-/-/- Tomb of Annihilation -\-\-

As soon as Felix gets the midpoint of the hallway, the skull's jaws creak open, and a skeletal hand holding a crystal hourglass-style timer emerges from within. With a click, the timer rotates and sand starts to trickle into the lower globe.

Felix also notices the seem around the stone floor: this is a pit trap.

OOC You have about 10 seconds to decide what to do and do it.

Gertrude realises that they don't have much time. For a split second, she starts to panic. Then her soldier brain is slowing her breathing down, her thoughts down. They are trapped. If they go outside, they'll probably be blocked outside for ever. If they pull the lever, the pit trap might open. 

Quick, think quick. She tries to remember the sentences on the obelisk. THE ENEMIES OPPOSE. ONE STANDS BETWEEN THEM. 

They both talked about the position of the puzzle cubes. IN DARKNESS, IT HIDES...

Gertrude steps forward and stands next to the lever. Then she pulls out a torch from her backpack and lights it. She quickly looks around the room for any changes. 

"Ten seconds !!! To What !?! "

Kurma's neurons are firing. "Think quick... A lever, a pit trap, one way in, one way out...."
He places his hand on Felix and casts Guidance "This may help you Felix... May Oghma guides you"

Kurma then runs back to the first door frame, ready to jump in the room or to block the slab if it is possible for a Tortle. "I'll try to keep our way out open, friends"

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As soon as Felix gets the midpoint of the hallway, the skull's jaws creak open, and a skeletal hand holding a crystal hourglass-style timer emerges from within. With a click, the timer rotates and sand starts to trickle into the lower globe.

Felix also notices the seem around the stone floor: this is a pit trap.

OOC You have about 10 seconds to decide what to do and do it.

 [OOC: Does it look like Felix can make it with an acrobatic jump?]

Quote from BeastyC >>

Quote from filcat >>

As soon as Felix gets the midpoint of the hallway, the skull's jaws creak open, and a skeletal hand holding a crystal hourglass-style timer emerges from within. With a click, the timer rotates and sand starts to trickle into the lower globe.

Felix also notices the seem around the stone floor: this is a pit trap.

OOC You have about 10 seconds to decide what to do and do it.

 [OOC: Does it look like Felix can make it with an acrobatic jump?]

 OOC In 10 seconds, you can even just walk, no need to jump.

"...Shit!..." Felix acting on instinct just goes for it! He runs forward and hopes for the best and pulls the lever.

Oniss sees Felix rush to the lever from the rear of the room and instinctively closes his eyes waiting for what is about to happen to happen. 

Brunella grits her teeth. She has a flash of terror, imagining the floor opening into a pit of lava. She will not let Felix die alone. She stays behind the human, ready as she can be.

And the floor between the two doors to split open along a central seam, revealing a 20-foot-tall pit trap full of spikes...

OOC Felix and Gertrude can do a DEX saving throw to hang on the lever.

Felix 2, Gertrude 1, Brunella 3, Irommek 3, Bag of Nails 4, Oniss 2.

Felix: 10 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 7 piercing damage + 14 poison damage + poisoned

Gertrude: 18 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 6 piercing damage + 13 poison damage + poisoned

Brunella: 5 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 7 piercing damage + 16 poison damage + poisoned

Irommek: 6 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 5 piercing damage + 6 poison damage + poisoned

Bag of Nails: 12 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 9 piercing damage + 11 poison damage + poisoned

Oniss: 7 bludgeoning damage from the fall + 10 piercing damage + 16 poison damage + poisoned

Oniss opens his eyes as the floor moves out from under him.  He looks to the wall for something to grab and sees nothing.  He falls with the rest of the party and curses to himself.  in pain he shouts out to the party;

"Everyone Alive?"

"Alive," calls out Brunella. But she can see that others have fared much worse. Bag of Nails, especially, is fully skewered. "Bag of Nails looks very very hurt!"

Brunella uncoils her rope, and walks along the base of the pit to the first set of doors. She calls out to Kurma, and tosses him the rope. Kurma holds the rope at the top, and Brunella then assists the others to get off the spikes and make their way to the base of the rope. She then climbs up to the top, and pulls up those that are too weak to climb, or else lets them climb the rope if they can.

Felix aim for the lever hears the springs give and the pit opening. He tries his best to reach and hang on.

DEX save: 25

Failing to grab the lever Felix tries his best to land, and takes half the damage. Getting up hears Burnella "Yeah I'm fine just few new holes..." Felix will take his time dusting of and gets a strange idea.  He begins looking down at the spikes checking for remains from past adventures to loot. 

Investigation: 12

The all group falls in front of Kurma's eyes and he couldn't help, again...
But the first door does not seem to close, that is a good thing. 

Taking his rope from his backpack, he starts to pull up everyone out of the pit.

Bag of Nails: " AH! Fun that was. Do it again we should!"

Artus and Dragonbait, terrified at first, help Kurma getting their friends out of the pit. Felix finds no sign of past adventurers. During this time, the skeletal hand keeps turning the hourglass upside down every 10 seconds to reset the countdown. The hand disappersd when the party gets out of the pit.

Bringing up all the team on safe ground, Kurma says: "Very well, that was scary. Should we rest a bit, it looks like everybody is hurt.."

While everybody is tending to their wounds, Kurma approches Oniss.
"Brunella is keen for me to have a look at your new amulet, maybe it is important for this door. Can I ?"
Kurma is casting identify is Oniss is letting him take the amulet.

"Oh, Oniss. I was also wondering. Do you think you could try to switch the lever back to the previous position with you mage hand ?"

While Kurma identifies the amulet, Brunella tends to her wounds. 5

OOC Where exactly are you all while tending the wounds?

With everyone out of the pit Oniss agrees with Kurma and uses his mage hand to return the lever to its original position to see what happens.  

Oniss also gives Kurma the pendant to examine.