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A small stair leads to the master console room
Narrow circular metal stairways rise from four points in the room to catwalks 10', 20', and 30' above the floor.
in this area, six chairs with controls set in their armrests face a battery of large screens, one in front of each seat. All six screens are black.
Alzar inserts the metal shield into a device and it lights up and flickers into life. Any one of these screens can be used to alter the Nucleus to stop it from draining magical power from Mystara. Alzar touches the screen, mysterious icons and runes appear. Alzar’s Selnyr tells him these are the icons:
1) Shut Down, 2) Restart, 3) Hyper Mode, 4) Emergency Reroute, 5) Self-Destruct.
Alzar tries to shut it down, but is told there is too much power build up. Then he tries #4.
Alzar successfully stopped the power drain from the Sphere of Energy. The Nucleus will still draw its power from an outside source, but now that source will be the negative energy on which Entropy feeds.
Ixion shows up.
The air flickers, and a 7'-tall man with flamelike hair and fire where his eyes should be appears, brandishing a huge flaming sword. Glaring at Rad, he shouts in a deep, booming voice that shakes the stalactites "You have broken the Law of Immortals once again, Rad. I'll tolerate no more of this. Pre*pare to meet your end, renegade!"
Normally, a medium-level Immortal such as Rad would stand no chance against a Hierarch as powerful as Ixion; Rad is able to hold his own because he is drawing energy directly from the Nu*cleus via the Doomsday Weapon. Some of lxion's attacks are ab*sorbed by the Nucleus, from which Rad in turn draws power to return just as deadly a blow. The result is a standoff between two more-or-less evenly matched opponents (unless unbalanced by the PCs actions). During the duel, the Doomsday weapon progressively suffers from magical overload and threatens to strike Alphatia or the Known World.
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