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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4472628" data-attributes="member: 3285">Gates of Delirium: Part 5 – Help Me!The door whisked open to reveal a horrible scene.  “Help!” shouted a young man attempting to hold up Doctor Tarrou, who was slowly being strangled by his own belt. “He looks familiar,” said Jim-Bean.  “I think he was at the ceremony.”“Help me!” shouted the man.  “I can’t hold him much longer! Hurry!”“Bruce?” Fielding shouted back. “We have to help him!”“Give me some space…I’m going to loosen the belt.” shouted Bruce McNab. “I’m losing him!”Hammer hopped off the ladder and jogged over to help.  Between the two of them, they were able to release Tarrou from his suicide attempt and gently drop him to the ground.  Hammer checked his pulse.  “He’s breathing.  But he’s been beaten up pretty badly.”“By who?” squeaked Fielding.“Or what?” asked McNab. “Let’s give the good doctor a minute,” said Hammer. “Maybe he can help explain what happened here.” “I’ve been trying to get a handle on the configuration of these rooms.” Fielding scraped the number five into another door. “All I can say is—““They just don’t make any sense,” said McNab.  “It’s as if the rooms are moving around really quickly.”“But you know there’s got to be some kind of logic to it,” replied Fielding. “These rooms just seem to repeat.  You go in one direction and the room just loops back in on itself—“ An unearthly screeching sound interrupted their conversation, emanating from the far wall.“It’s getting closer,” shrieked Guppy.  “I can hear it, all the time, even when you don’t.  And it sounds…it feels WRONG.”Suddenly the room shuddered.“It’s here!” whispered Guppy.McNab shook his head.  “I’m out of here.”  He began clambering up one of the ladders to the door.“Suit yourself,” said Jim-Bean with a shrug.McNab was catapulted back into the room, landing hard on his back. “What the hell?” McNab stared at the wall in disbelief.  “What?” asked Fielding.“The wall just…wiggled!”The wall shimmered again and an after image of McNab climbed the ladder, as if he had been burned into the retinas of all who saw him.Then the wall started moving inwards towards them, shimmering. “All right people, out!” Hammer guided Guppy towards the ladder on the opposite side of the shimmering wall.  “Let’s go, it’s not moving fast, we can get out of here.”Jim-Bean peered through the shimmering wall.  There was a figure staring back at him.  Someone he recognized.“What about Doctor Tarrou?” asked Fielding, voice rising.The doctor’s eyes fluttered open. “You don’t honestly think you can escape?” Tarrou shook his head.  “The only way out of Daoloth is death.  And maybe not even that.” He wrapped one arm around one of the ladders.  “I’m staying here.  It’s better this way.”“Suit yourself,” said Jim-Bean. He turned to the others. “He’s dead weight anyway.”The shimmering wall wavered closer. As Jim-Bean passed Tarrou’s unmoving form, the doctor’s arm shot out, gripping his leg.  Tarrou’s desperate grab turn into a convulsive squeeze as his legs were struck by the shimmering wall.  The pants of his leg faded and disintegrated, revealing gray skin that flaked off and muscle that turned to powder.  Tarrou shrieked at the top of his lungs.“Get off of me!” snarled Jim-Bean. He aimed a wicked kick to the man’s head.Tarrou’s head lolled, his nose broken. He gurgled in pain as the shimmering wall closed in on him.  It reached his torso just as Jim-Bean slipped through the door on the opposite side of the room. The high pitched screech was still ringing in his ears when the door closed behind him.</blockquote>

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