[closed] opening doors: tevinter

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WHO: Alexandrie, Edgard, Mado
WHAT: Extracting an Eluvian from a wealthy merchant's basement vault
WHEN: A few weeks in Drakonis
WHERE: Minrathous
NOTES: smells like fish. details here

[Starters below.]

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DIG AND DIG AND DIG AND DIGGETY

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The going has been slow and treacherous. It began as insensibly digging through the walls of Florettis' cellar in the hours when she's less likely to notice the noise, though having Alexandrie present means it's all the easier to keep the landlady distracted.
That leaves most of the digging to Edgard and Mado, the latter of whom quickly determined that shoveling was far less efficient than simply transforming into a dog and using his Maker-given front paws. It would have been a surprise for Alexandrie, who came downstairs to find that instead of two dirty men there was a dirty man and a dog, but what better way to come out with it, than in the service of utility?

Mado, being the faster digger, hit the sleeping powder first. It puffed into his face and none were the wiser until Edgard, catching up to him in the tunnel, discovered an insensible dogskin rug, who was slowly roused and returned to human form long enough to warn his companion of the booby traps.

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The next day, still in the process of trying to break through the vault's foundation, comes a pocket of choking powder: this time it blasts straight into Edgard's respiratory system, meriting a loud coughing fit that threatens to alert the landlady...
...from deep within the tunnel.

Thinking fast, Mado transforms, whips off his jacket, and throws it over Edgard's head to muffle the sound.

[muckspout]

Coughing, choking, and gagging, Edgard falls with a thud to the ground, presumably to die.