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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jemal" data-source="post: 6140305" data-attributes="member: 9026">Braham begins reading the scroll, and the whispers return with darkness, once more coalescing into a shout and a shriek as the darkness lifts, and the sound is silenced.  He suddenly straightens as the floating disk of smoke above him extends a beam of light down.  His eyes glaze over for a moment, and then the light and smoke both dissipate, but his experience seems even more draining than hers, and he falls to his knees.[sblock=Braham's Vision]Braham sees an illithid, and a conversation though remembers no words.  Then the world melts away and is replaced with a shifting plane of endless madness.A face appears before him, an indescribably hideous visage that drains the blood from his face.  Tentacles reach out to wrap around his throat and the abomination reels him close, accompanied by a sibilant hissing that he somehow understands.  It describes in detail over what seems like hours, an intricately ordered chaos.  He cannot fathom how he could ever repeat or impress this knowledge upon another without driving both himself and the listener insane.  Once it is finished hissing, it disappears and he finds himself following the directions - but they are not those directions that one would normally give.  Not 'up/down, left/right, go three miles...'  The path involved being in a specific frame of mind, giving in to certain emotions at certain times, reacting properly to one of a number of possible encounters, and performing mystic rituals.The journey is like an intricately detailed memory, and once it is over, he finds a platform rising from the ground.  On it, he sees a fearsome beast, covered in pitch-black chitin, which leaps at him, causing him to awaken without a clear memory of it's appearance, only that while the first hideous face had been maddening, the second beast was the most dreadful he'd ever seen.[/sblock]It is one of the most shocking experiences of his life, and once it is over, only then does Braham realize that he did not notice any details of his surroundings during the journey..</blockquote>

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