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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 2167366" data-attributes="member: 424">Our party was in a dwarven hold overrun with monsters.  In the course of our exploration and reaving, we came across a door made of a metal impervious to spells and warded with multiple traps.  Carefully, the thief (it was a 2E game) managed to open the door by disarming the traps and unlocking the three locks securing the door.Inside, the room was 10 x 10 with a large lever in the centre of the floor, surrounded by a impressively built metal cage made of the same impervious to spells metal.Not wanting to mess with it at that moment, we decided to return for a follow up investigation if time allowed.  We continued clearing the dwarven hold, an adventure that took a number of sessions.  We finally secured the dwarven hold and had actually left it when our wizard reminded us of the lever room.  Some of us wanted to leave it alone but the majority of the party was curious of what we hadn't uncovered.  So we troop back into the dungeon and to the room in question. The cage protecting the lever was trapped and the thief disarmed the traps and we tipped over the cage so we can access the lever.  A lively debate about what the lever was and whether we should throw it ensued for about 20 minutes.  Finally, it was decided to throw the lever.  After all, the dwarves went to particular pains to protect the room and lever so it had to be important.....  Right?Damn dwarves.  They are the only race who would consider having the whole dwarven hold on a "self destruct" mechanism.  Yep....we triggered the "final option" self destruct mechanism which destroyed all the load bearing supports and the dwarven hold collapsed in on us.  It was ugly.  We all died, crushed under thousands and thousands of pounds of rubble.What is the saying about curiousity killing the cat....We had cleared the hold of monsters and only needed to go back and collect on the reward promised by the dwarves who had fled from the hold when it fell years ago.  Of course, they made no mention of a 'self destruct' mechanism....I can still hear in my head the DM cackling wildly and can still see the look on the faces of my fellow players as we realized we bought our doom down upon our heads.It was the "damn, are we so freaking stupid and gullible" look....   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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