The door across the hall opens into a simple spiral staircase, carved directly into the earth and ascending up into the dead sycamore tree. As you climb higher and higher, you see a hole in the wood of the tree- the hole that you had initially attempted to climb in through?, but little else.<br/><br/>You're not sure how long you walk, but as you go you become well aware of the fact that the stair, and the trunk around it, has been well enchanted. Ten minutes pass... twenty... and then, suddenly, you're standing atop the crown of the tree, the branches long since wilted away. And it is huge. The rough branch that juts out near the entrance seems to be a good two times your size, and it feels like the stump extends a hundred yards in either direction. You know for sure that the tree was nowhere near this big.<br/><br/>In the distance, you see a massive, jointed "finger" bone, etched and pitted, sitting atop a flat stone table like the one in Sharpspike's den. Something like twelve mites are pulling it towards their "smasher"... a large boulder, suspended about 30' in the air by a thick, braided vine on a pulley system. For a moment, the sheer cartoonish nature of the plan is dumfounding... but Eyefang is driving the Mites on, and looks intently at the contraption. They really do seem to be planning to just drop a boulder on the bone to break it...