[@DocRock] [@Pyromaniacwolf] [hr][h3]Chapter I[/h3]"Reaching down to clutch the necklace, you feel its warm metal settle in your palm whilst shaking the sandy grit of the beachhead from between your fingers. Pawing it over, you admire its humble, simple beauty that seems to reflect back much of this would-be paradise to you, although it calls to mind the unpleasant concerns that harry your thoughts, namely thirst. But for now, the serene moment of looking at the glistening silver gives you some semblance of hope, plucked from wherever this unlikely trinket had come from, and a much needed object of light in a dark scenario. Putting it away in a pocket for the time being, you pluck along the area you believe you found the sack and these items the night before, only to see that nothing of seeming value in the moment had washed ashore. With a heavy heart, no matter how elevated after another fortuitous find, your boots lead you inland."

"Along the way, you begin to muse on the apocrypha and cryptic words the pale book you now possess contains. The more you mull it over, the more uncanny sense it makes, in that it is some amount philosophical wanderings - the type of babble one would have in a daydream - melded with spiritual and religious appeal. Even merely browsing the pages of whimsy and fantasy, you try to hold yourself back from the idea that it is all just incoherent, even encrypted writing, entertaining the thought that with added study, it might just reveal more than fever dream ramblings by a holyman. However, as you part through some of the undergrowth and sparse trees further inland, you can feel the air getting thicker with humidity."