judge not, lest ye be judged

This tower is way funky. Fortunately it doesn’t eat magic like the outside does. That would be bad. Well, okay, so maybe it wouldn’t bother me personally that much, but it would certainly de-fang our little group.

The whole thing is some sort of machine and when we killed the first couple of “undesirables” we could here walls sliding around. Given that we were working our way through a maze I was concerned that we might actually cut ourselves off from our target.

I tried to get some sort of agreement that we would try to avoid killing further pests until we knew what was going on. Everyone nodded quite politely but I had to take a fairly firm hand before I got any sort of commitment. And then as soon as we hit the next “obstacle” all that was forgotten. Well, except by Erson who was able to knock the weird critter out before anyone else could finish it off.

We eventually made it to the Medusan’s workroom (I don’t get it—how many workrooms does one person need???) and Ohbygosh rooted around and found some sort of manual for shutting down the tower/machine. This seemed a very popular idea, despite the fact that we had no idea what the whole thing does—for all we knew the thing we were proposing to shut off was something that kept a planar rift under control. But “we” decided to do it anyway.

We lucked out with the monsters camped outside, in that they started fighting each other rather than ravaging the whole area. Although when we made our way back to the cyclopseseseses... they had been fighting off some monsters as well.

We hid out for the night and while I was on watch the door burst open and someone walked in. I figured it was the Medusan, and the first thing she did was say we had to talk and webbed everyone else.

Man, you should have seen the Albrecht worshippers start foaming at the mouth. Ili started calling her something nasty and saying we had to rip her to shreds, and Malakar just kept telling me to create a silence field and attack her so she couldn’t say anything.

I couldn’t believe the way they were carrying on. Given that we’d been through and pillaged the whole place (oh yeah, “we” also pilfered some sort of artifact that had been powering the machine) she seemed quite calm and reasonable, and I certainly wasn’t going to attack her.

And we also found something amongst her notes that indicated that the Medusans were wiped out by the same group that seems to have initiated hostilities in the Accordlands, and that the Accordland leaders probably know all this and have known for some 50 years. So you’d think they’d want to find out what else she knows given that their leaders don’t seem to be telling us everything.