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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2824954" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: THE CREATION SCHEMA02/18/06SEGMENT 193“A Devious Trap”Cedious, Cider, Capio, Bob, Pebbles and the Warforged Fighter all stand around a metallic hatch marked with Orange trim.  Both Cedious and Cider look over the hatch for traps.  Cedious avoids tripping the Shocking Shock trap by using the proper key.  Pebbles insists on going first and pushes the rogues aside to climb down.  “If she dies- who will cook for us?” asks Cedious.  The war forged looks at “Bob” whom shrugs his kreen shoulders.  Cooking ones dinner never made sense to the mantis warrior.Next go Bob and the two rogues.  The mage and finally the Living Construct enter the hatch leading down to a new wing of the Whitehearth facility.  About 75 feet down Pebbles smells something bad.  She was completely oblivious to the trap she has set off.  Bob’s attenaes begin to weave about in excitement when suddenly the trap is fully exposed.INCENDIARY CLOUD WITHIN A CLOSED OFF TUBE!With no where to go or anywhere for cover everyone (even the rogues) are exposed to it.  Her skin burning, Pebbles lets go of the rungs and plummets the last 25 feet to the bottom with a loud crash and a louder grunt.  Bob psionically moves down and out of the way as he hears the others scream in pain behind him.  The rogues are quick to get below the cloud’s rising level using magic to ensure a safe landing.   The mage also levitates quickly towards the bottom but not quick enough.  He looks up to see sparks as the warforged has let go and now plummets down.  His adamantine armor scrapping and banging in the metal cylinder and rungs the whole way down and onto him.  The heavy fighter strikes the mage in mid flight and forces him down quickly.  His levitation spell proves near useless with the weight of the fighter thrust onto him.  He does roll free from him before hitting the bottom however.  The impact the fighter makes resounds within the round metal room.“Now THAT was not nice!” growls Cedious whom due to his ring of Acid Resistance took very little damage but is unhappy that he had no where to go.   This room has dimmed lights.  The everbright lanterns seem to struggle to light up the room.  Another common issue with the Mournlands.  Many permanent spells are either snuffed out or weakened now.  Cedious looks around.  They have the colors of Orange, Red, Green or Blue to decide from.  He doesn’t have red, which narrows that one out.  They go to the green door and enter it.  A twenty-foot hallway leads to a blue door.  The walls are blue with yellow and white lines drawn on it.  Cedious is certain it is for appearance- not magic (though he avoids touching them all the same.).On the other side of the blue door is another round room.  This has a total of four blue doors and locks on it.The mistake was made to hand out the extra keys and Pebbles begins to open doors for everyone.  Good for everyone, Cedious goes to a door that was trapped.  Just as he is about to stick the blue key into the door he notes areas within the hole that are orange.  He looks it over and discovers someone has repainted the door and lock to be the wrong color!  He puts the orange key into the blue painted hole and sucks in his breath.  Klick.Inside are bunks, dressers and desks.   Sleeping quarters for the workers.  Cider and Cedious explore the room and find a journal written by Simon Pell.  He was a magewright that was experimenting on giving intelligence to inanimate objects through the use of magic.   Nothing about Warforged.  Pebbles calls attention to Cedious.  She has found some truly disgusting pants.  They are purple with blue and whites strips going from hip to cuff.  They appear magical   (Acid Resist 5  work pants).  Another door leads into a water room.  This room has tubs of water for washing and bathing.“No guy named Graymark here.” Comments Cedious.</blockquote>

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