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 It is difficult working within the cramped confines of the well, but you are able to find enough of a purchase upon the slick stones to reach out and grab for the silver medallion. Carefully you take a hold of the artifact's heavy chain and then begin to prise it from of its resting place.
Within the close conditions of the well you struggle with the artifact. It is well jammed and requires all the strength you can bring to the task to slowly lever it from the wall. Unfortunately the medallion's unusual position within the well is not accidental and too late you realise your error. Even as you pull it finally from the wall you notice the difference in the mortar used to hold the stones around the medallion in place. Someone has reset two of the stones and it has been quickly, and roughly, done. Your blood runs cold as you hold the medallion in your hands. It is the trigger for a hordim trap.
Before you can move it detonates. For more than two hundred years the device had waited for someone to remove its trigger and you have obliged. In a coruscation of exploding powder and shattering stone the entire well is engulfed in flames, a geyser of fire and ash bursting upwards, cracking the walls of the well and destroying everything within it.
On the surface Pallenten breaks from her tethers and gallops for the western gate. She will not return to this place but it matters not. In the embracing destruction of the Hordim's device you did not stand a chance of survival. In this life your quest is over.
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