"It ain't my riddle," he says roughly ", it's theirs." He points a shaky claw towards the spiders behind him, The spiders who were beginning to expand in numbers, spreading like a sheet throughout the room. "Careful though," the clay dragon warns ", they do bite."

"Tell us your riddle, please, little spiders," Heath says.  Then he says to the dragon, "What will happen if we answer correctly?"

The dragon shook his head "Wouldn't know, no one's ever answered correct before." The spiders, which were practically consuming the entirety of the floor at this point, started to laugh in high pitched trills. They started to crawl up your legs with precision and vice "Come, will you play?" their voices strung together in a sing songy chime "Will you play? Will you play? We have a lovely riddle just for you today!!!
What goes up, but mightn't come down, What gives power, but isn't a crown?" The spiders clung to you, echoing the riddle in that ludicrous way of theirs

Heath says, "What is the word when you take the last letter off my name?"

The spiders clamoured in confusion, before one popped up in a web of excited knowledge "Eat!" he shouted, others reciprocated but most said "Eath!!" One even shouted "Earth!?" but no one much noticed in all the confusion. While the spiders were fighting each other on what the answer really was, some were even cannibalising each other for no real apparent reason, they weren't paying any attention to the door or the dragon. Even so there still didn't seem to be a plausible way out

Heath says, "The answer is heat.  Or maybe fire."

The dragon smiles, and laughs loudly. His laughter fills, even shakes the room, and it gets louder the longer it goes on. The louder it gets the more the room shakes, and the more the room shakes, somehow, the less spiders there are. "Ah, you're good, you are kid." he said panting from his fit of laughter. "Oh! The spiders!" He says as if he'd forgotten them "Eh, I've never been too good at keeping up illusions. Yes, they were just illusions, and so's the door. You've amused me! I'll let you out." He smiles gleefully still stifling laughter, and snaps. The corner door disappears. Apparently the whole time, it had just been a corner opening.
"Sorry to be tricking you," the dragon said between giggles ", but even an old guard like me has to have fun every once in awhile!"

Heath kicks the dragon and then dives for the exit before the dragon can do anything about it.

Birdie high-fives Heath for figuring it out, then apologizes to the dragon when Heath kicks him and quickly follows Heath out.

You were allowed safe passage out! The dragons arse is now a bit sore

You walk into a very large room with 30 foot tall ceilings.  The room is 100 feet across, but between 40 feet and 70 feet, there is no floor, just a large hole in the floor and ceiling.  You cannot see where the bottom of the hole is or where the top of the ceiling is for that 30 foot wide section.  If anything, it appears bottomless below and above you.

It appears you will have to jump over 30 feet to get across.  There is an exit on the far side.  There is a length of 20 feet of rope at your feet.  There is a vial of a liquid also at your feet.  The walls appear very slick and not very climbable.

Birdie sniffs at the liquid and observes its color and viscosity to try and determine what it is.

LuLu looks at Birdie and observes him quietly "May I see that?" she asks with a wide smile
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"Sure." Birdie hands her the vial, taking care to not spill, in case it is dangerous in some way.

LuLu smiled brightly taking the vial from him and inspecting it only a little before shrugging and saying "Oh, probably poisonous, but it might not be, Down the hatch!" She lifts the vial to her lips and swallows it all in one gulp "I wonder what'll happen?" she says more than asks and smiles at Birdie sweetly

"Wait!" Birdie is a little late in speaking, though. What if they needed that for something? Nothing they can do now. Picking up the rope, Birdie sees it is too short to reach across, and looks to LuLu nervously to see what will happen.

"Either it does absolutely nothing," LuLu answered Birdies nervous eyes ", or it takes awhile to digest, either way--" She cut herself off and stared at the rope for a moment "What if we lowered someone down the hole with the rope?" she asked inquisitively "I mean, just 'cause we can't see the bottom doesn't mean it isn't there, or at least maybe we could find something out about the walls within the hole, what do you think?" She looked toward Birdie for his opinion

"If only we could fly!" says the owl.

You are dismayed that no one can fly, and that you are all mere mortal humans.

The liquid is clear and odorless.  LuLu drinks the liquid.  The vial almost instantly, and magically, refills with liquid.  LuLu begins to feel a tingling throughout her body but can't tell exactly what the effect is until she tries to hand back over the vial.  Her hands are sticky like glue.  With some effort, she is able to hand the vial to someone else, but her skin is now sticky all over.

Looking over the edge, you can see down about 50 feet and up about 50 feet.  It looks like it just extends into darkness.  Your rope is 20 feet long.

Birdie, seeing the effect of the liquid, has an idea. "We tie the rope around each of us in a line so we stay together in case one of us falls, and each of us drinks from the vial, and then we can climb across the walls like geckos. Should work, right?"
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But first you try your hands on the walls, and realize that they are too slippery or somehow counteract the stickiness of your hands, so you would fall if you did that.

LuLu clicks her tongue lightly and walks over to the hole in the floor "Hey, can someone grab ahold of my legs?" she asks, as if she has an idea brewing "I might be, well, sticky, but that doesn't mean I should be reckless"

Nodding, Birdie goes over and does so. "Would you tell me what your idea is, or is it a secret?"

"I have a feeling the walls inside the hole might not be the same, and even if they are, well we'll just have to see," with that LuLu promptly let herself bend into the hole, with her feet being held firmly in place by Birdie, and felt around

All the walls are just as slippery, even those directly over the ledge.