Here, a long stone corridor glowing with the same entirely unexplained light as the rest of the dungeon gives out onto a sweeping shingle beach beside a wide black laike.
the lake looks distinctly unhealthy, quite scummy and slimy and cold, and swimming doesn't seem like a good idea even if you are on a beach.
in fact the total absense of ice cream vans, fish and chip shops, arcades and donkeys giving rides makes this not feel much like a beach at all.
on the pluss side though, there is also an absense of wailing children, jostling crowds, losing your I pod in the sea and sand in your socks so it's not all bad.
You even get roughly the same amount of sun here, several miles underground as you do on the average british beach as well.
the beach seems totally empty accept for a lot of shingle, and curves off ahead of you into the dark as evidently the dungeon's inexplicably magical light only applies to corridors.
One thing you do see however, just in side the corridor leaning up against the wall that gives out onto the shore, is a set of three, metal lockers.
They're pretty much like the sort you get at school, in gymes, at the public swimming baths, or just about anywhere else where people need to temporarily lock things away for safe keeping. Dull, boxy and metallic, accept that they don't seem to have locks on, just handles, and seem pretty easy to open.
One of them bares the sign Captain "D Jones esquire. I give yee warrning! thar be unseen terrors deep in me locker, and any skurvy lubber as opens it will be in dire trouble! don't say I didn't warrrrn yee, garrr!"
And yes, it does say "garrr!" Among pirates Garr! substitutes for a period and must come at the end of every sentence (people have been kiel hauled for missing it off).
The second locker doesn't have a lable, but there are rather unpleasant scrabbling sounds coming from inside.
On the third locker is a sign saying:
"here within is the magic sword of amazing magic! it has the power to resolve any plot, slay any enemy, and transport those who wield it far from any danger"
Now, choice time!
make your way up the beach into the dark.
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