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    Alarmed to see the cylinder was now empty, Reynauld turned to Simone and the rest of his companions.
    "Perhaps it works on a timer, and Rae is stuck down there. I'll try to find her, and bring her back up if I can."

    The crusader stepped into the contraption, hoping that the cylinder served a benign purpose.

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    Once again, the doors slam shut as soon as Reynauld is comfortably inside, lowering back into the floor. Reynauld enjoys a smooth descent for perhaps half a minute before the chamber comes to a gentle stop, and the doors slide open. He beholds a small room covered in intricate carvings, but they are of little concern compared to the sight or Rae, rope in hand, trying futilely to topple an enormous stone slab that seems to be blocking the way forward.

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    Simultaneously relieved and alarmed, Reynauld emerges from the tube and places a hand on the elf's shoulder.
    "Rae! What are you doing? We were all worried something had happened to you! Please, let's return to the others. This is folly."

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    Simone gasped as her bodyguard too, disappeared as she was dithering.

    "I have faith in Reynauld," She said to the others, though admittedly mostly to comfort herself.

    "He'll bring Rae back," She almost said I'm sure of it, but instead she grasped her symbol of Pelor.

    "I'll pray on it."
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    Happy Reynauld had made it down here, and that she wasn't stuck, Rae grinned brightly at the crusader. "Folly? Nah, I'll be out from under it when it falls, I just need a bit more muscle."
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    Back up above, Louise turned to Simone as she prayed.

    "Well, the elevator didn't take TOO long to come back, so... hopefully they haven't gotten far enough to get into any real trouble."
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    Reynauld frowned. Rae was an elf, no doubt several decades his senior, so why did it feel like he was speaking to a child?
    "I would be happy to help you... pull down this huge stone slab, if that's the most sensible thing to do. We should get someone like Louise down here to make sure it isn't a trap. I take it this button sent the elevator back up? I'm going to try and see if it goes up once I step inside it again, but if not, would you be so kind as to press the button?"

    Fortunately, the elevator sent Reynauld back up once he stepped inside. As the doors were closing, the crusader gave one last warning to Rae.
    "Wait for reinforcements! Don't do anything foolish!"

    Once he was back topside, the crusader stepped out of the contraption, a look of consternation on his scarred face.
    "Rae is fine. The elevator deposits one in a small chamber. Rae has took it upon herself to try and topple a large piece of masonry for some reason. Lady Louise, perhaps you should head down and make sure she's not about to get herself killed in the process?"

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    "So..." Corinne dug her toe into a pile of dust, scattering it. "How long do we wait before sending someone else down?"
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    Louise

    "I would recommend 5 minutes at maximum. We don't want to be too panicked, but we don't just want to let too much time pass either, if something truly is happening."
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    "There is a button at the bottom that sends the elevator back up, and it only takes a minute or so to move. Louise, I must implore you to head down there. Rae's enthusiasm could very well spell her misfortune."

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    "...this is against my better judgement, but very well."

    Louise then approached and entered the elevator.
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    Once again the elevator descends, carry Louise and her torch down to the crypt's inner chambers. As promised, she sees Rae as soon as the doors open, standing in a small room featuring intricate carvings and an intractable stone block.

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    Standing amidst the others on the higher floor, Cordellia leaned more gingerly on her cane as she used it as an impromptu pulpit, and glanced up at the descending elevator as it steadily worked its way out of sight "Looking at Rae's decision now, you know..." She glanced around the room with a single revealed eye "I'm reminded something of a book I read several decades ago. Something about natural and unnatural forces thinning herds. Passing on of ideas. Hard to recall it all right now, but..." She shrugs and unscrews her flask before sipping away at it inbetween flipping pages.

    "What else is to be expected of a Wood Elf." She says in Sylvan before flourishing her flask holding hand.
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    "Somebody had to be the scout. Do you everyone in such low esteem? I should be cautious of relying on you if I got into trouble." The Bard was annoyed at the mage's insinuation about Rae, and shot her a disapproving look.
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    Louise sighed with relief that nothing foul had befallen Rae, and walked over.

    "Ah, Rae. Reynauld has filled the rest of us in. Before you go about toppling that block, would you mind if I took a look at it real quick?"

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    ”Not everyone. Just people who voluntarily jump down holes without looking or asking anyone. This is a grave site after all.” She took another swig of her whiskey.
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    Reynauld stood near the elevator, impatiently tapping a boot. He spoke after Cordellia and Corinne's exchange.
    "I fear this is in part my fault. Perhaps Rae saw me opening that sarcophagus and felt she had to one-up me. I had no intention of starting a competition. I only did what I did because I knew there was aid close at hand."
    He gave Simone a meaningful look.
    "But a scout is of no use if they're not alive to report back to their unit. *sigh* ...But I'm wasting words... words meant for Rae's ears, if she had the wisdom to hear them. I wish there was a better way of communicating with the 'away team,' as it were. As soon as this contraption pops up again I'm going down there to help."

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    Moving towards the stone block to get a better look, Louise is perhaps surprised by the sound of the cylinder doors closing and the apparatus rising up yet again. Over the course of two minutes, she examines every inch of the stone slab, finding little of interest in its rocky surface. Below, however, is a different matter. Probing the floor with her fingers, Louise discerns that the block is in fact resting atop a pressure plate. A pressure plate set to trigger should weight be removed from its surface.

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    "Oh. Well, this is a find. Rae, I highly advise that you stop what you're doing. This block is holding down a pressure plate, and I'd rather not set it off without knowing what it does."


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    After a few moments of searching, Louise turned back to Rae.

    "Yeah, I don't know where it'd come from, but I'm fairly certain this is a trap. Let's head back up."


    Louise then headed back to the elevator and headed up.
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    Simone's eyes popped open at the safe return of Reynauld.

    "She is a fiesty spirit, I would not presume to blame yourself for her impetuousness." She smiled softly to ease the man's burden.

    "Perhaps we should try rotating the sarcophagus further? Once the others return safely, of course."
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    Once everyone had returned from the elevator back to the central nexus, Reynauld rubbed a finger under his chin in thought.
    "So we have a trapped, blocked corridor. Well, there are several other directions to point this contraption. The green lantern is lit; perhaps that signifies something important?"

    Several other in the group seemed agreeable to moving the sarcophagus to point towards the green lantern, so the crusader went about pushing the pedestal in that direction.

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    Once again, the group's strength proves more than a match for the sarcophagus mechanism. Sliding free with a faint click, it slides across the floor towards the green lantern. As it does so, the cylinder that waits with open doors in the yellow hallway recedes back into the floor. Whatever mechanism controls the strange elevators, it apparently is tied to the direction the sarcophagus points.

    The sarcophagus comes to rest with another gentle click, once more followed by a rumbling of stone. Unlike the yellow corridor, however, this rumbling grows increasingly discordant, a cacophonous creaking of stone against stone reverberating out from below the green lantern.

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    "What fresh devilry is this? Hold fast!"

    Reynauld moved to the front of the group, maul in hand, putting himself closer to whatever danger might be brewing.

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    Louise held fast, but kept her stance in a wide position, ready to leap into action if something happened.
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    "Oh, blast." Corinne drew her bow and loosely nocked an arrow in preparation for...whatever-it-was that was soon to be upon them.
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    Rae, still not sure why everyone was upset at her for trying the potential death machine first, also readied herself for whatever came next.
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    Tense seconds pass as the rumbling grows louder and increasingly violent, until something finally gives way. There is a resounding crack from the far end of the tunnel, and a circular section of the floor beneath the green lantern falls away. There is a crash, as if from a great distance, and then silence. Cordellia breathes a sigh of relief, but before the rest of the group can follow suit they hear the sound of something scuttling in the darkness. The sound begins to echo, as though thousands of tiny legs were scratching against naked stone, but even its maddening cadence is poor warning for what follows. There is a flash movement in the hole, before a geyser of beetles bursts free from the shaft. The floor comes alive with their undulations, a sickly yellow liquid oozing from their trail. They surge towards the bulwark of Reynauld and Rae, and in their wake the shadow of massive talons emerges from the hole.

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    The earth belched forth horrors, and for a moment Reynaul faltered. Then Corinne began singing; her voice so pure, so beautiful, that it filled the crusader's heart with courage and determination. He strode forth, removing a small ceramic flask from his belt, etched with a stylized sunburst.

    "Taste cleansing fire, fiends!" he yelled as he lobbed the alchemist's fire towards the carpet of beetles, hoping to catch the other creature in the blast.

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    Corinne took one look at the large mass of beetles, and fought down a stab of fear in her belly. Straightening her shoulders, she started to sing,

    "Beetle dudes! Beetle dudes!
    Attacking travelers is kinda rude!
    Make your lair in another place,
    Or Reynauld will stab you in the face!
    Look out! Here he comes, beetle dudes!"


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    Taking a long drink from her flask, Cordellia’s eyes went wide as beetles swarmed out of the ground, and nearly sputtered her drink as she moved into position. Running along, cane in hand, she clenched her free fist, drew a circle in the air before her, and incanted a melodic sylvan stanza. A blazing circle appeared where her hand had outline and she snapped her outstretched hand twice. Two orbs of fire streaked towards the encroaching swarm.

    ”Atleast this death will be convenient. Already in a grave, dressed my best, and terrible music on hand.”

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