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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 1298404" data-attributes="member: 1210">The Trap That Did 30d6 Damage!The stairs our heroes descend lead down about 20’ before ending in a hallway that leads away to their right.  Cautiously, our heroes advance to a doorway.  Weapons are loosened in their sheaths and Sybele throws the door open.A 20’ long hallway, ending in another door. Annoyed, Sybele moves forward to walk to the next door and almost falls into a pit that opens up beneath her feet!  She jerks back, barely in time.  “Heh,” Drelvin smirks.  “Pit trap.  Oldest trick in the book.”  Rex spreads his draconic wings and takes to the air, flying over to the other door and landing gingerly before it.  The rest of the group starts making their way over while Rex opens the door- and frowns as he sees another 20’ hallway ending in a door.  “Careful,” he warns, “there’s probably another pit trap here.  Man, I hope there aren’t too many doors in a row.”  He launches himself into the air again, and again he lands before the far door.“No kidding,” remarks Drelvin.  Shastruth is in his hand.“This one’s different,” Rex calls.  “The passage keeps going and turns.  But I bet there’s a pit trap somewhere.”  Sybele prods about and soon triggers one.  It takes a few moments for the group to pass the pits but it’s not really very hard.  Thrush grumbles to himself about needing a way to fly or something, but for now he can simply be carried.  Then our heroes cautiously advance to the bend in the passage and peer around the corner.  The hall seems to go on past the limits of their vision.  Nervously, our heroes begin advancing.  Then-“What’s that?” cries Drelvin.Something moves in the darkness.  A tremendous chill falls over the group as a whole; whatever it is, it is wrong.  The party begins moving forward, Azekia issuing a prayer on their behalf as they move; and then a cone of freezing vapor issues from the dark shadow before them.  Almost everyone is caught in the blast, and though the damage is not enough to fell any of our heroes, they all feel the chill settle in their bones.Shastruth casts true strike on Drelvin while Angelfire, Azekia, Patyn, Rex and Ulla move forward to attack the dark shadow.  Whatever it is, it’s clearly hostile and looks very dangerous.  I mean, hey- isn’t everything in here very dangerous?  Anyhow, this one looks nasty.  Rex, Ulla and Azekia reach it quickly enough to attack before things go awry, and the solar is the only one of them to land a blow in their first exchange.  “Incorporeal!” Rex yells a warning.Then things go awry.“Beware!” cries Verzavi, springing backwards from the tunnel.  The gith has clearly seen something and is crying out, “Trap, trap!”  “The hall’s tilting!” screams Sybele, even as she fires from the edge of the part- there’s some sort of hinge, and-Patyn grimly activates his necklace of levitation, knowing he’s probably too slow to avoid whatever happens next.  He winces sympathetically as the solar is struck by the dark shadow’s finger of death, but fortunately Azekia shrugs it off.  Her sword flashes with holy power as she continues to hack at the thing, whatever it is, that lured them into this passage.  Angelfire keeps advancing while Thrush, realizing that the lack of flying he was just bemoaning might shortly prove lethal, rushes back to the area that seems stable.  Just in time, he leaps out as the hinged passage swings down.Let’s describe how this works in detail.  As the pcs walk down a hall, they pass a certain point with a hidden hinge in the floor.  From there, once enough weight is far enough out past the hinge to trigger the trap, the hinged section of hallway tilts from a horizontal position to a vertical position.  The ‘tilting hall trap’ also includes the ceiling and walls; the effect being, when it swings downward, all creatures in it are smacked around pretty hard, potentially stunned, and probably falling down the 100’ of hinged hallway and landing in the red glow below.As it is incorporeal, the dark shadow, of course, merely passes through the wall as it swings downward.Patyn, Azekia, Rex and Ulla are battered badly as the hall swings down, crashing into them and bouncing them off the walls for a moment.  Thanks to his necklace, Patyn dangles in midair; Azekia and Rex both manage to get their wings moving in time to catch themselves before falling.Angelfire, unfortunately, has no flight capability at the moment, and with a startled cry, she lands in the red glow below, which turns out to be a tremendous pool of molten rock.  An incredibly loud, high-pitched scream echoes up into the passage.“Uh-oh,” says Rex, and dives to aid her.  Sybele and Drelvin, meanwhile, fire into the darkness.  The hall’s swung down but the thing’s bound to be there somewhere!  Two of Drelvin’s arrows manage to hit, but they still can’t even see it.  Then Azekia ascends from the passage and glares in the direction of the dark shadow.  The two creatures, a powerful force of light and a terrible force of darkness, fly together in a titanic clash.  The shadow attempts to disarm the angel but fails, and she hacks at it but misses!  They continue to struggle in the air, Azekia’s sword slashing and jabbing and the creature seeming to strike with darkness itself.  Drelvin and Sybele keep up a barrage of arrows at it, trying desperately to destroy the terrible thing, and Thrush joins them.  Rex, meanwhile, swoops down and grabs Angelfire, who is screaming in terrible agony.  She can’t help but think of the irony- not so long ago, she’d have loved swimming in hot lava.  But it’s all a red haze of pain now!  As Rex grabs on to her, the molten rock splashes him, and as he lifts her free he feels more hiss and sizzle and stick to his flesh.  “Rrraggh!” he cries as the hot rock sears his body.  But if he doesn’t help her, Angelfire will die!  Rex perseveres, carrying her up to the top and dropping her before Verzavi, who starts trying to pull the molten rock off of Angelfire with her bare hands.  Then Rex springs forward towards the dark shadow.  Ulla, too, moves forward, turning into a medium air elemental.  Angelfire’s screams echo behind them as she desperately clears the magma clinging to her.So far it seems to have the advantage.  This impression is magnified when it finally manages to pluck the solar’s sword from her grasp and contemptuously crushes it between its black hands.Next Time: Will our heroes turn the tables on the dark shadow?  Stay tuned and find out!</blockquote>

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