Reappearing closer to the pyramid by a factor of five hundred, the noise of the inverted rockfall became a loud rumbling almost like the avalanche they'd escaped days before. The pyramid loomed in much of their sight, its shadow upon the ground just so its west, sliding over the terrain like a black ghost, giving some evidence of the thing's speed, comparable to a jogging human.<br/><br/>Few details of the pyramid's surfaces were evident, because those surfaces were so smooth despite the sliding of the rocks it'd emerged from. It hung eighty yards wide at its base, and the same sloping distance from each corner to the tip - the last few feet crystalline, and the only part which seemed made of anything other than smooth black obsidian.<br/><br/>Under each corner of the square base, like upside-down sphinxes, hung - or rather stood? - four metallic-colored centauric creatures, clockwork constructs with the shapes of winged centaurs and the sizes of small elephants. Each faced outward from the shadow of the pyramid's underside, in silent but possibly sentient vigil of the landscape 'above' their inverted bodies.<br/><br/>Midway along the side of the base nearest Kass and Aria stood three smaller, but at least as weird, other creatures: human-sized and shaped, dressed in white robes resplendent with gold heiroglyphs, but with alien faces which looked more like octopuses sitting upon humanoid shoulders than the heads of men. Pupil-less milky eyes loomed large within rubbery bald purple heads, and in lieu of a normal mouth each possessed a quartet of foot-long tentacles.<br/><br/>The hang of their robes indicated they were not simply employing some spider-climb like magic to stand inverted on the underside of the pyramid, or at least not only that: their gravity was reversed, and they seemed not to fear the 'falling' of the rocks which fell up into the sky and then oscillated below the pyramid. The earthly matter was not pulled horizontally along with the west-floating pyramid, and hence by the time the ground under its western edge fell up near it, was under its middle. As the pyramid floated west, the floating earth which 'moved', relatively speaking, out from under its eastern edge began falling back to the ground. Each patch of ground over which the pyramid floated fell up, and always down again when left behind, creating an endless sifting and cycling of the terrain, like a prospector sifting for gold in a New World river.<br/><br/>Standing a pace apart from one another, the three creatures - mindflayers or illithids, Kass would recognize, enigmatic and aberrant individuals infamous for exerting mind-magic over true-humanoid captives and slaves, and devouring their very brains - seemed intently studying this sifting of the soil. The left one was holding inspecting an ancient-looking battered bronze coffer of bronze the size of its own head, and the center one had found something more recently: it outstretched a four-fingered hand 'up' towards the looping sand 'above', palm pointed at an eighth creature floating through the air and struggling helplessly against telekinetic force. This dust-colored desert goblin, shrieking and cursing, seemed to struggle and 'swim' in the air to no avail, moving closer to the edge of the pyramid headfirst toward the white-robbed illithids.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Pyramid is 800' above the ground, and 240' on a side. Aria and Kass are at the altitude of its base and 100' west. It's moving west towards Kass and Aria had 6 mph (600'/minute or 60'/round).