>>5492414>Rolled 2, 5, 6, 5, 3, 5, 5, 2...(QM: all these Instinct checks pass... except for one)
(undeclared) Dwarf Instinct Roll -1: avoid the hanging tripwires
5+2-1=6<7 (oh no!)
Tharfish shouts out a warning, pointing urgently
- Careful! Those rope chimes could be leading somewhere...
And the Dwarf's raised arm touches one of the long trailing hollow bones.
Everyone freezes, waiting for the terrible outcome.
Nothing happens, but you hear a faraway peal of bells, distorted to groaning echoes on the mountain winds. The parched white throats of the bone chimes resume their eerie clattering song.
The chest is not locked, but the lid is stuck - jammed shut somehow, perhaps due to exposure to the elements warping and swelling the wood against rusted metal bands. Tharfish the Dwarf thinks that a sturdy blow from the haft of a weapon or a violent forceful kick would open it. And surely if the lid of this chest has rusted and jammed, the Dwarf reasons, then any trap mechanism here outside would have long since failed?
