[Sir Heinrich Godfrie IV]

At the third level of Durlag's Basement there is a number of Greater Dopplegangers, and they frequently cast or use Gas Cloud spells (Stinking cloud or Cloud Kill). When I was in that little throne room where you find that *certain* helmut, a couple of shapeshifters greeted me and a few moments later I was rudely gassed with both Cloudkill and Stinking Cloud. Now the smart thing to do would be just to leave the area, but they stut the door and I didn't notice (at the time) that you could leave the room and enter another through a westward hallway. So anyhue... I kept on reloading and trying different things to help me avoid the effects of their stinky farts. I tried all three of the different magic defense potions; protection, blocking, and sheilding. I think one them worked fairly well in allowing me to be in and around the gasses, but it wasn't consistent. Then I believe I tried using Minor Globe of Invulnerability and that didn't seem to work. Then I tried Otilukes Resilient Sphere, and to my astonishment, that didn't work either (atleast I don't think it did).

So after becoming very flustered it finally dawned on me, use a Protection from Magic scroll. It's description states that NO form of magic can pass in or out of it's protective radius, however physical matter is not hindered. Well it WORKED! Errr... sort of. I wasn't effected by the gas spells, however I kept on using my Saving Throws (automatically). Grrrrr! And thats the other problem, I only have a few Saving Throws left for each of my party members and I want to hold on to them until the last few battles of the game. And yes, I know about Gatekeeper, but I got burned earlier by editing the class of my PC from a Fighter/Mage to a straight Fighter without removing all of his previously known spells. Oops... "Error: Unkown spell type". So I finally gave up trying to be Mister Toughguy and decided to wait out the gasses from the torchure chamber room down the Westward hallway. The thing that really bothers me is that there doesn't seem to be any COMPLETE (no saving throws) defense against these gas spells. Or maybe there is and one of you can enlighten me? Thanks.