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At night, I'd like to search the (32) Drowned Marketplace Square. I think that searching people's homes at night -- while they're presumably home and asleep -- is a recipe for trouble. But this is a public area, commonly frequented, and I doubt there's much corruption, only that traditional danger of walking alone through a city at night...
After having gone for a dive earlier in the day, you decide it best that you have at it again once night falls. Considering you're entering a public place and you're a water-type, you hope that you won't draw any particular attention.

You slink into the water from the lake's muddy bank and swim with your tiny legs towards the centre once again. Eventually you resort to blasting water from your large pincer, which alarms you at first, but then becomes your favoured means of propulsion. It's a lot harder to see anything now that there's no sunlight to aid your eyesight, but your species was built for underwater living, and you find that your vision adapts quite quickly to the watery depths. Even in the dark, you can see in black-and-white.

When you arrive at the underwater marketplace, you start to look around. There are multiple stalls, including those selling food, hand-crafted goods, and services. Most of them apply solely to those who dwell underwater, but there are certain things that you think land-dwellers could also make use of. However, besides a bunch of splinters you find half-buried in the sand, it doesn't appear as if anything interesting is lying around.

Added $34 SP$ to Truly's Inventory.

You don't give up and continue to look around as your tail fins sway at different angles to help you change direction. Departing the marketplace, you search the outer reaches of the general area, eventually catching a glint in the corner of your eye. You propel yourself with jets of water from your claw and settle beside whatever was gleaming. It appears to be a buried chest riddled with gems. They look to be professionally set, and the chest itself, you imagine, is worth a lot of splinters. However, it appears as if three larger gems - possibly something else - are missing from it. The longer you spend around it, the more sick you begin to feel in your stomach, which pops up as quite the red flag to you.

{Gem-Encrusted Chest: Medallion Slots x3} was noted in the Team Records.

Once you determine that there's no way to get into the chest at the moment, you attempt to pry free one of the gems from the chest's lid. However, it's stuck fast, and you imagine that it will not come out anytime soon. Keeping this knowledge with you, you return to the clubhouse to report what you found.


Truly the Clauncher (S: Water)
Health: 8/8| Sanity: 8/8 | Purity: 12/12
Battle Stance: Flee
Perk: Technical