[CA 1-2][Solo] Tuesday We Went To The Beach

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Sand shifted beneath the feet of all who stepped on the beach of the Thames Coastline. "I do hope we will not be out here too much longer..." Two Adventurers walked along the coast together: the Swashbuckler Dumah Iino, and the Sorceress Alette Caelius. The latter of the two was secretly a Person of The Land, and publicly Dumah's adoptive daughter. The night was beautiful as the moon illuminated the coast, the ocean shining with a sparkling white reflection of the Earth's celestial companion. The wind blew a chilling zephyr through the air, and the two could feel the nipping of the cold air, especially the young sorceress. The two walked on for quite some time as Dumah held the divining rod given to him by the sage, looking for the fragments of the stone tablet. Beside him, Alette took long strides with each step.



Fed up with the chilling night, the girl held her staff out a bit, "Orb of Lava!" She held her spell close without launching the orb, using it instead to warm her up. She looked up at her father with a curious expression as she spoke. "So what exactly are we looking for, daddy?" The young girl stood where she was as she looked to her father, her head tilted ever so slightly in a curious expression.

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"Y-You n-need not w-worry, I-I assure you th-this will b-b-be a s-simple quest..." The sage stood with a hunch and a dead look in his eyes, as though he had gone a week - at least - without sleep. Judging by his character, perhaps he had been kept awake by his intrigue in the matter and his desire to know what would reveal itself once the stone tablet was whole once again. He had very closed off body language, holding his hands close together near his upper body. "W-With the d-divining r-r-rod I h-have giv-ven you, w-walk al-l-long the coast u-until it sh-shines bright, r-revealing a f-f-fragment o-of the ta-tablet..." As he began to fantasize about the completion of the shattered tablet, the sage's smile grew to a wide, almost obsessively happy grin.

Dumah nodded, looking at the odd device the sage had given to him. "Once it glows, we simply need to dig it up and uncover the fragment, yes?"

The sage's fingers began to bounce against each other, in a manner similar to that of a cliche spy movie villain waiting for the hero to meet their doom. "Y-Yes, yes...! O-O-Once y-you have found th-the p-p-piece, b-bring it back t-to me a-and I shall d-decode and d-decipher i-its meaning...!"

"Why do you not accompany us? Surely a man such as yourself would give anything to be there and see the unearthed fragment with your own eyes as it is found."

The Sage's smile faded into a slight frown. "I-I would l-l-love t-to, b-but I a-am afraid I-I do not kn-know what y-y-you w-will e-encounter o-on your tra-avels... I would n-not w-w-wish t-to be a b-bother..." Dumah nodded, agreeing.

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Recounting the explanation and quest given to him by the Sage, Dumah finished answering Alette's question regarding what they were supposed to be doing. "I see," she said, continuing to walk with long, childish strides. The small party went on to keep walking along the side of the coast, seeking little more than a slight, dim glow from the divining rod in Dumah's grasp. The possibility that the Swashbuckler had been sent on a wild goose chase had never occurred to him, as he trusted the Sage and his words. Why would he lie? What benefit would he gain from doing so? The Sage stood to gain nothing from hiding the truth and sending the man off for no reason, and thus Dumah believed in the quest he had been issued.

After many hours of exploring, at long last the tips of the device began to emanate a faint shine and hum. Excitedly, both Dumah and Alette began to pick up their pace, walking faster as the glow of the divining rods grew in intensity and strength. "All right, I believe we have found it!" The two fell down to their knees on the loose sand, digging with their cupped hands, throwing sand behind them over and over as they very slowly dug a hole that began to become harder and harder to dig through. Dumah stood up after a long dig, finally reaching a strange rock. "This must be the other fragment of the tablet. However, it is too old to understand..." Dumah hoped a skilled Artisan could repair the tablet.

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