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Windhammer, Copyright Wayne Densley 2001 - 2007 All Rights Reserved
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 With nowhere else to go you sit back against the rough wall of the tunnel and consider the door that now confronts you. It is old and very well made, but the lock itself is of a type easily picked, although only by someone who has the skill and equipment to do so. In the gloom you search your pack and find the set of lockpicks. They are a series of thin metal probes, extremely strong and shaped so that they can be inserted into even the thinnest of keyholes. In the light of your torch you look more closely and find that they are well worn along most of their edges. This is a set of picks that have seen considerable use.
Carefully you begin the task of moving the tumblers within the lock. The device is old but strangely it has been well maintained. As you work on its mechanism you can see a smear of newly applied grease around the keyhole, and it gives you pause to wonder what might lay on the other side. In the cramped conditions of the tunnel you believe anything will be better than this.
After only a few minutes effort the mechanism turns and you hear the tell-tale click of the door unlatching. Within its metal surface you can also feel a sustained vibration as long arms retract from the surrounding wall into the door itself. To open it requires that you now do nothing more than push on it.
With the lock mastered you place your picks back into your bag and re-pack what remains of your other possessions. Hands still greasy from the sweat of your endeavours you put your weight against the door and push. With almost no resistance the door springs outwards, taking you completely by surprise. Before you have any opportunity to regain your balance you are pitched forward, straight out into...
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Windhammer, Copyright Wayne Densley 2001 - 2007 All Rights Reserved
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