TAKE X (6-5-17: The End)

> Consider hiring help.



The thought passes your mind to maybe get some help in this endeavor. Well, more help, anyway - you've hired plenty of people so far over the course of the job. There was the thief Shadan Hamidi, for one. You've never been stellar at stealing, so you contracted that task out.

Before Hamidi, you paid a member of a 'legitimate shipping crew', Allice Onnred, for information about an old abandoned island that an ancestor of yours built something on. She couldn't get into the structure, but she took notes on some etchings that he left behind - the same notes you currently have on you.

Of course, you can't leave out how you paid some schmuck named de Soren to get arrested intentionally so he could see if there really was treasure in the catacombs underneath the Church. That one took some convincing, since the Church is not well-known for treating their prisoners well.

There've been other people here and there, but the point is that you've had plenty of help. However, you've always been very careful to hide your true intentions. You have no way of knowing who all is loyal to the One Goddess, and one misstep could mean your death.

No, for the last part of your job, you'll have to go it alone.

> Consider a back-up plan.



Your thoughts next turn to back-up plans, but only briefly. If this plan fails, you'll probably be dead, so not much point in considering an 'after that'.

> Read your ancestor's notes.



You pull out the notes you have on what your ancestor, Rufus Traveller, etched on his monument.

"I commend my discovery to those that reach it. Those who would do so must find the twin treasures: one of light housed under divinity, and one of stone buried within the forgotten archipelago. To those who may come after me, treasures in hand, I hope that what rests within this catacomb will atone for my sins. ~ Rufus Traveller"

You have the twin treasures - the glowing yellow rock found under the Church, and the inky black rock retrieved from the Emek Archipelago.

Now you just need to bring them to Rufus' monument, where you're pretty sure something will happen.