<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/a6/Neeral.jpg)<br/>Neeral (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1428855)</div>Neeral watched the vines finally catch fire and smiled with great satisfaction. "This place gives me the creeps, and that's one bit of it that won't be doing its thing anymore," she said firmly. She turned her attention back to the roots that spread past the building, her dirt-covered shovel in hand. "Hmm... I think we can leave it for now. It doesn't look like it's doing anything. The real problem is inside the tower, so let's move on that."<br/><br/>She whacked her shovel against a rock to clear it of dirt, then folded it back up into its nondescript rod form. She peered suspiciously at the tower, then dug a coil of silk rope out of her backpack. She tied the rope across her own body to form a crude harness, then handed the trailing end to Taran. "If the tower gets hold of me and I try to go in blind, I'm gonna get my head cut off. If I start breaking my own rules - if I try to open a door when I haven't checked it for traps and put a white X on it, or if I start going too fast through a hallway - then I need you to haul me back in and sit on me until I come to my senses. Can you do that?"<br/><br/>Once she felt secure, she walked carefully over to the tower door and began her meticulous examination, eyeing every edge and crevice, tossing tiny puffs of dirt at it to look for drafts, sniffing it all over for telltale hints of poison or ozone, tapping surfaces with long-handled tools to listen to the impact, and otherwise applying her full kobold trapsmith expertise to the door.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Take 20 to search for traps on the door, for a Perception check result of 27.<br/></div></div>