Looking at Ylrhea and then back at Sadhana she says, "Don't worry, I'm trying to heal everyone as much as possible before we go back. I'll go heal Ylrhea a little more, but I had to spread out my healing between everyone okay? I have some potions too that Arista made sure to give us, just in case we need it okay? We're all okay and that's the most important thing right now." Holding out a hand to the magus she helps her up before going back to Ylrhea to administer more healing.
Putting her hand on Ylrhea she heals her a little more.
She nods, "I'm just glad everyone is okay."
She goes back to Cyna to give a little extra healing.
She sighs, "I hope that helps, that's all my healing spells. Let's get back home. Do we have enough scrolls, or do I need to fly us home?"
"I'm good enough for now, how's everyone else?" she asks the others, taking in everyone's condition.
"I think we should assess the damage to the tower before we do though. We have two scrolls left which means on triple there, and me coming back once, but I guess I could get another from Michael for the return trip, or we could fly back." Sādhanā replies looking up at the tower.
She nods, "Okay, I'll take a look around the tower and see if I can tell just how bad the damage is....I'm not really trained in the structural integrity of buildings though, so I can't make any promises. I think you should get another scroll from Michael. While I could fly us back, it would take me a little over a day to get us back home from here." She replies back before going to inspect the damage done to the tower.
"I'm alright," Sienna says, going over to Cyna. "You okay?"
"I'm better," Ylrhea says, after being healed. "Do you think this was an ambush or did we just show up at the wrong time?"
Tesia sees the damage to the tower is extensive. It may still function but only in a highly diminished way.
"The spellcaster bolting might indicate coincidence, if it was an ambush then it means we're being watched." Sādhanā says, studying the structure herself.
After looking over it she sighs and goes back to the others, "Well....I'm no expert, but it's pretty fu<ked up. The tower has taken extensive damage. It's protection is severely diminished, but it might still be working somewhat. It would take a lot of work to fix it I think, if it can be fixed at all....it would probably take a miracle at this point to restore it." She says before letting out a frustrated sigh.
Sadhana realizes that the tower's architecture is beyond her. As an ancient structure, she would need to find its original blueprints to make any headway with figuring out how to repair it. Barring that, she would have to find someone who is an expert in engineering.
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"It wasn't an easy fight, that's for sure," Sienna says. "But if that necromancer was really expecting us, he either would have brought more undead or would have stayed around to finish us himself."
"He'll probably be prepared the next time," Ylrhea sighs. "And who knows if he's on the other necromancers' side."
"No telling," Sienna comments. "I don't know how much longer we should hang around for. He's probably not the only one looking to bring the tower down for good."
"I think I'll manage." Cyna says once most of her wounds are healed.
"If there are more coming for the tower then that all the more reason to stay and keep watch, isn't it?" Cyna asks.
"That'd be fine if we had more healing to spare, but I think Tesia's spent," Sienna answers.
She looks around at her friends, "I'm sorry...but that was all of my healing spells. We have some potions...." She trails off, unsure of what to do and feeling torn between staying and defending the tower and letting Barclay know what was going on with the tower since it effected the town.
Sādhanā considers everyone's words, at the same time considering the history of the tower and it's effects
Sādhanā doesn't know much about the tower's history, though the architecture is distinctly Second Age.
"I've got a wand but it's good for an emergency and that's about it." Cyna says.
"I couldn't even begin to assess how we'd repair the damage done so far, this goes way beyond my knowledge of structure and history, thought I can tell it's Second age. But given how many people are depending on the protection the tower provides, and how seemingly important it is for our enemies to see it destroyed, I can't think of too many better circumstances to use a Wish. Sādhanā says after silently contemplating the tower for a while.
"I'm not so sure. Fixing it now won't do us any good if it's damaged again. We need to seek out the knowledge to fix it on our own so we can keep it running. Didn't one of these towers have some kind of oracle?" Cyna asks.
"There's three....the Tower of Chaos...which we pretty much watched destroyed around us while fighting Rajni's father, that shadow demon. The Tower of Order here, and the Tower of Existence, which....I'm not even sure which plane it's on." Sādhanā answers. ”The Tower of Chaos’ spirit can speak of the future, this Tower’s spirit can speak of the present…if it can even still function….so we’d need the Tower of Existence’s spirit to tell us of their past and history in order to know how to fully restore it.” she continues following Cyna’s train of thought.
"You think it might be something Michael knows?" Sienna asks.
"He'd probably be the best lead on trying to figure this out," Ylrhea says with a quick gesture toward the tower.
Shaking her head she thinks for a minute, "Here's the problem with leaving it unprotected like this though. Anything can come back anytime and finish the tower off and then we're left with nothing to fix. The damage that was done to it that started this whole mess was caused by the land shift when that tower came out of the ocean. That was what caused the initial disruption in the flow of protection that allowed those bastards to show up in the first place. If we do not get it up immediately we run the risk of something else coming along and finishing it for good. If we get it and the proper protection back in place, then nothing else can come here to destroy it....unless they have a way of circumventing the protection."
Taking a breath to try and gather her thoughts she looks at the others, "I think that Sadhana is right and that a "wish" is our best chance of getting it back up and running again. I'm not really good with words, but I think if you just said something like...I wish the tower of order to be fully functional again...I think that would work and repair the damage to the tower so it can function properly. I don't think another tower is gonna be coming out of the ocean that's gonna make the lands separate again....so I don't think we have to worry about it being damaged again....we just have to fix it so we can keep the baddies at bay. Right?" She says as she tries to explain her line of thinking. "I'm not saying we shouldn't find out everything we can about the tower...I'm just saying we should not leave it like this."
"Given the fight we just had, it's not like we can post a guard to watch it while we do anything else. At the very least, restoring it to full strength might buy us time to seek the information we need, especially if it means taking a trip to the Tower of Existence." Sādhanā adds.
She nods, "Yeah...that's the shorter version of what I was kind of thinking. So....what do you guys think?" She asks while looking around.
"It'd probably keep away anything big enough to knock down the tower," Sienna says.
Ylrhea nods in agreement.
Tesia remains quiet as the others decide what they want to do.
Rhadaya nods quietly considering. "If it will extend how long the protection is here while we figure out what's going on I say go for it."
"Might as well, I don't have a better plan." Cyna answers.
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With a nod Sādhanā takes off her left glove, revealing a glittering ring with two rubies in it and a space once occupied by a third. Her expression is one of deep focus as she considers her words carefully before taking a deep breath.
"I wish for the Tower of Order to be fully restored to it's former might, generating the full protective power with which it was imbued, to repel and banish evil across the breadth of Zahvroma, as was intended, complete with it's defenses and the restoration of it's informative spirit, with no ill effects for the good people of this land."
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The ruby on Sādhanā's ring shatters and the tower begins to right itself. The cracks in the tower's base slowly ebb away and stones begin to fly up from the abyss, inserting themselves into holes in the tower wall. Three large turrets affix themselves to the tower with adjoining walkways, structures you did not see the last time. Another large portion of the tower settles on the top, above the control room.
Once the structure has finished being repaired, you feel a swell of energy flow beneath your feet and toward the rest of the land (that you have freed from the influence of the shards, that is). Silence falls afterward.
"Well....damn." Is all she can think to say after everything that happened.
Sādhanā watches, entranced as the tower begins to rebuild itself, seeing repairs that exceeded even their first encounters with the tower. When the wave of energy washes over them, she lets out a sigh, finally smiling.
"You can say that again." Rhadaya says landing next to Tes and putting her arms around her waist.
She just nods, completely stunned into silence by the turn of events as well as the strange power she felt flow over her.
"Umm, good job," Sienna says, clapping Sadhana on the shoulder.
"Alright...unless we want to take a look at what's new, we should probably go home," Ylrhea says, rubbing her arms. "It's getting cold."
She nods again while trying to find her voice again, "Yeah...that's pretty....mind blowing. Anyways, while I'm interested in seeing the changes and making sure everything is as it should be...it feels like it's working again and looks to be in good order. Unless you guys just want to check out the rest of the tower and make sure there's nothing else here that we need to know about, we can go. No point in all of us getting sick from being out in the cold. Arista would have our heads...and I'm trying to figure out just how much of this we need to tell her about." She says before rubbing some warmth into her arms as well.
"Thanks....looks like it worked." Sādhanā says grinning at the sorceress. She reaches down and squeezes Ylrhea's hand, flashing her love a grin.