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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4404336" data-attributes="member: 21938">The Vashti stares at the statue, checking it all over."Yes, that's just how she described it to me," she mutters, almost to herself. "Tomorrow morning I'll contact Magister Ten and we can see what remuneration my predecessor left for you. Hmm." She looks lost in thought for a moment. "I wonder.... Wait here, I won't be long."With that she leaves the refrectory. A few minutes later she returns, holding an apple-sized stone sphere."The Old Vashti left this for me, with a message that said I would know the right hands to place it in," she says, holding out the sphere. "And now I see this statue, I think...." She places the sphere into the upraised hands of the Grand Mutta. It fits perfectly - now the Mutta is holding the sphere aloft. The sphere begins to glow with the colour of soft moonlight. The white stratum in the stone, carved to form a belt on the statue, also glows. There is a faint "click" as the top half of the statue lifts slightly, the join forming where the belt was.Casting a glance around the group, one eyebrow raised quizzically, the Young Vashti lifts the top off the statue. Inside is a hollow containing a rolled scroll."Looks like old Vasu is still playing games," she says, unrolling the scroll.The scroll:It contains a sketch map of the River Anhoi and the River Leng, with Cormondal at the join. Features marked on the Leng include somewhere called Tigerskin Gorge on the southern shore, and further upstream a horseshoe-shaped island. This is marked with the words "You might find something of interest here. VL."Also written on the scroll are the words "River is the key" and a short piece of musical notation.[SBLOCK="High Imperial"]The phrase "River is the key" is written strangely. Low Imperial uses a phonemic syllabary (as in English), and most of the writing on this scroll is in Low Imperial. High Imperial, however, uses a pictographic writing system (as in Chinese). The two are sometimes combined when High Imperial is used for proper names or formality but are otherwise written seperately.Here, the word "River" is represented by the High Imperial symbol for river but "is the key" is written in Low Imperial script, which would normally suggest the use of a proper name.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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