The air was very still down here, and everything was coated with an old layer of dust; clearly this was not a part of the castle recently used.
Search {Dwalin} ~ Dwalin approached the broken barrels and dug through the splintered staves. It must have held food in the past, for the rotted wood was mixed with a dark-colored, and somewhat smelly, dirt. And in the dirt, Dwalin saw something of interest. He reached down and plucked it out, and then almost dropped it – for it was a
dead rat. Dwalin grimaced at carcass and held the away from him. But instead of leaving it, he decided to keep it for awhile. Maybe it would prove useful?
Then, he went and searched the remains of the nearby table, and beneath its fallen surface, he found an odd-looking
metal shaft; no more than a foot and a half long, it looked like some kind of bar, or an axle, or perhaps something else? He pocketed this too.
Satisfied with his search, he continued down the hall. It only continued a few feet however until it opened into a wide, elongated room, spanning to the right and left quite a ways; in contrast, the wall across from him was very near. And more satisfying yet, there was a way out! -a
portcullis!
But his joy was short-lived, for he saw that the portcullis, closed and being made of metal bars, was without a handle of any kind. Next to it, there looked so be some kind of
mechanism on the ground, but it had been smashed to pieces, for who knows what reason. Great, just great.
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