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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 6878127" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE MORGRAVE ADVENTURES“05 ELDEEN”SEGMENT 51“THE CRYPT’S NINTH AREA”04/04/16 VULT 24, 1000  RUINS NEAR THE GLOAMINGExcept for Taylor and Romeo, everyone is becoming bored.  Sitting in the gloom surrounded by sarcophagi and the thick cobwebs in the corners.Diana announces she and Gears are going around a little.“have not yet learned” thinks Taylor.   “Call when you need me.” He calls out.His jibe doesn’t escape her.   “Hurph!  When indeed” she grumbles as they move around the pit trap and back to the barred exit.Searching for a little while she discovers a hidden lever and decides to pull it.  It lifts the bars with minimal noise.  Gears runs ahead and immediately falls into a deep pit trap.“GEARS!” She calls out.Gears is lightly damaged but cannot climb out of the fifty foot pit.  She has no spells and no rope.  She refuses to ask for help from Taylor.“Gears-   It will be okay- I’ll be right back.”She leaves her creation in the pitch black darkness.  With his dark vision however, he spots several skeletons with broken bones.  So much for relaxing.  He goes back to clawing at the wall for his master.“Kar-Draith…..   Kar-Draith!” she calls harshly from the stairs.The lizardfolk walks over to her.  He is recovered enough from the strength taking undead that he no longer limbs or drags his tail.  “What is it?”“Do you have rope?   Maybe fifty foot of it?”“Something wrong?” asks Taylor with a smile.“Nothing Kar-Draith and I can’t handle.   Go back to reading your romance novels.”He holds up his book.  He is reading a book about History in Aundair.  “New book.”They go to rescue Gears.  Taylor finishes his page slowly and gently closes his book.  “Yes Romeo.  I know she needs our help. I will agree to help Gears…… Her…. Well she can sweat it out a little longer.”  He slowly puts his book back in the pack and he stands up.  Romeo remains on his shoulder smiling himself.  He wants to help Gears also.  “Charger…. Could you help me?”He barely jumped across the pit before.  In his weakened state he is uncertain if he could make it.  He has the strong warforged jump over the pit with him.  He looks at the missing gate as he passes under it and comes to a strange sight.“Are you sure of this?” asks Kar-Draith.  “Absolutely.”“Wouldn’t Charger be better of a choice?”“Then the old fart will know I screwed up and – OH HI……. How long have you been there…. Eavesdropping?”“Long enough.  But do go on.” Says the old man as he scratches the head of Romeo whom leans into it.The rope is tied to her waist and the lizardfolk holds the other end.  He offers it to the warforged whom carefully wraps it around his none bladed arm and braces himself.She begins to go down into the pit.“Just curious…. How long is the rope?   How deep is the pit?” he asks.With pride Kar-Draith offers “That strong rope is fifty feet long.”The sorcerer nods his head.  “And the pit?”“Not sure.  She said something about it being about fifty feet.”“Interesting.”  He leans up against the wall and watches.   “Hum?  Oh don’t worry.  Eventually she’ll get him out.”   The ferret sinks into his robe and watches laying his chin on his folded paws.  It sighs.She goes down ten feet….. twenty feet…… thirty feet…… forty feet and now she can see Gears below.  Then the rope ends.    Between the height of the warforged, the length of rope wrapped around him and the length wrapped around her…. She is too high to reach Gears.   “Could you jump to me Gears?” she asks.With their mindlink she knows that to do so would mean he would need to bite and claw her a great deal and that may not even work.The halfling curses words that the Grandmother clause on EN World prohibits.“Pull me back up …” she shouts then in a quiet voice ….”you damned stupid construct.”She climbs up and gives a hard stare to the old man.“No Gears?” he asks.“The rope is too short.”“Pity.   Romeo will miss him a great deal I fear.”“We can’t just leave him down there!”“No good ever comes of running off by yourself in a crypt or dungeon.”“So how do I get him out?  Do you have a spell to use?”“If I could but levitate…….”“I don’t have the means….”  She stops as he gives her a disappointed and harsh frown.“I thought you were an artificer.  An artificer with some skills and knowledge.”“I am!  But that won’t help me or Gears right now.”“So ….. unlike most artificers…. You cannot imbue spell-like abilities into everyday items?  Like a levitate spell into …. A ring?”[DM NOTE:   The player completely forgot about this ability which in my mind is what makes an Eberron artificer so powerful and fun to play.]It takes time but she empowers her metal rod and brings it to Gears.  Gears clamps down on it and wills himself up and out of the pit.</blockquote>

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