| *Overhead I see nothing but an empty void*
?????I turned to see what made SD so fearful. There not far in front of us was some hideous humanoid being. Tall, with grey seemingly transparent skin, it had no limbs to speak of. Just a body and a very large head of inproportionate size. This monster floated a few feet off the surface of the plane and as ethereal bodies past, it sucked them in! It sucked them in effortlessly through a large and gaping hole that passed for a mouth. As I looked closer at this spectacle, I could see ethereal faces inside the bodies of this monstrous being. Their faces profoundly contorted in extreme agony. The monster was a soulseeker!
Whether this thing would have had any interest in us, the living, I have no idea. Without a word we quickly moved away putting as much distance between us and it as possible. Our progress seemed both sluggish as if we where walking on thick cloying mud, yet at the same time felt as if we were travelling at tremendous speed. This plane was beyond comprehension, a paradox, where opposites occurred at the same time. Why oh why did I come here?
Once we felt we had put enough distance between us and the soulseeker, my thoughts once again turned to the doors. How could we possibly know which one to enter. The voice that called and tormented me in my sleep was no longer audible. It lay on the other side of one of these black doors. But which one?
I tentatively listened at the threshold of a few. But could hear nothing. I sensed nothing attempting to pull me through. After a while of fruitless search, I turned to SD with a helpless look on my face. The souls continued to float around us also searching till they found the right door to pass through. Now I began to comprehend the purpose of the doors. Each one represented a portal to a specific god or goddess and these souls of the dead sought out the door which would take them to whichever deity they worshipped. I turned to SD and explained my thoughts and she concurred. Yet this realisation posed yet another problem. Would a portal which drow souls entered take me any closer to my tormentor? Furthermore which door is for drow souls?
Then SD had an idea. In the end what she suggested was our only feasible option. We go through the portal that leads us to Lloth and accept the consequences of our actions. To find the right portal all we had to do was follow a drow soul.
We searched around looking more closer at the form of these ethereal beings. Soon we recognised one as drow and began to follow it. We followed this soul for what seemed like an eternity. It tested some doors but ignored others. It seemed odd that all the souls did not know exactly where to go. Perhaps this was some test. Perhaps many souls were destined never to meet their deity, that they were destined to remain in a place of limbo.
Suddenly without warning, the soul we were tracking entered a door it was approaching. Without a sound it disappeared. This was it! I turned to SD and raised my eyebrows. Without any expression on her face at all she just nodded in acquiescence. I offered her my hand and she took it. We walked towards the door and entered?????.
I watch, I assess, I report.
Vel'drav l' sil'in qu'ellar d'Hun?ett zotrethen??Jal zhal sha-rasa!!!
Lloth tlu laoles, dosst handmaiden orn naut hojh dos!!!! |