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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taboo" data-source="post: 729447" data-attributes="member: 5912">They headed for the room at the end of the hall. They saw a cobblestone floor with two trap doors blocked open by iron spikes.  They were obviously well made traps, and they were glad that whoever had been through here and spiked them open.  One wall in the room held a dry fountain carved with a base relief of a dragon.Thorin went to the fountain to search it, and to inspect for inscriptions. When he found an inscription written in what appeared to be in Draconic, Snap came in to read it. He barely wanted to tell them out loud what it meant when he translated it, afraid to set off a deadly trap. It meant “Let there be death.”  Kierwin, was standing back, studying the inscription, and not realizing she was speaking out loud, sounded out the word.  Gas came pouring out of the fountain. The cloud of gas came just far enough out to envelope her, Turk and Snap, but the three of them finally managed to overcome its effects. She realized that  she must have spoken what she'd been thinking and that her mind wasn’t on what she was doing. Kierwin tried to focus her thoughts, unable to believe she'd nearly gotten them all killed. She felt an overwhelming sense of guilt for what she'd nearly done to both her son and to Turk. She couldn't live with herself if she caused any harm to come to either of them. She shook her head, realizing that she had been thinking about not only Turk, but Darial, and she knew was endangering them all. Everyone ran from the room, deciding there was nothing in that room except death. They left the fountain, the inscription and the death trap behind them.Now, they had to decide which way to go, unable to trust the maps from the goblins. Turk had a could feel they were getting closer to trouble, and said they had to take it even more slowly and cautiously than they had been.</blockquote>

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