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<blockquote data-quote="biorph" data-source="post: 1436646" data-attributes="member: 10426"><p><strong>Shafted</strong></p><p></p><p>The door was locked and since Kem didn’t usually need to open locks, after all how many people locked their windows 5 stories in the air, they had no way to get the door open by normal methods. They brought out the chime of opening again. The door opened up into a shaft, the shaft left straight up with rungs set into the walls the help climbing…for those that needed them. Off to the side were two more openings. The whole place just radiated traps from Kems point of view, but Solafien and Ruen refused to listen. Kem figured that he’d better go and help them before they got themselves killed. As they climbed up, they decided to ignore the other passages for now and head on up. Kem’s instincts proved right when about 50 feet up he encountered a breakaway rung. Kem managed to catch himself on the wall. It was a good thing he was on point, otherwise one of the other two would be falling right now and probably breaking their neck. This didn’t bode well but he decided to continue onward for now. In another hundred feet, the rung came out of the wall again, but this time with a click. Kem watched in horror as they door at the bottom slide shut trapping them in.</p><p></p><p>Kem had had enough, He knew he was right and given the height of this shaft he had a pretty good idea what the next trap was going to be, high and deadly. Kem slid down the wall past Solafien and Ruen. “That’s it, I’ve had enough” he said “I know this music, and I’m stopping the band before they get to the finale. You all can get yourselves killed, I’m going to be trying to get out before we all die in here.” Solafien and Ruen shrugged and continued climbing. Kem waited at the bottom sitting on the trap door, trying to get the attention of the rest of the party. He was hardly surprised when about a minute later all the rungs snapped back into the walls and he heard the screams of Solafien and Ruen falling down the now smooth shaft. Ruen had managed to catch himself, but the assassin fell the whole way and landed hard. Kem smiled an ‘I told you so’ at the assassin and helped him up. All of the healing was on the other side of the trap door however. The assassin though injured was undeterred by the smug acrobat and began free climbing the walls back up. Ruen and Solafien met in one of the off shoot passages and decided to explore those rather than try to free climb all the way to the top. Sensing what was coming next from this comedy pair of rouges he started pounding harder on the trap door for his party to find some way to let him out before these two ended up getting him killed. He could hear Ruen and Solafien talking to each other as they crawled down the side shafts. Kem continued to pound away at the door. Apparently the rest of the party had Kahlil standing on Sargazzo’s shoulders trying to open the door but it wasn’t working. “Hey what’s this door in the floor?” he heard Ruen’s voice echo. “I don’t know said Solafien, let me check it for traps.” A few seconds later Solafien said “It doesn’t appear to be trapped, but there is a strange clicking noised coming from behind it.” Kem’s face went white. He called out to the two to please wait until he was out before they got themselves killed setting off traps. They thought he was joking but agreed. Kem pounded furiously on the door until finally he heard a familiar *ting* and the door slid open. Apparently the chime had used all it’s charges, but Kem was glad they had one left to get him out. He braced himself against the wall so he wouldn’t fall and then dropped into the room with the rest of the party. He warned them away from the open hole and called out to the two of them in the shaft that they could go ahead now. Kem started counting to himself mentally. 3…”Hey the door’s stuck, help me Ruen” said Solafien. 2…”There’s that’s got it” said Ruen. 1…”What are these little black things, there’s a bunch of them,” said Solafien. “Aaaaaaaaand now” commented Kem to himself as screams started erupting from the shaft a moment later. “RUUUUUUUUN!” they heard Ruen shout as the echoes of clicking got louder and louder. In a minute they saw the source as thousands after thousands of beetles fell from the shaft splattering on impact when they fell the sixty feet into the ground of the room.there must have been a million of them total, the room was covered in much for almost a foot by the time the rain stopped. “Everyone okay?” Omar called up the shaft. “Fine” they replied in unison “sorry about that.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="biorph, post: 1436646, member: 10426"] [b]Shafted[/b] The door was locked and since Kem didn’t usually need to open locks, after all how many people locked their windows 5 stories in the air, they had no way to get the door open by normal methods. They brought out the chime of opening again. The door opened up into a shaft, the shaft left straight up with rungs set into the walls the help climbing…for those that needed them. Off to the side were two more openings. The whole place just radiated traps from Kems point of view, but Solafien and Ruen refused to listen. Kem figured that he’d better go and help them before they got themselves killed. As they climbed up, they decided to ignore the other passages for now and head on up. Kem’s instincts proved right when about 50 feet up he encountered a breakaway rung. Kem managed to catch himself on the wall. It was a good thing he was on point, otherwise one of the other two would be falling right now and probably breaking their neck. This didn’t bode well but he decided to continue onward for now. In another hundred feet, the rung came out of the wall again, but this time with a click. Kem watched in horror as they door at the bottom slide shut trapping them in. Kem had had enough, He knew he was right and given the height of this shaft he had a pretty good idea what the next trap was going to be, high and deadly. Kem slid down the wall past Solafien and Ruen. “That’s it, I’ve had enough” he said “I know this music, and I’m stopping the band before they get to the finale. You all can get yourselves killed, I’m going to be trying to get out before we all die in here.” Solafien and Ruen shrugged and continued climbing. Kem waited at the bottom sitting on the trap door, trying to get the attention of the rest of the party. He was hardly surprised when about a minute later all the rungs snapped back into the walls and he heard the screams of Solafien and Ruen falling down the now smooth shaft. Ruen had managed to catch himself, but the assassin fell the whole way and landed hard. Kem smiled an ‘I told you so’ at the assassin and helped him up. All of the healing was on the other side of the trap door however. The assassin though injured was undeterred by the smug acrobat and began free climbing the walls back up. Ruen and Solafien met in one of the off shoot passages and decided to explore those rather than try to free climb all the way to the top. Sensing what was coming next from this comedy pair of rouges he started pounding harder on the trap door for his party to find some way to let him out before these two ended up getting him killed. He could hear Ruen and Solafien talking to each other as they crawled down the side shafts. Kem continued to pound away at the door. Apparently the rest of the party had Kahlil standing on Sargazzo’s shoulders trying to open the door but it wasn’t working. “Hey what’s this door in the floor?” he heard Ruen’s voice echo. “I don’t know said Solafien, let me check it for traps.” A few seconds later Solafien said “It doesn’t appear to be trapped, but there is a strange clicking noised coming from behind it.” Kem’s face went white. He called out to the two to please wait until he was out before they got themselves killed setting off traps. They thought he was joking but agreed. Kem pounded furiously on the door until finally he heard a familiar *ting* and the door slid open. Apparently the chime had used all it’s charges, but Kem was glad they had one left to get him out. He braced himself against the wall so he wouldn’t fall and then dropped into the room with the rest of the party. He warned them away from the open hole and called out to the two of them in the shaft that they could go ahead now. Kem started counting to himself mentally. 3…”Hey the door’s stuck, help me Ruen” said Solafien. 2…”There’s that’s got it” said Ruen. 1…”What are these little black things, there’s a bunch of them,” said Solafien. “Aaaaaaaaand now” commented Kem to himself as screams started erupting from the shaft a moment later. “RUUUUUUUUN!” they heard Ruen shout as the echoes of clicking got louder and louder. In a minute they saw the source as thousands after thousands of beetles fell from the shaft splattering on impact when they fell the sixty feet into the ground of the room.there must have been a million of them total, the room was covered in much for almost a foot by the time the rain stopped. “Everyone okay?” Omar called up the shaft. “Fine” they replied in unison “sorry about that.” [/QUOTE]
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