Infiltration of the Slaad Observatory

Ashtar accepted the scroll's veil while Vell conjured her Arcane Eye. He ascended to the

observatory's open oculus and slipped inside. The scene was unnerving. A robed,

green-skinned observer, clearly a Slaad of intellect, glowered through a massive telescope

while a hulking blue Slaad guarded the entrance, claws idly scoring stone.

Ashtar stayed to the high shadows and whispered in Infernal that he sought only the

writing. The blue Slaad struck at the disturbance with a bestial roar. He rose fast,

the swipe hissing beneath him. Vell's eye drifted to a mismatched wall slab from the

Tower of Divination, every rune carved deep and bold. She captured the inscription,