[YEE/SFS/ACE] 7-05 The day the River Died - Table B

Game Master Kludde

Huh... It's a puzzle. ... Why'd they design it this way? Pushing aside the distracting (though valid) thought, Twila-5 keeps thinking on the significance of each of the items.

Culture: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (4) + 12 = 16

"What would happen if we put the flower wreaths on the white ones, and the butterfly wings on the red ones?" Could we really save the engine that way? How weirdly obscure... She's trying not to get her hopes up, but it's awfully difficult.

Stell knows only rudimentary facts about magic and mysticism, but she considers what she knows as everyone ponders what the statues may tell the group.

Mysticism: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Kaath tries to contribute after his rest.

The Cosmos will show the way.

mysticism: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

Jekcedo tries to telepathically communicate with the statues, which goes about as well as you'd expect. Other than glowing dimly - or in the case of the blue statues, brightly - the statues don't talk back. The silence is enough to cause a bit of an epiphany, though. Jekcedo intuits that 'light' refers to the solar currents that the sarcesians used before the flooding of
the River Between. 'Loss' refers to a great sacrifice made by many sarcesians. 'Life' refers to the survival of the sarcesian people, despite devastation.

Twila speculates on what would happen if she placed items on the statues.

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The proof is in the pudding
---DICEBOT, famous chef

"All right, let's try it." Unless anyone objects, Twila-5 reverently takes the crown and puts it on one of the white statue's heads. If it matters which one, let's say West. She pauses to assess before doing anything else.

Kaath quietly nods in agreement to the plan.

Dash moves back to the western alcove and looks around. "Looks like the sort of stuff that bird wot does the fortune-telling down in the spike would have in her shop."

mysticism: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

not sure where the cases are if they are on the east-west that might mean they go with the statues on the same side.

I think you are right Twila-5 this could be a puzzle. Let's see what happens when you place the crown on the statue. So many options let me summarise what we know and have found so far."

While Dash owns up to visiting fortune-tellers and Jekcedo summarizes the clues so far, Twila put words into action and crown on statue's heads.

The white statues glow brighter and respond with a solemn hum...

The blue-white light in the hall is only contrasted by the dim glow of the red statues.