A thick layer of ice covered the door, but that didn't discourage us — we kept looking for a mechanism to open
A thick layer of ice covered the door, but that didn't discourage us — we kept looking for a mechanism to open the door anyway. But alas, our efforts resulted in nothing more than frostbitten fingers from probing the cracks and fissures in the surface of the ice. It seemed the pressure plate in the center of the room was the only way to open the door.
