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Jinxxedooc: Xune (murderer)
Time: dusk
Weather: Cold but not freezing - warming near the pyramid
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Lorien’s senses stretch into the entrance, sharpening the dim interior just enough to catch what the eye alone might miss. Fine seams run along the floor in tight, deliberate patterns, not cracks but placements. Faint lines thread between them, dull and dark until they catch the light at certain angles. Along the walls, segments shift slightly out of alignment with one another, as if parts of the structure sit on hidden joints. Deeper in, vertical structures rotate at a slow, steady pace, and thin veins of dim green light pulse through channels that do not follow any natural design.
Mantis finds little left of the battlefield to work with. The remains she searches for are gone, burned out and taken back into the pyramid. What she gathers amounts to loose debris and fragments of the terrain. When thrown into the entrance, the objects strike the floor and slide or bounce without provoking a response.
At the threshold, Ryker reacts in time. He pulls back as the spikes surge upward, avoiding a lethal impalement, but not cleanly. The rising metal catches his armor and tears through it, splitting plates and leaving it badly damaged as he clears the trap’s reach. (Ryker armor sundered. no longer offers protection)
As quickly as it came, the trap retracts. The spikes withdraw straight down into the floor, the seams sealing behind them until the surface appears whole again. The faint lines dim and not unlike the rest of the floor, and the entrance returns to stillness.
The party remains outside, the interior open before them once more. Considering the dimensions of the trap, it looked like something that could be hopped over, but without knowing trigger, it may be risky either way.
