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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 3191141" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 29711/12/06“THE DUNGEON of CHAMPIONS PART 6: SHARP GRAVITY”The short tunnel leads to a slab of stone and wood with dozens of small 2 inch round holes within it.  It is 5x5 and roughly a foot thick.   The exit is above it and measures 5x5 also.“What is that?” asks Pebbles as she looks at the crude build of the possibly dangerous item.“A Holy Stone slab.  For a cleric I thought you would see that.” Adds Talon to break the tension.Pebbles tries not to smile but gives in.  “You first as always Cedious.” Says Xen with his arrow still notched.“Curious” thinks Cedious.“What is?” asks Pelor.“This tunnel has rungs.   First to do so.”“Trap or something to make us wary of the tool?”“I’ll check it out to be safe.” And Cedious levitates up and checks each wooden rung while not touching any the whole way up.  The tunnel is 65 feet up.  Cedious is not happy with what he sees above.   The ceiling is spiked with long five-foot long spikes.  The ceiling looks to be only 3 feet high to top it off.  He thinks this to Pelor.  Pelor’s spell is beginning to wear off which is bad.  Very bad.The third from top rung is trapped.Cedious is uncertain how the trap works but the rung is designed to collapse down.  Looking closer, the other rungs collapse up.   Why?Cedious goes up and reaches the ceiling.  The walls look to be very far away.  Or at least they are beyond the lights reach.  Cedious climbs through the spikes and discovers these are part of a 15 x 15-foot stone and metal slab.  The ceiling is fifteen feet high.  There Cedious sees an exit that measures 5x5 again.“The minotaurs must have been smaller or this dungeon really sucked for them.” Says Cedious thinking about a minotaur trying to climb through the spikes from a 5x5 space.   Wall psionically switches places with Cedious to check it out.Annoyed, Cedious levitates up again but brings a rope this time.  He doesn’t trust the rungs even after looking at it for traps.“Cedious!   We have company!”  calls out Wall from the top of the stab.Cedious once more levitates up and makes a point to never touch the floor.  Eight gargoyles charge.  Four from each end.Pebbles reaches the top and anchors the rope for the others.  Xen and Talon begin to climb up now on the rope.Wall and Cedious ready themselves for the attack, which never happens.   The gargoyles stop about ten feet away from the slab.  One steps out and stomps on the floor.   Suddenly gravity goes haywire!Cedious and Wall fall / tumble off the large 15x15 foot large spiked slab which crashes onto the ceiling.  It blocks off the exit by doing this.  Pebbles narrowly flies out of the way as Xen and Talon fall past her and become spiked into the 15x15-foot slab.   Meanwhile, the slab below sprouts spikes as it falls and spikes them a second time!And meanwhile, the gargoyles were ready for it and attack in the confusion.  Xen wiggles free and begins to fire his bow from within the “spiked cage”.  Talon has a harder time getting free as his armor is catching on the spikes.The telepathy ends.“Oh crap…” thinks Cedious.The gargoyles go into a berserker rage and attack.  They are tougher than first thought but fall still.  Then comes the next problem.  How to leave this room?Reset the gravity or move several tons of solid spiked stone.   Luckily for them, they trip the floor trigger that matches the others and gravity resets itself.  This time, everyone keeps their distance from the slabs.  Pelor’s statis spell is wearing off now also.“Let’s hurry.  We no longer have Pelor’s support and who knows how many more rooms and traps remain.Cedious begins to levitate with a rope to tie off to carry everyone as Pebble’s spell of flight has worn off.</blockquote>

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