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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Waynan" data-source="post: 7793239" data-attributes="member: 6876299">Tam just shrugs upon seeing the trap and false to true doors set-up. This was a new one on him, but he immediately surmised the simplicity of it all: 1.) Unsuspecting of the trap, one opens the door and falls into the box pit hurting themselves, probably badly.2.) Then, the mummies come to the attack, but, because of the fall into the pit, the adventurers are hurt, most of them pretty badly, and can't put up much of a fight.Not very imaginative. Oh, totally effective in its simplicity --- but, Tam loved the challenge of a complex puzzle, or trap, to overcome. Surely, it was all hubris on his part; but he loved the challenges and twists so much more than this straightforward approach to a trap.All the while Tam is thinking all this, and while standing at the lip of this pit, he gets out his lamp and lights it. He then takes 4 arrows, a vial of lamp oil, a raggedy shirt that he tears 4 strips from and his bow. He wraps the strips, one for each arrow, around the arrowhead and pours lamp oil onto each strip on each arrowhead until he's satisfied that the cloth is thoroughly soaked. When he pours the oil, he does so over the pit so as to not have any on the floor around him in order to avoid any accidental fires around his feet.Now, when the mummies entered, he would be ready to light the oil-soaked rag on an arrow, then draw and fire at the undead horrors --- and hope he didn't miss.</blockquote>

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