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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5076483" data-attributes="member: 20323">Yeah, that's what I was thinking about too. According to wikipedia the locks can drain/fill in 8 minutes (with significant shaking), in from the lake or out to the ocean. Only these would be completely underwater. I remember seeing that game once...did the direction of flow matter? Totally! I've never done a maze like this for the group before. It takes quite a bit of planning, and I hope I can pull it off.Btw, here's the ghostly guardian skill challenge I mentioned....[sblock=Ghostly Guardian]Ghostly GuardianPrimary Skills (DC 20): Bluff, Diplomacy, History, Insight, Intimidate, Religion0-1 successes: We have been betrayed! As the flood descends upon us, our check dams and waterworks have been sabotaged. I warned the king against harboring the redcoat defectors – those treacherous bastards were planning this since the first minute they were welcomed in! I will at least have the satisfaction of trapping them in the fortress with us to share our fate.2-3 successes: Most of the waterworks have been flooded. I sealed in several injured workers in the north eastern hall – it may only prolong their death, but at least it will buy them time. I alone must ensure the crown remains safe. I must perform the ritual and summon the air elemental from below.4-5 successes: The four keys of the fortress have been given to custodians who shall escape by griffon and live to tell our tragic tale. To prevent the crown from reaching the empire’s hands, it has been entrusted to the oracle who has foreseen that it will be lost for four generations before being found by heroes. I cannot stand idly by and let this misguided oracle allow the crown to be consumed by the flood. I must reach the oracle’s aerie and stop her.6-7 successes:  Ghost-stones guard the way to the oracle’s aerie, their arcane pattern governed by a simple rule: the left hand takes the ephemeral from the right hand and makes it tangible.8-9 successes: Now the oracle’s blood stains my hands. Her dying spell has confounded me, for where there was one crown now there are eight. I gaze into her pool hoping to learn the truth, and I behold the fall of the empire driven by the loss of the crown. The oracle was right. This pool, these waters, they have become my fetter, and I am bound to them until the crown is restored.10+ successes: I was wrong, and I have condemned innocents to die. It was not the redcoat defectors who damned the fortress to a watery grave, rather the headwaters of the river were moved. One of our own custodians, Count Ekhardt of Lorsaive, has betrayed us. I was appointed the guardian of this fortress, but in its final hour I have proven myself a monster. It is time for me to meet my fate in the hereafter. I entrust you heroes with the banner of Amanteur.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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