Meh. Your riddles are too hard
I feel kinda at a loss as to what to do right now. Not necessarily because of you - your writing style is excellent, and the amount of detail and effort you put into describing everything is very commendable, too.
The problem probably lies more with my character. I'm not sure how to react right now while staying in-character for Shade. In retrospect, it would probably have been more in-character to not even climb that ladder in the first place and instead go back to give that retarded dancer a beating. But whatever. I'll go to sleep in a few minutes, but I hope I can come up with something tomorrow.
I have the exactly same problem as Shade... it's hard to balance greed and caution. If I had focused solely on being in-character, he would most likely already have been skewered, squashed or torn into shreds. :S
I have no intention of killing anyone off this early in the game, I still have all this fancy plot lying around.
Seriously, it's practically oozing out of my ears at this point.
Since you guys are pretty uninterested at this point and it might take a couple more days for everyone to respond, mind if I fast forward it a little bit back to the retarded dancing dude?
Why, anyway? Did I trigger the ultimate trap of doom and death? Or did I just piss off a skeleton that is a million and one times more powerful than us?