Since we're the only race that can SNAP our fingers, how about utilizing that into a dismantle?
With an arrogant visage only a human could uphold, you hold your <container> out in one hand and quickly snap your fingers nearest it's weakest point. In a spectacular display of splinters and bolts the <container> blows apart assaulted by the reverberating snap.
I know kinda lame, but best I could think up sitting around popping boxes.
~Dreamricti Surmevarti
Moving carefully, you slip your hand into Ysselt's pockets and carefully grab a a serpent's heart ruby.
Roundtime: 3 sec.