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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James McMurray" data-source="post: 1371898" data-attributes="member: 743">As the rock hard skin of the giant creature disintegrates, the doorway out of the room opens, revealing an incredibly long hallway. The party files in, and as the last of them step through the doorway, it disappears behind them. Up ahead in the distance, they see a shimmering light. A doorway of golden radiance appears in the hallway, and behind them the wall turns to a roiling black mass that advances towards them. With a common voice they cry out “RUN!” and hurtle full tilt down the hallway. Amazingly swift, Ru Ton Pe jumps into the lead and runs straight through the doorway, making it to the far end of the hall in just under 5 seconds. The dust his feet kick up would have made his companions sneeze had they not been too busy trying to outrun a wall of annihilation.Erebus is next, and he veers around the doorway, making it almost to the far end of the hall. Toshiro and Bumtin follow, with Toshiro avoiding the doorway and almost immediately being ground to a halt as a Slow effect engulfs him. Bumtin sees this and dives through the doorway, but he too is slowed. Farlight also moves ahead, and he also goes through the door, only to be almost instantly slowed himself. Erebus makes a split second decision and realizes that he cannot save those left behind without getting caught himself, and he just barely manage to make it to the end of the hall, where Ru Ton Pe shoves him through the door.Toshiro activates the cloak he took off one of the assassins, and dimension doors himself to the end of the hallway, where Ru Ton Pe pulls him through the door. Bumtin casts teleport and also appears at the end of the hallway.With the black wall on his heels, Farlight does the only thing he can: he plane shifts away, appearing on the shores of Mount Celestia. H decides to wait a minute before returning back.Back in the trials, the party finds themselves in a room whose only feature is a long table upon which sits a single plate of food. The well-cooked meat sends a delicious aroma wafting through the room. In the blink of an eye, there are suddenly two plates. Moments later, there are four. Erebus recalls being told that the man he learned the location of this Pool from had to eat a lot in order to reach the Pool, and he tells the group. Their combined appetites are enough to staunch the rising tide of plates into the room long before they grow out of control and drown the party in a delectable creme brulle sauce.As the last plate is eaten, the table clears itself, and another doorway opens. Farlight appears in the hallway and runs to the end and through the door to rejoin his compatriots as they step into a room with a shimmering multicolored orb. The orb flashes a few time, and Bumtin feels a bit of pain as a small chunk of flesh on his right arm melts away, but then a door appears and the party steps through.On the far side they see seven multicolored pools of liquid. The pools are red, green, blue, violet, indigo, yellow, green, and orange, and so of course the party immediately thinks of a rainbow. But they are unsure of what to do with that knowledge, and Ru Ton Pe offers to attempt to drink a concoction made up of the liquids mixed in proper order. Bumtin gives him an empty potion bottle and the monk mixes up a dull brown paste from the pools. He chokes it down but nothing happens.Bumtin tries to throw a single coin into each pool in the order of the rainbow, but nothing happens. Ru Ton Pe again agrees to be a guinea pig, and bathes in the pools one by one. He comes out of the last looking like a deranged clown was caught in a crayola factory explosion, but as soon as he steps out a door appears on the far wall. Behind it is a room whose only feature is a jet black ball of nothingness sitting in the center of the room. Loud snores can be heard emanating from the orb.Attempting to ensure that they sneak past uneventfully, Farlight begins to cast silence. Unfortunately his casting makes too much noise and the black ball awakes, hurtling itself at Toshiro and disintegrating a small chunk of flesh.The group splits up, and everyone dives through the door at the far end of the room, which leads back into the first chamber they were in with the curtains of acid.  As they go through, the people behind them see them disappear. Although they fear what is happening, they fear the Umbral Blot even more, and all decide to jump through.On the far side they find themselves in a massive room easily 200 feet on a side. A ornately appointed hallway leads off, but even it gold-covered walls are soon ignored when the rooms only feature is seen: the jet black Pool of Vengeance, whose power strikes down those who harm the bather.</blockquote>

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