We approach the wreck. It's far more intact than the other one, this one doesn't seem to have been burned. However, it's still clearly been here for quite some time and is clearly very dilapidated.
The boat also appears to be Tien in origin, same as the Kaijitsu Star. As we approach the boat, a few skeletons assemble from bits and pieces in the mud and shamble towards us.
We beat them up until they stay down. As we're searching the leftover bone piles we notice that the ones that look the most dead were the ones that Sula knocked out with her Quarterstaff, and all of our slashing type weapons seem to have mostly just glanced off of the bones without causing as much damage.
The nameplate on the ship reads "Kaijitsu Blossom". It's a little bit bigger than the Kaijitsu Star. We search it all over, but there's nothing of value left. It's clearly been here for quite a long time and been looted pretty well by now.
So we leave, and row the boat towards the location of the cave on the maps. We row up a small river and search around. Eventually we find the entrance to the cave. It's overgrown with vines, although they appear to have been recently disturbed somewhat.
We can't see any footprints, but we think someone's been through here fairly recently. We start to head through. Qunna makes it through no problem. Shadow touches the vines and discovers that they're stinging nettles. Bukka fixes up the stings, and we cut down the vines from the entrance before the rest of us enter.
The inside of the cave is wet, algae grows on the walls. The only sound in the cave is the sound of running water over the cave floor. There's a small stream twisting through the various rooms of the cave. We walk into one of the rooms, and wade through some of the water. It's about three feet deep.
As we round a bend a giant spider scuttles out of a corner and rears up at us. In the corner is the body of a huge gecko that the spider was eating. The spider tries really hard to eat us, but we don't let it.
Once we've dealt with that we keep exploring. There's several forks in the cave, and we manage to determine that a few of them are connected to each other. One of the forks we explore leads to a dead end with a bit of a deeper pool of water in it. Bukka casts light on a rock from the cave floor and we throw it down into the pool. We can see something sparkling down at the bottom of the pool.
We discuss the best way to get it, as nobody really thinks that getting into the water might be the best idea. While we're all squabbling over how best to retrieve the sparkly thing, Shadow sneaks away from the group and dives into the water to retrieve it. As she's swimming to the bottom she's slammed by a giant amoeba.
After we dispatch the amoeba, we dive down again and retrieve the sparkly objects.
As it turns out, they're gemstones. None of us is exactly sure what they are, but we all think they're probably worth at least some money, so we take them with us.
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