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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gray Shade" data-source="post: 2695120" data-attributes="member: 32340">Back in the Fire Tower againI was not surprised by my lord's faith in his climbing ability."Quite so, sir," I agreed and helped him dig out the climbing gear.  Once he had it on I stood back a few steps to get a better view of him climbing and added, "Up you go, sir."  Then, sure enough, up he went.The climbing was most difficult before he reached the first level up, after that, there was more debris against the tower and his climbing became easier.  There was the ground floor, the first level, the second level, and with the whole roof destroyed, he could climb no further except by scaling the tower itself, which made me, I will admit, a bit nervous, just because he was getting quite high up by this point and other than the cracks in the stone tower itself, there were no hand holds.  Yet, higher he yet climbed, until he'd gone a good twenty feet and stood at the highest point left in the tower wall.See below for sketches of the levels.  The wind was quite gusty at the height he was at (a good 50-60 feet up from the ground) and I could make him out sqautting on the wall to keep his balance, then slowly moving his way around to investigate.*     *     *Okay, this may be a bit difficult, even with drawings.  But try to stay with me.  I'm only drawing the more stable-looking parts, so use your imagination to fill in a lot of debris.  Also, the small square in the middle of the fire tower is the chimney that the Grig mentioned.  The mortar on it looks new and repaired, thus it goes up to the very top of the tower, despite the fact that most of the tower is disentigrated for the top couple of levels.<a href="http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firetower19ub.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/511/firetower19ub.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firetower24pi.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7667/firetower24pi.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></blockquote>

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