Chapter 19: The Sunken Path
Ryan held the Faded Precursor Emblem in his hand. It was small, round, the symbol on it was so worn down it was mostly just a hopeful smudge.
"Okay, Mr. Smudge," Ryan said to the emblem. "My fancy new Lore Scanner, powered by that other broken tablet piece, what do you make of this?"
He focused, and his Interface, which was getting quite good at this whole ’ancient mystery’ thing, lit up.
Scanning Object: Faded Precursor Emblem [LORE FRAGMENT]
Cross-referencing with Corrupted Data Fragment [Precursor Lore]......Partial Match Found!
Emblem Possibly Linked to: Submerged Precursor Waystation – Bio-Archive Sector 7.
System Note: Looks like this little doodad might be a library card for a very old, very underwater library! Or maybe a locker key. Precursors were notoriously bad at labeling things clearly.
"A Submerged Precursor Waystation? Bio-Archive Sector 7?" Ryan’s eyebrows shot up. That sounded important. And probably very wet. He wasn’t sure if his new Cloak of Shifting Umbra was waterproof. Probably not.
Before he started planning his underwater adventure, he remembered the Anomaly corpses still littering the fissure.
He hadn’t fully extracted from them yet, just the initial big stuff. Waste not, want not, especially when "not wanting" meant missing out on free stat points.
He went back to the remains of the massive Rage Boar.