Deep into the Infinite Stair

[Ebiris]

"They're built like real people rather than clones though. What is this?" she wonders. "All the doors here look the same too. Lets see where one goes?"

They fly back to the platform they arrived on and Alicia opens the door without going through, just seeing what's on the other side.

[Anastasia]

On the other side is...the other side of the door. No portal, no passage. Merely an empty doorframe on a platform.

"Nothing?" Jessica says, "Are these...unused as those creatures are?"

[Ebiris]

"It feels that way," Alicia agrees. "Curious... I could expect that there was a backup stair, with these being put onto the main stair to fit new doors appearing across the planes and connecting, but the beings floating around I utterly can't account for. I'm going to try some more divinations before we go anywhere."

Alter reality for Legend Lore on where we are right now.

[Anastasia]

The spell fails.

No.

The spell worked.

The response you get is simple emptiness. A lack of purpose, a lack of will, a lack of anything.

A profound sense of emptiness fills you.

[Ebiris]

"Empty," she says at last. "Has no one been here before us? Who created this - these?" she gestures over at the floating humanoids. "I wonder what to do now. I suppose when you think of a stair's bottom you think of solid ground, but an infinite stair would necessitate something more metaphorical wouldn't it?"

[Anastasia]

Jessica sits down on the solid air, pondering the figures before her. She is silent a time, "Do you think that this is a..." a hesitation, "A leftover from the Incarnations? A backup? Another plan that didn't prove fruitful? I know not about metaphors here, but I wonder greatly."

[Ebiris]

"I think it's too great to have been created even by a god," Alicia agrees. "And if it were created by one, then legend lore would have spoke of such an endeavour. There... may be more here. Than we've seen so far I mean. But if it's as infinite as the other staircase I'm unsure about how to search - shall we at least try flying around a while and see if anything turns up?"

[Anastasia]

"Then let's go," Jessica concurs.

Any particular direction?

[Ebiris]

Down this time, why not chance it?

[Anastasia]

Gimme a d100. You're already on subtables here, for what it's worth.

[Ebiris]

[19:51] <@Ebiris> roll 1d100
[19:52] <Penuche> Ebiris invokes Penuche's magic: < 98 > [d100=98]

[Anastasia]

You fly a little time - and come to a strange thing. A platform with no door, and great hunks of the stone platform torn out and away. Fairly smooth, jagged but showing signs of an obvious effort to make squares.

[Ebiris]

"Someone did something here," Alicia says as she and Jessica float above that platform. Is there any pattern to the removed chunks? Does it look like they were removed with tools or magic or claws or acid or...?

[Anastasia]

You suspect a crude tool - it has that look. There's no real pattern to it, about foot long and wide chunks of stone removed.

"But why?" Jessica murmurs. "It makes no sense."

[Ebiris]

"I'm not sure, the sections removed seem random. It was done manually too I think..." she looks for any scuffing on the stairs around the platform that might indicate stones being dragged away.