Welcome to Gaia! ::

((Not one bit, this is Gaia after all, and just about every character has some sort of powers. I have a complicated antagonist indwelt by & merged with the conciousness of an ancient norse giant, so why would I mind a vampire. Of course, if he's old school vampire that that mean old school vampire weaknesses. Daylight, crucifix, garlic, wooden stake, etc. )) ninja

Searching around with powerful flashlights, they would find what they were looking for.

"You," Bill said, summoning the officer, "check that contraption for any possible traps, take as much time as you need."

The soldier would know what he was doing, he has worked in a minesweeping unit before he was hired by Yait's Corp. He set up a perimeter and began sweeping the area for lines, if none were found he would check the contraption to see if there was an device that could be a possible trap, or if the door was a trap itself.

((Scary gear man! eek I'm invading your turf, you can see what is readily available to me in terms of NPC assets and watchers [which are in essence extensions of Yarneth]. Your character would be dealing with a force slightly more capable than a regular army unit but much less capable than than a special ops unit. There are only four men in the cave presently, and only one is capable of any real surprises. Go at them and have a blast if you must, but they will fight back.))

They expected a trap, that's why they examined the device before doing anything. The sweep of the area revealed cuts in the ceiling above, the stone inside the cuts was well placed, the whole set-up was barely noticable, but they suspected something on a chain that would be dropped to crush them if the panel was pressed, and then could be reset afterwards. They set up to press the panel from a distance, but first they would scan every square inch around them and even behind them, inc case any other devices that might be potential traps could be found.

((Are the burn marks around the holes too?))

Bil and Carl stoped at the entrance, noticing that the slight elevation into the room seemed to be by design rather than by accident. Scanning the room with the flashlight, they barely noticed the faint burn marks.

"Looks like a weight trap," Bill said, "It probably takes a certain amount of pressure to trip it. We have to find out how much, and what happens. See those burn marks, it probably has something to do with fire. Which means something has to fuel the trap, it is possible we could trip it and let the fuel burn out, but I have no idea how much fuel is stored down here, or even if it is a fire trap. We need to do some more testing."

With that a small cage was released, and two bomb sniffing rats, trained to ddetect explosive chemicals, were left into the room. They would scamper around anything they found three times, but the most important thing was a test of how sensitive this trap may be.

The little rats scurried back into their cages.

"No explosives detected," Bill said, "Whatever these are, they'll only go off if the minimum weight requirement is set. Let's try something else."

A big toy truck with an 50 kilograms of lead lead weight in the top compartment rolled into the room, controled by a remote. Bill looked like he was having a little to much fun, Carl frowned.

Another truck would join it, doubling the weight, also, there was a magical resonance detector on the second truck, just in case there were any ethereal tricks to this chamber. It wouldn't discern the true nature of the track, but it would detect any magical latency needed to spring a magical trap would be detected, as well as any power from potentially hostile creatures.