Attaches Her Curse on all Inaction

'Passengers to the starboard rail!' shouted the captain and he crossed the bridge to escort the three young humans to where a boat was being hoisted over the side, ready to be lowered. 'You have until the next moon, that's in twelve nights. If you want to come off sooner, light the blue lantern and depending on weather and tide we'll close to the shore.''Thank you,' said Liam and the three of them clambered into the boat. Once cast lose on the waves, Liam took one oar and the sturdy female the other. Young Aengus settled at the prow. Soon they were pulling steadily towards a beach so pale as to be nearly white.'This is living!' exclaimed Aengus. 'I wish my phone worked on this plane. My class would be so envious.'Kate shook her head but only gave a grunt to indicate that while for some a journey over shallow, blue-green water was a joy, for others it meant considerable exertion. Oblivious, Aengus leaned far over the side of the boat to scoop up the water and let it fall like a stream of diamonds in the sunlight. He laughed and did it again.Once they had run the boat up the shore, offloaded their bags, and then hauled their craft far above the line of seaweed that marked high tide, Lord Azanth's fellow group members settled in the two-room wooden bothy that all adventurers coming to the Ancient Ruins of Olamanth used as their initial base. While Lord Azanth had resided in castles and palaces, fawned upon by dozens of nobles and hundreds of servants, he nevertheless could appreciate the delight with which the humans sorted through the utensils and stores of the simple building, adding their own supplies to existing glass jars of grains and beans. When in Dublin, the cupboards of the youths had been pitifully bare. Here, their food supplies were plentiful.'They even have a visitor book,' Aengus carried a thick volume over to a window whose sill was wide enough to sit on. 'March twenty-twenty two was the last group. They were from San Francisco. A mage, a warrior, a cleric, and a ranger.'Striking a match, Liam lit a firelighter inside a metal range and soon was feeding wood to a fire, heating a kettle on the hob. 'Well, fair play to them. They left the materials for a fire all ready and the whole place spic and span. We'll have to do the same when we leave.''Here's an interesting entry,' said Aengus without looking up. 'Twenty-eighteen. They have drawn a map to a building with a mosaic.''Let me see.' Kate's tread resounded on the wooden floorboards as she walked to the youth. 'We could start there, depending on the level of the mobs.''I can't help daydreaming that we find the treasure,' said Aengus.'Well, don't. We're here to level up. And we can't take any risks, the cost of being far from the spying eyes of Earl Clarence and his allies is that no-one is going to be able to come help us if we make a mistake.' Liam was looking through the cupboards and had found mugs as well as a cork-sealed jar of tea leaves.Treasure. One sure way to gain the attention of a human – and admittedly most demons too – was to talk to them of treasure. There was a well-known quest concerning the island and as it was easy to obtain (talk to the old sailor mending fishing nets on the pier) they had made sure to do so. Just in case. Lord Azanth called it up.  Quest Received: The Treasure of the Black Hawk Your group has been told of the legend of the Black Hawk, captained by Orlak Bloodaxe. Shortly before the Black Hawk was sunk in a major sea battle, Orlak Bloodaxe was rumoured to have hidden his vast treasure – accumulated over many years – on the island of Olamanth. Despite many expeditions to find the treasure its whereabouts remain a mystery.  'What would you do if we found the treasure?' Aengus closed the tome in which former adventurers had left a brief record of their stay.Buy powerful magic items; corrupt the servants of my enemies; hire mercenaries…'I was asking Kate but thank you Lord Azanth.''I would give a lot to charity. The ones working with victims of abuse or those promoting metoo.''Oh, that's admirable. I was just thinking selfishly. Like buying a house in Dublin.'Liam brought over three mugs of black tea to the sunshine of the windowsill and said, 'it would want to be a massive treasure for that.'When you have refreshed yourself, appreciate that to daydream away an afternoon befits a cat but not a group of adventurers determined on progressing in their levels, skills, and rank.'Lord Azanth wants us to get going,' said Liam.Aengus grinned. 'Did you ever know a more impatient crisp?'Kate was smiling too. Then she peered out of the window. 'The sun is pretty low. We wouldn't have time to get to the palace with the mosaics.'Fierce crocodiles of level fifteen line the banks of the river not far from here; we can slay those and by dawn they will have reappeared.'Even though it feels like a holiday, we are here to grind. Lord Azanth is right, we could get in an hour or two, use up all our mana, and then come back and make dinner.''What's for dinner?' asked Aengus.Liam put down his mug. 'Crocodile steak.'