<div class="floatleft">Han Ming-Fu (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2318621)<br/>(https://i.gyazo.com/789772ede28173cb214f86fff115c5d3.jpg) (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2318621)</div><br/>Ming-Fu didn't take long before she returned to the others and gestured towards the pods. and then held aloft one of the rods.  With a triumphant gesture, she swept her arm around and explained.<br/><br/>"My companions, I have news.  The pods that contained us, were very much like some cocoons I've read about in druidic treatises; they sustain life, provide sustenance, and place the subject into a slow state of sleeping, like a hibernating bear.  The process is safe, from what I can tell, with no lasting harm to the subjects.  However something, some sort of outside failure, cause our pods to awaken us earlier than planned.  As for these rods that we found upon our captors, they are like keys of a sort, though closer in nature to the pass-tokens that some wizards utilize with guards and wards for the security of their sanctums.  They should allow us to access most secure areas of this prison."<br/><br/>The Tian bard then gestured her companions closer, lowering her voice somewhat, before directing their attention to the Northern-most doorway.  In a cautionary tone, she added conspiratorially.<br/><br/>"I heard a voice beyond there, though muffled to a degree, yet it sounded like singing.  I could not quite make out lyrics or language, or even intent of tone....  But it might bear investigating.  It could be another prisoner, such as us, or a noncombatant of this facility who could be questioned as to the going-on's here.  What do you think?  Shall we gather ourselves and enter en-masse?  Or send one diplomat in to discuss things in a nonthreatening manner?"<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Crunchy Notes</div><div class="spoiler_body">If it's possible, Ming-Fu will try and make out more of the singing, composition, harmonics, anything to glean further details from?<br/></div></div>