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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5536706" data-attributes="member: 2011">[sblock=OOC]1. The portculis is already lowered and preventing the PCs from leaving. To raise it would require finding the mechanism and cranking it up. From a casual glance at the moment, it looks like two hanging chains are coming out of the ceiling to the portculis itself.What you have is:[code]W&nbsp; DOOR&nbsp; WA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; AL&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; LL&nbsp; PORT&nbsp; L[/code]where DOOR is the original doors that the group came through (it's currently a doorway since the doors are open). And the walls are only 15 feet high, so a PC could climb over either of the two side walls and exit (there is no &quot;roof&quot; to that small area between the walls, the doors, and the portculis). It'll just take an effort.2. For a permanent disruption, determining that would take a trip over to the Altar and a standard action high enough Arcana check to find out.The normal rules for rituals are:&quot;At any time before a ritual is completed, you can stop it and suffer no ill effect. You don’t expend any components or pay any costs until a ritual is completed. You can’t resume a ritual that was interrupted, however, so you do lose the time you spent on an interrupted ritual.&quot;So, the current ritual is already disrupted. That doesn't mean that he cannot start it back up 10 seconds after defeating the PCs though.[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 5536706, member: 2011"] [sblock=OOC] 1. The portculis is already lowered and preventing the PCs from leaving. To raise it would require finding the mechanism and cranking it up. From a casual glance at the moment, it looks like two hanging chains are coming out of the ceiling to the portculis itself. What you have is: [code] W DOOR W A A L L L PORT L [/code] where DOOR is the original doors that the group came through (it's currently a doorway since the doors are open). And the walls are only 15 feet high, so a PC could climb over either of the two side walls and exit (there is no "roof" to that small area between the walls, the doors, and the portculis). It'll just take an effort. 2. For a permanent disruption, determining that would take a trip over to the Altar and a standard action high enough Arcana check to find out. The normal rules for rituals are: "At any time before a ritual is completed, you can stop it and suffer no ill effect. You don’t expend any components or pay any costs until a ritual is completed. You can’t resume a ritual that was interrupted, however, so you do lose the time you spent on an interrupted ritual." So, the current ritual is already disrupted. That doesn't mean that he cannot start it back up 10 seconds after defeating the PCs though. [/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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