Wizard Seinfeld: What's the deal with incantations? They produce magical effects, but someone went and put "can't" right in the name; they should call them in-CAN-tations!
@TalesOfBeyond The brimstone odor seems related to the process of entering our dimension, my suspicion is that hydrogen sulfide is somehow formed spontaneously out of atmospheric sulfur compounds; might we not expect unique reaction kinetics at a portal/portal-surroundings boundary?