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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy" data-source="post: 9728045" data-attributes="member: 4036"><h3>11/13/21</h3>Metaphysical discussions about whether doors are truly locked or not or if the true locks are only in our hearts confuse Rho as Gribitz assures the others that the southern door is not indeed locked.  There are whispers from up ahead.  Grath rushes down the hallway in time to see cultists chanting around a black pool that an enormous snake-like creature is birthed out of, gasping for air and looking around.He announces his name and that we will be acceptable sacrifices to Zehir.  Grath is the first one in and takes the brunt of both the avatar’s wrath as well as his various priest’s magic.  Everyone else piles into very tight quarters wedged between collapsed rubble and the large avatar.  As Rho holds the line as best he can a secret door opens and swarms of snakes pour forth onto him.Rho belches fire all over the snakes consuming nearly all of them in blistering flame.  Still more pour out of the secret door however.  Veldra holds the rear line, dispatching priests that misty step past Rho until the abomination forces its way through to cleave his monstrous blade into her.  Grath begins praying and spiritual champions of Ilmater begin manifesting all around and pummeling snakes and cultists alike.Rho begins to falter under sheer amount of venom coursing through his veins from multitudes of snakebites from swarms and cultists and more and the avatar snatches him up into the air, taunting him.  Rho’s eyes are consumed by black smoke as strength and rage surge through him and he claps his hands together smashing the abominations head between them.  The abomination falls bonelessly to the ground releasing the heaving barbarian.Rho barrels into the room with Veldra charging in behind his wake channeling some of her own healing magic into his wounded form.  When the last of the cultists are slain Gribitz uses what remains of his healing magic to help his allies before trying to seal or purify the black pool.  Veldra dips an axe in it and Zehir’s poison seeps into her blade.  Gribitz incinerates what he can of the poison causing the pool to go up in a plume of toxic flame.  Into the empty well Grath manifests pure water and blesses it, forming a font of holy water where the evil portal once was.There are some chests where the snakes come from filled with severed body parts.  Gribitz finds a large diamond ring on one of the fingers and pockets it.  In another chest he finds a very old electrum piece in a pouch.  In the final chest he finds a bloodied mace made of silver.  Finding this odd, he searches further and finds a false bottom to the chest with 20 pieces of gold and a ring hidden in it with a letter.  The letter seems very mundane.  The treasure room is looted next but the money is fake and vanishes as the trap slams shut and the room fills with poison.  Rho smashes the door open and Grath administers anti-toxin to Kith who got poisoned.</blockquote>

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