Chapter 1: Year 1281, Summer

For those checking out the half-orcs, their pupils are very wide, leaving only a sliver of iris visible. The one sitting down has a line of drool running from his mouth and is blinking slowly. The standing is moving his mouth as if speaking, but no words.

Marie-Louise, as you press on the eye, it slides in a small way with a click and rotates in place clockwise.halfway around, you hear another click and the door swings outward slightly.

Vlur steps up and swings the door further out revealing a hallway lit by flickering torches. You can see another door about sixty feet down the hall. A devil skull is mounted about five feet up, snarling with horns stretched up toward the ceiling. You can see a large opening on the right side of the hall.

Your small, but very intrepid, group proceeds out of the circular room with care, following behind Tolwir. The professor is led along, complacent and wide-eyed in the middle of the pack. Your lead shieldman walks some twenty feet out of the door to the edge of the hallway on the right. As you get nearer, you all hear a sound that is like the bastard child of snorting, snuffling, and congestion.

Tolwir, through the flickering light you see a creature of such abominable formation you don't quite know what to do with yourself. It would appear that someone bred a hairless gorilla with a bat and some sort of deformed bulldog. It stands about three and a half feet tall and you can see the gleam of saliva running across its face. It appears to be standing on its hind legs and slobbering at another creature that looks much the same.

This... hideous abomination!

Tolwir, you feel your mind start to hurt, kind of like a brain freeze, but with a shake you remind yourself that you were just teleported into an unknown place for an unknown reason and have already observed some pretty weird crap. Steeled by that, you feel the sensation fade away.

Marie-Louise, as you dart around Tolwir to take a look, you spot the hideous creature. Unfortunately, even as you have seen many dark and twisted things in your short life, nothing really prepared you for this.