As Acantha calls upon the divine for<em>guidance</em>, something feels ever so slightly... off.  It's as though calling upon Mystra for her insight has also garnered the attention of something else that is dark and oppressive.  Of course, given the circumstances, it could also just be all in her mind.<br/><br/>Casting about her mind for answers to her current predicament, Acantha can't quite recall anything specific about the situation she and her companions find themselves in, yet something about this<em>seems</em>vaguely familiar... or it could be a matter of plucking at half-forgotten lore she may have glimpsed at or heard in rumor at some point or another.  Whatever the case may be, for some reason (assuming she isn't still dreaming), the idea of a powerful curse comes to mind whenever she looks at the wall of fog.  Or was it something about a prison of some kind?  Or could it be both?  Frustratingly, her knowledge on the matter seems a little limited.<br/><br/>Precious few clues seem to be available for Acantha to go upon, but, assuming there is a magical cause behind this, there are three possible explanations:<br/><ul class="bbc_list" style="list-style-type: decimal;"><li>She is still dreaming.<br/><br/></li><li>Someone may have used powerful magic, such as a teleportation spell, to send them somewhere else.  This seems the most likely, but fails in terms of the logic as to why someone powerful enough to do so would go through the trouble of (by all appearances) individually teleporting each person.  Unless, of course, they were transported en mass, and then someone went through the trouble to arrange them just so in their sleeping positions, as well as their gear in their respective places.  And then clear up all evidence of their presence, such as foot prints.<br/><br/></li><li>They may have accidentally crossed some leylines, where the boundaries between the planes of existence is thin, bringing them to another plane.  The problem with this theory is that they'd have had to be physically moving to get across it, and wherever they, despite the dreariness, this place looks and feels like they're still on the material plane.</li></ul><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Cherise</strong>will find her wolf sleeping next to her, though there is no sign of her bat familiar as of yet.  The same is true of<strong>Melinor</strong>'s owl familiar.