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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9616839" data-attributes="member: 7737">[Alternate timeline in which we use Contact Other Plane from our traveling spellbook.]On a success (at 123) we find ourselves in a darkness so intense we are afraid to move. Our mind fills with a rush of words. “They don’t appear one by one, as if they were occurring in a sentence; instead they come in one great flash of awareness.”“WHY HAVE YOU DISTURBED ME?” When we don’t reply immediately, that’s followed with, “YOU HEARD ME! WHAT IS IT YOU SEEK?”We want to know what creature waits in ambush.“WHAT? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT YOU HAVE RISKED INSANITY FOR SUCH A FOOLISH QUERY?”Umm. Yes? Also, to whom are we speaking?“MY NAME IS ARIOCH, SIMPLETON!”We ask Arioch to tell us if the thing waiting in the yellow fog is evil.“YES!” The voice booms.We ask if that means it wishes to kill us.“OF COURSE!”So, we “shouldn’t go any farther into Yellow Marsh?”“NO!”Umm. Does that mean, “No we should not go” or “Yes we should go”?“BOTH!”We complain that is a confusing answer and that it has to be one or the other. We wait a long time for a reply, but there isn’t one. After a long while the darkness softens into a golden glow that resolves itself into the yellow haze of the marsh.Dalris is shaking our shoulders while “Rufyl is nudging [our] face with his cold reptilian snout.” [Awwwww!] We assure them we are fine, but fear we wasted a valuable spell in conversation with a being named Arioch.Dalris says we’re lucky to have escaped with our sanity, because Arioch is “an avenger for the archdevil Dispater” and therefore we can’t believe anything he said."Then we can’t believe his name, and we can’t believe that the creature in the fog is evil," we mumble.We must decide whether to(179) continue through Yellow Marsh or(31) go back to the road.</blockquote>

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