[ WP ] There is a tower at the edge of the world that no one has ever scaled . It has no doors or windows , but instead an open hole in the roof above the clouds . You hope to find out what is within .

I know a thing or two about that place. Some called it `` The tower'' others `` The sky's sword'' if you asked me two weeks ago, I would'a called it a myth, but I assure you the tower is real, and so is the only way in. Desperate times call for desperate measures as they say, and I sure was desperate for something. I started for the tower because I knew there was something in there I needed. I do n't want to get into what exactly right now... I will just say... Someone real close to me was in a... Rather regrettable situation and needed me to do something about it, this was the last thing left to do. Go into the wild unknown and hope there was something that could help them. Most likely I figured would be a giant, probably man-ish made tower off the edge of the known world. 
 
 I tagged along with a group that was headed the same place for different reasons. There were, lets call it seven of us when we started our journey. 
 Fred was the captain of the ship, He just wanted to make sure the place existed and decided to let us on his ship as long as we would help out as his crew. 
 Jacob was a fresh young full-plate no-brain sword and tower shield fighter who wanted to make a name for himself, figured exploring the tower was a good way to do that. 
 Merry and Lewis were both trap dodging, knife throwing, sneaky dungeon divers who wanted to make some money. they brought Four bags of holding each to plunder the tower. 
 Howard was our mage, he figured there were undoubtedly untold knowledge of magic inside the tower, and if he could uncover it he could become a powerful mage. In retrospect, he was probably the one who brought the group all together since he was the most prepared to climb a massive tower. 
 The last two were yours truly and the'Gator out front that the barkeep would n't let me bring in. His name is Snappers if you are wondering. I named him when I was twelve give me a break. He do n't bite... Unless I tell em to. 
 There were also a few of Fred's crew, but I did n't get to know any of them. 
 
 So there we are, the six of us discussing how we are going to climb this massive tower and what we are going to do once we get inside. Howard had been planing this for years. He had something like four or five bags of holding filled with nothing but spider climb potions. Each one of those potions allows someone to walk on walls for an hour. In addition, Howard could cast mass spider climb on the whole group once a day that would give us an additional 6 hours ( he was a pretty good mage ) Those ones we would use for sleeping. Do n't oversleep or down you go, all the way to the bottom. Then at the top, we drink a potion of feather fall and float down to... Whatever. The rogues can loot whatever they want, and we stick together no madder what. If someone falls, we fall back and help them. We leave no one behind. We survive as a party, we die as a party. 
 
 Here is where the first party conflict begins. Lewis, being the arrogant sleazy prick she is asks about Snappers. 
 
 `` Does the Alligator count? If that thing gets its self caught in a trap do we need to risk our necks for it?'' She says. I can hear Snappers stamping his feet and quietly tell him to keep it down. 
 
 At first I thought it was a stupid question and everyone would denounce it, then the fucking wizard joins in on this prick `` Umm I do n't think so. The Alligator is n't even coming with us.'' he says with his stuffy nose. 
 
 I get pissed. There ai n't no way I am going anywhere without my buddy. We bicker for a bit, when Fred finally shows up and tells us he wo n't let us leave Snappers on his ship because he does n't want to take care of an Alligator while we are gone. We come to a'compromise'. I get to bring Snappers as long as they do n't have to save his ass when he gets into trouble. Heh. It is funny in retrospect, since Snappers was the one doing more of the saving than either of those good for nothing rogues ever did, but I am getting ahead of myself. 
 
 We travel for... lets call it a month, maybe more when we get a sight of it. This thing is massive. We are so far away from it and yet it looks like it almost touches the sun. As we are making our final preparations I get another look at our knight in shining armor Jacob. He looks nervous. I approach him about it and he shrugs it off and says `` I was just a bit scared of... Snappers, I woke up and he was staring at me, just got me jumpy you know'' A statement which I know is bullshit since Snappers slept right below my bed, but I let the oh so brave knight get away with it. This is probably his second or third real adventure outside his home town. 
 
 We started our climb. After we drink the first potion Fred tells us he will be leaving in two weeks with or without us ( Should be plenty of time, or so we thought ).By the way if you have never drunk a spider climb potion before, does not have the greatest taste in the world. It has the texture of thick tar with dead spiders in it, and tastes like spoiled orange juice. We need to drink a spider climb potion every hour as we walk straight up this tower or we fall all the way down and probably drown if we do n't die as soon as we hit the water. 
 
 The walls of this tower were made out of some dark stone. it was a massive cylinder that was at least seven miles in diameter. We did n't know how thick it was, but we did know that Howard tried to break into it once and was hilariously unsuccessful. Now we get to the first night, we had been drinking spider potions and walking up this wall for something like seven hours now. Everyone else had sustenance rings so they did n't need to eat or drink, but those rings do n't fit Snappers so we just had to eat what I had in my pack. When we went to bed, we could n't set up a tent so we just had to sleep right there in the sky. We were still below the clouds at this point, and lying on the wall was disorienting. Snappers held my arm while we slept. He was scared he was going to fall off, and looking at my group members he was n't alone, as the rogues were locked arm in arm too. Jacob stabbed a climbing pick he had with him into the wall and tied it to his foot in case the spell wore off while he was asleep. Howard was confident in his magic, which was comforting enough for me. 
 
 We kept walking up the wall. We went higher and higher as we kept walking. We shared stories, we had laughs, we started really getting to know each other. Day by day, we kept walking. We passed the clouds at some point and the air started to get thin, and it started to get cold. It took us somewhere between 4 and 6 days to reach the top but we finally did it. 
 
 We were met with a few miles of the thick cylinder. Lewis gasped and said `` Is this it? No way in huh?'' When I heard that my heart sank, but then Howard thought he saw a way in through the center. The stone was completely black and at the time it was getting quite dark so it was hard to tell if there was a hole anywhere other than right below your feet. We walked to the center and sure enough there it was. This hole was about 10 feet in diameter. That is it, we thought. Being the genius I was, I pulled a sun-rod from my pack, light it up and tossed it in. We watched as the glowing stick fell further and further. At some point it was so far down it looked like a faint dot of light. Howard pulled out his telescope and pointed it straight down. 
 
 `` Still falling.'' He said, assuring something I already knew. Jacob looked at me with a concerned look on his face. At least I think it was concerned, hard to tell through his helmet. 
 
 `` Lets head in tomorrow morning, best get as much rest as we can before delving below.'' He said, and we all agreed. 
 
 That night was the most peculiar ever. I could see so many stars. There were no clouds or mountains to block your view, you could just see the void of blackness, and the stars. I could n't help but wonder if we had passed heaven somewhere on the climb. I could n't sleep. My whole world looked so small from up here. I could see rain clouds below us. It is raining right here and yet we need no shelter to stay dry, that is how high up we are. Howard could n't sleep ether. He was taking notes in some book of his. He did the math and apparently, with feather-fall the whole time, it would take us three days to reach the bottom, without it, about 12 hours. Assuming that the bottom is below the ocean surface somewhere. He figures we need to jump in without it, then drink it 11 hours in. Yeah, I thought, getting a nervous alligator to drink an entire potion while scaling up a vertical wall was n't hard enough, lets try doing it while falling to our deaths, that will work. 
 
 I close my eyes and try to fall asleep. Before I doze off I whisper out loud 
 
 `` Do n't worry James, I know I can cure you. It has to be down there. It has to be.'' 
 
 > Planning for part 2 but not until tomorrow.
