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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 663845" data-attributes="member: 301">Against the Elves session 3It had been a long day.  The party had attempted to rest after their battle with the cat-demons, but they were in constant fear that Curuscan would return.  It had taken considerable magical power to heal all of their wounds and they were all exhausted.  Foleful and Atarax had spent much of the day attempting to identify magical objects taken from the body of Solon, the dead cat-demon.  Thar had cast a divination to determine the location of the young goblin he had been sent to find, but strangely received no answer at all.It was the second watch of the night.  Krikara and Rhuun kept watch over their sleeping companions.  They had started to become confident that Curuscan would not return when the peace of the night was shattered.  With a grinding of stone against stone a pit opened up beneath Krikara.  She fell down, twisting her body to land safely in a large cavern below.  Krikara was horrified to realize that she had fallen on a massive pile of rats.  In fact the entire cavern was full of rats squeaking, and crawling over each other.  Krikara ducked and weaved as the rats snapped at her with their tiny teeth.Across the cavern Foleful, who had been awake but lying silently on the stone floor, suddenly felt himself slipping into the stone, as if into a sinkhole.  He began to thrash about attempting to gain purchase on the stangely sinking stone.  He called out for his familiar, the small air elemental which often carried him about, even holding his body in lifting air currents as he slept.  “Elemental where are you?”“I’m right here, boss,” said Elemental’s voice in his mind.  Foleful looked around, but everything was going dim around him and his darkvision was unable to penetrate the gloom.Rhuun was completely mystified.  She had been keeping watch next to Krikara when the darkcreeper suddenly sprang to her feet, cried out in alarm, and began jumping and tumbling wildly.  At the same time Foleful, the strange xvart sorcerer, had began crying out and thrashing about atop his strange elemental companion who carried him even while he slept.Rhuun sprung aside and cried out, waking the others, as Krikara slashed wildly at her with her sword.  Krikara, thinking she was striking a rat, was in fact attempting to kill her goblin companion.  Rhuun snatched up the rapier that Thar had claimed for her from the body of the cat-demon, and wielding it in both hands, tried to run Krikara through.  However, the agile darkcreeper avoided her blow.Thar sat up and saw the strange behavior of his companions.  He attempted to calm Doon, who angered at being woken up, stormed out of the small side cavern where he slept and began threatening to expel the companions from his cave then and there.  Thar then instructed Rhuun to leave Krikara and check the door to see if anyone had gotten in during the night.Atarax began to sing, attempting to inspire confidence in his deluded companions and help them shake off whatever was influencing their mind.  When his singing failed to have any effect Atarax, in exasperation, threw a rope toward Krikara, who has jumping up and yelling for a rope to pull her out of the cavern full of rats.  Atarax’s throw went wide, and Krikara did not even acknowledge it.Casting about for a solution, Thar cast remove fear on Krikara and Foleful.  When that had no apparent effect, he ran up to Foleful and started shaking him, “You’re hallucinating!”“What are you talking about?” replied the xvart.  “Are you charmed?”  From his perspective Thar was repeatedly pulling him out of the hole, then pushing him back in.“No, you’re hallucinating.  Can’t you see Krikara?”  Thar pointed to where Krikara was lying on her back, pumping her legs as if attempting to run up a wall that wasn’t there.  Foleful claimed he could barely see Thar.  All attempts to talk sense into him were fruitless as he began raving about Thar and his evil cleric allies tampering with his mind.At that moment Thar looked toward the other end of the cave and noticed a small, glittering object, spinning in mid-air.  He pointed to it, “Look everybody!” and seeing Rhuun return from checking the door, “Rhuun, get that thing!”  Rhuun saw the object, but could not reach it before Atarax summoned a cloud of glitterdust around the area.  However, the spell revealed no invisible enemies, and hid the object in a cloud of glittering motes.  At the same time Krikara and Foleful finally succeeded in throwing off the effects of the hallucinations that plagued them.  The party approached the object, and Atarax and Foleful examined it, offering their opinion that it was not an object at all, but a small portal to another plane of existence.  They were so excited by their theory that they barely noticed when the portal winked out.  Atarax theorized that if the portal lead to a plane of chaos, its very presence could explain the confusion that Foleful and Thar had suffered.  While the others asked Doon if he had observed such a phenomenon before, Foleful was being soundly chastised by Elemental.  “What’s going on boss?  I was right here.  I carry you around all day and you were yelling at me!”Doon explained that he suffered similar confusion once.  He had been nearby, gathering some special mushrooms, when he had become very interested in his shin.  He had stood there examining his shin for quite some time.  Doon, proudly pointed the companions toward the sculpture, “Musings on My Shin,” which had been the result of the study.  Doon assured the group that his sudden interest in his shin could have only come from a similar phenomenon to what they had just witnessed, and there was no chance whatsoever that it had been caused by the influence of his special mushrooms.No one noticed that Krikara had silently slipped away.  Somewhere out of earshot she huddled on the ground, crying quietly.</blockquote>

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