After trying various ploys to get beyond the chapel area, including Donzabel summoning and sending a tiny viper through the slot beneath the wedge of stone, Aleska polymorphing as a fly and going through the same slot, Shine sending his Shadow through the orange luminescent arch of mist, only to sense its death not long after; Aleska, finally harnessing his superior intellect in connection with Acererak's poem, placed a ring into the slot and the great stone wedge was activated down to allow egress east from the chapel. From here three jammed doors and three pits were heroically, if not recklessly, negotiated by Madak with great strength and agility. Shine found a secret door in the bottom of the third pit which lead deeper down some stairs to a magically webbed hallway. Aleska burnt away the webs with his coloured candles which revealed a roiling pale white cloud beyond. Fearing a trap, Aleska then sent Sylvester through the cloud but no discernible results were deduced from his mechanical lion's return. After declining to send Gorak into the cloud Donzabel finally volunteered his services and poked a finger into the roiling mass. This immediately induced a chilling panic and he fled from the cloud as fast his encumbered state would allow. Luckily Madak was on hand to grapple him and his mad flight has been checked. Aleska contemplates a dispel magic on the panic cloud. Shine hides ready for action. Prolth is nonplussed by the situation.
