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 Toox and the team rushed out of the caves, only one orc having been killed during the encounter, and fled.  They found a bear cave, thankfully unoccupied, and buried deep within it to lick their wounds. Toox and the team rushed out of the caves, only one orc having been killed during the encounter, and fled.  They found a bear cave, thankfully unoccupied, and buried deep within it to lick their wounds.
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 +After hiding out most of the day, they analyzed the battle, and decided that the new passage was more important than the orcs.  They figured that Hiko, Toox, and Chimes could sneak in to investigate,​ while Roland and Eingrim remained outside. ​ Eingrim'​s spell //dimension door// could move the two of them into wherever the other three needed, with //wall of bone// handy, if necessary.
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 +Chimes, Hiko, and Toox managed to sneak in to the new passage apparently without being monitored. ​ They found a series of //walls of force// that operated in sequence, five of them in a row that activated for twelve seconds at a time the moment someone stepped into the middle of the passage. ​ The invisible walls then cycled in intervals. ​ Toox called it the 'hall of patience',​ because she needed more of it.
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 +The next room was circular, with a twenty foot ceiling that mirrored the floor. ​ There was a pedestal in the middle of the room with a gold coin on it on the bottom, but not the top.  Twelve inches of water lined the bottom of the room, apparently welling up from grates in the floor.
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 +Hiko had his familiar grab the coin from the adjacent room, and then things went wonky. ​ Gravity reverse in the circular room, and the familiar was thrown upwards. ​ For a bird, this normally would not have been a problem -- but a veritable wall of water from the bottom fell towards the top.  Again, Hiko popped his familiar into its pocket dimension to avoid damage.
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 +Unfortunately,​ the loss of the familiar left them somewhat blind with regards to the orcs -- whom had all heard the roar of the circular room.  The orcs quickly went to investigate,​ some even checking outside, where they found Eingrim and Roland.
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 +The mage grabbed the paladin and used his spell to move through the solid rock, into the circular room.  Hiko, Toox, and Chimes were investigating the next room when they heard Eingrim fire a bolt of lightning at the orcs he could see in the Hall of Patience. ​ Unfortunately,​ his bolt of lightning only startled the orcs, the invisible walls of the passage completely blocking his lightning bolt.  As they watched, the orcs advanced to the next invisible wall -- the orog at the lead.
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 +The next puzzle after the watery room was more dangerous. ​ A chasm filled with spikes was crossed by a narrow bridge of stone, only a few feet wide at the apex in the middle. ​ On the other side of the chasm was a metal portcullis -- and on the other side of the portcullis glittered gold and silver.
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 +The moment anyone stepped on the stone bridge, it was instantly covered in slippery grease that oozed down into the spikes -- and then a powerful gusting of winds filled the chasm.
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 +Roland heaved Toox in a powerful feat of athletics, throwing her almost halfway across the bridge. ​ She landed running, her agile monk's feet just barely ahead of the grease and the winds. ​ She grabbed the portcullis, however, and was filled with terrifying, mind-breaking fear.  Before she could run back across the bridge, Chimes ensnared Toox with a spell of calm, nullifying the powerful //glyph of warding// on the portcullis.
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 +The orcs completed their transect of the Hall of Patience, and then... waited. ​ They filed into the circular room, all of them careful not to touch the pedestal and activate it, and then they just... watched.
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 +At the bottom of the chasm, impaled on the spikes, were two dead orcs.  The orog and his people knew all about the treasure, and they wanted the troupe to open it for them!
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 +They did not plan on Eingrim and Hiko, though. ​ Working together, Hiko was able to utilize Eingrim'​s familiar to touch the pedestal, and cause the //reverse gravity// water trap to beat, batter, and drown quite a few of the orcs.  While that trap went on, Eingrim was able to temporarily dispell enough of the magics of the bridge traps to get everyone across. ​ The //glyph of warding// on the door had to be destroyed, but once it was down, Toox and Roland got 
  
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