It takes somewhat longer casting and the crystals are consumed, but again she feels nothing but the knock on her metaphorical door, no stronger than before.

"It doesn't feel any stronger to me. ...I could maybe let myself see it, if I wanted?"

"—really! I'm so curious, could you try it?"

"Sure..." Can she open the door just a lil bit or is it all or nothing.

She can! Seems like she might be able to pick individual senses and intensities within each of them and if she thinks a little bit she can even customise more deeply than that, like seeing only brightness or overall shape, or hearing the "loudness" but not any detail of the sound.

"Oooooooh I can be so picky about this actually." What is the loose shape and location of this illusion?

"Picky?"

It seems to be encompassing the whole room.

"I can decide what of it I want to let through. I can see you're covering the whole room, but haven't let through any colors or anything yet." Colors on.

It's proooooobably replacing the room with some other room, which has mostly off-whites and some blues in the distance.

"Interesting..."

"White'n'blue. Is there more to this than visuals... don't tell me..." Sounds?

Wind, mostly. Philippe looks fascinated.

"I've let the sound through, you've got wind effects in here." Is she missing any visuals, what if she allows that - can she close off the sound again now that she's let it in -

She can close off the sound again. She's missing the actual specific shapes of individual objects, i.e. where the colours are, but that's all.

If she allows it through, she seems to be in the Greek Parthenon. The off-white is the marble and the blue is the sky.

"Oh, it's the Parthenon, pretty." Are there smells? Textural anything?

Textures yes, she can touch the Parthenon, but no smells.

"It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been," he says, smiling.

She pets a column. Does it actually resist her hand if she pushes it - can she allow it to -

It does not resist her hand, no. "There is a more complex illusion that would feel solid but it was not the one I cast."

"What would happen, do you suppose, if I ignored one of those, stuck my arm into it, and then stopped ignoring it - I guess I'd want to try with my fingernail first -"

"Oh, the resistance would still be illusory, merely the spell telling your mind that it cannot go past this point even though it can. It would not hurt you, I don't think."

"The Protean does kill people sometimes, doesn't it?"

"It does, yes, but I presume not through illusions."

"I wonder how, then... if I'm right, which, I suppose this is evidence that I'm not. Anybody ever been pulled out and autopsied?"

"I don't think so. It is... If a party has had enough trouble so as to lose a member, it does not surprise me that they would not have the ability to bring their body back. The dungeon can be very overwhelming, very fast."

Nod.