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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forgefly" data-source="post: 4158984" data-attributes="member: 55352">A twist of fateAs you surround the helpless dancer, now glued to the floor, Brorgar looks up startled, and calls out “Get clear, the stone is rotten…” Whatever else he had to say is lost as an ominous grating fills the room, as though of stone sliding against stone.  This omen lasts only for a split second, before the floor collapses under you.  As the darkness opens up below you, each of those in the room try to dive clear of the growing hole.  Your sudden movement causes more of the blocks to collapse into the waiting darkness.  As you watch the edge sail past your desperately outstretched arms, you hear, incongruously, the sounds of a great splashing.  Your falling is met by the rising water displaced by the sudden drop of the room, drenching you and pushing you to the side.  From where Karienna and Moonlight Sorrow stand they see the plume of water and hear the groaning and cursing of dwarves and gnome as they pick themselves up and look around.The Fallen:You find yourself in a long tunnel, the floor covered with water up to your knees, though the water level seems to be falling on this side of the fallen blocks, which seem to completely block the tube to just above a dwarves’ height.  A Knowledge: Dwarf, Nature, or Dungeoneering DC 15 or Profession Miner Check DC 10 Reveals: [spoiler] This is a lava tube, a place where the molten “blood” of Khyber once overflowed into the lands of Eberron, but that portion of the blood exposed to the light of Siberys quickly cooled leaving the hot inner blood still flowing to form these caves. [/spoiler]  The walls seem to be smooth and glossy black, the ceiling is filled with stalactites.  The light is very poor, from the hole you fell through, but that poses no problem for the dwarves.  The tunnel continues onward as long as you can see, though it appears to branch just at the edge of the dwarves vision.  The water is flowing down the tunnel away from you, and is now definitely falling now only covering your calves. Wisdom Check DC 15 (Dwarves get +2):[spoiler] Even underground the water should be flowing away from the mountain peaks, but the water is definitely flowing toward the mountains.  There must be a large space under the mountain to accommodate all this water.[/spoiler]  The ceiling is about eight feet above you.There is no sign of the deadly dancer, though there is a lot of jumbled stone and rubble and still nearly a foot of water on the floor of this tunnel.[sblock=DM Speak]Brorgar, Revek, Ulzim, and Vonval each take 2 points subdual damage from the fall.The darkness beckons you, what will you do?<a href="http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/Photoglossary/lavatube1_large.jpg" target="_blank">The Tunnel</a>[/sblock]</blockquote>

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