It begins with: "I don't really know how this thing works, can you hear me? This is the best I can force this man to instruct me. My name is Iskander, and I believe I saw you at that place the wyrm-masks meet. We have made a terrible mistake! We are now under attack by the Blue Wyrmspeaker's forces. Can you help?" from the strange technomagic device in Neron-Vain's chambers - to Dex, who climbs through a portal.
The hexblood necromancer whirls through space (and time?) and onto a cold stone floor, a crackling and chirping device - a twin to the technomagic in the Misty Forest chamber, quiets after one loud POP! and a hiss of purple vapor.
Two dead bodies lie nearby, and a partly-scorched man wearing the signature purple robes signifying leadership in the Cult of the Dragon, re-introduces himself.
"Thank you! Thank you! So sorry the thing stopped working if others were to come!" he points at the loop of cast-iron runes, "My name is Iskander, I seem to have made a terrible mistake joining the Cult of the Dragon! My master, Jorgen Pawl, spoke only of seeking power through undead dragon-minions - raising a Inconnu, as the cult has always done! But these new horrifying plans are sure to bring doom to all!"
Assessing this new information, Dex, realizes this Iskander and Jorgen Pawl must be part of the Cultis Draconis (the "old school" traditional form of the Cult of the Dragon). He tries to form a question, but finds he cannot even exhale to make sound - and a pressure on all sides seems to increase, as if being submerged deeper and deeper in water.
Iskander continues, "They offered my master the chance to experience the Blue Dragon Mask to convince more of the cult to join this mad plan! But when we would not agree, the Blue Wyrmspeaker returned to retrieve the mask, to destroy us, and to claim this tower for themselves! But without the mask, Severin Silrajin would face another setback in his effort to call Tiamat into our world."
The purple-robed wizard then realizes something is wrong with Dex, "This tower is very strange, and I don't know what is about to happen to you - but find your allies and come help keep the mask from them! It is here in Xonthal's Tower, you must hurry - time runs weird in this place, but if we fail to hold off the attack then Severin and Galvan will return to their dark plan!"
Dex feels himself being squeezed down and down in size, blurring his perceptions of the room, until he regains consciousness outside a hedge-maze surrounding a tower. A fence has been built blocking the opening to the maze. A small town is only a stone's throw away, at the foot of some mountains. The weather is warm, and the sun is shining.
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