The Colorless Pool (GAP)

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For many years, the colorless pool was only a legend. It now represents proof that often legends turn out to be based on fact. The legends told of a color pool that could not be seen, for it was made of all colors. It could only be found by listening, for out of it issued the words, whispers, screeches, and sounds of all the planes. The chant was that it was a color pool that led everywhere.
The chant was right. The colorless pool exists, and it does lead everywhere. Through some strange fluke, when this pool opened up, the hole it made was positioned on some sort of fluctuating point. This pool will take anyone entering it to anyplace that he can think of.
The drawback is this: Because of the quirky way the pool works, it lets through sound from the places it's connected to — and it's connected to everywhere. Sound pours from it so that anyone within 100 yards can barely stand it. No individual sounds can be detected, only an overall clamor. To actually step into the pool is to go deaf — and there's no protection or immunity in the planes that'll save a body from this fate. Of course, since the constant din shatters a body's auditory organs, it is possible to regain hearing through use of the regenerate spell. Despite the fact that the colorless pool allows sound to come into the Astral from everywhere else, it provides only one-way transport.
Because it's invisible, a body can't use the pool to scry as other color pools can. Fact is, there's not much about the colorless pool that resembles a normal color pool, but graybeards claim that it's the same sort of phenomenon.
The legends say that the pool can be found only by listening for it, and those stories are right, too. Even if a body tells someone about the colorless pool, that basher can't get there just by thinking about it (no one knows why, exactly). He's got to be led by someone who's been there before, or he's got to wander about the Astral, listening for the cacophony. That's a ride that'll take a leatherhead about — oh — a few hundred years (if he's lucky).
There's even more to tell about the pool, however. An illithid named Varlomor (who's now, of course, deaf) uses the hidden location of the colorless pool as a place to hide from his enemies, the githyanki. Varlomor (Pl/♂ mind flayer/HD 8+4/LE) works as a spy, sent by his kind to watch the githyanki and report back on their activities. He keeps his presence a secret, and if discovered poses as a tiefling (he wears a cloak and hood which covers most of his features) until he can put those who mark him in the dead-book