The Mothers spent their time waiting most valuably, catching up on gossip and trying to remember why they cared about Tovag Baragu in the first place. The two days passed very quickly. On returning to the shop, the grey dwarf informed them that he had found a portal location that would bring them to Oerth. They had to travel to the Great Gymnasium, to the third arch on the left of the entrance and simply say "Oerth" in the common tongue, to open the portal. This they proceeded to do with all haste and duly the portal opened before them.
On stepping through, the first thing that the Mothers noticed was the large stone paved area around them. A moment later they realised that they had stepped through a large stone arch and that there were several other such arches in the area. Finally they noticed the mountains and the salty lake, both not too far from their current location. After a quick look around the Mothers discerned than they were on a large circular paved area over a mile in diameter. There were a series of concentric rings of standing stones within this area culminating in a tight circle towards the centre, with perhaps sixteen stone arches. From this central circle smoke was rising. The stone slabs were coloured by salt and had a scattering of coarse sand and many of the arches contained strange visible effects, glowing mists, points of dancing light, distortions of vision, glaring white light, utter darkness and the like. Moving towards the centre of the circle they discovered an area that had been used as a campsite by a large force, tents had obviously been pitched there as well as fires lit.
On reaching the centre circle, the Mothers found that the smoke was coming from a piece of the paving that had been thrown out of its position in the centre and now smoked with heat from its angle resting against another stone. The blast marks around it made it seem as if some mighty magic had hurled it there. After some investigating of the area they found a small number of burnt humanoids each of which had the same tattoo on their wrists: an eye within a skeletal hand. Four of the archways were displaying unusual properties, one was pitch black, one had strange sparking motes of light in a mist, one had pulsating and sparking bands of purplish light and one made things appear to be a lot closer than they seemed. Fonesca attempted to use a spell to determine where one of these portals would lead, but it failed her. The group decided to rest and allow Fonesca the time to get some more spells together. After some time watching with no incident Fonesca again cast spells, this time revealing that at least two of the portals lead to Tovag Baragu and that neither needed a key of any kind to activate it.
The party then decided to try one of the portals, choosing the one with the bands of purplish light. They stepped through as one and found themselves in a watery environment where they were immediately attacked by some fish-men who had poisonous tridents and spell casting ability. Only Levi and Gaspode, who were not disoriented by the sudden dunking, noticed that there were a number of stone arches here as well, one of which was filled by darkness. They both tried to pull the others back through the portal. Unfortunately Levi was pulled up short by a spell which held him in position. Gaspode pulled Guthranka out into the circle again and they caught their breath. Fonesca acted next after she realised what had happened, she tried to pull Jito with her but couldn't grab hold so she went through the arch to avoid drowning. Jito was also afflicted with a holding spell. Gasp and Guthranka then plunged back in and pulled Jito and Levi out while getting speared by the tridents of the fish-men. The party cast some healing spells and now sit panting and wet in the stone circle, trying vainly to get some heat from the smoking stone so that they don't catch hypothermia.