"Why don't we go exploring?" You ask. "We could make a little map too. All the adults have been too busy setting up the prefabs and testing microbes to take a good look at Ishtar."
The others shrug.
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You've managed to sneak around back behind one of the towers.. By glancing through the clear stone, you get your first view inside.
The floor is covered completely by some giant fur, and then again by smaller furs. The fur on the bottom is a soft green in color, while the ones on top vary on what unnatural hue they are. A great beast hulks in one corner, which has no fur, only bleached tan skin, and no discrenable eyes, mouth, nose, or other organs. In fact, it's legs seem to be made of wood, and you cannot tell which side is head and which rump. Perhaps it is an artifice of some sort, but you cannot tell what for.
In front of the Artifice is another, more obviously artifical construct. It's sleek and grey in color, mounted upon the wall through unknown means. On the front, framed with grey, small images move. You're wise enough to tell they are not real, though the clarity continues to bug you. Underneath this movingbox is a small table, covered in miscellanious knick knacks, which a cursory examination indicates are regarded as relatively unimportant. Odd devices are scattered about, many seeming to be colored images of strangely clear resolution in frames, this time not moving.
There are other rooms, a strange concept to you, who has lived in one-room huts all your life, but comprehensible enough. From what you can see, one is a sleeping chamber with a raised bedroll on stilts, piled high with furs. One is a stark, black and white room with unknown purpose. From the size outside, you can figure for one more room, but the portal is blocked by a large slab of painted wood, peirced through with an odd, shiny, almost golden stud.
Attempts to pry loose some clearstone are unsuccessful. However, the bottom half moves upward, sliding along unseen grooves, and gives you access inside the tower.
>Enter Alien Tower?
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