Simon replies to Selina, "I only meant that riddles can be very time consuming. Of course we shouldn't rush to answer this riddle but at the same time we shouldn't spend a week trying to solve it when there's another route available to us."
Tomeal nods to Selina's suggestion that the keyhole might be symbolic.
Both Simon and Elphaba consider Crozar's thoughts. Simon then replies, "While a biothaumaturge does manipulate flesh, they tend to do so to living beings by attaching new useful or useless living grafts. So you could remove a nocturnal beast's eyes and then give them to someone else so they can see in the dark or remove a crocodile's tale and attach it to someone else to give them an additional slam attack. More grotesquely, you could also attach a hundred arms to someone's body and have them constantly move to get in the way of the person as punishment. I remember one grewsome story where a mother killed her child so she was Remade to have the baby's arms attached to her temples so it's hands would block her vision as a constant reminder to what she had done. As for physiothamaturge, that is the practice of attaching mechanical objects to a humanoid. Using the door as an example, if the face were human (and perhaps it is) it could be attached to the door and everything would still work. Though many of these changes are punishments, some are requested. If you're a soldier, accepting a canon being attached to your chest would make you much more effective."
While you talk, all of you search the area but no one finds anything that might be useful.
[OoC: Since I don't think it's fair to expect players to have the same knowledge as characters with genius intellects, I will let each of you make an intelligence (knowledge) or wisdom (Intuition) check. If you happen to have an 18+ you can make 2 checks and 20+ you can make 3 checks. Depending upon your rolls, I will give you a vague hint at the answer.]
Tomeal nods to Selina's suggestion that the keyhole might be symbolic.
Both Simon and Elphaba consider Crozar's thoughts. Simon then replies, "While a biothaumaturge does manipulate flesh, they tend to do so to living beings by attaching new useful or useless living grafts. So you could remove a nocturnal beast's eyes and then give them to someone else so they can see in the dark or remove a crocodile's tale and attach it to someone else to give them an additional slam attack. More grotesquely, you could also attach a hundred arms to someone's body and have them constantly move to get in the way of the person as punishment. I remember one grewsome story where a mother killed her child so she was Remade to have the baby's arms attached to her temples so it's hands would block her vision as a constant reminder to what she had done. As for physiothamaturge, that is the practice of attaching mechanical objects to a humanoid. Using the door as an example, if the face were human (and perhaps it is) it could be attached to the door and everything would still work. Though many of these changes are punishments, some are requested. If you're a soldier, accepting a canon being attached to your chest would make you much more effective."
While you talk, all of you search the area but no one finds anything that might be useful.
[OoC: Since I don't think it's fair to expect players to have the same knowledge as characters with genius intellects, I will let each of you make an intelligence (knowledge) or wisdom (Intuition) check. If you happen to have an 18+ you can make 2 checks and 20+ you can make 3 checks. Depending upon your rolls, I will give you a vague hint at the answer.]
