<div class="floatright"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Shugar</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://i.imgur.com/iu2yajs.jpg)</div></div></div><br/>Lydia passes through the archway and feels a wash of magical energy.  Her body, especially all of the exposed skin not covered by the skimpy chain bikini, tingles with a somewhat pleasant sensation.  But then she's through the archway and staring at the stone wall of the arena a few feet in front of her.  Damn, it didn't work.  She clenches her fist, and in doing so realizes that the key that was stuck to her hand is gone.  Another contestant, a redhead named Serra, almost slams into her from behind as she too passes through the archway with no effect.  But turning Lydia realizes that she can not see Karin at all, the woman must have chosen the right key.  There was nothing to do but run back across the arena and grab a new key.  Well at least she had a much better sense of what to touch and what not to touch now.<br/><br/>Remembering the tingling slightly arousing feeling that happened when she passed through the archway, Lydia wisely circled around it before running back across the arena.  She took a moment to glance south and north to check the progress of the Void.  She let a slight sigh of releif slip past her lips as she realized it wasn't moving very fast.  She should have more than enough time to make the run back and forth from the key board to the archway and still go through all four other key types before the void was close enough to be a real threat.  Even having stopped to help Karin, she was going to be all right on time, especially since she wasn't thinking about trying for any of the chests.<br/><br/>Just at that moment she heard a cry and couldn't help but look north.  There, one of her bunkmates, the half bugbear Shugar, was in trouble.  She had also opened a trapped chest much further away from the middle point of the arena than Karin had been.  However this was no simple net, green tentacles were whipping about from the inside of the chest, and already several had wrapped themselves about her limbs.  That was no treasure chest, it was a mimic, a living creature that looked like a treasure chest.  Lydia could continue on her path and keep running for the keys or she could make a rather large side track and try to go help Shugar.  She noticed that Shugar didn't have any weapons, but she might be able to fight the creature by herself.  After all, going to help Shugar would certainly cut into Lydia's lead time on the void's approach.  Then again, if Shugar didn't escape the mimic quickly, the void would probably catch her.<br/><br/>The crowd above roared at the spectacle as the green tentacles slid into Shugar's outfit and began tearing it asunder.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">On the next key that Lydia takes, roll a 4 sided die, on a roll of 1 she passes through the portal into the first level.<br/><br/><strong>Lydia now has an arousal rating of 1. </strong> This will not have any major effects on most actions, but might have thematic effects. </div></div>