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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5682806" data-attributes="member: 34958">Gunzuul rushes towards the opening, and sees a female body inside.  Her throat had mutated, and unfortunately it would appear as if the mutation had caused her neck to swell and choke off her oxygen supply.  Her blue-tinged face showed that she died quite unpleasantly of asphyxiation.  Gunzuul also recognized the 'ogre' as her short and skinny companion, mutated many times his size.  Next to her body were the roundish and now useless shards of a small crystal ball.Hardnose and Chernguk had taken a quick peek inside the mildew-smelling chamber, and seeing no danger they moved quickly inside.  The workshop had been cleaned out, most likely by the party that raided the area.  The tables were covered with dust and grime, though the outline of various missing materials and tools could be seen on top of them.The portal stood in the center of the room and glowed with a dim white light.  It was about man-sized and just big enough to allow passage through, one individual at a time.  There was a slight whining noise and a swelling of some semi-transparent bubble in front of the mirror, as if some pressure was trying to be released.  By squinting through the portal's light, the men could see another land beyond the portal, one where lush, twisted vegetation writhed in a constantly mutating and writhing chaotic landscape of unchecked life.</blockquote>