The Legend of the Labyrinth

[shisteer of nothing much]

Waiata gave a echoing call of distress and launched down the hole after the two creatures, ready to put the breaks on at a moment's notice, or less.
She could see the rough stones clearly and winced in sympathy. If the creatures were still alive, which was only a possibility, they would definitely have injury, probably serious.
The bat shrugged the matter aside. Right now, the important thing was to find them. She silently thanked the seasons for Pekepeke. The younger pekapeka was excitable but she had a good head on her small shoulders and Waiata knew she'd keep a watchful eye on the others.

[Verdauga]

Fortunately For Chycer and Torunis, the wooden stakes they fell upon were horribly rotten, and crumbled underneath their fall. He rose and dusted himself off, and gazed at the floor, now twice his height, above him. "We're safe... mostly. Shocked at the most. We will need some help getting up though, ha!" Looking at the pit once more, Ara called up to the others.
"There's a way to disarm this, probably on the other side. Give us a moment, eh?"

[Booklover]

The shrew winced as the floor gave way beneath Chycer and Algirdas. She inches forward carefully, aware that there might be more traps, although partially reassured by the fact that they hadn't triggered any until the pit. Testing the floor with her paw before stepping, she reached the edge of the pit and looked down, judging the depth. It was twice the height of the hare, and compared to herself, staggeringly large.
"Anybody got a rope?" Her voice echoed as she called to the creatures behind her.

[Ebantu the Kararehe]

Pekepeke nodded and moved forward. "It is strong enough for them, for them." she said, giving a long, plaited rope to the shrew. "Don't go too close the edge, the edge, or you might fall in, fall in." she cautioned the others.

[shisteer of nothing much]

Waiata gave Pekepeke a surprised look. The rope weighed twice as much as the little bat and looked fairly new.
"Where did you get that from, that from?"
Gesturing over the gap, Waiata grinned at her sister, flying from her perch on the ceiling to hover over the pit.
"Should we go find the disarm lever thing, lever thing?"
Not waiting for a reply, Waiata flew through the corridor, studying the blank walls for anything out of the ordinary that might indicate what she was looking for. Finally, she spotted some runes and paused to read them, committing them to memory so she could tell the others and looking at the opposite wall. It was blank so she kept going, aware of the sound of her sister's wings as the smaller bat tried to keep up.
Waiata rounded a corner and found a convenient perch to wait for her sister, looking down at the heavy, steel lever close to the ground. She'd need her sister's help to put it to use anyway.

[Booklover]

The shrew lowered the rope, hoping she wouldn't set off any more traps.
"You two, grab hold of the rope. I can't pull them up on my own, especially not that hare."

[Kade Rivok]

Dantin was shocked when the floor gave way ahead of him and two members of their group fell.  Luckily they seemed to be ok, but it made him wonder: what kind of place was this?  He'd never seen or heard of traps such as this; who would take the time to build a structure like this, and why?  Pushing unnecessary thoughts from his head, he quickly moved forward and grabbed the rope.

"O- ok, I've got it!"  He said as he dug his paws in and braced himself, preparing for the trapped creatures to take hold.

[Sebias of Redwall]

Brink glanced nervously around him. How many of us are going to get out of here alive? he wondered. Setting down his club, he spat on his paws and rubbed them together, then he took a step forward and clasped the rope with Dantin. 

"Alright!" He called down to the creatures in the pit. "Grab it, mates! We need to get out of this place afore anything else happens!"

[MathLuk]

Algirdas never liked falling. After all, isn't falling for idiots, and idiots only? Curse this moment of stupidity! At least Chycer had fallen down with him, it seemed.

Staring at each other for about five seconds isn't even to solve a problem, the squirrel supposed. "Can anyone get us out of here?"

[Verdauga]

Chycer smiled at Torunis. "The bally rope is right there, o'course! Let's not keep 'em waiting, eh?"
At the end of this remark Ara grabbed the cord and started to pull himself up. "The beasts on up had better not let go", he thought, almost chuckling.

[Ebantu the Kararehe]

Pekepeke reached her sister and landed beside her. Her eyes widened at the sight of the lever. "Do we have to move that, move that?" she asked apprehensively. "It appears very heavy, very heavy."

[shisteer of nothing much]

Waiata nodded and sat ready beside her sister.
"Yes, we need to move it, move it, though perhaps it would be better to wait till the long eared and the bush tailed are out first, out first."
Calling back down the corridor, Waiata voiced her thoughts to the rest of the group.
"Tell me when everybeast is out of the hole, the hole. Then we'll disarm the trap, the trap."

[Verdauga]

Ara reached the ledge and climbed out of the pit. "Thanks, m'chaps," he said to the Wanderer, Brink, and Dantin. Turning to Torunis, he reached down and offered his paw.

[MathLuk]

Taking Chycer's paw reluctantly, Algirdas hoisted himself up. Being immediately taken out by a trap was not one of his best moments.

"So... what now?"

[Verdauga]

Chycer nodded. "Fair enough question, chap. Waiata!" He called over to the bat, "we're all out of the trap. D'ye have a way around this little predicament of ours?"
He made one last check, making sure nobeast was near the pit.