Continued Adventure

Standing bunched at the top of the stairs, you see that the room remains as you left it. Bones from the animate skeletons lay scattered across the floor. The huge double doors are closed fast together. But silence reigns. The creature does not pound the doors. The traps do not tick.

Your torchlight reveals the hall on the far side of the room, and you know numerous crossbows rest in to the right in their alcoves. A see the great square hole in the ceiling. You are fairly sure that the trap you found in the main room upstairs likely exits here. It doesn’t take much to imagine what would have happened had any of your crew blundered into it originally. A long drop. Skeletal warriors. Bolts from the dark.

Taking one last long look at the double doors, Borgo checks his kit and gets door to make his way across the room. For all the awkwardness of his turtle-like appearance and movements, Borgo manages the passage across the room silently and without incident. His deft movement carry him around out over the brittle bones and shards and he stops only a moment to have another quick look at the closed doors before reaching the far side and standing to way the rest of you across.

Borgo stands in the hallway entrance as Berith’s light doesn’t extend much farther into it. He remembers it only goes a short way before turning right and that a short way along her remembers what he expects to be another pit trap. Across that trap the hall extended another short way before turning to the left.

Following Borgo's lead, Berith makes her way across the room. Borgo's turtle across the room seemed almost graceful compared to Knight's efforts but she makes her way safely enough if not so quietly. Standing up in the hall entrance near the Goblin, her torch now illuminates the full length to the stairway about 20' down the hall's length. It's landing is not visible from this end of the room. The darkness has now encroached upon the stairwell up into the crossbow room, leaving Elspeath and Marev standing at the edge of inky darkness below.

Borgo, remembering no danger here previously, still moves to the base of the stairway with caution and has a look up. The stairs still lead up about 20" to an upper floor. The light of the torch doesn't quite illuminate any of the space above, but he remember the stairs end in another tunnel that extends to the right. Seeing no immediate change or danger, he returns to Berith to await the others who are now making their way across.

Having noticed no changes after Berith's traversal, Elspeath and then Marev crawl across the room one after the other.

Borgo makes his way up stairs with Berith close behind. Marev and Elspaeth follow behind, reaching the top of the stair as Borgo peeks around the corner. Seeing nothing but an empty dead end, the Goblin enters the hall, looking carefully for the seam he'd found previously.

Remembering Berith's recounting of her investigation here, he spots where she tried to prise it up. He sucked his teeth quietly as her efforts were likely pointless, but you know warriors. He's convinced this is another false floor as was round above and if anyone were to place their weight upon it that it would drop away suddenly.

Looking carefully on either side, he can see the crack runs away up the hall along the wall; can't skirt along a ledge. The crafty Dwarves had left no apparent means avoiding the trap and if it follows the same format as the one upstairs, it's likely 10' across to the other side. How would a fat Dwarf make it over?

After a moment, Borgo calls the others forward and points out the crack running across the hall and relay his findings.

Marev muses aloud about how it’s activated and you all agree it’s likely a cantilever of some sort. When enough with is applied the floor gives way and presumably closes again afterwards.

Berith’s torch starts to spit and sputter so she pulls the one Borgo gave her belt and lights out before the old one goes out.