Beneath Dweomerheart (Surraruthru, Tryll, 87 days left)

[Iron Dragoon]

"The water is enchanted. It will show a message if disturbed... I wonder if it's like that spring... What's shown depends on what's put in..."

Surraruthru inspects it closer, trying to figure out the exacts of the magic.

[Anastasia]

It will just play a simple message, no matter how you disturb it.

[Yuthirin]

"I was trying to get fresh milk but the cow wasn't cooperating, so I was pulling and pulling and pulling and that's when I learned that boy cows and girl cows were not the same." Calleigh says.

[Anastasia]

That draws several moments of horrified silence. Well, except from Canderella, who just chuckles a bit.

"Ahem," Kascha says delicately, "Why don't you disturb the water, Surru?"

[Yuthirin]

"That's the same face my momma made!" Calleigh nods, pointing at Kascha, "My papa laughed and laughed and laughed until momma started hitting him, though." 

[Iron Dragoon]

Surraruthru perches on the edge of the basin and flicks the water with his tail, watching the magic react.

[Anastasia]

"Wet and yet dry, floating along. Whatever shall I be?" The same voice asks once the water is disturbed.

[Iron Dragoon]

"Hmm.. Not sure. Tears?"

[Yuthirin]

"Is THIS one clouds?" Calleigh asks, "I've flown through clouds and sometimes you get wet."

[Anastasia]

On Calleigh's words, there's a click from behind the party.

[Yuthirin]

Tiny fists thrust into the air in jubilant victory! "I got one!"

[Iron Dragoon]

"Well done."

Surraruthru turns to see what opened!

[Anastasia]

I enjoy the irony of you guessing one out of order.

Part of the wall behind you has given way, revealing a cavity with four pendants, each one made of glittering silver and dotted with green gemstones.

"Why would..." Kascha murmurs, studying them closely. "Oh. They protect against poison, how curious. Four of them, there must be a reason. Is something potentially poisonous ahead of us, or behind us? Maybe what would be summoned or an experiment was going on that was poisonous? But why trap them with a riddle, unless the riddle was meant to be a key? But why not use an arcane lock or something stronger?"

Kascha is taking 10.

"Or why they were left," Hanna says, "Forgotten to time? Flawed somehow? Or are they meant to be used again?"

[Iron Dragoon]

"I think it likely that something is ahead of us and this is a reward for patience and investigation of sorts. Core things of magic. I have a necklace that protects me from poison already so it would be wise for those without such to take one."

Surraruthru says this while inspecting the magic of the necklaces with his detect magic to make sure they aren't somehow cursed, trapped, or flawed.

[Anastasia]

Spellcraft.