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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 644356" data-attributes="member: 1210">Hey, Can't We Just Teleport?The party argues for several long moments about how they're going to get through the narrow gap.  It's going to be a squeeze.  No one wants to get the bile on themselves; not only is it disgusting, the strange bile-tainted creatures they've faced seem to indicate that it's not a good idea.Finally, Lester gets fed up.  "Screw this," he says, "I'll try to draw them out."  He casts pass through earth and stone and uses his bat-like wings to fly towards the gap, Felix Optima Maxima in hand.  He grimaces as he sees the beads of bile on the wall and just keeps moving, passing through the stone as freely as if it were water.The room beyond does indeed have a stairway ascending from it.  It's also got two strange guardians, as Norman warned.  They are vaguely man-shaped, but misshapen and squirming, seemingly composed of thousands of tiny leeches all clumped together in one terrible form.  Lester doesn't wait for their response to his arrival; he hucks a fireball to get their attention and drops back into the corridor, passing back through the stone.  The party waits tensely for a moment, but the creatures don't emerge.  Angel spits, whips out his falchion, and rushes forward.  He leaps onto the wall and runs along it above the pool of bile, then leaps and tumbles through the gap into the room in one smooth motion.  Lester flies back through the wall.  The two adventurers engage the leech-things, both of which try to fight back but are quickly overwhelmed.Outside in the passage, Sheva turns to Orbius.  "Hey, if I can describe where Reth Fire-Scarred died to you, can you teleport us there?"The Eye nods.  "Of course."The red-haired priestess of Coila shrugs off her pack, drawing out a bowl.  She pours water into it, then begins uttering prayers to Coila.  This is what her time pool spell is made for. "C'mon," yells the L from the chamber where he and Angel stand."Hold on," calls up Zeebo.  We're going to teleport to where this Reth person died."Orbius employs a trump- a card with Lester's image upon it.  He concentrates on the picture, watching as it gathers depth and then swims into motion.  He can see the real Lester now.  Angel has one hand on his shoulder.  "C'mon, pull me through," Lester says, extending his hand, and Orbius grasps it.  Lester steps forward and there's a momentary shower of rainbows, and he's back in the passage with the rest of the party."All right," says Orbius a moment later, after Sheva describes the room she's seen, "I'll use the trump to pull the rest of you through after we teleport."  Angel, Sheva and Zeebo all gather around the Eye as he casts his spell, then they vanish."I hope they don't run into trouble," says Lester anxiously.Next Time: Reth's Skull!  Magic books!  And the Chronal Repeater!!</blockquote>

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