Offer Araches a friendly hug if she'll tell us the idea. One hug. In a very well-lit room.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

That's 'your' job.
I claim page 69, the most suggestive number given Araches' pat on Shuriken. ;p

WR, just, NO. Ok? NO.

Not here, at least.

I rolled me eyes. "What kind of begging?" I asked.
"Get on your knees, act pitiful, and beg for help."
This felt very, very wrong, but I had little choice. Screwing dignity, a got down onto my knees, held my hands near my heart, and initiated the best puppy-dog-eyes I could. "Please, tell me the plan," I said, secretly contemplating ways to kill the sorceress.
"Try to be more pathetic."
Hating myself, I obliged. "Oh, pleease Ms. Araches, all-powerful and all-sexxay dark sorceress, imbue me with the knowledge of your plan."
She laughed. "Okay, since you asked so nicely."
"I think I'm going to kill myself."
"You're so hot when you're suicidal. Anyway, plan," she continued, "if this room has spikes triggered to bar off the door like the last room, we could probably just slip the crystals between the bars near the bottom. We could have a summon do it, or use a hook or something to get the crystals out while we remain outside."
"I begged for that?" I asked, "that's just common sense."
"I don't give you much credit for common sense anymore."
I tried to kick her, but she saw it coming and my leg got hit by a painful electrical charge. I settled with scowling again.

Araches is like a very very mean Farah. ;(

Ask Uberbob for the rope, then have everybody go North out of the room. Tie the marshmellow on a stick to the rope, by the stick. Throw it and stick the marshmellow onto the pyramid. PULL.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

Take pyramid (since it's not it that causes the spikes to go down..I hope).

Radium, you ignored my post.

EDIT: Also, pull while outside of the room...

Have Fooruman go and pick the shard on the floor near the wall (since its logical that nothing will happen)

Wait, should I go back and start with WR's because he posted first or start with Odin Ae's?

meh. just do AE's.

BR's.

AE's.

"Rope," I commanded Uberbob.
"You'll have to beg firs-"
"Rope or you die."
The rabbit obliged and handed me the roll of rope. I took the marshmallow on a stick out of the backpack and tied the rope around the stick. I stood back a ways from the doorway and threw the marshmallow out towards the pyramid. It missed by about two feet.
"Try again," Uberbob suggested.
I pulled the marshmallow back. "I wasn't planning on giving up," I said, throwing it again. It hit the pyramid and bounced off. I reeled it back towards me.
"It needs to be stickier," Faw pointed out, "try licking it."
I looked at the marshmallow. Two particular melted plastic pieces on it looked like eyes, and a few pieces of loose hair someone lost on the inside of the backpack gave it a frowny face to some degree. It stared back at me like a lost puppy. Well, a lost puppy that's all sticky, covered in plastic pieces, and carried around by an old man for God-knows-how-long. "Fooruman, lick this marshmallow for me." The Archmage took the marshmallow and stuck it in his mouth, sucking on it for at least a minute or two.
"Are you done?"
"MmFNo," he declared without taking it out of his mouth. We waited another minute. He removed the marshallow on a stick. "I now firmly believe, sir, you will never find a stickier marshmallow."
I accepted the soppy marshmallow, carefully holding it by the stick, and tossed it towards the pyramid. It missed by a few inches. I tried to tug the rope back, but the marshmallow was firmly stuck to the ground. I pulled harder, but the stick snapped.
"Can I have my rope back now?" Uberbob asked.

Take the pyramid, N, N, take the pyramid which's in there.

No.

Go take the stick, pull it off of the ground (making sure to keep the marshmellow on), tie the rope to that, firmly press the marshmellow on the pyramid, walk out, then pull.

I second Cooba's instructions because he doesn't insult me as much.

Originally Posted by UNKNOWNFILE

I second Cooba's instructions because he doesn't insult me as much.

I don't insult you, I just think almost everything you do is annoying.

OMG INSULT

I second Odin. I see no reason why the pyramids wouldn't be the triggers for the spikes, and a couple of reasons why they would be.

tie DD=
someone be decisive

By my ARCANE WISDOM, I declare that we do what Cooba said (even though I don't think it will work).

i second odin ;)

god (-)it Dev >O

Odin's plan.

Neither of them are going to work, you know, Cooba's just made the most sense. If Rad wouldn't let you use the marshmellow trick before, what makes you think he'll let you use it now?

Originally Posted by Dev

Neither of them are going to work, you know, Cooba's just made the most sense. If Rad wouldn't let you use the marshmellow trick before, what makes you think he'll let you use it now?

Fine. Cooba's plan. And everyone that votes for me now votes for cooba. >D

Too bad. I started writing right after Canti posted and Odin posted as soon as I finished.

Suddenly it occured to me - I could just stick the marshmallow to the pyramid and THEN pull. Feeling kind of stupid, I walked into the room to pick up the marshmallow.
I knelt down, grabbed the remaining portion of the stick coming out of the marshmallow, and pulled. The marshmallow didn't budge. I repositioned my feet to get better leverage, wrapped my hands around the entire marshmallow, and pulled back as hard as I could. The marshmallow remained firmly rooted. I fell sideways trying to get up, both hands stuck. "Fooruman, what did you do to this marshmallow?" I asked, laying on my side. The wizard shrugged.
After a few minutes of struggling and some help from Faw, Uberbob, and the Mythslayer, I got free of the marshmallow. I instinctively tried to wipe my hands off on the side of my pants, but both hands got stuck again.
"Let's ignore the marshmallow," I suggested, both hands still stuck to my pants.

Say, "@!&#@!#!@(*#!@"

And you all thought I was mad. *cackles maniacally* WHO'S YO FOO-DADDY NOW, G?!

I honestly don't know why I just said that.

Ask Fooruman if he can help you get your hands unstuck, with his arcane powers if neccessary. Don't ask for Araches' help, no matter what. =O

Originally Posted by acid

I second Odin. I see no reason why the pyramids wouldn't be the triggers for the spikes, and a couple of reasons why they would be.

Well, tell us the reasons then! The spikes were, for the pyramid, triggered by taking the fragment on the floor, not the pyramid.

NOW do what Cooba wrote.

Have Faw cast resurrect on the PDA.

Good idea. Unless it only works on living beings, in which case you'll look like a fool, like a fool!

I claim page 70 in the name of Adam the Potentional Fool.

Originally Posted by Dev

Don't ask for Araches' help, no matter what. =O

But have her do it anyway. >D

Originally Posted by Ae

Have Faw cast resurrect on the PDA.

No! That would just waste Faw's spell, facehead!

Then he could just borrow Fooruman's spell.

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

Put pyramid down, step away from where that spike was, pick up pyramid.

I'd assume the spike would move with Shuri. After all, if the trap was stuck in one place, how did it manage to impale Shuri? I mean, someone trying to take the pyramid could stand to any side of it while doing so.

I tried to shake the pyramid out of my still-sticky hand. Eventually it snapped off and bounced across the floor. The eight spikes retracted back into the doorway and the one through my ankle went back into the ceiling.
"Everything okay in there?" Uberbob called in from down the hallway.
"Fine. Just a minute."
"Don't die, because you have the food," he added.
I carefully got up and limped over to the other side of the pyramid, out of under the newly-made hole in the ceiling. I got down on one knee, careful to stay as far away from the hole as possible, and reached out for the pyramid. Of course, almost as soon as I lifted it the enterance barred itself off again and a new spike burst from the ceiling, this time managing to run through both my shoulder and forearm. I instinctively yelped with pain, and Fawriel came running down the hallway.
"Shuri! You're.. impaled!" the healer said, hands on the bars, "put the crystal back, I can help."
I dropped the pyramid back onto the ground with my free arm. The spikes shot back up, leaving me in a bleeding heap on the ground. Fawriel ran over and came to my aid, tearing off more of his now mostly-gone belt to stop the bleeding a little. "Fooruman and I are both out of magic. Araches is, too, but she's not admitting it." He put out his arm and helped me up. I would have fallen off, but my hands were still sticky from the saliva-covered marshmallow. "If you keep this up you'll end up looking like Uberbob."

Inventory

go north

N,W, W.