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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 2730943" data-attributes="member: 18280">Horsom looked at the dangerously slippery rubble lying beneath the opening, then looked again at the height of the hole above his head.  "Hmmmm..." thought the warrior.  "Think first, do second."  He turned and collected his everburning torch from beneath the fetid water near the fallen Esk warriors.  "Fellan!" he called out. "We are following a...monstrosity further into its lair.  Send down a rope and follow us; my torch is lit." Horsom drew his axe as he followed the others through the tunnel.Within the passage, Kregor slowed his pursuit and lowered his weapon.  The water was already waist-high where he stood; if it went much deeper, Glom would have to swim or be submerged.  Looking at the creature, Kregor seemed to feel its anguish.  He held out his hand.  "You have spoken wisely. These treasures you speak of, I would be very interested to see. Come and I shall show you mercy."The creature hissed.  So, this is your mercy? it thought.  For aeons uncounted, I have guided the hands of men, and this is the reward I am given for my good deeds?  For my sacrifices?  It has been over five centuries that I have languished in this hole.  I thought to see the moon once more....Come, then.  I relinquish this body.  I will go back to the Pit.  It reached its long neck toward Kregor, allowing the half-orc priest to reach forward and touch it.Kregor called upon his ancestors to deliver death through his touch.  The will to fight seemed to go out of the creature.  As it passed from the Middle World, a last thought lashed across their minds:  I will not forget you!Then it seemed as though an unimaginably cold and vast gulf stretched open within the passage, bending the world, stretching mind and mortar to give enough space in that cramped passage for eternity.  Everyone in the tunnel could feel it.  It was the doorway to madness, cold beyond ice, dark beyond the darkest cloud-shrouded night.  It pulled at the fallen monstrosity, drawing it back to whatever far pit had once spawned it.For a second, briefly, that long tongue lashed out.  If the thing intended to ensnare Kregor, its efforts were in vain.  The tongue touched Kregor's cheek like a caress, barely felt, leaving behind only a brief moisture.Then the thing was gone, the passage closed.  Distance and time seemed to shrink back into their normal constraints.  The passage, which had stretched into eternity, became cramped and still.  The moment, which had endured forever, was no more.The passage was silent.</blockquote>

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