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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9713749" data-attributes="member: 59816">Team LakeWith his magic-detecting lenses in place, Shade-9 could see the conjuration magic that came from inside the strange structure. His sensors constantly detected residual traces of conjuration, evocation, and necromancy, as if the entire mountain was suffused with the stuff.With their attention turned to the structure, Guldred stood nearby, observing them without comment, but with eyes that were keener than his awkward ability with the common tongue suggested, and he quickly gathered that the group were not affiliated with the humanoids who were occupying the nearby temple. He told Aywin, "Guldred isss outasst. Sspoke againsst men who offer Muragh power. Muragh kill lizard-chief; ssend Guldred away. Guldred alone in lake. Hate men; hate Muragh. You help Guldred; Guldren help you."Darius was taking a look at the structure, discussing what they saw, but he was also probing Guldred's surface thoughts with his mind. As he suspected, the lizardfolk was far cleverer than he seemed, but he was not duplicitous. His thought were of loyalty to his dead chief, and his hatred for his clan's usurper. He had no love for the dragon cult, who he thought of as dangerous, hateful neighbours. None of his observations of the lizardfolk distracted him from observing the patterns of runes on the inside of the structure. Darius was sure that it was a teleporter, and furthermore he understood he pattern that had shown when Aywin had thrown a rock belonged to a specific location, and that the pattern could be changed. He guessed that the runes could be made into four or five patterns, likely nearby. But he had no way of knowing where any of them were. The rock had not transported, only because it needed to be carried by a living creature (or possibly unliving, but not an inanimate object).</blockquote>

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