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The decision is made to advance. Well, first there are long discussions about whether or not Goldpiece should draw the Demonbane – but in the end the ill effects seem to outweigh the good so they close the distance on the wings of a magic potion.

Flying through the archway, Malchor sees nothing but a vast room, filled several feet deep with corpses, bones and equipment. Then the snakewomen appear. They immediately summon vulture demons that begin shrieking and releasing clouds of poisonous spores as they fly around attacking all within reach. Malchor lets fly with lightning and an ice storm, temporarily sealing off the passageway occupied by one of the demon women. Courier and Gal want to attack and Goldpiece flies into the fray...

After much head scratching and a bit of dithering thrown in for good measure, they take the inscriptions at face value and try to have the druid fly through the hallway that lies beyond the trapped doors. As Thraw crosses the plane of the doorway she vanishes. There is a moment of ‘let’s all jump in after her’ and then there is a moment of ‘what if we end up someplace terrible’? Hmm. Well…she’ll either be OK or she won’t. What if one of the mages disintegrates a hole in the far door – we scope the area with an arcane eye and then we all teleport there and thus bypass the terrible doorway? Sounds good. It’ll have to be tomorrow though. Hang in there Thraw!
They sleep upon the floor since apparently no extra dimensional spaces will open for them and they implement the plan on the morrow.

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