of here quickly, and get off this island.

The hidden entrance is there.  The means to open it is there plain to see, but it is not working.  The bookcase blocking it will have to be forced somehow.

In reply to Man in Black (msg # 115):

"Looks like this bookcase is stuck."
Looking for a way to grab or wedge or leverage the bookcase somehow to push or pull or slide it.
"Help me move this, everyone."

In reply to Sal Warth (msg # 116):

Einlian looks at the battleaxe, then a spear, then at the furniture.

If someone can pass me a chair leg or something, I could put the edge of the battleaxe into the tiny gap between bookcase and wall then lever over the chair leg. That may work. Failing that,
smashin it with the battleaxe could work too.

Deniv sets aside the bow and arrow, taking the quuver from his shoulder, so he can move to assist the others in tgeir attempt to move the bookcase and open the secret door.

18:18, Today: Daniv Jensen rolled 4 using 1d6 ((4)).

Jory picks up a chair leg and passes it on to Einlian.
He then tries to get a good grip on the bookcase, wedging a piece of wood at the backside, and tries to pull in concert with Einlian.