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Spoilers ahead. The achievement roster names late bosses and depths, and the guides show the first six floors and their holders. Guides contain solutions and may reveal encounters and progression.

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Spike Pit

A Spike Pit set off under an enemy: read the plate's glow, and lead the chaser over it or take the bite yourself.

Spike Pit achievement emblem

Spike Pit
Lure an enemy into a Spike Pit.

Counted when a Spike Pit bites with an awake enemy on it. The enemy need not die. A pit bites anything within 1.2 m of its plate, you included, the moment a body steps on while it is armed. Then it rests for 2.5 seconds. Once the plate has been empty for a moment, whoever stands on it next is bitten as soon as it has re-armed; a body that never stepped off is not bitten twice.

Read the plate

Where: in the corridors from depth 1. It's a stone pressure plate a shade proud of the floor, marked by a ring.
Armed: the ring glows ember and twinkles. Spent: it goes quiet, a dim ash, for the 2.5 seconds it re-arms. For the last 0.8 seconds it climbs back to ember with a red-amber flash.

Lead an enemy over it

Wake an enemy that will chase you. Enemies that haven't noticed you are never caught. Anything that comes after you in melee will do; the recorded run used the depth-2 guardian.
Put the plate between you. Walk past it while it is armed, keeping more than 1.2 m to one side, so the enemy following you crosses it.
Or pay for it. Cross the armed plate yourself and take the bite (18% of your maximum health, less through a shield or ward). Step off it and fight on the far side: when it re-arms 2.5 seconds later with the enemy standing on it, it bites the enemy. That is how the recorded run did it.
The card comes with the bite: DEED EARNED · Spike Pit.

Depth 2: the Spike Pit notice, 19 HP, the hero and the guardian in the corridor behind the wall — Depth 2: the pit bites the hero (Spike Pit −19 HP) as he crosses, the guardian following.

Depth 2: the Spike Pit card, deed earned — 2.5 seconds later it re-arms under the guardian: Spike Pit.

The recorded catch

The last 23 seconds before the catch on depth 2, played by the game's test autopilot at the game's real speed on an account with every Forge track at rank 12. The game's camera looks over the corridor wall, so the plate itself stays hidden; the bite notice and the card show it firing.

The DEEDS screen of the same account: Spike Pit held, 4 of 100 — The same account's DEEDS screen afterwards: Spike Pit held.

What goes wrong

The enemy stops short. Plenty of enemies give up the chase or stay by what they guard. Try another enemy, or another pit.
Standing on the plate together. One bite takes you both, and it counts, but it costs you 18% of your health each time.
Crossing while it is spent. Ash is safe for you, but it is safe for the enemy too. It has to glow ember when the enemy reaches it.