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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 3450697" data-attributes="member: 11146">The ferryman lowers his shortspear and turns in slow motion toward the set of double doors across the pool from his canoe.  Wafting his hand in a slow arc in the air, the ferryman silently signals for the doors to open, and open they do.  As quiet and careful as the kuo-toan is with his own gestures and speech, the doors are the opposite.  A loud grinding resounds in the large cavern as the doors slowly grate, stone on stone, across the floor, and come to rest fully open with a thunderous and echoing boom against the inner wall of the room beyond.[sblock=Rowan]Rowan tries but can't discern how the ferryman managed to open the doors from this distance.  If it's a spell, it's one he doesn't know.[/sblock]Even in the dim light shed by Rhy's lantern and the glow given off by the moss lining the outside of the double doors' lintel, the companions can all see that the walls and floor of the room show evidence of superior masonry.  Tiny droplets of condensation, however, lick the stonework in trickles that seep to the floor to form occasional puddles of what looks to be shallow water.  From this distance, the flagstones seem to be well-fitted but are uniformly wet.  A sheen of water and oil glistens in Rhys's flickering lantern light.The kuo-toan ferryman softly paddles his canoe within inches of the outer pool's shore.  Holding the boat steady with his spear, the kuo-toa mutely stands, waiting, seemingly bidding the group to enter for a ferry across to the structure beyond.</blockquote>

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