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The inside of the tower is dull, rotten, and long past its sell by date. Clearly the structure was originally built well, and there were some magical supports here and there but that has ebbed with the ages. Amthor’s Tower is dead. There is a musty, fungal odor that permeates the floor, and it lost its war with existence. Molds, plants, mushrooms, insects, and more have all made the place their own. There are old destroyed doors, and only the rock and foundation continue its futile attempt existence.
The place is down. Luckily Alzar’s Necklace of Adapation is here. Numerous footprints from –passage recently comes through the foyer and heads into places deeper in the structure.
Alzar heads and finds an old entry way, with a pair of once-golems that have faded, magically, over the centuries. Ancient mechanical traps have long since been sprung, and an acid jet trap is depleted.
Empty iron hooks on the next closest suggest an old cloak room, with the tatters of garments long since gone on the floor. Alzar is using the Star, and finds nothing here. Nothing magical or hidden. Alzar does find an old iron black key on the floor and secures it.
They pass a room used to hold old wood, firewood, and plants. A furnace is next with rusted iron rods, and such. It has a chimney that heads up throughout the tower and kept the entire place warm in winter. But Alzar passes an old threshold and enters an old study.
Looters and the passage of time has had their way with this room. Against the south wall are what originally were chairs, tables and bookshelves. Now they are piles of sawdust and rotten planks. Entropy took this room long ago, and all that is the bones. A large oaken desk has been pulled out and broken, with contents on top of a heap, only a few disused buttons and such remain recognizable. Parchments were destroyed, and books have been mixed, and aren’t even recoverable with his spells.
There are a pair of megalocentpiedes in here that are nesting and protest his presence
Two rounds later, both are dead from axestabs.
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