Another secure shelter was summoned by Fonesca and much time was spent in it planning their assault of the tower. Eventually it was decided that everyone would have invisibility cast upon them and two teams would also have in their possession a coin with a silence fifteen foot radius spell cast upon it. In this way they would avoid getting peppered with arrows as soon as they stepped through the portal. This plan was put into effect, but one aspect of the plan had not been fully threshed out: the rendezvous. So the first team went through and went immediately to the left (as Mothers are wont to do) heading for the edge of the forest. The next crew came through and also headed in that direction, but not precisely in that direction. They also had different thoughts on how deeply into the undergrowth they should penetrate. Thus a goodly amount of time was spent sneaking around trying to find each other without revealing themselves to those in the tower. Eventually, they managed it and became more interested in the tents on the other side of the clearing in which the tower and the stone circle sat. They decided that a bit of scouting was in order and Fonesca volunteered to manage this. She turned herself into a bird and flew up and around to see what manner of creatures had erected the tents. While flying across, she noticed that a silvery hemisphere encompassed most of the top of the tower, but she pressed on to the tents. There she saw that a large group of centaurs were encamped there as well as a strangely huge weasel or ferret that seemed to be some sort of a pet or a guard beast. She reported back to the Mothers and they decided to try and make some allies. They circled the tower by heading deep into the undergrowth and came around behind the tents.
Soon they were talking to Balophan, who seemed to be the leader of the centaur group. It transpired that these centaurs were nomads who normally wandered the Dry Steppes. They had discovered that their sacred place (Tovag Baragu) had been invaded and desecrated (as they saw it) by Cultists of Vecna. These cultists had been in place for a number of years and had ensconced themselves deeper within the parallels (as they called the various stone circles). The nomads were here to try and oust the cultists. They did not know how to attack this tower successfully as they were too large to go within and root the cultists out and they had no magic or siege engines to level the structure. They had started this attempt following the entry of Iuzs forces into the parallels. They felt that they should not pass up this opportunity in the wake of the two parties conflict. They had heard that Iuz intended to destroy Vecna and this couldnt be a bad thing. The Mothers then started to plan a full assault of the tower with the help of the centaurs.