Dungeon Crawl: Sandwich, anyone?

[FreakyBoy]

Kinzie takes out some of her tools, and taps at the stone with a small hammer. She's mostly checking to see how solid and thick the stone is.

[Dom/SlimKop]

Teddy sits on his haunches, resting his chin on his palms.

[Weremensh]

The stone seems solid, but it reverberates in a way which makes her think there's air behind it less than half a foot away.

[CCC]

Cloverleaf strolls into the tunnel. He checks the stone slab for magic, because he can. "There's a trick to secret doors," he says, "but I don't think this is a secret door, I think it's just left here to discourage followers."

[FreakyBoy]

"Teddy, could you give this a good shove?" Kinzie asks, motioning to the stone while squirming around the troll's bulk to give him room.

[Dom/SlimKop]

Teddy grins.

"No problem! Step back a bit, please Clover."

Teddy sets his shoulder against the stone and starts shoving.

[Weremensh]

The stone doesn't seem to want to move back, though after a bit of trying Teddy discovers that he can make it move to one side. So with some shoving (and one or two grunts, perhaps), he gets it far enough over to shove aside. Behind it there is what seems to be a small room cut out of the native rock (which you've apparently reached). No one is standing there watching you.

[CCC]

"...interesting." Cloverleaf slips past and walks into the small room. He looks around for other exits. Oh, and any magic, of course.

[FreakyBoy]

Kinzie shines the torchlight into the room, but lets Teddy go ahead of her.

[Dom/SlimKop]

The troll squeezes through after Cloverleaf, straightening up as much as he can after moving into the room. He steps aside so that Kinzie can follow with the light.

[Weremensh]

This room is just tall enough for Teddy to stand in, though he finds it convenient to duck a bit when he walks. It's about eight feet on a side, and there's a tunnel leading off to the right about the size of the one you came in. There are some stone chips on the floor, and leaning against one wall is a pick with a broken handle. Nothing seems to be magical.

[FreakyBoy]

When Teddy and Cloverleaf fail to be eaten or impaled, Kinzie slips into the room as well. She shines her light down the tunnel briefly, then aims it at the pick, which she crouches down to examine more closely, just in case it's not just a normal pick that broke while the thieves dug the tunnel as it appears to be.

[CCC]

Cloverleaf promptly starts heading off down the new corridor. When Kinzie and her light don't follow, he stops a few steps into the new corridor to wait for them.

[Weremensh]

The pick with a broken handle really does seem to be just that. It might seem a bit odd that someone would abandon the expensive part of the tool here (the head), but perhaps they plan to get it later.

Teddy notices something; the stone just over his scalp and the chips at his feet aren't the same kind of stone. A quick glance round establishes that those chips did not come from the rock visible to him.

The new tunnel seems to go on forever; but then, Cloverleaf can only see some dozen yards with the light he's got right now.

[Dom/SlimKop]

"Huh. You notice that these stone chips don't seem to come from this tunnel?"