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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3460054" data-attributes="member: 11146">While Arden unwittingly brings a bit of order to the haphazardly scattered egg shell remains and Rowan remains hidden in the shadows against the wall, Phud meanders across the room to the tapestry and gives a good yank.  As he does, Wyleck lights and tosses a stone into the darkened hallway beyond the portcullis on the rightside wall.  The pebble skips and bounces fifteen feet to the north before coming to a rest in the hall.  Wyleck looks in and notes 4 doors along the hall's eastern side, all of them made of stone but with a small iron-barred window inset in each.  There isn't much time to notice anything else, for just then the loud sound of fabric ripping resounds in the room, followed in short order by the sting of lightening.Phud grabs hold of one of the wet ratty edges of the tapestry and yanks.  When he does, one of the lightening bolts woven into the thread of the rug animates and zings from the edge of the rug, zapping Phud for 4 points of damage.  The big half-orc sees the trap at the very last moment just as the lightening bolt comes alive and thrums with white hot electricity, but doesn't move fast enough to dodge out of the way in time.  Thankfully, the bolt lodges itself in Phud and courses through his body but does not streak through the rest of the room or hit anyone else.Behind the ratty tapestry is a room faintly lit by purplish patches of phosphorescence on the floor.  A middenheap sits in the center of the northern area of the room, and the walls have primitive stick-figure carvings of bipeds carrying spears.  Four slight depressions in the floor hold an inch or two of brackish water.  A snap and a twang later, and a crossbow bolt comes flying from behind a russet stone brazier, whizzing through the air with a screech  and embedding in Phud's waist for 5 points of damage.Yssal stops snuffling the stray broken egg shells on the floor and looks up in Phud's direction, his ears pricked forward.  Phud, Arden, and Wyleck spy a fishlike amphibian lurking behind an unlit brazier in the center of the room.  The creature has bulging silver-black eyes, a wide mouth full of teeth, gaunt willowy limbs ending in vaguely humanoid hands and flipper-like feet, and a pudgy bloated body not unlike a frog.  A little shorter than a human, the creature also has a crossbow trained on the doorway where the tapestry used to hang.That was one trap, then a surprise round.  Regular intiative is now up:Initiative:Rowan 20Phud 20Arden 15Kuo-toa 13Wyleck 7Rhys 3</blockquote>

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