I removed the handheld computer from the pack. "Fawriel, can you fix this with healing magic? Like, resurrect it? It might have helpful information"
Fawriel took the device and looked at it. "I can't heal this. It was never alive. If I could magically fix computers, I'd have a tech support company."
"Oh, " I said, putting the broken PDA back away.
It occured to me that we had never actually determined that the pyramids caused the enterance to close - we had always gone straight for the less-significant looking objects. It was a clever red herring, if it indeed was one, but we needed to test it first.
"Everyone get down the hallway, away from the door," I declared. Leetzan backed far, far away, and everyone else followed. I got on my knees next to the pyramid and carefully picked it up, cautiously looking for traps. As the small, crystalline form left the surface, absolutely nothing happened. "Hey, it worked!"
Of course, no sooner had I said this then I heard the familiar grinding noise, a new noise of ice breaking, and a very loud "SQUELCHTHUNK". The latter was accompanied by a sharp pain, knocking me over.
The doorway was again barred off by eight crystal spikes. However, a new spike (particularly long and thin) had burst from the ceiling, passed through my ankle, and drove itself into the ground.
Picking up the pyramid probably wasn't a great idea, I thought to myself, one leg painfully nailed to the floor. We were doing something wrong here, and with no more healing magic, trial and error was becoming more and more dangerous.
Inventory
|