Horray!!

In case you're wondering, I'm rolling a d20, then deciding roughly how each of these goes. Pretty rolled a natural 20. Beefy's spider rolled a natural 1.

I'm guessing the lever said "Pull for spiders"

Definitely a lever you want to be well labeled.

GINGER SMASH!

As you guys may have noticed, I'm not necessarily waiting on everyone to post for this sort of skirmish fight. As far as I'm concerned, if someone isn't posting and is in one and one combat with something, then those two are going back and forth, neither doing much to the other. Of course, the longer you go without posting, the more you'll start taking injuries leading into death... though that said, that's after a good while of no posting (week+) without requesting for your character to go on hiatus or noting in the OOC or up in announcements that you're off on a trip like Stan currently is. And, of course, that's assuming that the other players don't manage to stop whatever it is.

*pokes players*

*pokes Ruan*

Are all the spiders dead? I am really injured, and I wanted to know before kicking at another spider.

Here's the current status of each person's spider, near as I can tell:

vs. Pretty (Stan Cold): destroyed via a kick (approximately) in the face. Pretty is uninjured.

vs. The Lady (weatherwax): destroyed. Stomped with a jump from the block, then kicked in the sigil to break it apart. The Lady's got multiple cuts, including on her hip. She is limping slightly and bleeding significantly.

vs. Ginger (AlternateTorg): destroyed. Grabbed and smashed against the wall, then the floor, sigil-side down. Ginger has suffered a few cuts and scratches on her legs and arms.

vs. Enver (CCC): ACTIVE but missing two legs. Currently under attack by Enver and Ginger. Pretty may be attacking it as well, as he didn't specify a target, and this is the only spider which is still active. Enver's hands and torso are cut.

vs. Beefy (Skitzophrenik): disabled. Pinned with Beefy's foot, then legs knocked off by The Kid. Beefy is uninjured.

vs. The Kid (Dom/SlimKop): disabled. All legs have been smashed off. The Kid is uninjured.

So to answer your question, weatherwax, it seems like The Lady needn't trouble herself.

Edit: Typo.

Perfect. Then the Lady can curse to herself while checking her bleedy, bleedy wound.

AT has it. Post'll be up in a bit.

*pokes everyone*

I will tell you guys this so you can make an informed choice as to what to do next:

You have not solved the puzzle. You can leave the room if you wish and head back toward the infinite hallway. Or, alternatively, you could stay and try and solve the puzzle. Aside from the subtitle wording on the block, there's been at least one more hint to the solution in my posts so far.

Annoying little puzzle. Originally it was designed for a higher level party in a DnD game. When you flipped the lever, the lights in the room went out. When you flipped it the other way, the lights came back on... but two giant statues came to life and attack you.

Instead, all you had to do was push the block the lever was on forward.

Anyway, in the alcoves is pretty much any melee weapon you can think of (that actually exists). This is, however, limited to weapons from ancient->medieval times. No ranged weapons at all.

Hey, do the weapons come with gear in which to carry the weapons? Belts, scabbards, etc?