>>6206276 You wonder aloud.
>"How likely would it be there are underground chambers to a temple like this?"Burstock pivots to look at you.
<span class="mu-b">"You know, there was always talk about that. This temple was built and populated on the very cusp of the last big war. The War of the Running Ocean."</span>
She kneels down and bends herself at an acute angle to listen to the ground. Highball watches her.
<span class="mu-b">"Even at the time, people would question the logic of building a temple, even one to a god of punishment, in such a strategic location. Is there perhaps not a better use of time and resources. This made some other people wonder if maybe the temple - while real- was just a cover or front for something else. Maybe something more directly useful to the war efforts."</span>
She raps her knuckle on the stone.
<span class="mu-b">"It's solid enough here but who knows?"</span>
Highball listens to the ground near her also, her pose slightly less suggestive.
<span class="mu-g">" Well, they did build a tunnel. Between the bottom of the lighthouse and the town. A sort of direct path clean through the island. We rigged it pretty severely cause there really wasn't much to it. No real loot or strategic points. It might not have collapsed, though. It was built to last."</span>
Everton grins
<span class="mu-i">"Might be some stragglers holed up there."</span>
Highball shakes her head and grins also.
<span class="mu-g">"Nah. Even if it didn't collapse, we made sure that tunnel wouldn't be a safe haven. We made no place safe."</span>
<span class="mu-i">"I will say that is how it looked, ma'am."</span>
Burstock stands up and adjusts herself.
<span class="mu-b">"What I'm getting at is a place that the OG didn't know about. That nobody knew about because nobody was supposed to. A secret cache built during anticipation of war times with a temple to vengeful god built on top so no one would ever think to look deeper."</span>
Highball looks over her shoulder and grins, licking her teeth.
<span class="mu-g">"Treasure?"</span>
Burstock sips from her hipflask. It looks different from the last one. This implies multiples, which makes sense.
>>6206258 You walk over to the closest body. The face is frozen in a wide-eyed shriek that could just as easily be the fear of a giant rusalka or the unspeakable pain of being cut to pieces by saltwater. Either way.
They are a human, clad in riding leathers and with multiple holsters or pouches on them. The beam has cut through their gun, the metal sheered, and the wood splintered. But they have on them:
1 Boomflask
1 Glowbottle
1 Packet of matches
2 pieces of shortbread
15 gol
<span class="mu-s">CLICK</span>
The floor doesn't crumble. This is intentional. You have a split second.
>a. Reach out with hopefully left hand>b. Reach out desperately with right hand>c. Reach out determinedly with both.first to 2
