Floor 1 "Wheel": 1-1

[Anastasia]

Eyes closed, Varian hits the button! He hears a soft clicking sound from within the wall! If he cares to open his eyes, he can see that the way ahead is still clear. No sign of spear-y death.

[Merc]

After a few seconds of nothing happening, he releases a sigh of relief. "Okay, hopefully that was a button deactivating all traps. I did hear a clicking sound..." he mutters, trying to convince himself. "...well. Here goes."

His heart racing, he slowly begins to go down again. However, at the first sign of agonizing pain (that isn't immediately fatal... hopefully!) though, the gnome is scrambling back up!

[Anastasia]

The stairway goes down one hundred feet! The sign of it is seeing a floor at the bottom. It looks like quite a normal floor, save for one thing. Several loose gemstones lie to the side and opposite the ladder.

[Merc]

Cupping his hands in front of his mouth, he bellows upwards to Shadow, "Looks safe to come down!" and waits for his companion to join him, as he looks around more carefully while he waits.

[Anastasia]

* Hatbot --> "Kotono rolls 1d20+2 and gets 6." [1d20=4]

The floor is steel and utterly non descript. There aren't any murderholes this far below.

[Dracos]

"Alright," Shadow hurried down after his compatriot.

[Anastasia]

Shadow gets to the bottom! Both are on the ladder, not far above the floor. The gems are perhaps 8 feet away and at an angle, just lying there.

[Dracos]

In traditional style, Shadow jabs at the gemstones with his spear.

[Anastasia]

The first jab breaks one of the gemstones into a dozen little shiny shards. No resistance at all, a simple jab broke it.

[Merc]

"Well, those are probably fake if they broke that easily, given you don't strike me as one of those stupidly strong sorts, no offense by the way," Varian notes before sighing. "Probably yet another trap of some sort."

[Dracos]

"Yeah, surprising actually...it's all created...why bother with cheap traps?"  Shadow shrugged, looking for other routes and shifting the gems around with the butt of his spear.

[Anastasia]

The gems break rather easily. Slamming down the butt of his spear, Shadow can notice the sound is rather hollow. Otherwise, there's nothing of note here, nor any passages.

[Dracos]

"Huh...the floor might be hollow," He tested it a bit with his spear to see if it was a door down..or just a pit trap.

[Anastasia]

The floor sinks down ever so slightly from the repeated beats. It's a smooth motion, not something crude and giving.

[Merc]

"Hrm...there really doesn't seem to be anything interesting around here. Maybe we were supposed to press one of the other buttons to get a useful effect like a secret exit or such?" Varian theorizes.