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Sanctuary

After we find the skeleton as a precautionary measure scouts are dispatched and sure enough on the other side of the mountain range they discover the beast. It appears to be a massive reddish rock five miles high and ten miles long. Descending from the bulk are six legs each one mile wide. At what we can only assume is the front end is a massive gaping hole with some sort of shining thing deep inside. We can only assume that whatever it was that killed the other creature came from this area.

The discovery of such a horrifying creature sets off a panic in our settlement. While the thing itself was troubling the fact that it seemed to be on a course for our settlement made the issue more pressing. Thankfully moving such a mass takes a huge amount of energy and can only be done fairly slowly. We estimate that it will reach our settlement in two months time.



Option A- Aggression

At the settlement council it was decided that regardless of the intentions of the creature it’s massive bulk was a threat in and of itself. It had to be destroyed. Unfortunately, the strongest of our weapons would not even scratch it. Luckily, although the Fallen Empires had not given us their manpower or technology they had dispatched a few advisors to accompany us. It did not take much convincing at all to drive home the seriousness of this emergency and to get their aid.

While most of their weapons were far beyond our capabilities of constructing there was one that we might be able to use: the asteroid strike. All of our mages that weren’t manning the protection barrier were reassigned to scry the skies looking for a suitable candidate

Thankfully there was one that was passing relatively close to our planet. It took the strength of all our mages and reinforcements from the underwater colony, but eventually we pulled the rock from space and set it on a course that would make it hit the monster mountain.

The beast had just started to climb the first of the mountains when the day to strike came. We set up scrying panels in the town and had scouts watch the show. From a safe distance of course.

The rock streaked through the sky and there was a tremendous explosion. When the sky cleared it was easy to see that the beast had been broken. The entire settlement started celebrating.

Then a massive flash of light hit the screens and we could feel the ground shake even though we were 15 miles away. We tried contacting the scouts but there was no response.

When our forces reached the site of the impact the only thing that was left was a huge crater and a sea of glass. The beast and the mountain were nowhere to be seen. We can only speculate that something was released from the beast causing the crater. Our scouts who were supposed to be at a safe distance must have been vaporized.

While we mourn our dead we cannot help but rejoice. After all we have faced our first major challenge in this new world and won!





Option B Coexistence

<p class="MsoNormal">A few of our more foolhardy scouts flew close to the beast. Despite our apprehension the beast did nothing. Apparently we were so small it didn’t view us as a threat. That left our only concern being the size of the creature. We had made our settlement in a valley that was carved out of granite bedrock. After some testing we realized that even if the monster stepped on our settlement the valley would protect us.

<p class="MsoNormal">After the monster cleared the mountains we did a series of calculations, and as luck would have it the second right leg would directly hit the colony. After much heated discussion it was decided that we would trust in our math and wait for it to come.

<p class="MsoNormal">Almost everyone was a bit nervous as the huge foot blocked the sky. Still besides a little bit of groaning in the ground everything held. There even developed a festival atmosphere. Using magic light the town looked very pretty and not having to maintain the barrier or worry about animal attacks gave a sense of relief.

<p class="MsoNormal">The foot was down for three days before we started to see light coming in around the edges. My son who had just become an adult had an intriguing proposition to use the creature to our benefit. It would make a good method of exploring the world. They could build a settlement on the side of the beast and it wouldn’t notice anything. As it would constantly move they would always have fresh resources to draw from and it was so high that most of the horrid beasts would not be able to reach them. After saying our tearful goodbyes he led a small group of settlers up the beast to make their new homes. And that is how the traveling city was created.