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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3518569" data-attributes="member: 3448">Suddenly, a large cat with tentacles sprouting from its back leapt onto the stairs in front of them, hissing and blocking their path.  Siggus guessed that it must be a creature of Shadow, and tried to reassure it in Shadowspeak and Abyssal.  This had the opposite of the effect that they expected, as the cat unleashed a psionic blast.  Fortunately, none of them were knocked unconscious by the blast of energy.  With no choice, the scouting party attacked.  Kenshir quickly pinned the cat while the others pummeled it until it suddenly stopped moving and dissolved into a cloud of crystalline dust. As it dissolved, the tower lit up, with the walls themselves glowing.  Our scouts decided to flee, but a portcullis dropped across the main gate as they headed for it, trapping them within, and they heard a voice inside their heads:  << Creatures of shadow:  Though my masters are long gone, I know your tongue.>> That the tower began to glow is the first piece of their description that I can verify personally.  At approximately the time that they could be expected to have reached the tower, a spider web of light crawled up the surface of the tower.  The entire army began moving back, away from the tower, in response, unfortunately moving them closer to us. Returning to our scouts’ account:  they apologized profusely and said that they were not creatures of Shadow, but had assumed that the cat was.  The tower instructed them to “advance to the chamber of the Specularum” so that it could perceive them more directly.  They proceeded up the staircase to a large chamber, occupying an entire floor of the tower, near the very top.  An enormous mirror faced out towards what had been the Shadowline, with a huge array of crystals directly in front of it.  When they arrived, they heard the voice in their heads again, stating that it was the matrix of the tower and still guarded the tower, despite the fall of the surrounding lands and the army of Shadow watching the tower. Our scouts assured the matrix that we still fought to free Caldefor from the Shadow and that help was coming for the matrix.  They reported that the matrix was pleased by this.  They also said that the matrix told them that if it had someone with the Gift, it could draw on the tower’s reservoir of power to destroy the surrounding army and preserve an area for the light, which would keep it safe until someone arrived who could move it.  Lady Gerda volunteered that we had a wagon, and the matrix said that then we could move it after it eliminated the army.  The tower then used its power to confer invisibility on our scouts.  Again, I can confirm that when they returned to us the scouts were invisible, although I only have their word for the rest of the description.</blockquote>

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