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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3652197" data-attributes="member: 360">OOC: The waterfall is much too loud for you to hear each other whispering where you are.(assuming everyone catches up to Horace and Grant and looks out over the cliff)Looking over the cliff, it's clear the crevase beyond you opens all the way up to the surface, as light filters down from above. In front of you lies what has to be the strangest construction any of you have ever seen, and only Doc has even the slightest idea of how it might work.A huge, elongated ball-shaped structure -- it looks like some sort of canvas bag writ large -- is suspened over a wooden framework that looks much like the top deck of a ship, with some sort of motorized fan mounted on the deck, and something built for no obvious purpose immediately below the center of the 'bag'. Though the 'ship' must have been made of soarwood, and the engine and fan seemed likely to be mithral. And a hole that looks roughly the size of a canonball exists in the side of the 'hull'.[sblock=Doc]Doc thinks that what Aerdene has built is a particularly nice example of a powered hot air balloon (which first started appearing in the real world in the 1850s, though something like what Aerdene built is more like an 1880s thing; real-world aviators didn't have soarwood hulls or mithral engine parts available) by taking advantage of some rare and expensive materials for his construction. It's not something that would be practical for large-scale use due to how it was built, but still a very impressive feat.[/sblock][sblock=Horace]Looking more closely, Horace notices two people huddled to the side of the 'airship'.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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