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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5351669" data-attributes="member: 60965">Session 31, Part 17The others stood along the wall as Keeper walked to what looked like an unadorned silversteel column that rose to mid-chest height and ended in a domed top.  Keeper placed his hands upon it and his eyes sparked and flashed.  Kormak kept waiting for a splash of pyrotechnical magics to explode in the room, but instead, a small dot of white light appeared.  Again, there was a sense of anticlimax as the dot expanded with painful slowness, taking several minutes for Kormak to even recognize it as Felskein – and he never would have recognized it if he hadn't seen the stone model on Velea's Skyland. This model, however, was made of light, somehow acquiring the illusion of depth as it expanded.  Minutes later, the room was filled with the spread of Felskein and the spray of thousands of tiny Skylands spread out through the space above their heads.  Two Skylands were visible by the One Tree and dozens of others were closing in all around the continent. “Those would be Iron Sky I'm assuming,” Bail said, pointing at the closest ones. Keeper released the column and nodded.  “Most of them are, but where you want your attention is here.” The construct pointed at the Crystal Towers, held off the side of the continent on their fragment of land by the seemingly-tiny Span.  As Keeper pointed, the Crystal Towers seemed to enlarge for closer viewing, until the individual facets of the massive crystals atop each of the towers could be seen.  The crystals were spinning faster and faster and glowing with their own inner light. “So the Crystal Tower Defenses are the towers themselves?” Bail said, rubbing his chin.  “I suppose you'd need something that big to protect a continent.” Keeper nodded again.  “They are nearly active, shall I begin removing the Iron Sky threat?” “Remove the what?” Kormak said. “You can control it from here?” Suniel said softly, squinting at the Skylands near the One Tree. “Like this,” Keeper said.  He stuck the tip of his finger in the glowing light atop the largest of the Crystal Towers and traced a line from it to one of the two Skylands Suniel was looking at.  The room flared, nearly blinding Kormak.  When his vision returned, only one Skyland remained.  “Shall I continue?” Suniel, Bail, and Kormak could only stare at each other in wonder at the immense display of power Keeper has so casually demonstrated.  He just destroyed a flying island with a motion of his arm.  How many of those Iron Sky constructs were just destroyed?  He could destroy a kingdom with a flick of his wrist, Kormak thought.  He could see similar thoughts moving behind Bail and Suniel's eyes. Finally, Suniel cleared his throat.  “If they must be destroyed, then there is no time to waste.  Continue Keeper.” Another line traced from the Crystal Towers destroyed the second and the construct turned to the other Skylands that formed a loose slowly-constricting ring around the continent.  After being half-blinded by the destruction of a several more, Kormak covered his eyes and found the ramp that led down by feel.  “Carry on with the colossal destruction, I'm going to smell some flowers and get some fresh air." Suniel stayed behind, but when Kormak stepped out onto the grass and the cool breeze coming in off the Radianus Sink, Bail was a step behind him.  They stared out across the water for several seconds in silence before Bail spoke. “It's hard to believe, hard to imagine what's going on in there,” the half-dragon said.  “Well, I guess it's actually going on out... there...” He was gesturing in the rough direction of the Crystal Towers when the sky flashed white.  A minute later, a rumbling boom rolled past them, setting the ground beneath their feet trembling.  “What was that?” Kormak said, dumbfounded. “I think that was Keeper destroying another Skyland,” Bail said.  A few minutes later, his theory was confirmed by another flash and long-delayed rumble. “I wonder where all that power comes from?” Kormak wondered aloud.  “It would take a hundred True Stones, maybe a thousand to generate enough power for one of those blasts.” “Must be the Machinery of the Continent that Keeper mentioned before - remember feeling it in the walls and the floor below the Crystal Tower when we were going after the Lightning Stone?  It was almost as if the continent was alive.” “Um... does the tower here look a bit... reddish?” Kormak said, pointing at the outside wall of the Spire.  Bail tilted his head from side to side as if trying to guage.  Kormak placed his hand on the silversteel. The metal was hot, almost uncomfortably so.  “Guess whatever's making it happen, it's producing a lot of heat.  Hope Suniel isn't getting cooked.” He stepped inside to check, but the silversteel inside seemed fine, maybe even a bit chilly.  There was another flash outside and Bail came in blinking and almost walked into the wall.  “I think Keeper just shot one on the other side of Felskien. A beam of light just flashed through the sky... at least, that's all I can see right now, just red with a glowing strip of white in it.” “Might be safer inside,” Kormak said, leading the half-blind Bail back up the ramp to the control room.  “Any hopefully they're just about out of Skylands to destroy by now.”</blockquote>

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