The Haunting of the Rose – Chapter 6, Overlook
The wall informed Willa that she only had to make her way to the Gathering, she would be expected.
Walking down the broad passage you passed a well hidden niche which held a fierce looking suit of armour, reminiscent of the automatons you had fought only the day before in that great stone and metal building. Pausing there to inspect the lone figure for danger Drex noticed others like it in the frosted crystal of the walls.
Certainly if danger threatened those other machines could be released from the wall and there was no telling how many of them might be hidden just out of sight in that expanse of crystal. After all, you had not seen any other doors or rooms yet, so who was to say what parts of this structure concealed either defenders or chambers.
Though there fortunately appeared to be no sign did not appear to have any spark of life to them but that could have been only appearances.
It wasn't long before you reached the far end of the corridor which terminated in a large ring around the center of the spire.
As you approached this inner wall glowed and a circle formed. The area within the circle dissolved and through the doorway stepped two tall and spindly humanoids, their bodies were a mostly black, stringy, sticky looking things which sprouted painted, metallic claws at the ends of the limbs where one would expect fingers and toes. An external rib-cage of the same off-white, painted metal and a head that reminded you of the skull of some vicious, predatory bird. Each held a metal pike crisscrossed with the same black sinew as their bodies were made of.
They each stood to the side of the door like guardsman. A lone umbrean, dwarfed by those who had come before stepped out from the doorway. Behind him you could see a passageway which turned a corner shortly before the doorway, so where exactly it lead was anyone's guess.
The umbrean was a dull green, turning to a brighter, more yellow green at its center. The eyes were wide apart and a third, dull, and possibly blind eye sat atop the forehead. "On behalf of those who sleep we wish to apologize for the actions of our caretakers." she spoke with a slightly slurred common, and gazed at everyone in the party. Though her gaze lingered on Volon and his burden. Her dress was a simple purple robe, highly stylized into a broad v-shape starting from the stomach and reaching up to the shoulder with a darker sash around the waist.