What it looks like...
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Armed:
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While checking the <box> for traps, you notice a bronze seal over the <box>'s lock. The seal is covered in strange runes and a glass sphere is embedded within it.
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Set off!
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You hear a snap as a bronze seal on the <box> breaks in half. A glass sphere on the seal begins to glow with an eerie black light, which grows and spreads until it covers your entire body like a shimmering cloak of darkness.
<This happens to magic-users.>
You feel as if your soul was being ripped apart, as the black radiance sucks the magic from your bones. After a moment, the light fades, but you notice to your horror that the seal is intact again.
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<This happens to non-magic-users.>
You feel strangely unaffected.
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Set off by someone else:
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<Person>'s <type> <box> starts to emit an eerie black radiance which flows over <his> body like wax, glittering with malevolence.
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Successfully disarmed:
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You cautiously pry the seal away from the lid, being extremely careful not to break it.
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Disarmed (safe):
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While examining the <box> for traps, you notice a bronze seal with a glass sphere in it. The seal has been pried away from the lid.
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Notes:
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These traps are harmless to non-magic users; to magic users, it sucks the mana from them. Hence the separate listings. These traps used to reset; I think they still do, but may have met a non-resetting one. Possibly they use absorbed magic to reset themselves, and thus only do so for magic-users.
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Glance:
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You can't help but let go with a laugh at this so called "trap". The bronze seal that is clearly over the lock means it's the mana sucker.
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