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It’s a gigantic circle, with towers, buildings, slave quarters and more. There are four major thoroughfares with a huge tower in the middle, and that tower is the central command area for our new beholder residents.
At the entrance they teleported to are a pair of Spectators, large beholder-kin who guard a particular thing or area. They have been set here by Qeqtoxii and let him and Alzar through.
The great beholder city of Ilth K’hinax occupies a mammoth cavern below the surface world. It stretches as far as the eye can see, and the beholders who originally built it and dwelt there carefully planned it as a tribute to their way of life. Entrances are vertical holes that lack stairs or a ramp, and similar construction is up and down the whole of Ilth K’hinax.
The lower level they are entering by and it was the quarters for servants and slaves, with beholders above, and in the central tower. It’s very similar to a great stalagmite.
After the beholders returned to the site, they began to excise the area of the life that had grown up, so creatures like bats, beetles, centipedes, other insects, gelatinous cubes, carrion crawlers, and other scavengers and underground friendly folks are long since driven out. There may still be some down here, but their numbers are greatly diminished.
As they walk down they notice some natural phenomena, like air currents and odors and dripping water and hot and cold spots. The place is alive geologically. Alzar is using the black Ioun stone to see in darkness, and can see better than a certain beholder-cum-human.
In fact, it seems like this lower level has been cleaned of much of the debris of time, and objects are gone from homes. The recent lodgers might have used their telekinesis eye stalks to move things around.
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