Episode 2 Scene 1 The Journey North

Egret easily scales the wall once more and slips through the nearly fully opened aperture to gain access to the outside. He finds himself atop a flat-topped area with a crenelated wall going around its outer edge. What one might expect to see atop a military tower. The air immediately above the tower for about ten feet is clear of mist but otherwise it hangs in the air normally everywhere else restricting visibility to about twenty feet which would not be far enough to actually see the ground. The only other things within this area is a strange looking pole with a small round dark metal plate set into the floor near it.

The top appears to be normal for a turreted tower, well except for the strange pole-like thing in the middle which upon closer inspection appears to more than just a pole but what exactly, is not clear. Examining the metal plate however shows it to appear to be a cover but there appears to be no simple way to move it as it sits flush with the floor with no holes.

Egret has to clamber up and over the edge as it sticks out a bit from the base which is easily done as the outside stone is as easy to climb for him as the inside stone. Once he is in position to look down and see the outer side of the tower and he can see stone frameworks for the windows although that is about all he can see from where he is.

After a bit of messing around with the metal plate, Shump figures out that it rotates but you have to push down on it with some force to create the grip necessary to rotate it. After fully unscrewing it the metal plate can be removed to reveal a wheel with a handle extending up from it, which apparently you turn and it presumably does something.

The hexagonal orb over the hexagonal table does not communicate to Lex any thing he has ever heard of although it is fairly obvious that they are linked in some manner for some purpose. Perhaps there is a missing element to the whole thing that he is missing or that is missing to make it all clear.

Egret scrambles down the outer wall the stony exterior as easy to adhere to as the inner walls. Upon getting to the stone frame of the window he finds it to contain a smooth but facetted substance (think thick glass-like substance but facetted internally like a gem) that might actually be clear, however, he cannot see through it into the building. Of course, that might have to do with the faceting but that is hard to say.

Meanwhile up top Shump begins turning the black metallic wheel in a clockwise manner which actually requires quite a bit of effort on his part. After the first complete turn the pole near him moves. Continuing as instructed, Shump watches as the pole kind of blossoms like an upside-down flower until eight metallic legs (poles) drop down at each of the corners of the now octagonal umbrella. Further there appears to be some odd looking contraption attached to the pole that was hidden under the umbrella-like awning.