The Island

You begin making your way into the cool waters of the river. The decision to keep your boods on, though possibly anoying later, is proved wise as your feet trod on irregular masonry hidden in the pants and mud. You soon reach the closest structure, a simple 1 story crypt with a simple but sturdy design and a few worn designs and glyphs on it.

Give me a test if you want to try something (search, open, read the worn writing, etc)

This crypt has been undisturbed for years. Continuing on you begin searching the other structures while looking for any v other clues.

You wade deeper moving from structure to structure and note that through the vegetation in the water is healthy there are not animals bigger that an ant to be seen in the water.

Looking over the words etched into the structures most are details of th inturned individuals or families while others appear to be prayers or enchantments and wards to preserve and protect the structures on thei occupands.
As he reads on he gets somewhat distracted when he find some related markers and absentmindedly begins to follow a pattern only to find then end of the family line. Blinking he looks up, realizing he wandered a bit from Shmautz. As he looks around he notices a two story stucture with openings on the second floor, well above the water line. Having noted this before from the shore he is about to turn and rejoin Shmautz when he notices that some of the vegitation on the structure has been disturbed. Almost as if something has climbed up or down the structure repeatedly . . .

You examine the Tower but see no movement or eyes letting out. The opening on the second floor are oddly like balconies. Why have this on a crypt?

Moving closer to the structure, Shmautz stifles complaints about the increased water depth, there are plenty of stone work features to climb up to the 2nd floor. The structure is quite big with possibly multiple room or a single large one on the 1st floor and the 2nd looks to be a single room with either a high vaulted ceiling or a potential 3rd floor or attic space? The plants are unusually thick around this structure concealing most of it from examination. The stairs leading up to the doorway are wide smooth marble leading to a heavy double door that is oddly exposed as if the vegetation refuses to grow over or even near it. Each door depicts scenes of the natural world with the right side covered in a mosaic of plant life while the left has a wide variety of animals and the archway around the two covered in images of mushrooms and moss.
You easily scale your way to the 2nd story balcony along the pathway worn to the thicker vines and root past the lush leaves and flowers around you. Peering over the balcony Eddisham sees a single room with a balcony on each of the 4 sides. The balconies all are partitioned off from the outside by metal latices twisted and hammered into the shapes of plants. Only the one between this balcony and the top of its archway have been roughly bent and twisted to create an easy passage into the interior.

Eddisham and Shmautz just climbed into the 2nd story of a crypt coved in pants. The crypt has balconies and one has had its screen forcing removed and there are signs of something(s) clinbing in or out.