The group scrambles into position, everyone on edge, magic flying everywhere, as they took up defensive positions around the enormous pillars in the middle of the room, looking everywhere at once.<br/><br/>Moments pass. Silence.<br/><br/>More time. A full minute passes. Was it a false al--<br/><br/>"Shh. Someone comes," Nordri hissed.<br/><br/>Silence. A shuffling sound - the door to the tunnel with the poison vapors opened, and a gaunt man, with a long beard, and skin sloughing off, surrounded by flickering flames, appeared in the doorway... and behind him, twenty feet back, a towering, withered skeletal being, with an enormous gemstone filling its one eye socket.<br/><br/><em><strong>ROLL FOR INITIATIVE.</strong></em>