Kirsta was coughing again and managed to call out,<strong> "Yeah... Im.... *cough cough* getting that....*cough* now."</strong><br/><br/>Zerxel couldn't even see her on the other side of the room at the moment, but she crossed the platform to get to nearest ready to pull down the pillar when she stopped.  Something had changed... something was different now.   She could hear Kirsta coughing on the other side of the room, but there was something different... what was it?  She looked around the long platform she was on, it was the platform at the end of the room opposite the side they'd entered.  The door was still down, that wasn't it.  No, it was the statue in the middle of the platform!  It had raised up.  The round dais that it sat on was a few inches higher than it had been before.  More to the point there was an indentation in the dais all the way around the base, she could see that it probably was about halfway raised up, if the indent was any sign.  Trying to breathe shallowly to not inhale the dust like sand she got down on her hands and knees and looked at the indent in the dias.  It was a ring that ran around the bottom, which had been sunken into the platform and had raised up as they'd pulled down the pillars.<br/><br/>Just then another resounding thump sounded from across the room as Kirsta pulled down one of the other pillars.  Before Zerxel's eyes, the statue slowly and quietly raised up another two inches, revealing more of the base.  Inside the indentation were several 'hooks' of iron.  Zerxel puzzled what they might be about when she heard Kirsta call out,<strong> "That's.... cough cough.... four... cough cough... I....cough.... can't....."</strong>Then Kirsta's words stopped as she fell into a long racking coughing fit from the other side of the room.<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">You need to make a willpower roll each post from here on out.  You need to roll higher than 2*the number of pillars you've dropped.   So on your next roll you need a 9 or higher, but if you drop another pillar you'll need an 11 or higher</div></div>