"What happened to me? Very little of interest I must confess. Though there are some very things going on here. That platform took me to a rather large and rundown room at the top of this mountain. Let me tell you however, there is a lot more going on here than you realize. There is a city back that way..."

Gaunt pointed down the path behind him.

"And there is something very wrong. There are giant forms and other obviously magical things putting all there effort into keeping a barrier up, and there is something coming this way. Something destructive."

Gaunt finished as dramatically as he could imagine satisfied he'd conveyed the general idea without giving away too much as to why he knew. Then he returned to his more friendly business tone.

"But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. I left that first room in such a hurry that I never introduced myself. I hope you won't mistake that for deserting the group, but it was dreadfully cold in there. My name is Leland Gaunt and I'm a humble shop-owner."

He decided to leave out the details of Earth Zero for the present and see what they knew.

"Since you've managed to find another way out from wherever we started from I hope you may have come across some details about what is going on. Unfortunately I wasn't able get more than what my own observation could tell me."