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After a moment of silence, the people in the party look to Nasir. This is the kind of thing he may know; either a literary reference or simply figuring out a puzzle based on the language. Jon's literary skills may not be able to pick up the slight differences in this ancient writing.
"...Well, it's clear that the question is a puzzle. There's probably a trick to it."
<span class="mu-b">"Why would anybody make a puzzle to a door something you could figure out? Like I understand the mechanism, but why give us the keys and the right one among the pile here?"</span>
"It could be a kind of test- a cleverness test or religious test."
<span class="mu-r">"I know of no belief that puts the names of random people as some great key to paradise- or any other place, for that matter."</span>
"Just trust me on this!"
After much thinking, Nasir decides on Hannah and recommends that Snailfriend puts the tablet in. It's a heavy piece of stonework- and besides, in the event the trap is sprung anyway, he'll be the least likely to be seriously hurt. Besides, Nasir is confident he figured out the puzz-
<span class="mu-s">SWISH! CRACK!</span>
Without warning, the moment the tablet is inserted, a long and sharp metal blade falls from the crack between the heavy stone doors. The Snail ducked inside his shell as is his ancient instinct- and the heavy shell protected him from what would be a skull-splitting cut from that long trapped blade. While the Snail is unharmed, his shell now does sport a large crack- it's a good compromise. That blow could have killed any of the other men here...
