A stifled moan rises from beneath a heap of frosted, bloodied corpses...
Before anyone has time to investigate the moaning, the door before Alain flies open.
Alain unleashes a blast of magic as a gang of horrid semi-human things push through the doorway, reaching out toward him with filthy nails.
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One of the hideous things burns and bubbles away under Alain's conjured attack, but the other mob about the man and flail at him, scratching his harness and tearing at his clothes and hair. Mindless yet malign tittering rises from formless mouths as the creatures lay on.
The others see all this--but are still healing or being healed-- when a hissing sound bursts over the noise of the fight by the doorway.
It's coming from that black disk in the middle of the chamber's floor.
The portal.
Inky vapors spray up from the cracking ebon surface. A form pushes up as the dark circle fragments and liquefies---a manlike shape, clad in armor, wielding a blade big enough to decapitate a giant at one stroke!