Last week I mentioned a bizarre trapped chest from a Sax Rohmer novel. Here's another weird chest, from The Star Venturers by pulp-sci-fi author Kenneth Bulmer:
A door slid aside in the far wall. Through this opening walked two young girls, each clad in a bikini and boots, each carrying the ornate silver hands of an ebony box swung between them, the hands a left and a right, making a pair.
OK, the bikini-and-boots thing may be a little over the top, but the chest is cool. Its two hand-handles might be decorative, might be a trap, but also might be part of a puzzle to open some hidden compartment.
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ya i like that hand-handles thing.. seems like a neat way to make a nice trap look like a puzzle!
On a separate note, when is the Mearls starting up again?
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