<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Status</div><div class="spoiler_body">AC 18   HP 61 of 83     Skirt &amp; outfit generally damaged, but armour intact.<br/>Spells remaining: 7 of 7 1st, 4 of 4 2nd, 1 of 1 from bonded object<br/>Ammunition remaining: 22 common arrows (+36 more in pack), 15 silvered, 20 cold iron, 3 Tangleshot, 1 Flare (for extraction)<br/></div></div><br/>Down the stairs... Rayne didn't have time to look back to make sure her maneuver had saved Lizzy, though she suspected it had.  But she did hear the aborted, raspy moan of the parrot-zombies, and felt a certain satisfaction.  But finding her way barred more than offset such a paltry victory.  She huddled by the door, out of reach of the iron maiden, until it began renovating the shop for improved accessibility.<br/><br/>Rayne's lockpicks were out in a flash - she surely had only one chance at this.  Trying to avoid the thundering juggernaut behind her, she concentrated on the delicate feel of the tumblers...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">rolls</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2014-11-21 14:45:30, victoria4 (uid: 37138) rolls: 1d20a8 DC: 25 Result: 22 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=67322) failure<br/></div></div><br/>...but it was no use, the shaking of the walls made it impossible to perform such fine work, at least for an amateur such as Rayne.  In a last, desperate ploy, remembering Grogza's real-life fear of horror movies, Rae-lynne flipped her hair forward over her face before turning with what she hoped was an aura of dread, raising a hand to point at the lid behind which she thought her friend must be trapped.<br/><br/>She felt plenty of her own dread... the golem was a terrifying figure; a part of her remembered this was a game, and wondered if she would respawn in the castle if she died here.  But it was hard to face that figure without trembling... though trembling wouldn't harm her acting effort, for what it was worth.<br/>