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 For a time you consider how you might gain entry beyond this door but it stands securely locked and you have little time to spare trying to open it. You cannot however, deny that your curiosity has been aroused, and with the feeling that you can spare a few minutes you decide to try and pick the lock. Quickly you take your pack from your shoulders and retrieve the small eating knife brought with you from Maenum. Its blade it thin and tapered, and although you are not the most skilled lockpick you set about trying to open the door. With the narrow tip of the knife you feel for the teeth within the lock that must be depressed, searching out the small ridges that will free the device's mechanism. It is not a task you find easy.
In the heat of the passage your hands are slick with sweat, the constant pound and rush of the furnace somewhere ahead diminishing your ability to concentrate. In the end though, it is your knife that fails you. Caught within the workings of the lock's mechanism it snaps, breaking off at the handle and lodging firmly in the keyhole. Frustrated by your lack of progress you hammer at the door but such remonstrations do nothing to open it.
Stymied by the door's stubborness you look up and down the passage. In the gloom there is little to see, and the heat only builds in intensity the longer you remain here. In the end you decide that your quest is not being served by this delay, and that it will be better to move on.
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There is nothing to be gained here. Turn to section 42 and continue with your quest.
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