Argumentus pokes and prods at the statues, but they fail to react in any significant way. He discovers seams in the stone around the shoulders and hips, but fails to see the artistic value in it.

Repeating the combination, the mirror does indeed return to its former state. Argumentus and the dwarves are no longer trapped.

The dwarves apparently dumbfounded, the task continues to fall into Argumentus's calloused and unwashed hands.

Activate lever A

I go through the mirror since it wasn't exactly clear that that was what I was intendin'.

Seeing the man-golem was on a mission, I thought it best to let him at it.

Argumentus pulls lever A. As the first in a sequence, it produces no apparent result.

Arg just goes with it and rushes down the stream

activate B,C,D,E

Argumentus pulls Lever B —

BZZZZT

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The levers reset.

5 damage to Argumentus

Arg got the message.

Activate lever A, E

If the big dumb thing wanted to slowly electrocute himself to death, Motsognir wasn't going to stop him. Instead, he started examining the doors that lead out of the chamber, hoping there might be some indication of where they lead.

Argumentus starts over again with Lever A, then E. BZZZZZTTT, levers reset. 3 damage

Motsognir investigates all the stone doors, but they're all locked and no sound is audible beyond any but the door in the southwest, which houses a muffled but distinct hum.

RAAAARGH! Argumentus has become extremely frustrated! He strikes the southernmost statue at the seams.

While the statue neither breaks apart nor responds physically to Argumentus' assault, it does emit a peculiar noise.

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"Wiseguy uh?"

Argumentus pokes the statue in the eyes.

The statue does not respond further to provocations of this nature.

The dwarf sighed and quickly pulled B, D, C, E, A. Just to see what happened. Whatever this had to do with Sarathar, he had no idea.

B. No response.

D. DING!

C. BZZZZT 1 damage

"ow! Cunts!"
B, D, A, C, E

Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding

"Combination. B. D. A. C. E. Door. E. Closing. Again."

The mirror goes blank for the second time today.

The dwarf hung his head in shame, inputting the same combination again because his controller is far too drunk to remember such combinations.

Argumentus shoved the dwarf aside once the mirror had re-opened. This was his thing. He was in the zone.

He begins with combination A,C,B,E,D

Lever A. No response.

Lever C. Ding!

Lever B. BZZT

3 damage

The hourglass is about half-empty.

Argumentus could not be deterred!

A,C,E,B,D

I await in anticipation.

"Combination. A. C. E. B. D. Door. D. Opening."

The door in the southwest corner of the room slides slowly into the floor and vanishes, revealing another wedge-shaped room. Brigid briefly considers doing something extremely silly, then thinks better of it.

The otherwise empty room is dominated by a large runic circle stretching from wall to wall. Massive arcs of electricity flicker across it every few seconds.

The sand in the hourglass freezes in place.

Confident that he's finally solved the puzzle, Argumentus rests in the corner to heal up and leave wizardry to wizarding folk.

I had spent a few minutes browsing the missing wizard's book collection before realising that the Horde had all wandered off. I followed the sounds of swearing before coming across what appeared to be a fairly basic magic mirror door thing. I stepped through.

I found the horde who appeared to be playing with some levers. The big fellow had a slightly surprised look about him and what little hair he had was standing on end. A door was open in the corner of the room and I peered through seeing some form of arcane device. I examined it from the safety of the doorway, hoping that in my extensive studies I had encountered this kind of thing before.