The party faced off with a huge earth elemental while the elemental’s summoner flew further down the caverns. Oervind and Sefu worked together to give the party the power of flight, the better to face the elemental. Oervind also summoned an air elemental to harry the earth elemental, and to scout down the hall to see what the summoner was doing.

The flying combatants beat the elemental enough that it fled into the walls, but they lured it out long enough to dispatch it. Then the air elemental came back to report that the summoner (a janni) was a few hundred feet away, summoning a troupe of minions.

The minions turned out to be a mix of earth- and fire-based outsiders, which were much easier to face thanks to Aranethon’s magic circle of protection. Once they defeated the fairly feeble minions, they could finally clearly hear the commotion in the adjoining cavern: someone calling out in Draconic, apparently invoking some dreadful, hungry master. Cue the adventurers…

The group swept into the cavern and killed the janni before he could even attempt an escape, but the damage was done. A painful-to-view point in space erupted in a rumbling, surging presence, and faint shadows oozed around the cavern, dripping masses of razor-mawed tentacles. While the party engaged the horrible tentacles, Edane dodged and weaved her way toward the abominable tear to carry out Gâshek’s instructions. She tossed his latest missive into the distortion and, after a harrowing fumble, managed to recover and feed the missive into the hole.

The group struggled with the toothy tentacles, which were not only elusive and annoyingly transplanar, but magic-resistant as well. They were so busy that they hardly noticed when the tear shuddered, and out dropped Gâshek, Gux, and Feordin!