The apparition snorts derisively.<br/><br/>"I'm almost enjoying this little play enough to just sit and watch it... but no, I suppose we may as well start the action. Oh, and while I recommend working together, by all means feel free to entertain me with betrayal. I shall be eating baked potatoes while I watch this."<br/><br/>With that, the image disappears, and something happens. To those who can be bothered making a DC 24 Spellcraft check, it's the Gate spell (portal version, not summon-without-save version).<br/><br/>Four iron spikes, ten feet tall, shoot up from the ground, creating a vague square. Lightning begins to crackle between them, and they each seem to be pulling the earth towards them, sand piling up until the very ground in the centre splits open. A pillar of flame erupts into the sky, leaving behind a glowing, rippling rift in space.<br/><br/><em>"Feel free to enter, when you're ready to begin the test..."</em>