@unexpectedly-wizardposting: Through the door. Best to stay out of sightline of anyone outside right now
Okay. Like I said, the door has just a keyhole on this side, no knob or obvious way of opening it... but like I also said, that's not much of an obstacle to me because I can just liquefy myself and slip through the keyhole.
Uh... wow. Uh... okay.
I guess this must be the tower treasury or something?
The room is mostly filled by, like, a huge pile of gold (and some gems, but mostly gold)—most of it is coins, but there are some gold bars and a few other objects. There are two other doors; there's light glowing through the keyhole of the door to my left, and through the keyhole of the door to my right there's, uh... darkness glowing through? Or antiglowing? That's not how darkness is supposed to work, so I don't know what's going on there.
Okay, now it turns out there may be kind of a problem. The plan was, having entered the room through the keyhole, to open the door from the inside and let in Xil and Flocsle. The problem is, I'd kind of assumed that, even if there wasn't any sort of doorknob on the outside, there'd be one on the inside. And, uh...
...turns out there isn't. There's just a keyhole on this side, too.
So I guess I'm left with a few options.
I could try picking the lock? I mean, I've never done it before, but the fact that I can change shape and go inside the lock may give me an advantage... though if there are any traps in the lock, I might end up setting them off, and while they might not affect me, depending on the nature of the trap it's possible they might.
I could slip through one of the other keyholes and enter one of the other rooms, and hopefully that one will have a door I can open from the inside so I can let Xil and Flocsle in there. Although that might mean leaving them waiting outside for a while.
Or of course I could go back and rejoin Xil and Flocsle and we could try going a different way.
Or maybe there's some other option I'm overlooking? As always, advice on what to do next is welcome.













