[quote=@Magnanimity] First, to determine if it's even the source. I'd wager it's a manifestation, assuming it's unnatural at all. A side effect of an ailment lying elsewhere. *Very slowly reaches my arm toward the hole while floating over the edge toward the anomaly, attempting to source its connection to something else that isn't immediately present* [/quote] [color=9e0b0f][i]*Winces*[/i][/color] Not a good idea Orthrus! Be careful! [quote=@Server] *The apparition appears to be of the same nature as the three of us and hovers ominously, and as soon as you cross the lip of the pit, it pulls against you with intense gravitational force* [/quote] [quote=@Magnanimity] *Clenches my fist and pulls my arm back in resistance, though does so in a way that doesn't betray any sense of struggle* This is as foreign as we are. [/quote] Whoah! Hey there! You good? Right... [color=9e0b0f][i]*extends my hand out toards it without even as an inch of changing my position closer to it and begins casting a sealing spell*[/i][/color] [color=ed1c24][b]'Orghun-nobbhu-nobbhu-shyiah!'[/b][/color] [color=9e0b0f][i]*The spell forms a seemingly impenetrable forcefield of fire-like energy without actively attacking it, but severely restricting its influence on Jade and us and the realm*[/i][/color] Right... just to be safe... darn!