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The ogre mage "Spatterdock," his innate regeneration ability unable to heal the terrible burns inflicted upon him by the ghostly druid's barrage of powerful fire-based evocations, was the next to collapse, his hulking form shriveling in the mighty conflagration called down by Aegwareth, "Shade of Vengeance" .... AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!
"One of YOU must open the 'door between' by placing your hands in these impressions!," explained the ogre mage "Spatterdock." The ever-cautious wizard Orsino inquired, "Why must one of us open the 'door between?' You are the 'True Keraptis,' after all," alarmed by the prospect of placing his hands in the impressions, and preferring that none of his companions take so dubious a gamble, either, lest they trigger some trap, or fall for some trick. ONE OF YOU MUST PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE HANDPRINTS!," Reiterated the ogre mage, glowering at Orsino menacingly. Realizing that there was no other option left if they were to have any chance at succeeding in their quest for the Left Ear of Vecna, Orsino mustered his nerve and placed his palms into the hand-shaped impressions. Immediately, a great bubble of force enveloped them all, contracting to an orb roughly 20 feet in diameter, and then magically phased through the wall of the shaft, bearing its passengers on a bumpy ride along a river of flowing magma that twisted and turned through a serpentine tunnel. At last, the force bubble brought them to the Fane, a vast hollow sphere of magical force in which three obsidian obelisks were arranged equidistantly along the sphere's concave inner surface. The force bubble conveyance phased the six passengers into the Fane before winking out of existence. The inner surface of the great Fane bore an ancient transmutation that gave it relative gravity throughout, and the party (all of whom were once more in their normal solid forms by this time) discovered that they could walk along the entire interior of the hollow sphere. As the party began to investigate the three obsidian obelisks, another force bubble like the one that had conveyed them into the Fane suddenly phased three more passengers into the Fane ....
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