Keri
Sighing, Cumhall began to collect himself, he placed his left hand upon his shoulder and grunted as he flexed the muscle. He stood up straight with a *Crick* And cough.
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- "Too fuckin' old for this" -
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He grumbled to himself turning his back and walking towards the tower, taking a seat upon a rock he brought his right arm upon his lap, opening the metallic plating and examining the insides all the while grumbling to himself, there was a reason he didn't engage in close quarters combat on the regular and it had taken a toll on both his organic and mechanical body parts.
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- "Make yourself useful drone" -
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He didn't even look at his robotic companion, as he began to realign and reset various internal components within his arm.
Jeremy
The drone on the other hand had come out unscathed, taking a moment to inspect the fallen knight, it hovered around Cumhall briefly until it was given the order to continue forward, in truth it didn't need to listen to him but it was concerned for his health, after all without apposable thumbs operating the VARET would be rather difficult.
With that the drone whirled and continued on, flying over what remained of the wooden fortifications and into the tower.
Anne
The drone, flying above and beyond the fortifications and towards the tower, would be able to glean much of the surroundings positioned about the foot of the root-grown, vertical structure. Revealed, beyond the wooden fortifications, is a barren, cylindrical radius about the base of the tower, covered in rubble of both the surrounding wood and stones of broken structures strewn carelessly across the ground, and the form of what appeared to be shattered weapons, chunks of broken armor, and even ***Bones,*** Chipped, shattered, and broken. It appeared that manifold battles occurred about the tower, yet battles of a bygone era; the state of the rubble and bones suggested that they originated from a conflict that had occurred well-over several decades ago. Nonetheless, it is a messy and partially gruesome scene, as though a wild beast had torn through dozens of armored men simultaneously...

In its attempt to enter the tower, the drone would meet quite the roadblock. It seemed that the tower possessed not a singular window or opening into its resilient, stony structure, travelling straight upwards and beyond the false green sky overhead. Overgrown and raveled about by the tendril-like form of dozens-upon-dozens of offshoot growths of the ethereal, glowing blue root, the sole entrance into the tower — positioned at the very bottom front of the tower (relative to the wooden fortifications) — had been shut up and tightly sealed by the immense form of the overgrowth. The tower was sealed tightly, top-to-bottom, and there wasn't even a way to access its very top.
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Most concerningly, however, would not be the rubble or the lack of entries into the tower, but rather the tremendous form of what appeared to be a *Monstrous beast.* Hunched over, vaguely humanoid in shape, herculean in size, and with what appeared to be **Branchlike growths erupting from its head**, the beast appeared to be either unconscious or in intense pain. With its left hand, it grasped one of the few places on its head where the root did not grow and grotesquely restructure its shape, its face pressed against the ground, buried in a small clump of accumulated dirt. In its right hand, it limply wielded a **Tremendous greatsword, likely over two-and-a-half meters in length,** Lain across the ground at its side. The true size of the beast could not yet be apprehended, due to its hunched and lain position against the ground, yet judging by the size of the sword it wielded, it would certainly be most massive when it stood on its two feet.