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As you take up the bottle itself, you wonder if you can even ferment Watercress. There is not as much wine in the bottle as there was in the cups - though there was a fair bit more dregs. Still, that is not enough to impugn your enjoyment, and you rise from the table with a pleasant warmth in your chest and a bracingly sharp taste lingering on your tongue. Now, as there is no wine to work, you can see no sense in taking the bottle with you - but that doesn't resolve if you should try to clear the table. You hem and haw for a moment or two, before you catch yourself; so long as you don't know where you would clear the dish and the cups to, it is an executioner's blade. All right then! You look around, and on top and underneath the table, making sure that nothing has been put out of place - save for the food and wine, heh heh heh. But as the rest of the table and surroundings pass muster, you take up your 'stick-decanter, and in a moment of clarity, you decide that it is time to hasten things here. You won't beat the bush anymore, no, you will burn it. Which is to say, that you are going to freeze it. With Cold-Touch. Aye, you are going to perform an Ice-Lockpick on the barred door between the second floor hall and the archive or whatever exactly it is.
Still trying to keep relatively quiet, you hustle yourself over to the stairs then take the steps three or four at a time. In a matter of moment, you are standing without the archive - which is what you will call it from now on - evaluating the lock. It doesn't appear to be a quarantining lock ... which actually might prove to be a problem, if you want to have this door locked once you are done here. Damn it, how many locks are you going to need to pick to get out of here? Well ... you are going to need to pick yourself into this one. If you decide to lock this door behind you - assuming this lock isn't quarantining - then that makes two. And if you aren't able to find an unlocked 'soft' egress, and don't settle on a 'hard' egress, then that makes three. There is more water to be had at the wash-basin and the rain-barrel, but you need to remember, if you cannot find an unlocked egress - 'soft' or 'hard' - you are going to have to Ice-Lockpick your way out, so you will need to leave at least a third of the decanter. But of course, any rationing must be tempered with the knowledge that the more working material used, the easier the cast of Cold-Touch is to perform.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You will use one-third of the decanter
> You will use one-half of the decanter
> You will use two-thirds of the decanter
> You will use three-fourths of the decanter
> You will use the entire decanter
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> After the cast, regardless of outcome, you will fill your decanter from the wash-basin
> After the cast, regardless of outcome, you will not fill your decanter from the wash-basin
