April
Fools - again> "Don't rightly know lass." Larz replies as quietly as he can.
> "Step back." He cautions and waits for the woman to move.
> Then without another moment of hesitation, the dwarf reaches forward
> with his hammer and gently pushes on the gate to see if it will budge
> fully expecting the gate to explode on him.
Cleo and Herod take a few steps back, giving Larz some room. He pushes tentatively on the gate and finds that it opens easily, barely squeaking at all. A second later, it all goes dark. He blinks, and moments later, his darkvision kicks in, revealing him to be in a small stone cube of a cell, about 10' square.
From Herod and Cleo's perspective, Larz simply disappears from view. "What the...!" exclaims Herod. "Beware! There's magic traps in here!" he yells out.
"Cyric's fingers!" Blondung curses from just behind Vaslin and Lucretia. The Luckpriestess scowls at the mention of the dark god, but hurries forward to the larger area where Merrell, in lion form had paused. "Luc, Dorn, raise your lights!" she calls, peering at an area of the wall to the side of Merrell.
As they raise their light, Vaslin can see a number of runes carved into the wall.
GNIKOJMAI
I IV
Vaslin frowns, trying to understand what this might mean. On some strange impulse, she reaches out to touch the rune, and instantly regrets it, as there is a sudden grinding noise from up ahead. Merrell, still in lion form, whips his head around to see a section of the ceiling ahead of him starting to lower. If it doesn't stop, he realises it will completely block the passage forward in seconds... (aka 2 rounds)
Outside, Yvandel also hears the sound of stone on stone, and looking at the top of the rocky outcrop, he sees the central section of it start to drop. With alarm, he also sees another block of stone some two feet thick start to rise up out of the dirt at the entrance, slowly closing the entrance of the cave, like the door of a tomb he thinks morbidly...
From outside the compound, there is the sound of a wolf howl, followed seconds later by several more from various different directions...
Meanwhile, Larz, surprised and shocked by his sudden transportation, is studying the inside of his cell, when he feels a sudden shudder, and senses the floor and ceiling start to drop, the walls appearing to move upwards. Larz looks all around in alarm, especially when he spots that the floor has holes in it, through which water, or some other liquid is suddenly starting to bubble up...
CEELY (Deb's) REACTION:
Ceely,seeing the sudden magical happenings.."Magic users, dispell magic! or something. Cleo, Can you become a giantess and hold up the roofing?" She looks around for something to force the ceiling to stay up, something to use as a brace.
LARZ (Mike L's) REACTION:
Without hesitation, Larz backs himself into the nearest corner. There he huddles and crouches down as much as possible. The dwarf raises his shield in front of him as he lowers his head down behind it. "Dis is a gonna be bad." He says to himself knowing full well that what he intends could have a disastrous effect. Then without waiting any longer, the dwarf prays, as his hands race through the air in front of him drawing the invisible somatic patterns needed to release the divine energy, "Mighty Clangeddin, Father of Battle, and Lord of the Twin Axes, yer humble servant comes to ye and requests that ye grant 'em the ability to make dat there rock wall explode, givin me a way outta here."
Quickly, Larz grabs his shield and pulls it in a close as he can and hunkers down behind it as much as he can for protection against his spell.
LUC (Tim's) REACTION:
OOC: I AM JOKING April 1st. I seriously hope so. LOL If not...
Luc gives Vas a look that asks why you gotta touch stuff and seeing that the only way left to go is through yells, "Go GO GO, better in the unknown then stuck in this tomb!" With that he scrambles forward trying to beat the stone to the floor.
MERRELL (Mike B's) REACTION
OOC: Well, it appears that the werefolk were more prepared than we had hoped for. If we live...Merrell is going to eat that little bastard we captured, for not warning us about the danger in the cave...
BIC: Without hesitation Merrell will leap forward into the cave past the closing stone barricade. With any luck he would clear the trap and be able to figure out a way to free his companions. However Vaslin's god didn't seem to be smiling on the Unknowns at the moment.
As he leapt, Merrell made an attempt to use his feline night vision to find a soft place to land. Preferably on top of some unsuspecting wereman waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting passer-by.
OOC: If we manage to get out of this one, I'll be impressed...
CLEO (Dan's) REACION:
> <Luc aka Tim (on behalf of Joe) wrote>:
> > OOC: I AM JOKING April 1st. I seriously hope so. LOL If not...
ooc - lol... good one! As I read, I kept thinking 'no way!', but then
when I saw the letters, I instinctively just tried reading them backwards
and... bingo... that was fun, tho!