Heroes: Meghera, Aldarion, Raziel
The Heroes hide Trull's body in plain sight, among other corpses' ready for dissection, then they continue their exploration.
They enter more dreadful chambers, where the mind flayers store their failed experiments; mutated quaggoths, duergar, and grimlock languish in mindless pain inside filthy cells, while in other rooms, brains of all shapes and sizes are kept alive in brine and viscous liquids.
After facing and killing a few mind flayers, the Heroes arrive in the Elder Brain's chamber. The aberration, floating in a pool of brine, is guarded by an Ulitharid, some sort of "noble" mind flayer, and several grimlocks. The Heroes rapidly dispatch the Elder Brain's minions, and force the Ulitharid to escape. But the Elder Brain, safe behind a cage of psychic force, blasts them with brain-wracking mental assaults.
More than once the Elder Brain brings the Heroes to near death, but each time Aldarion and Serghor healing powers save the day. As their magical powers are slowly damaging the Elder Brain, the creature retreats deep into its pool, and disappears from view.
Raziel realises that the pool is the portal he's been loking for, and when Meghera approaches it, the portal activates. Serghor dispels the cage of force surrounding the pool, and Raziel is about to jump in, when dozens of grimlocks and quaggoths mind-slaves arrive in the chamber, ready to rip the Heroes apart.
Considering their duty performed, Aldarion and Serghor dimension door away from the room, to retrieve Trull's body. The way between the dissection room and the exit is free of enemies, and they simply walk out of the caves.
Meghera assures Raziel that she'll be fine, and pushes the giant man inside the portal. Then, as the screaming beasts converge on her, she flies up and summons her Nic'Epona ally, disappearing in a flash of rainbow lights.
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