The Romance of the River Kingdoms

[Blackrat]

One wet strand of hair dares to defy the grace of Three Flowers and he irritably forces it back to order. Dripping wet he still manages to look as if it was a fashion choice rather than conseguence of being nearly drowned. He sheats White Lotus and moves closer to the disc to take a better look from about ten feet away.

 

[Walking Dad]

Ape

Growling Ape wades through the water to the relief and tries to get some new insights from it.
[sblock=ooc]search+0, know nature+3, int bonus+0, (if there are tracks near) survival+8[/sblock]

 

[Redclaw]

Xielt crouches down and looks at the floor. At first he focuses on the piece that is sticking up, but once he has checked that out he moves on to search the floor near the disc, hoping for some tracks or some other sign of significance.
[sblock=ooc] serach +6, survival +6, +8 when following tracks [/sblock]

 

[Shayuri]

Annika decides to stay on the stairs for now, though she watches her companions with a combination of interest and anxiety. Who know what else was in the water?

 

[Dr Simon]

Xielt crouches down and looks at the floor. At first he focuses on the piece that is sticking up, but once he has checked that out he moves on to search the floor near the disc, hoping for some tracks or some other sign of significance.
[sblock=ooc] serach +6, survival +6, +8 when following tracks [/sblock]

OOC: Don't forget, the room is still flooded. Anyone wanting to check out the sticking-up object will have to duck underwater or rely on their feet, and checking for tracks on the floor won't work.

I forgot a feature of the room - the crack in the north wall through which water trickles steadily.

 

[Redclaw]

OOC: oops, I had envisioned the water just being in the middle of the room, with a landing on the other side. My bad.

 

[Dr Simon]

Redclaw, no worries, it's probably a DM fault.

So:

[sblock="Three Flowers"]
The disc is fully above the surface of the water, and it looks from the small bit of carving visible at the waterline that it has been represented as resting on a stand of some kind.
It looks like the disc is part of the carvings and has been coated with some substance that makes it glow (which has worn away on patches), rather than being one piece of seperate material. Three Flowers doesn't know what the glowing coating might be.
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[sblock="Growling Ape"]
The bas relief carvings all seem to be of humans dressed in Imperial style, all facing in the direction of the moon disc. They are quite simply carved, mostly variations on the same theme. There doesn't appear to be anything hidden or significant about them.
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[sblock="Xielt"]
The thing sticking up from the floor appears to be a metal ring, about a hand-span in diameter, attached to the floor. Either a handle or an anchoring cleat.
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Annika sees her companions search the room unmolested by any more water monsters.

OOC: Rolling Man, do you still want Jar'Thol to investigate the crack in the wall?

 

[Redclaw]

Xielt examines the ring, using his feet to get an idea of its size and shape. I have found some sort of ring, possibly a handle. I wonder if it opens a drain for all of this water. We should try to pull it when everyone's ready, he says to the others.

 

[Dr Simon]

[sblock="Xielt"]
It feels like a good sturdy metal ring, set in a metal loop. The kind of thing you could get two hands on a pull...
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[The Rolling Man]

Jar'Thol, Salsham'ai shaman

Intrigued by the moon disc at the far end of the room, Jar'Thol dives down in the murky waters to retrieve his sunrod. He then moves (with difficulty) besides Three Flowers, to see if his light source has any further effect on the disc.

OOC : From what I understood from the OOC thread, I don't think I need to heal Xielt, he will recover his lost grace points fast enough. Edit : Oh, and if Xielt goes to pull his ring, Jar'Thol will hold on to a nearby wall or pillar.