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Grand Towers

Summary

Grand Towers is the central wizard-tower complex tied to the Barrier, Browning, Ruby Eye, Hartwall, wizard bargains, Grand Towers pennies, Grand Towers passages, and later the sudden rise of four new towers making a new barrier around the site.

Known Details

  • On day-36, Mercy led the party through a passage into Grand Towers, emerging through a broom cupboard and robe room.
  • Floors 70 to 90 were schools of magic, floors 60 to 70 were storerooms and administration offices, floors 0 to 60 were apartments, and floor 74 held enchantment classes plus the private mage area where Mercy’s contractor wanted the Jelly Fish Broach retrieved.
  • Floor 65 contained a central pillar and shelves of memory orbs like Ruby Eye’s lab.
  • Orb visions showed Icefang in human form, black snowflake tabards, wizard bargain trinkets, Browning using Pride’s power, Garadul trapped downstairs, Hartwall disappearing after Browning activated a device, and Browning contacting a giant green dragon.
  • Geldrin reached floor 98 and found Browning before alarms and golems forced the party to flee.
  • On day-41, The Basilisk reported that four towers had sprung out of the ground around Grand Towers, making a new barrier.
  • On day-43, all wizards seemed to have been recalled to Grand Towers, the Grand Towers dome later went down, and Cardonald’s teleport-circle list included the factory, control room, and meeting lounge.
  • On day-44, Principal Grey’s old-school letter from Browning, dated 47 AD, ordered the school closed and students transferred to Grand Towers.
  • Old-school books and visions suggested Grand Towers used god-language texts, gnomish technology, automations, emotional elimination, memories, tower tunnels, and possibly the same hidden routes later used by Browning’s group.
  • On day-56, the party teleported into an elaborate Grand Towers room and reached a control room with eight statues, prison runes, Salana intact, Garadul and Valentinhide unlit, other systems flickering, and a Mericok face carved into a mouth.
  • The same exploration found 27 Humility fragments, parts of Thomas removed so he could become Envy, a black shard claimed to be an elemental of Void, a Frost pole ball, Juticars arriving through tears, wizards reconfiguring a map, and a Browning table trap.
  • Side rooms included a thorny brush or briar, a box that put Geldrin and Morgana to sleep, Humorous the old Rivermeet headmaster waking in 3740 AC, and a Barrier trapping Trixus, Benu, Garadul, and Bynx.

Open Questions

  • What exactly is Browning doing on or near floor 98?
  • What do the new four towers around Grand Towers protect, trap, or power?
  • Which Grand Towers systems are controlled by Browning, the wizards, Excellences, gods, automatons, or prisoners?
  • What happened when the Grand Towers dome went down on Day 43?
  • How much of Grand Towers originated in Riversmeet school, gnomish technology, and Browning’s student-era discoveries?
  • What do the day-56 control-room statue states mean for Salana, Garadul, Valentinhide, and [unclear: Keakis?]?
  • Why were Trixus, Benu, Garadul, and Bynx behind a Barrier inside the control-room side area?