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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6753873" data-attributes="member: 6777052">... until they reached a great bronze door that was carved with face of a terrible dragon. Their way was blocked by the door and the Grue was getting closer and closer. What could they do? Rylnethaz turned, drew his trusty elven blade and readied his shield, prepared to make a fight of it and to die nobly if necessary, to defend the others. BoldItalic began reciting his most terrible spell, holding the final word of the incantation until the Grue would come within range. "This is where it ends", he thought, "one way or another." He surprised himself by how calm he felt.Time slowed down.Diggur the kobold panicked and started scrabbling at the door, "Must Open! Must Open!" he screeched, struggling to reach a great iron ring that hung from the snout of the carved dragon face. It was out of his reach. "Lifts Me Ups!" he hissed to the other two kobolds beside him, and after a moment they understood what to do.Diggur was hoisted on his comrades' shoulders and reached the iron ring. He grasped it both hands and, planting his feet firmly against the door, pulled with all his puny might.The door didn't open.There was a rumbling noise, though, that wasn't made by the approaching Grue at all, but by some mechanism hidden in the walls and under the floor the stood on. Suddenly, they were all enveloped in a cloud of dust and a shower of pebbles that seemed to shake loose from the ground."Uh-oh. Spiked pit trap here we come," thought BoldItalic, and he braced himself ready to leap nimbly aside. Except that it wasn't that sort of trap at all.Diggur was left dangling upside down from the ring he was clinging to, while Rylnethaz, BoldItalic and the other two kobolds shot up to the ceiling. It was completely unexpected and very disorientating. Rylnethaz found himself in a heap on what was now the floor, trying to disentangle his legs from his arms whilst still keeping hold of his sword and shield. BoldItalic, the words of his spell utterly gone from his mind, grumbled "Anti-gravity trap. That's all we need right now."From the tunnel behind them, the Grue came charging headlong but as it set foot on the floor where our heroes had been standing just moments ago, it stopped suddenly, wailed, turned inside out and back-to-front and fled."Fascinating," said BoldItalic from the ceiling. "The Grue must exist in a transfinite 5-dimensional geometry. I've always had difficulty visualising roto-reflecto-rotations in 5-space, and having seen one, I think I still do.""Never mind that", said Rylnethaz, "How do we get down?"</blockquote>

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