Emerald Spire 15.0 - Teuthida

Heading to the only door leading out of the unfinished room, Marin listened for anything beyond. Hearing voices, he tried to open the door a crack to better learn about whatever was past. Though the talking suddenly stopped when he did, underscoring the fact that he had been noticed, he was heartened when he had heard a familiar voice of Vibol to close the door. He allowed the door to be shut, and the four discussed their next step. Opting to try and intimidate their way past the angels again, Kormon pushed the door open and stepped in, followed by the others. Indeed, they saw standing by a fountain in the center of the large, otherwise empty room, the familiar faces of Dayana, Jaquarl and Vibol. However, instead of the Senethar, the angry woman they had met last time, they saw an alien creature that seemed part squid, part-humanoid, with a disturbingly large eye making up the entirety of its facial features. Dayana waved and Jaquarl groaned at the appearance of the adventurers but the hovering squid creature dismissed both of them and they dove into the fountain along with Vibol, disappearing. Kormon addressed the being who proved themselves more well-spoken and amicable than the others. They introduced themselves as Teuthida and explained that they were the field commander of Sabreal's forces, in charge of securing the spire for their archangel mistress. They hoped to strike a deal with the adventurers and garner a positive working relationship, as they all seemed to have vested business in this dungeon. The squid-angel paid handsomely for the name of the organization that was also striving to control the crystal: the Adamantine Order. With a vague deal to trade information in the future, Teuthida took their leave as well, disappearing into a portal in the fountain.
Finding nothing else in the room, other than a red-handled lever that ostensibly controlled a moving section of the floor elsewhere, they moved to a single door on the south wall, travelling down a hallway. Indeed, part of the hallway rotated about when the red lever was pulled. 
Further down, they discovered a combat training room, guarded by a robot like the others. After destroying it, they ripped open its chest and found within it another chunk of the spire, apparently providing power for the construct. Claiming it for their own, they then used the black-handled lever in the wall that the robot had been protecting to rotate another section of the hallway behind them; it also raised and lowered a series of portcullises in the room, but Kormon cut away a section of the offending bars with his adamantine axe. 
The newly-opened hallway opened a passage into Zdislav's audience chamber, where the same two robots still stood at attention. Rushing in, the four dismantled the robots like the rest, claiming their crystal power sources.
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