Wednesday, December 01, 2004

You start to walk into the room and feel the floor lurch under your feet at the same time as you hear a loud crack from beneath you. Time seems to slow to a crawl as you realise the floor has given way beneath your feet, you try to throw yourself forward but react too late and with a sickening sensation you realise you are falling.

Suddenly your downward descent is halted as you strike a hard surface and you feel a sharp pain in your ankle. Recovering you realise that you have dropped down a pit positioned directly in front of the door, the pit seems to be some six feet deep and five feet square with smooth sides. You retrieve the torch from where you dropped it on the floor and looking up you see that a section of stonework in front of the door was obviously false, and designed to hinge down as weight was applied to it. You check you ankle and although you think you may have sprained it doesn't feel like it is broken and you think it should support your weight. The pit is smooth stone having been carved directly from the rock of the chamber; a quick search convinces you that there is nothing of interest inside the pit.

You take your healers kit from your backpack and bandage your ankle to try and give it some more support, then you re-stow your equipment and turn your attention to getting out of the pit. Reaching up you think you can reach the edge of the pit with a stretch and a jump and then possibly you can haul yourself up, the problem you have is that holding onto the torch in one hand is going to make that almost impossible.

Deciding that the only option is to throw your torch up first and then try to pull yourself up after it. You jump up and place your torch on the edge of the pit, leaving you in almost complete darkness, and then you leap and manage after much straining to finally haul yourself up enough to get a leg over the lip of the pit and drag yourself over the top and into the room beyond.

You reach for the torch and gripping it you start to rise, you start in
surprise as you see the light reflecting off a piece of metal above your head. You raise the torch and see the piece of metal falling towards you; at the last second you throw yourself to one side and hear a clang as the object strikes the stone where you were crouched, you leap to your feet and raise the torch to illuminate the area. As you do so you see the skeleton of what was obviously by stature once a dwarf, in its left hand it is gripping a rusty pick, which it obviously just tried to bury into your head, as the skeleton turns towards you, you see a hellish red light burning in its eye sockets.

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