We wandered around on the snow for a few days. Eggy kept making lots of animals for me to play with. And summoning birds to fly around and look for the tower. At first they just found an owlbear. Then they found that same owlbear, but also some ice friends. We had a nice snowball fight, but they don’t know what towers are and can’t talk. But I gave them a wine cork and they gave me a branch with a purple berry on it. Twitch says it’s even better than the berries that Barry and Leshy give us in the morning.

We finally find the tower, but everyone wants to sleep before we go look at it. But it’s Right There! UGH! But we settle down with our bunch of fuzzy friends again. Eggy makes a dome to keep all our friend safe, and Eggy and Sandy so they don’t freeze. Some Bugbears decide to attack us in the night because they can’t see how many of us there are, I guess. Maybe they just wanted to eat the animals. I scold them, but they’re all dead before they can run away. Oh well.

The tower is really strange. There’s no door just a hole with an icy slide. Inside everything is upside down. It’s not supposed to be, though, cuz lots of stuff go broke when it turned over. There are lots of books just thrown about in the first room. Across the hall is a bunch of broken potions. But there’s a chest attached to the ceiling, and it has four not-broken potions in it. It’s a nice chest, too, so I get it all down with Saalym’s help. Guess she’s not mad anymore.

Gotta tie a rope off in the bookroom and go down through a hole in the floor/ceiling to the next floor. This room has two broken cages in it. One’s got a dead insect person like we saw on other ships. There’s another room with books down here, too. All the stairs are filled with rocks and dirt, but there’s also a skeleton with a pipe in one of them. Twitch likes smoking, so I give it to him. There’s a really quiet office room, too, but no magic thing doing that.

We go down the rope through another floor/ceiling. This is more broken things and tables and cupboards and things. And another stone filled stairs, but with no skeleton. Before we can do more, a door opens and the dead wizard murderer from back in East Haven walks in with a dead guy behind him. WHAT!?!

He says he didn’t kill anybody and nobody killed him. Says he’s a simi..simu… copy of that other guy. He doesn’t know anything about any murders. He’s here because that other guy found a room in the tower that can make illusions into real things, so he’s been studying that. Something about needing a spark of life, but that sounds like something you pull out of a body as you kill it, to me. He says he’ll show us.

First though, we check out the rest of this floor. He’s got an office that’s really boring except for a noisy pendant, but Twitch says to leave it alone. And there’s a shrine in the other room to a magic god person. It’s boring, too, though. Until Twitch touches it and it makes a potion. He says it gave him an illusion spell to cast forever. I guess that makes sense with the illusion to real stuff room.

We go down the rope again into a dining room. There’s a couple big lizards with lots of legs in there. Eggy says to not let them look at you, but that doesn’t make sense, so we just kill them. They’re really tasty. The next room is the magic room, so we leave the magic people in there. Doc and I find a bedroom with a broken mirror in it down the hall. There’s also a skeleton, so I look to see if it has anything in its pockets, but a wisp flies out and shocks me, then disappears. So Doc blows his really loud horn, and it snuffs out. But it also makes dirt pour in the windows and a chest appear. So, we grab the chest and skeleton and get out. The door’s just wood, so Doc pulls a metal door off his robe and we put that to hold the dirt instead. The chest is warm and has a fancy book inside, but when I try to pick it up it falls apart.

When we get back to the others, there’s a big gooey mess on the floor and the copy guy is shimmering. He’s a real person now. I ask if he’s going to murder people because Saalym has been looking at him funny the whole time. He says he won’t and promises not to. We invite him to come with us to the city under the ice, but Twitch and his boss want to sleep here before we go onward.