d&d face-to-face report: "Ecce Nihil!"

... River and Zantose made their way up. Faelias remained on the stairs, drawing on his power to fling magic missiles and scorching bursts at the crossbows. River, running to introduce the crossbows to his fullblade, stepped on another trigger plate due to the curse of Listening To The DM's Advice (normally I'm much nicer, really), and a spinning contraption of whirling blades fell from the ceiling, ...