Stolen by chance and circumstance from across the planes, you are hurtled into the unknown. Your guts twist in a knot and in this nether space between realities, that may not be a metaphor. Just as you feel like your body is going to be torn asunder, you crash feet first into reality and solid stone.<br/><br/>Your vision returns to you after a brief moment of blindness.<br/><br/>You have a moment of disorientation while your head clears from the magical transit. The stench of sulphur and ozone fills your nostrils. Hard stone supports your weight. You stand on a platform of onyx marble that is raised about 10 feet above the ground. Shackled to the edge of the platform are six ghostly figures, who wail and drift listlessly. Four staircases spiral down to the surface of rust red soil and black, broken rocks. There stalks an unearthly flaming hound, as well as three lizard-like men that you recognize as kobolds. The sky above is grey and clouded with thunderheads and ash. All around, fireballs fling too and fro, plummeting towards the hillsides and mountains.<br/><br/>You hear a gargling cry from above! Someone has spotted you! As your eyes trace their way up the 20 foot tall tower in the middle of the platform, you see three more kobolds peering over the rampart edges, as well as a horrible bat-winged creature with a fly’s face hovering just above them. A thought that is not your own comes unbidden to your mind.<br/><em><br/>The enemy is using mortal agents! Invaders! Kill them all!</em><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">map</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/fc/Screen_Shot_2014-05-12_at_4.16.14_PM.png)<br/>The large circle you are standing on is elevated 10 feet off of the ground. The small circle in the middle is a tower that rises another 20 feet after that. The flying bug-bat thingy is elevated about 25 feet above the stone circle you stand on. <br/></div></div><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">occ</div><div class="spoiler_body">To speed things up, I'm going to roll initiative for you. If that's an issue, please let me know, I've just found it decreases the waiting aroudn time in these games. Any two PCs may take act. Let's rock and roll  ;D</div></div>