"I give you passage, because you are not worth my time or resources to deal with otherwise," says the worm giant. "Do not mistake that for generosity. I can see you know nothing of worth to me. Be gone."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OCC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Everyone gains 400 EXP for navigating the situation peacefully. Everyone make a Will Save.</div></div><br/>The map the Eye showed you didn't really give a sense of scale for the pillar you now climb. The elevation gain is accompanied by the appearance of steps each a meter high, which are arduous and painful to climb.  This is driven into your head (along with your ear-splitting headache), once again when you come across a massive spherical chamber that you will have to walk up the "walls" to reach the continuation of your trail. While you can see to the other side of the chamber faintly with Desh's fairy fire, it is a long, long way away, and things get worse.<br/><br/>There are only two exits that lead the direction you want to go. From one come packs of Gnolls, while from the other legions of Bugbears. In the middle, they bloodily collide. While it looks like the battle is not yet over, it does appear to be winding down.<br/><br/>(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ba/33/f6/ba33f66f8b2b283e0b875b3178d2c13e.jpg)<br/>(http://paizo.com/image/content/PathfinderChronicles/PZO1107-Bugbear.jpg)<br/><br/>Before you can begin to pick your poison, a portal suddenly appears over you heads, then closes just as quickly as it manifested. Out of it tumbles a rather shaken looking half-elf, who is unceremoniously dumped on the ground by your feet, almost knocking you over.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OCC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Welcome back Ghost! I'm moving ahead since I don't think we're going to get anything else out of the previous scene, although if you want to add something in, feel free to split your next post between the two scenes.</div></div>