The river deep

As you look out over the water where two riveers meet you see several small islands in the midddle of the river that spans hundreds of feet. The shoreline of the rivers are more heaviy wooded than the grassy hills near the tower and the cool breeze and warm sun are refreshing and the gentle sounds of the river help ease the tension of being ripped to this place, not knowing how or when you might return home.

Give me a test to try and locate your target and let me know your plans and any questions you may have

The two of you place the amulets on and they slowly thicken and constrict until they press uncomfortably into your neck but nothing else seems to change. Reasoning that perhaps you need to enter the water to trigger their magics you step into the river and find your guess was correct. As soon as you step into the waters you feel odd stretching sensations on your hands and feet. It grows hard to walk and looking at your hands you see the fingers are now connected by webbing, like a frogs, and lifting your feet you see they have grown long and are similar to your hands but even larger.

Somewhat emboldened by the change you make your way deeper and find that as your skin becomes when it changes and fuses with your skin as scales appear to cover the area. Even you packs become sealed by the scales and you notice that you no longer feel the need to breath. Making your way deeper into the water the both of you experiment with your new forms. Serig is a bit bolder and experiments looking with his eyes underwater and shares with Dree that even his eyes change so that the water does not bother them and he can see very well underwater.

Give me tests for how well you adapt/swim and tell me how you want to start looking.

Both of you surface to converse, finding that though the amulets let you stay long underwater they do not help with communication and any attempt at talking is rendered unintelligible. Just as you are about to examine the device to help you find the tower artifact you notice the river currents suddenly increase in speed before multiple massive water columns and spat up from the river surface. This draws your eyes and you see a boat in the midsts of the water spouts. The people onboard begins to shout with the crew striving to void the great gouts of water only to realize that a whirlpool is growing ever larger in front of them.

The whirlpools currents are also dragging you in towards it so that you are close enough to see some comotion where it looks as if some of the people onboard are fighting just as it is pulled into the spinning vortex of water. Knowing your amulets will help you breath and swim is one thing but using them to rescue those on the boat is a daunting task as the sudden violence of the river currents seems unnatural and not just a bit frightening.

AS you watch the boat is pulled entirely under the river's surface and the whirlpool begins to collapse with the faint sounds of cry's and please barely audible over the rush of the water that seems to be calming with the collapse of the whirlpool and water columns

The rod reacts when pointed in the general direction but seems a bit stronger off to one side. The river has returned nearly to normal and the natural currents resume and wash away the ripples and eddies of the water spouts and whirlpool. Though neither of you is a true boatmen you have seen current and eddies on streams and rivers enough to believe whatever it was that just happened was not natural. The sudden appearance of waterspouts surrounding and the vortex tarteding the boat strongly suggests potent water magic of some kind.

You swim on the surface and use the rod to track the Tower orb and end up swimming near where you saw the boat disappear before you are forced to leave the surface and head into the depths of the river. As you dive deeper the light is quickly reduced to nothing but you are still able to see a bit, though colors are all muted and grey blue or green, for a short distance. To keep it simple assume you can only see 25' at max Following the rods directions you dive and deeper and begin to search the muddy river bottom only to come to a place where the rod indicates nearly straight down into the mud. Looking around you see a rocky outcropping with a large irregular cavern that may allow you to go deeper? Still unable to talk while underwater you are force to use gestures and actions to communicate.

You swim into the cave and it does indeed seem to be getting nearer the destination but then the passage splits a smaller fork to the left and a larger to the right. The rod does not seem to distinguish either as a better path. You hesitate in indecision but then see a flicker of light from the smaller passage. Deciding to check it out you swim towards the light cautiously.