Continue to try and get further into the lord's home
[3] You sneak further into the house, finding surprisingly little resistance. It seems that, for some reason, there isn't a single guard inside the house. Unfortunately, the doors to the lord's quarters are locked magically, and you can't get any further.
Use some of that taming magicks on the cute baby drake to make sure it won't bite my hand off, and instead call me MAMA
[2=auto-success] You bungle the spell, but it seems that the drake already considers you it's mother, and begins chirping("chirp" being something more akin to a hawk's cry or something, seeing as it's the size of a full grown cat) at you for foor.
try all available methods of geting my castle here
[5] You effortlessly move your castle between planes, commanding it to travel through the shadow dimension you previously stored it in.
"Sorry for breaking your wall tendrils of black energy?"
[6] The tendrils pause as you speak before beginning to move once more... straight toward you, and faster than before. A voice speaks into your mind as they advance, "You should not be here. None may know until the conversion is complete."
I check on what Tharic has been up to, then go to the observation deck chair and research a rune of long-range scanning (trying to learn it like before). If I accidentally cast it, target the windows of the room. When done, I ask the ship to find out just how fast it can go and "Have you decided on a name? Or a way to get one?".
[3] You can't seen to find a suitable rune for your needs. You suspect the effect you seek might require the use of multiple linked runes, to triangulate things instead of simply detecting them. You then take a break from your studies to converse with your companions. Tharic has apparently been rather bored without any orders and you find him playing checkers against the ship. He is losing quite badly. You also ask your ship if it has a name for itself. It responds "I am Legion!!! Unless you have a better idea? As for my speed, I'm not sure exactly, but we should reach to top of the plane soon."
(Hey, the names fits. And I couldn't think of a better one for a being made from a large number of people. Besides, there had to be at least one comedian in there.)
Check on Ex-Captain ShadowDump. If possible, shoot stuff with fire!
[5] You check on SHAD0W. Look, evil stuff! Or at least non-ally stuff! Fire fire fire! You promptly shoot fire at the black tendrils. [roll for overkill:3] You are bright enough to only use the first setting on your gun, and SHAD0W is unharmed as the tendrils retreat back into the building.
I head towards the Inhabited side of the city. See if i can gather info about the general state of the city, assuming there are people there.
[5] You make your way to the other side of the city and ask several of the people there what is going on in the other half of the city. They are very confused by your questions, saying that there isn't anything going on there, that it's the same as the rest of the city.