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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ant" data-source="post: 3533871" data-attributes="member: 17627">Bas Goes Barefoot - Session Part Two*Ye gods, the traffic this morning. Good thing I wrote this up last night. Anyhow, we begin…* So, the room at the bottom of the stairs has 3 levers in the walls, and 2 energy barriers separating them and incidentally blocking the way. At the far end of the room we can see an exit. We rig a rope and grapple situation and loop over the nearest lever and pull it down.*Bink* the nearest barrier vanishes. So far, so good. So we try it again and the barrier *plinks* back into place, cutting the rope, and the space between the 2 barriers starts to fill with green acid which is pouring in through 4 holes in the ceiling.We reel back the severed rope and watch for a few moments. Mailcon then gets irritable, casts Spider Climb, and walks along the wall to the first lever. Tyrant does a very good bluff and convinces Bas that Mailcon is wearing lizard -skin boots and that lizards do indeed stick to walls. Bas' intelligence contributes greatly to Tyrants attempt. In the meantime Mailcon moves the lever again and the nearest barrier vanishes again. Acid spills across the floor and the group retreats up the stairs.Safely on the ceiling Mailcon moves the other lever, causing the barrier to close again. This traps him in the space between the barriers that is filling with acid. With a deep sign he waits for the others to rope the first lever and pull it down, therefore removing the barrier.In the meantime, a successful Spot check on the ceiling sees a hidden, recessed, lever on the ceiling. Pulling that opens the second barrier giving access to the final lever but not stopping the acid. A couple of rounds later of putting all the levers into various positions eventually finds the right combination and the acids stops. Unfortunately it doesn't drain away, although it does flow down the passageway and around the corner. Bas and Tyrant discuss how to deal with an inch of acid on the floor while Mailcon goes for a wander along the roof to see where the tunnel goes. After a few twists and turns and a hundred or so feet of passage way he eventually gets to a point where the slope of the floor stops the acid from progressing. He goes back to the others and tells them. They, in that time, have come up with a plan to put some of the oversized orc boots over Tyrant's boots to protect him. Bas just wades right in and a couple of rounds later exits the pool at the other end minus his boots and a layer or two of skin. Tyrant is better off, protecting his own boots but taking a couple of burns from splashing as he ran. Logan displays wolverine-ish scepticism but grudgingly allows Mailcon to cradle him to his chest as he carefully crawls along the ceiling until the reach the far end.At that point, they all wander down the remainder of the passage until the reach the next room. The new room had an energy barrier across the opposite wall and 4 holes in the points of a diamond on the floor. Mailcon goes into pseudo-rogue mode and goes for a walk on the ceiling while the others wait in the hall. He walks down one wall and sticks one of the finger bone keys in one of the holes. It fits but won't turn. He sighs, knowing what comes next but tries one near the other wall anyway. Same thing. With no other choice he steps onto the floor and puts the keys in all the holes. They all fit but none will turn. He counts 4 holes, then counts off people on his fingers. 3 people. He looks at Logan. Ok, 3.5 then.He calls over the wolverine and spends a 1/2 hour teaching Logan to turn the key on demand (without eating it). This is later ret-conned to be 15 minutes as the DM forgot a rule about Druids and their animal companions. A rare thing in a game with so few rules.*Looks up to see DM drumming fingers on table, with raised eyebrow* *Cough cough. Ahem.* Um, right. Anyway, after a few goes the keys click and the energy barrier goes down. And off we go. To see the wizard. The new passageway intersects another one in angled T junction. With a choice to go left or right, Bas goes left and Mailcon goes right. Naturally. Tyrant waits at the intersection. Mailcon turns a corner and finds a dead end room with an upside down mouth on the far wall. No wait, that's Mailcon on the ceiling, he's upside down. There was a failed Will save going on here too, although Mailcon doesn't know what the consequence of that is yet.Bas, on the other hand, has turned the corner at the other end and found a long passageway. His natural love affair with falling also conflicts with his Barbarian trap evasion abilities and, in the end, he discovers the 20 ft pit trap by falling into it. He likewise discovers the spikes on the floor of the pit by impaling himself on one of them. Tyrant comes to investigate all the noise.Meanwhile, Mailcon has touched the lips of the wall mouth with no effect. Logan wanders into the room and looks at his weird buddy on the ceiling. Mailcon gives up, steps onto the floor and leaves the room. The fact that he weighs more than a wolverine triggers the trap on the way out and door slams down in the passageway and gas hisses out. The mouth starts talking "you can't breath, you can't breath". A successful Fort save leaves Mailcon wondering what it is on about. At the same time, Tyrant has climbed down into the pit and uses a Heal Moderate Wounds potion on the half orc healing sink. Back in positive hit points, Bas joins Tyrant in climbing out of the pit. Tyrant throws his sack of treasure across the pit. Bas makes a running leap of 27 feet and clears the pit easily. The leap impresses even him. On the other side he poses Charles Atlas style then swaggers back to pick up the sack. This is how he finds the second pit trap that was 4 feet behind the first one. Tyrant watches with surprise as Bas vanishes from sight. He then collapses on the floor with laughter.Meanwhile, Mailcon and Logan have returned to the room where the mouth is still telling them "you can't breath". He looks at Logan. Logan looks at him. Mailcon then gets some alchemical fire stuff out of his backpack. With the retort of "Bite me" he throws it against the wrong wall.(rassen fassen 1's). However, some splashes on the mouth and reveals it to be an illusion. He looks at Logan. Logan looks back and shrugs. They return to the door in the hall.While this is happening Tyrant climbs across one pit to the other side and helps Bas out of the 20 foot deep second pit with a rope. They sit there for awhile and then decide to see what happened to Mailcon. They eventually get back to the junction to find a new metal door blocking the way. Mailcon has already tried lifting it from his side but without much success (apparently he is weak). A plan is devised where Tyrant and Bas lifts the door while he slips a dagger underneath to stop it from closing again. Bas and Tyrant heave the door up. It slides up into the ceiling and stays there. The dagger skitters halfway down the hall. Logan quizzically watches it go. He looks at Mailcon. Mailcon looks at him. They both shrug and step out into the intersection. Mailcon asks the others what they've been up to but the answer is interrupted by the appearance of the Lizardman wandering down the angled hall from the key room.And here we pause until next time... To be concluded. Seriously. (No, seriously). ------</blockquote>

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