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It looks like a few hundred pounds of real liquid gold. It didn't detect as magical before and doesn't now.

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Well in that case.

Prestidigitation. "This looks like quite a bit of wealth, but difficult to transport. Is there any shape which would help? I can cool it slowly with Prestidigitation, but shaping will be easier now than later."

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Tomas avoided much of the explosion but is still a little burnt. "Bars are traditional. I don't have a mold with me."

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That sounds like an object. Anytool? This will be slow, but so it goes. A scoop with a bar mold at the bottom, so she can scoop this in, get it in place, cool it, and pop the bar out.

Scoop, level off, cool. Scoop, level off, cool. This is really an impressive amount of gold. Scoop, level off, cool. (Most of her time is cooling. Cleaning works on volume, but cooling takes time per mass, and gold has a lot of mass per unit volume.) Scoop, level off, cool. 

In total, it's only about seven to ten bars of gold, at the size she's pretty sure is standard. She hadn't realized how incredibly heavy the stuff was before she tried to move around the Anytool with one of those bars in it and only barely succeeded. This is ridiculous, and they will have a hard time carting it all out. ...at least that's a good problem to have.

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While Tencednil is forming the gold into bars, Yanor heals himself and Tomas and Julen with his shaman magic. He's still a little burnt. The others are in almost perfect health.

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"We will have to leave the bars here while we push forward. Getting them up the entry shaft is going to be such a pain."

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"I could cast fly on Julen and he could carry them up?"

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"That's probably our best option."

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"Having too much gold to easily extract from the area is at least a good problem to face. This is definitely evidence there is value to be found herein. Yanor, do you believe you need an Infernal Healing before we continue?"

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He nods. "I could use one. It's not necessary but I expect it would heal the rest of my wounds."

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A moment's thought. "Given that, it seems foolish to conserve charges when they can help." A gesture to the gold.

Tap.

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Yanor is fully healed in less than a minute. "Thank you."

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"Shall we continue onward?"

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"I see no magic to impede us. Tomas, does all seem safe?"

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He inspects the set of doors in the back of the room. "No traps. It's not locked either."

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"Onwards, then."

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A row of marble pillars, each carved to resemble a beautiful woman, supports the ceiling of this long curving hallway, although the pillar closest to the western door seems to be missing its head.

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Does the head seem to have been removed cleanly, or does it look like it was cracked off by force?

"Tomas, can you spot any sign of these being constructs of some sort?" Detect Magic, in case they're animated via magical means.

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The head looks like it was removed cleanly. The pillar seems designed to allow for its release.

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"I don't know. They don't look any type of construct I'm familiar with. That doesn't mean they're safe."

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She nods to the nearby beheaded statue. "I would guess the heads are particularly dangerous. I can test with an Acid Splash, but only once we are all prepared in case they decide to attack us. Of course I may be wrong, and Dazzling Blade is easily set once we are attacked, so I have no particular preparations to make."

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"Testing with acid splash seems like a good idea. Do you want to cast the dazzling blade now?"

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"Better to wait until we know it is needed, and I think no sense in an Invisibility unless I cast four. That seems excessive."

Does Yanor seem ready? Are Julen and Tomas both as prepared as they want to be?

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Julen is studying the nearest head from a distance.

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Tomas draws his rapier.

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