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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Branding Opportunity" data-source="post: 3258995" data-attributes="member: 31812">The group carefully threads its way through the short corridor into a much-larger room beyond.  The smell of decaying flesh is now obvious to you all, and the low moaning you have been hearing for the past few minutes only gets louder.The large room you enter can only have been used for one purpose.  Implements of torture are spaced about the interior of this chamber.  They appear well-used, if poorly cleaned.  Most are spotted with old blood stains.  Many of them still contain victims: a contorted body lashed to a rack here, a slumped over victim in a spiked cage there.  The bodies fill the place with an unpleasant, cloying stink that seems a bit stronger than even the presence of so much death could account for.As you enter the room the pitiful moaning stops, and an enormous, nearly 10 foot tall bipedal creature steps out from behind a rack.  Dark gray in color, it looks like a massive, roughly humanoid toad with arms in place of forelegs.  Its wide mouth has rows of blunt, powerful teeth, and long spines run down the length of its back.  It is holding a severed human arm its left hand, and judging from the fact that it is chewing, seems to have just taken a bite from it.Foul, red-tinged saliva spills from its mouth, the stench nearly overpowering your senses.  As its onyx eyes swivel towards the group, each of you hears words spoken in your head.  Words spoken in your mother tongue, but suffused with a foulness not of this world."Reukalar is so glad you finally found him," it rasps.  "He was getting so lonely and he worried that the Black Ones would turn you into one of them.  And they are nothing but thought and shadow, not as tasty as you.  The master said Reukalar could finish you all off, and so he hopes to, yes he does."The creature grins horribly.Latalya, Mavic:[sblock]OOC: The creature before you is obviously a demon, specifically a male hezrou.  You have never encountered such a being before, but their kind is well-described in the Hiram Owting's "A Journey to the Black Realms".  If you remember correctly most demons are particularly susceptible to weapons infused by good powers.  Latalya also recollects that when angered these tanar'ri are powerful melee combatants who give off a nauseating stench when they are angered.[/sblock]OOC: No one has initiated combat at this time.  Every square on the map below represents 10 feet.  You entered through the northern corridor.</blockquote>

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