<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/95/Atoll-donut900web.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>The expedition<br/><strong>Location/Date/Time:</strong>Somewhere on the Western Ocean, 8 Resplendent Earth, Early afternoon - Underwater team / Main Ring<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Any<br/><strong>Notes:</strong>None<br/><br/>Working together, Yolhu and Lynette would be able to work out what was going on with the hatchway. Small pieces of metal are embedded in the ceiling and others are scattered around the hatchway itself, all rusted with time. Yolhu managed to spot it, embedded in the floor where the hatch would normally close, a fist-sized spherical object, once white but now faded to grey. Lynette would have read of quagmire mines before, in First Age treatises. Buried in the earth they could create sinkholes for anyone unwary enough to pass over them, a rarer variety able to blast shards of rock upwards instead. This seems to be a variation on that, sending shards of the metal decking blasting upwards and jamming the hatch open.<br/><br/>Whether it is still active or not, that's another question.<br/><br/>The other question is how many similar traps might still litter other parts of the manse.