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The party approached the Tower of Conjuration, the school of magic known for creating substance from the Weave and summoning creatures through it. The outskirts, in an neat radius about the tower's base, was oddly devoid of debris. Tossing a stone towards the building, they awaited and soon saw an animated broom come down to sweep the debris. Fern tried to grab hold of the broom to borrow a lift towards the top of the tower, but the household object was not strong enough. Thus the party approached the door, which upon approach clanked loudly, as an iron mechanism barred the entrance. Using her mage hand, Fern attempted to pick it from a distance causing a bonfire spell to singe the threshold. After some pacing back and forth, noticing the lock would shut upon their departure, Fern attempted to open the door at a far distance. It worked. |
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Inside the Tower of Conjuration, a lavish feast was set up in a cozy antechamber. A familiar, which the party later noticed changed every minute, was in a cage near a glowing door. Crank and Tetro took bites from the heroes' feast, which seemed to have a bit of everything other than knucklehead trout, whileGadget investigated an intriguing chest that turned out to be an abracadabrus. |
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The second door in the Tower of Conjuration led to a pocket dimension with a vacant grassy field and the banks of a small beach. The ground was indented as if the foundations of a large building once rested here. Returning back and eyeing the ice devil, the party actually spoke to it for the first time. Zelzivif sneered at the tiefling in infernal. "Not the one," he said, but he went on wondering whether he could strike a deal. He would aid the party, of which he seemed to know an awful lot about, in return for freedom. Not finding this in their best interest, the party kept up the dialogue but did not free the devil, a servant of Levistus. Though they did briefly consider recruiting him for their chain lightning team. "No matter," he said. "He would be free in his due time." |