Between her sneaking and her charm, Noriko manages to get a fairly good look at the things inside the boat, although right now she can't quite get close to the set up. It looks like a very, very fancy map of... something.<br/>Extremely delicate looking filigrees of brass, lines of jet, whorls of carnelian, all atop a grid of silver and crystal.<br/><br/>Further below there's another map, this one more recognizable. It's a jade and clay map of Creation, each elemental pole represented by... an empty cir- no, wait, there's some small jade chairs shaped like dragons.<br/><br/>They seem to be slowly, carefully trying to break something out of a brass sphere. They're managing it, the work's just slow.This definitely counts as wierd occult shit, and if Noriko was going to take some rubbings to Ironsides, she'd have to wait.