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//    Town 126: Command Tower


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20 = "You sit in front of one of the control panels of the Surface Portal. Out the window in front of you, you can see the portal itself. The glow of the huge, magical crystals surrounding it is clearly visible through the mist.";
21 = "There is a black pedestal with a flat surface in front of you. Bits of the upper surface glow. It's a strange, dim, flickering light, just below the surface of the stone. You touch it, but nothing seems to happen.";
22 = "Then, as you start to stand up, you hear a disembodied voice. It says, _Issue a command._";
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24 = "You sit in front of the panel. After a moment, the familiar voice says, _Issue a command._";
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26 = "Remembering what you read in the book downstairs, you say the word _Khali._";
27 = "Remembering what you read in the book downstairs, you say the word _Bestas._";
28 = "Remembering what you read in the book downstairs, you say the word _Vrain._";
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30 = "You mutter a few commands, trying the easy guesses like _Activate portal_ and _Destroy everything._ Nothing happens. Hmm. Perhaps some records somewhere explain how this machine works.";
31 = "With your last command, the lights on all the pedestals begin flashing in a coruscating rainbow of colors! With a rumble, the four corner crystals of the portal charge up. They glow green, then yellow, then a fiery, blinding white.";
32 = "And then, in an instant, the built up energy discharges from the corner crystals into the two center crystals! More and more power flows into the center, to be focused, refined, channeled.";
33 = "Soon, however, something goes wrong. A portal begins to glow between the focusing crystals. However, it's not the familiar green hue of portals in Avernum. It's a pure, hateful black. And it's growing!";
34 = "A pillar of burning energy appears around the black portal, and the crystals putting off the energy are surrounded by a black nimbus as well. You start to feel cold. The black portal is sucking all of the energy out of the fortress.";
35 = "And, worst of all, the black tear in your universe doesn't seem to be fading. It's slowly expanding! If nothing is done about it, it's possible that no living being in Avernum will survive its advance!";
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37 = "With your last command, the lights on all the pedestals begin flashing in a coruscating rainbow of colors! With a rumble, the four corner crystals of the portal charge up. They glow green, then yellow, then a fiery, blinding white.";
38 = "And then, in an instant, the built up energy flies from the corner crystals into the two center crystals! More and more power flows into the center, to be focused, refined, channeled.";
39 = "Slowly, majestically, a portal begins to appear between the crystals. It's huge! Twenty feet high, fifteen feet wide, glowing like the sun you can only dimly remember.";
40 = "Then it all ends. The light of the corner crystals dies out, the focusing crystals darken, and the portal disappears. Everything is dim and quiet again, dark except for the flickering lights on the pedestals.";
41 = "And, alas, you're still no closer to destroying the deadly portal.";
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