This door, worked in an elaborate frieze displaying some glorious scene out of history or legend, is in fact a carefully designed trap. Hollow, and balanced carefully on a horizontal pivot while giving the appearance of opening normally, the lower portion of the door contains a liquid; meanwhile, the upper portion contains a powder, kept separate by an easily-dislodged plate. The trap is sprung when the door is disturbed; pivoting on the horizontal axis, the powder and the liquid mix freely, reacting to create a deadly gas that erupts out the myriad hidden holes amid the elaborate frieze, giving the door the appearance of belching the deadly fumes out from countless nostrils, mouths, and eyes.
Generally, this door is used to guard sealed areas which none are meant to enter, or doors which the real owner of the area can bypass by some means, be it a concealed door nearby or magic to skip past it entirely. Particularly paranoid and antisocial individuals might even employ them in the living spaces, although they will tend to reside on a higher floor, safe from the dense fumes.
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November 7, 2005, 11:15
Randolph thought for a second and then replied: "Uhhhh.... Ohhh.... Rupert? That bra, err, cute kid? Eh, I think he went... upstairs".
Poor Rupert. The sleeping poison was too hard on his young body and he died from the overdose. After a dozen similar accidents, like the maid who broke her ankle as she fell asleep, or the young son of lord Mandragore who got bruised, Lord Randolph had to settle for a regular door and sold this one back to WotC industries who patented several similar ill conceived trap doors.
November 22, 2005, 16:37
November 23, 2005, 3:56
Problematic for a normal residence, good for restricted places.
(Side note: the door nearby better be tight, or the sleeping gas knocks out the owner, too.)
April 22, 2006, 20:50
April 23, 2008, 20:11
April 24, 2008, 17:37
As with many other traps, your can simply train your guards to not open this door... hopefully they are not that stupid. :)
April 25, 2008, 2:40
Presumably this version is more acceptable.
April 25, 2008, 15:21
But then again, the "rush of submissions" in the new Citadel seemed to cause many a person to have their eyes gloss over.
Some things were not "perfect", but they were there, useful, and "good enough". And they were used to fill out new categories that occured in Citadel v2.
April 25, 2008, 3:56
I like the new version better and have revised my vote.
April 25, 2008, 5:43
October 29, 2012, 13:19