Yew bowed slightly in acknowledgement of the instructions and readied his light crossbow too.

"What about light? Amathaon and I can see in the dark fairly well, but I don't care to have you humans firing shafts off into the gloom while we're in it."
Not to mention there were limits to Arek and Yews' vision as well.

"Well, it's always good to see, yes. But I'll go to the position I'm supposed to go."

Which is as directed.

"How 'bout you take tha chair leg wrapped up in m' cloak Amathaon. Toss it dow' if there's trouble."
"Sven, yer wanna light tha' torch yer carryin' 'roun'? Stick it up in that sconce on th' wall."
With a handful of lit torches scattered about the temple depths, Arek didn't think another one would draw much attention, provided they stayed back in the shadows a little so as not to be instantly spotted.

Amathaon nodded and replied, "Sure Arek, that sounds like a good idea." He will take the chair leg and prepare to move out.

Sven obliged and shortly the torch was sputtering away in the sconce, making giant shadows of them all.

All is set and Amathaon and Wonnilon head off into the darkness, only a tiny glow escaping from the swaddled chair leg which is soon lost in the gloom.
[Private to Amathaon Chalkbreaker: Reaching the door at the far end (down E on the map above), the pair finds it closed. A quick try also finds it to be locked - and then Amathaon remembers it had been barred on the other side by the party last time they were through here...]

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[Private to Wonnilon: He looked at Wonnilon and said, "I believe we locked it the last time we were through here."]
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[Private to Amathaon Chalkbreaker: "Well that is a problem. What should we do?"]

Amathaon shrugged his shouldersand said,"[Private to Wonnilon: Danged If I know. We have to find a way through. What do you think]."

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[Private to Amathaon Chalkbreaker: "I've never been here. Don't have a clue."]

Amathaon replied, "[Private to Wonnilon: Let's ask the others. Maybe they'll have a better idea]."

Amathaon and Wonnilon arrive back empty handed.

"You want to tell them?" Wonnilon asked Amathaon with a little bit of a guilty look on his face.

Amathaon nodded and said, "Well it seems that the door is locked from the other side. I believe that we may have been the ones who locked it. Would anyone happen to have an axe we could use on it?"

In reply to Amathaon Chalkbreaker (msg # 132):

"That's the problem, isn't it?" Sven grumbled. "Had an axe, I woudld've just chopped the first door..." his voice faded away.
After a minute of grinding grey matter he spat out; "So how about we have Arek here get us the giant I messed up earlier to smash it?"

"Yer mean tha one on th' other side o' the locked door?"
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"You're very quiet Luthien. I'd have thought somebody as young as you would have lots to say."

"When one doesn't have the answer, one should generally be quiet and listen. Adding my voice to this accomplishes nothing of note."

"But expressing ideas, even ones of doubtful worth, assist others to come up with the right answers."

Brother Yew looks at them all in turn then bows and turns away.

"Follow me," is all he says.

He leads the way back around the new northern route they recently discovered, back to the spiral staircase, then southward through the rooms and secret doors they explored before that to reach the guard barracks and the room where they had heaped all the weapons and armour from the black-clad guards they had killed on the way out.

He often cautions them to wait while he (and/or Wonnilon, Amathaon or Ronalt) scouts ahead to make sure they don't stumble into another group of guards somewhere along the way.

Amathaon followed Yew and said, "I'll scout ahead with you Brother Yew."

Brother Yew leads the group all the way back to the chamber of the minotaur to find the first secret door (the one with the trap he'd disabled) was closed and tightly secured. From this side it blends in with the surrounding wall very well - if it's existence wasn't already known, it would probably be missed 9 times in 10...

"You think somebody might be home?" Wonnilon asked, referencing the now closed and secured secret door.

"Yes," Yew responded softly. "There was one who escaped us, wasn't there? Brunk the dart thrower. Poisoner. He slit the throat of his own leader to make his escape. It would not surprise me to find he has returned and locked every door behind him. Come, let us go upstairs instead. The torturer had a battleaxe too."