When your light gets about eight feet from the monolith it stops and actually deforms around an invisible circle or cylinder surrounding the monolith.
I announce this deformity to the group and suggest we do something about the monolith. Upon turning around to look at everyone, I notice Thaddeus wielding two fully loaded guns. I step in between Ari and Gavin.
"My friends, perhaps we should let Ari attend to the arrests. He has people here to assist and Asinjin's spells to root out the truth. Thaddeus, I realize tensions are high right now, but violence may not be the best recourse at the moment. If we give in to our base emotions, we may accidentally trigger the evil contained within the monolith. There has been enough anger and deceit to go around and I believe cooler heads will prevail here. Keep in mind there is nothing controlling this undead power. Whatever magic is containing it in the monolith is all we have to help us right now. We need to pool our resources and collective knowledge to try and figure out what to do with it. Clearly, it cannot remain in this temple forever. The clergy have made some poor decisions, albeit for what they believed to be a noble cause, but they should nonetheless be forbidden from guarding this."
"Are there any among us who have the ability to commune with their gods, other than Falan? I believe we need to seek answers from a higher power to help assist with this. We need to know if the counsel deities approve of this outcome and whether they assisted in any way. I feel we need to act fast before panic spreads. If word gets out about this power too quickly, evil will come looking for it. We need to be prepared."