Iron Sky
Procedurally Generated
Session 29, Part 1
“You building a new friend there?” Kormak said, staring at the strange bits of metal strewn about around Keeper.
Keeper shook his head. “Harold wanted for a mechanical construct to use as a mount. I am in the midst of building it.”
“Why doesn't he just get a horse or something?”
“When I am complete, he will have something like a horse.”
“We're flying over what looks like the ruins of some massive city,” Bail said. “We've been over it for a couple hours and it still stretches to the horizon in every direction.”
“Endemore,” Keeper said, without looking up from the bits he was tinkering with.
“How do you know that? No wait, the Nexus told you. Right?” Kormak said.
“Correct.”
“Well, looking at a ruined city has to be more interesting than watching Keeper,” Kormak said, following Bail towards the edge of the Skyland.
He looked down at a seemingly endless sprawl of tumbled stone, creeping vines, and a thick mass of trees. Some towering structures reached hundreds of feet into the air despite their decrepit and crumbling state. Out of the corner of his eye, Kormak even saw one covered with vines that thrashed in the air like-
Kormak spun towards the tower. No thrashing vines, just regular vines. “Did you see what I just saw, Bail?”
“If it was ruins, then yes.”
"You didn't see animate vines trying to pull birds out of the air then?"
Bail's expression answered that question.
Keeper walked up beside them and Kormak glanced at him. “Looking for something? Don't see any discarded metal, if that's what you are looking for.”
As he spoke, he saw movement out of the corner of his eye, one of the buildings falling, but skywards. He quickly looked in that direction, but just saw nothing but more ruins. “Tell me someone saw that,” Kormak said.
“Saw what?” Bail said.
“Yes,” Keeper said.
“You saw it too?” Kormak said. “Thought I was going crazy for second.”
“What are you two talking about?” Bail said.
“An anomaly, likely caused by a rift to one of the chaotic outer planar regions, judging by its effect on the ruins.”
“Of course it is. Anything else you want to tell us?” Kormak said.
“The True Stone of Light is two-and-a-half miles that way, where that self-assembling stone pyramid sits north of us,” Keeper said.
Kormak peered into the distance for a few minutes before movements in the ruin caught his attention. “Are those stones migrating?”
As they watched, a massive piece of masonry fell from a nearby building, hit the ground and rolled ten feet. A few seconds later, it rolled a couple more times.
“That was odd,” Kormak said. A second later, the piece of rubble rolled another twenty feet towards the north.
Kormak squinted into the distance and saw the top of a ramshackle terraced pyramid rising from the forested ruins. As he watched, the air seemed to ripple, vertigo and nausea almost overwhelmed him, and a square stone block the size of a wagon rolled up the side of the pyramid and settled atop it.
“The True Stone of Light is in there?” Kormak said, pointing at the bizarre pyramid.
Keeper nodded.
“Any idea what sort of thing might live inside that?”
“The Nexus is silent.”
“Figures.”
“You building a new friend there?” Kormak said, staring at the strange bits of metal strewn about around Keeper.
Keeper shook his head. “Harold wanted for a mechanical construct to use as a mount. I am in the midst of building it.”
“Why doesn't he just get a horse or something?”
“When I am complete, he will have something like a horse.”
“We're flying over what looks like the ruins of some massive city,” Bail said. “We've been over it for a couple hours and it still stretches to the horizon in every direction.”
“Endemore,” Keeper said, without looking up from the bits he was tinkering with.
“How do you know that? No wait, the Nexus told you. Right?” Kormak said.
“Correct.”
“Well, looking at a ruined city has to be more interesting than watching Keeper,” Kormak said, following Bail towards the edge of the Skyland.
He looked down at a seemingly endless sprawl of tumbled stone, creeping vines, and a thick mass of trees. Some towering structures reached hundreds of feet into the air despite their decrepit and crumbling state. Out of the corner of his eye, Kormak even saw one covered with vines that thrashed in the air like-
Kormak spun towards the tower. No thrashing vines, just regular vines. “Did you see what I just saw, Bail?”
“If it was ruins, then yes.”
"You didn't see animate vines trying to pull birds out of the air then?"
Bail's expression answered that question.
Keeper walked up beside them and Kormak glanced at him. “Looking for something? Don't see any discarded metal, if that's what you are looking for.”
As he spoke, he saw movement out of the corner of his eye, one of the buildings falling, but skywards. He quickly looked in that direction, but just saw nothing but more ruins. “Tell me someone saw that,” Kormak said.
“Saw what?” Bail said.
“Yes,” Keeper said.
“You saw it too?” Kormak said. “Thought I was going crazy for second.”
“What are you two talking about?” Bail said.
“An anomaly, likely caused by a rift to one of the chaotic outer planar regions, judging by its effect on the ruins.”
“Of course it is. Anything else you want to tell us?” Kormak said.
“The True Stone of Light is two-and-a-half miles that way, where that self-assembling stone pyramid sits north of us,” Keeper said.
Kormak peered into the distance for a few minutes before movements in the ruin caught his attention. “Are those stones migrating?”
As they watched, a massive piece of masonry fell from a nearby building, hit the ground and rolled ten feet. A few seconds later, it rolled a couple more times.
“That was odd,” Kormak said. A second later, the piece of rubble rolled another twenty feet towards the north.
Kormak squinted into the distance and saw the top of a ramshackle terraced pyramid rising from the forested ruins. As he watched, the air seemed to ripple, vertigo and nausea almost overwhelmed him, and a square stone block the size of a wagon rolled up the side of the pyramid and settled atop it.
“The True Stone of Light is in there?” Kormak said, pointing at the bizarre pyramid.
Keeper nodded.
“Any idea what sort of thing might live inside that?”
“The Nexus is silent.”
“Figures.”
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