Marcelin was a tad disappointed with what the group found inside the chamber. Or better said, what they didn't find. "While I'm no decorator, this room is quite big to only house that chest and book." One of his hands came up to his mustache, fingers running and smoothing the bristles. "I wonder..." Searching inside the backpack, the storyteller would produce a torch, lighting it with flint and steel, before walking to one of the corners of the chamber.

Actions
1 - Manipulate -> Produce Torch
2 - Manipulate -> Light it up with flint and steel
3 - Verify one of the corners of the chamber

Samuel lingered outside the doorway as the others entered, his gaze scanning the ceilings, walls and floors for irregularities or inscriptions. His instincts told him there was more to the space than met the eye... The warning sigil was probably warranted and the lack of anything warranting it didn't sit well with the Gambler. Beating steep odds was one thing; not knowing the odds stacked against you was a a while different thing.
"Let's not discount the danger this room may possess." he cautioned. "A little caution goes a long way."

Actions:
1) Observe the room for abnormalities
Insight F

2) Remain on Alert
- Dodge (if necessary)

Clarisse, let out a bit of a ‘hmph’ at Kain’ response. For the time being she looked into the room from the doorway, and periodically back out into the hallway as if just to keep watch and make sure nothing was sneaking up behind the group, while also watching what they were doing, to be at the ready to intervene if need be, even if her opinion had been made pretty clear early on that the room didn't seem particularly dangerous.

Marcelin examined one of the dark corners and he’d find what looked like a sort of small wooden button on a stone pillar in the corner. It wasn’t really known what it did, could be something helpful, neutral, or problematic for all that could be told immediately.

Samuel using insight, took notice that room felt sort of off, like it was curated well beyond what might be expected for a side room in a dungeon with so few objects in it, the stone floor looked cleaner as did the walls than the parts they had seen so far.

As the arcane book was picked up and examined his appraisal would soon reveal that the book said [monster] as a title pretty quickly..but that was probably apparent as by the time he was trying to open the thing, revealing completely blank pages, rows of sharp teeth materialized from the edges and three small amber eyes appeared along either side of the cover and it let out a screeching sound as a long purply tongue shot out and it immediately tried to bite him on the arm with a

Book Bite! Attack (E grade attack)

And two more follow up basic bite attacks.

While that was going on the chest didn’t fare much better as after he kicked it, the chest opened up revealing a large gaping mouth of rows of teeth, and a single large amber eye opened up on the front of the chest, as it sprouted brown almost goo like arms from it’s sides and it opened up it’s mouth wide and let out a screeching sound before moving aggressively and sporadically in to try to swallow kain, with it’s wide mouth, trying to clamp down on him after with a

Mimic Swallow- (D grade attack)

Thankfully The chest mimic didn’t go for a multi-attack.

A disconcerting growling sound was heard from the darkness in the corner parallel to the one which Marcelin had been exploring.

Round Summary: Marcelin found a mystery button in the corner,
Samuel could tell the room look sorta off and different, two mimics are trying to eat Kain for lunch,
there’s weird growling sounds coming from the dark corner on the same wall as the one that Marcelin was exploring.

As the book came to life Kain made a desperate attempt at throwing the book monster toward the chest monster, hoping they might eat each other instead. “By the gods! What devious beasts!” He yelled as the chest came toward him with a gaping maw.

Things were not looking good for the overconfident god as he was double teamed by vicious beasts. All he could do was attempt to side step the chest monster and hope to put some distance between them.

Actions
Attempt to dodge and throw the book monster.
Attempt to dodge again.
And try to dodge some more.

Marcelin was wiser, at the least in that very moment, to not press non-descript buttons embossed on walls. However, that didn’t mean the storyteller just forgot about its existence at all. He kept looking at it for a good moment, eyebrows furrowing, humming. “I wonder what this is all about…” He murmured.

His head would whip over his shoulder as he heard the slurping sound coming from the center of the room and saw the situation unfolding right before his eyes. “Hah! I knew there was a reason for that chest to be unattended!” He sounded almost glad that there was something in that very room.

“Hold on a moment, Your Eminence; let’s dispatch those filthy vermin!" The quill in his hand was raised high as he locked his emerald eyes on the beings.

First, he would embolden Samuel, Clarisse, and himself with his bardic magic. [1] Following that, he would fire a dual blast of raw mana against both the book and the chest. [2]

Actions:
1 - The Tale of Victory (FLUX) - Magic F + Magic Range F + Magic Targets F + Bolster [STR] F + Bolster [INT] F + Bolster [PRE] F + Energized F - Grade F 0 Post Cooldown - on Samuel, Clarrise and himself
2 - Smudge Erasure - Magic E + Magic Range F + Magic Targets F + Energized E - Raw bolts of mana fired up to 30ft and towards 5 targets - Grade E 0 Post Cooldown - on the Book and Chest mimics

"Yep." Samuel shook his head with a wry grin. "There it is. Knew there was something amiss about this room. Guess we should've brought a 10 foot pole after all..." Despite his mirth, he didn't intend on letting their only fighter go down due to the lusts of some overly ambitious furniture.
Standing his ground, the Gambler fanned cards in his hands and launched them to aid his teammates. First, to strike the malicious mimics then to salve any wounds the monsters inflicted on Kain.

ACTIONS:

1) Scaling
Magic F + Magic Targets F + Magic Range F + Enervate F
Scaling is the art of card throwing; in Samuel's case, the magical cards carry a heavier hit. He may choose up to five (5) targets within a 30 ft range to target with disruptive, damaging magic.

Grade: F Cooldown: 0

-targeting both Mimics

2) Draw Two
Healing F + Magic E + Magic Range F + Magic Targets F
Calling upon the power of Chance and Fate, the Huckster can reveal that injuries or illnesses were not as bad as initially surmised.
Samuel may choose up to five targets within 30 feet of him to receive the benefits of Healing | F |.

*Grade: E Cooldown: 1*

- targeting Kain

As Kain attempted to throw the book monster away it still managed to sink it’s sharp teeth into the lower part of his left arm, causing him a very unpleasant feeling, but it’s follow up bite attacks missed, More troublingly for Kain was that his basic dodge was not sufficient enough to dodge the more powerful larger mimic, who used it’s tongue to force him down so that it could clamp down it’s sizable teeth on him, this caused searing pain, as a large portion of his body suddenly felt numb like it wasn’t responding properly to what he wanted it to do, perhaps some kind of paralytic that this mimic had at it’s disposal.

In either case it was not a good experience for him, and he wasn’t seeing much inside of the mimic’s dark mouth.

Thankfully it wouldn’t be all that much longer even if he felt like he was on the verge of losing consciousness that it seemed some hope had arrived.

“These things?! Seriously?!” Clarisse called out a bit exacerbated at seeing two mimics attack, even less happy about the stronger one trying to attack. Though she did suddenly feel somewhat stronger than usual with the bolster, so it was apparent that her teammates had some powers it seemed, everyone who had been bolstered feeling similarly like their physicality, magic and mind processes were working more efficiently to a not extreme at F but noticeable degree.

Marcelin’s magic bolts after his bolster looked like they had more ‘oomph’ looking more glowy than usual thanks to the intel bolster as one slammed into the side of the mimic cracking it’s natural armor some with magical burns on it’s body, as it let out an earpiecing screech.

The book Mimic who still had its teeth sunk into Kain also got hit the book’s ‘cover’ taking significant damage.

Once again at being bolstered Samuel’s magic origin cards struck their targets true with a bit more oomph, hitting the book mimic and knocking it off of Kain’s arm finally as it landed on the ground, bleeding out a strange gray goo, it tried to get up and leap at Clarisse it’s mouth flapping still with sharp teeth as it bled.

Clarisse’ eyes narrowed as she moved her fan around,

“Don’t even think about touching me you filth!” She exclaimed with utter disdain.

“[Lux Terra Percutius!]” She called out allowed and sent suddenly two sizable fists made of earth from where her fan ended, they were like balled up fists with light energy glowing on them sort of like runes as her magic brutally smashed the book mimic to a fine goo as it was already almost dead before she hit it, and it even knocked over the chest mimic who was already quite damaged too from the others as it’s mouth eventually opened up when it was flipped over, it's natural 'wooden' armor pretty well looking destroyed.

At feeling the healing Kain got a chance to feel the numbness go away gradually and he felt better

To team up with Samuel she also used her own support there,

"[Lume Satem M!] She called out in Terran and a gentle orb of light left where she waved her fan and it washed over Kain some, furthering along the healing process as his bite mark wounds closed quicker between her and Samuel’s healing.

However the chest mimic didn’t look like it had been entirely killed, as it was trying to right itself up, just struggling some as it bled the same gray sort of substance from before.

Clairsse Actions:

1. Use following ability on mimics
Lux Terra Percutius! - Magic E, Light Affinity F, Earth Affinity E, Magic Targets F, Accurate Affinity F Magic Range F, Energized E,
Clairsse causes up to five fists conjured from earth and light to bash up to five foes for light and earth affinity damage, up to 30 ft away. -E grade ability ( cooldown 0, Energized)

2. Use following ability on Kain:

Lume Satem M! - Magic F (flux), Light Affinity F, Earth Affinity E, Magic Targets F, Accurate Affinity F Magic Range F, Energized F,
Clairsse casts a minor light of healing to help heal, up to five allies up to 30 ft away. -F grade ability ( cooldown 0, Energized)

Round summary:

Kain gets super injured by mimics, almost loses consciousness but twin healing team up helps bring him back.

Book mimic defeated, friendlies bolstered.

Chest mimic damaged badly but not defeated, instead trying to right self up.

As the book monster latched ahold of his arm Kain gritted his teeth and started to flail his arm around. “Get off me you godless heathen!”

As he flailed trying to get the book mimic off his arm he stumbled trying to dodge the larger mimic and was subsequently partially eaten and paralyzed by the mimic's attack.

The reincarnated god had never felt such pain and as he felt his strength fading away he let out a yell of desperation. But it was all for not as he felt consciousness slipping away from the combination of pain and probably venom.

Once released thanks to the combined efforts of his team he simply laid on the floor half conscious, but grateful to not have been digested. As the healing kicked in he slowly sat up and groaned. “What a terrible ordeal. I do not recommend getting bit by those monsters.”

When he saw that the mimic was still alive and struggling to right itself he weakly raised his right hand and fired off a Divine Surge to hopefully put the monster down for good. And as revenge for attempting to eat him. “Take that you vile demon.”

Actions
1. Get bitten on the left arm by the book mimic.
2. Get partially eaten by the chest mimic.
3. Fire off a Divine Surge at the chest mimic.
Divine Surge(Flux): [Elemental] Affinity [Lightning] F, Magic F, Magic Augmentor F [Range]. (Grade F, Cooldown 0.) (Lighting strikes a single target within 30 feet of Kain for immediate damage.)