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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5695213" data-attributes="member: 11751">********Caves (Tomb)Kirio, you walk about 15-20 feet into the room and detect nothing with your spell.  Additionally, the sarcophagus does not appear to be trapped or locked.  Accepting Alric's help, the two of you stand next to the large coffin, grip the lid and heave, attempting to raise it and slide it over to reveal the contents.  When the lid raises a fraction of an inch, you both hear a loud metallic crack and then the sounds of hidden gears cranking to life somewhere below you.  You look at eachother with panic in your eyes as you suddenly have that pit of your stomach sensation of fear.  It all happens in an instant: one minute you're attempting to lift the lid, and the next the tiled floor beneath you falls away, split in half in some kind of trap door.  A yawning black pit, five feet by ten feet and running the length of the sarcophagus, peers up at you from unknown depths.  At the last possible moment, Kirio is able to leap to the side, grabbing hold of the edge of the sarcophagus and pulling his legs away from the pit.  Alric tries the same, but the weight of his armor is too great.  The party sees his gauntleted hands grasp at the dusty stone floor before he falls into the the shaft in the floor.  He screams a blood curdling cry as he falls and the trap door swings back closed with another clank of gears and a puff of dust.Alric, you scream as you fall down a black shaft, your terror echoing up the walls.  It seems as though you fall forever until you slam into a solid stone floor.  You hear your bones snap, your armor crunch and the horrible screeching and ripping sound as sharpened metal spikes rip through you.  The pain is so intense and sudden that you're able only to cough up blood and pass out.</blockquote>

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