Chapter 3: Crow's Nest

As everyone looks around in wonder and curiosity, only Verrian notices anything particularly unusual.

Near what would be approximately the center of the chamber, the Naucan woman sees the faintest blurring in the air. Something in the way the light plays off the walls glints off something nearly transparent that -- if it's real -- must be suspended in mid-air somehow.

Elora is able to determine that the object itself is not magical, although it is surrounded by both a low level transmutation spell as well as a higher level arcane spell of no school of magic in particular. After a bit of deductive reasoning between Ember and Elora, it seems reasonable to suspect that these spells are what hold the object in mid-air.

As Willitan searches around more carefully for anything that might give a clue as to the purpose of the room or the object suspended in its center, he splashes the water out of one of the tiny pools pockmarking the ledge you stand on. Something catches his eye as he starts to move away. He kneels to look at the spot where the water had been and finds a small set of pictograms that had been obscured in the low light and damp conditions.

They appear to depict a person wearing what appear to be robes with one hand stretched out in front of him or her, standing on what seems to correspond to the ledge you all occupy currently. In the next image, a small globe with lines radiating outward from it is partway from the person's outstretched hand to the center of the circle representing the cave. In the final image, the small globe sits at the very center of the circle, and the lines now radiate much farther outward from it.

Verrian puzzles at the pictograms, and feels like something is right on the edge of clicking for her, but it wriggles away from her comprehension.

Wil stands at the edge and thrusts out one hand in a similar fashion to the figure in the pictogram, but either that's not the answer or his will isn't quite willful enough. Nothing happens.

Elora puzzles over the pictographs and gets a bit of inspiration. Maybe the globe with the lines radiating out is a ball of light, and the person is sending it to the object at the center of the room?