Sorcha's Diary

Chapter 5 - Looking for the Edge of Reality ?

If you think of reality as having ends people normally think of Amber at one end and the courts of chaos at the other. So what happens when you travel at right angles to both? Maybe you end up here.
Sharing the top of a 200-foot tall tower with a brightly glowing gem or immense proportions. I find the best places to stop while I update this diary don‘t you think?

Lets find Deirdre

Well Dworkin got out of his tower just ahead of Brand and is hiding somewhere. If he is hiding well enough that Brand can‘t find him then we don‘t have a chance of catching up with him. So we can‘t ask him any questions. As Cordelia put it the only other person who seems to have any idea what is going on would be Deirdre so lets go and talk to her.

She did not seem to think that the fact that we have no idea where Deirdre is would be a problem. Apparently using Pattern you can walk through Shadow until you are where you want to be, i.e. where Deirdre is, even if you don‘t know where that is. Don‘t think about that too hard or it will give you a headache.

Where ever Deirdre is it took us many days of travel through increasingly strange shadows until we even came into sight of the tower where I am currently sitting. The shadows went from a normal forest up through hills to a desolate desert like landscape and then it started really getting strange, you know the sky the wrong color etc. It was fairly boring really there where only two really interesting events.

Finding Charity a horse, after everyone refused to let her share his or her horse, she said that if we didn‘t find her something to ride we could go off by ourselves, as she wasn‘t walking.
Fortunately finding a horse was fairly simple, Pattern can definitely be useful. Still it shows how much she is really trusted no one will let her get too close and yet no one wants her out of sight either.

The other event, oh, A riding Dragon turned up for Sir Ion. What more can you say. I just hope it doesn‘t increase his sense of invulnerability.

Ah well at least I had enough time to work out how to use Logrus tendrils and work on shape changing objects. Changing my outfit back to how it looked when it was new is probably not the flashiest change, but at least I have clean clothes.

The 13th Hour gets more dangerous

The thirteenth hour came upon us as we where approaching the mysterious tower that we had been moving towards for so long. The tower appeared on the horizon and seems to have five sides. Spreading out from each side a different form of light or possibly the light is moving towards the tower from each side. Any way we where travelling in a slice of brightly lit desert towards the tower.

Every time the 13th hour comes upon us there seem to be more and bigger things try to kill us, this time was true to form. There where more of them, eight up from the six last time, and they where bigger tougher, stronger and seemed to have access to some sort of minor magic. Taala got badly sliced up (because she can‘t fight) and I took a hit because I was trying to be clever and let one of them get too close while I wasn‘t paying attention. We won in the end but it was getting close there for a while, if they keep getting tougher we are really going to be in trouble soon. I really need to learn to mimic intrinsic powers, get better claws/ armor. Taala tried a bit of mind probing of one of the beasties to see if we could find out anything. She seemed to have a bit of a problem I think maybe she did it wrong?

The tower

The tower contained nothing but a bloodstain by the door and a staircase leading up to the roof, which is where we are now. We all have the sense that Deirdre is around her somewhere but we can‘t seem to find her, maybe she will drop by and say hi.