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<blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 175233" data-attributes="member: 198">This happened in a 2E campaign where I was introducing a group of total newbies to the game. I was running a modified &quot;Return to the Keep on the Borderlands&quot;, and the party was exploring the kobold caves. The rgr/drd had found a pit trap and they'd just moved past it. Someone got the bright idea to put out the lantern so that whoever created the trap wouldn't see them coming. The poor human bard was somewhat unhappy, since he couldn't see in the dark, but they move on. Next thing they know is that what appears to be a large boulder (actually made of papiermache, with six hornet nests inside it) is rolling down the tunnel towards them. That's when everyone goes crazy.The dwarf fighter (slower than anyone else) tries to run away. The bard is standing there going &quot;Why is everyone screaming? What happened? I can't see!!&quot; The rgr/drd tries to flatten himself against the wall and grab the bard at the same time, stumbles, and slams the latter against the wall, pulping his nose. The elf ftr/wiz throws herself flat against the floor (?!). The clr/wiz is the only one who manages to get out of the way. The &quot;boulder&quot; careens off the rgr and the brd, bounces on and over the prone ftr/wiz, and follows the dwarf down the tunnel. She reaches the pit trap, tries to jump over and fails, falling ten feet. As she groggily rises, the boulder lands on her, falling apart and releasing a swarm of hornets. The dwarf is screaming down in the pit, and as the hornets swarm up and over everyone else, they run screaming out of the tunnel and throw themselves into the stream outside. All except the clr/wiz, who bravely runs back in to throw a rope to the dwarf, who climbs out. The pair, covered in welts, rush back out and into the stream, with the dwarf not watching where she's going, and landing on the bard and knocking her out. I think they returned to the keep and refused to leave for the next week <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="shilsen, post: 175233, member: 198"] This happened in a 2E campaign where I was introducing a group of total newbies to the game. I was running a modified "Return to the Keep on the Borderlands", and the party was exploring the kobold caves. The rgr/drd had found a pit trap and they'd just moved past it. Someone got the bright idea to put out the lantern so that whoever created the trap wouldn't see them coming. The poor human bard was somewhat unhappy, since he couldn't see in the dark, but they move on. Next thing they know is that what appears to be a large boulder (actually made of papiermache, with six hornet nests inside it) is rolling down the tunnel towards them. That's when everyone goes crazy. The dwarf fighter (slower than anyone else) tries to run away. The bard is standing there going "Why is everyone screaming? What happened? I can't see!!" The rgr/drd tries to flatten himself against the wall and grab the bard at the same time, stumbles, and slams the latter against the wall, pulping his nose. The elf ftr/wiz throws herself flat against the floor (?!). The clr/wiz is the only one who manages to get out of the way. The "boulder" careens off the rgr and the brd, bounces [b]on[/b] and over the prone ftr/wiz, and follows the dwarf down the tunnel. She reaches the pit trap, tries to jump over and fails, falling ten feet. As she groggily rises, the boulder lands on her, falling apart and releasing a swarm of hornets. The dwarf is screaming down in the pit, and as the hornets swarm up and over everyone else, they run screaming out of the tunnel and throw themselves into the stream outside. All except the clr/wiz, who bravely runs back in to throw a rope to the dwarf, who climbs out. The pair, covered in welts, rush back out and into the stream, with the dwarf not watching where she's going, and landing on the bard and knocking her out. I think they returned to the keep and refused to leave for the next week :) [/QUOTE]

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