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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pogre" data-source="post: 1082511" data-attributes="member: 6588">Episode 17Door Bashing“Poison!” Gerhardt screamed.E’lissar scrambled over to the edge of the trap door and quickly found a mechanism. “It is weight activated.”Quarion tried to pry the door open with his sword, but failed.“Get the lid from that sarcophagus,” Hilde ordered. “We need some weight to open that door.”Inga dashed back into the tomb chamber and hoisted the lid onto her shoulders in an incredible act of strength. She moved to the trap door. “Hug the North wall in case I slip Gerhardt.”“There is poison down here! Get me out now!”Hilde shrugged and Inga placed the sarcophagus lid on the door. The trap door flew open and Inga held on with all of her might. As light flooded down into the pit a cloud of spores was revealed. Gerhardt’s face was contorted from his efforts at holding his breath.Quarion retrieved a rope and lowered it to the fighter. Gerhardt grabbed the proffered rope and climbed out of the pit. As he cleared the door he took a deep breath.“You don’t even look hurt,” Inga said with a bit of disgust.“Those spores were burning my lungs. I thought I was going to die.”“I would not scream like that even if I was dying,” Inga retorted.“Yeah, well…” Gerhardt stopped. She probably wouldn’t he conceded in his mind. “I bet Skullringer made you scream like that after a few beers.” He just could not let it go; besides, he was embarrassed.Inga glared, “I do not know, but he is more man than you and he is a half-orc.”“Enough!” Hilde stepped between the bickering couple. “Gerhardt, I will restore you in the morning with a prayer. Until then we have to work together. Agreed?”The two grunted their assent.“Very well then, let us move forward.”…..E’lissar scouted the hall ahead and found a four way intersection. One of the doors was a bit different; it had a dragon’s head set in the middle. He approached it cautiously.“WHO APPROACHES?” the dragon’s head boomed.<a href="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0613_elisarr_at_door.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0613_elisarr_at_door_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>“It is I, E’lissar and I seek to pass, oh great door.”“YOU WILL BE KILLED INVADER!”E’lissar immediately took flight from the area. As he ran past the rest of the party he stated, “Huge guardian door ahead.”“He must have made a bad impression,” Inga commented.“I blame myself,” Hilde replied. “I seem to have a way with guardian doors. I should have been there.”Quarion, ignoring E’lissar’s warning and snuck up the hall. As soon as he reached the intersection the dragon face on the door spewed a black cloud of mist out.<a href="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0614_black_mist.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0614_black_mist_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Quarion was immediately stunned as the poison sunk into his lungs. Inga rushed to aid the rogue and was enveloped in the poisonous mist as well.<a href="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0615_more_mist.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0615_more_mist_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Gerhardt moved up to the edge of the mist. To everyone’s horror the door-construct began to move. Laboriously waddling down the corridor it narrowly missed slamming into Quarion. Gerhardt braved the dark mist and worked around to hack at the door, but to no effect. Inga smashed the door with her weapon, but again to no effect. Quarion dug his dagger in, but it failed to make an impression.The door slammed into Quarion again, but the nimble elf narrowly avoided the construct’s force. E’lissar and Hilde called to the group to draw it back to the pit trap. Gerhardt hit the door again and failed to do any damage, “It’s too hard. Run!” The fighter ran back towards the cleric and E’lissar. Inga stepped up into the door and called out, “Run now Quarion. I will cover your back.”<a href="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0616_door_kicks_butt.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0616_door_kicks_butt_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>Quarion stabbed at the door. “Run you pointed ear fool!” Gerhardt screamed.Inga grimaced as the door slammed its weight into her. She could not face much more damage.Quarion left the combat and jogged back across the corridor and casually jumped the pit. Inga followed and was tagged by the door as she fled. Blood gushed out of her nostrils as she sprinted to her companions. Hilde held her up as she ran into her arms partially collapsing. Hilde said a prayer over her sister and stopped the bleeding.The door creaked and waddled around the corner facing the party over the pit. It belched forth its foul black mist. The adventurers jumped back to avoid the poisonous cloud. E’lissar unloaded his bow on the door a couple of times, but it was apparent he was causing no damage.Finally, the door back downed from the standoff, moving back around the corner out of missile range.“Next time I tell you to retreat,” Gerhardt hissed at Quarion, “You better damn well do it. If we lose a cleric trying to save your sorry carcass, I guarantee their efforts will be for naught.”Quarion ignored Gerhardt’s threat.“There are still a lot of passages we have not explored,” E’lissar suggested.<a href="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0617_dungeon_thus_far.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.compet-edge.com/story_hour_2/0617_dungeon_thus_far_th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>“I am nearly exhausted,” Hilde warned.“Same here,” Inga agreed. “We need rest and time to pray.”“Alright, back to the druidic circle then?” E’lissar asked.“Yes, we need to rethink our strategy,” Hilde stated.“There is a first for everything,” Gerhardt growled. “Getting ripped by a door is not something I would have figured.”The group headed out of the complex back to the west.To be continued…</blockquote>

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