The Long Way Down

* Martha, Alec, Cyrus, and Wila head south from the Refugium. 
* Thy follow the edge of the cliff down to the coast
** Alec ‘randomly’ remembers the people here leave a rowboat on the shore so they can pay homage to the mermaids. 
** They find this skiff on the south beach
* It’s a very rocky beach. Wila is nervous as she can’t swim
* Alec and Cyrus row, Wila and Martha ride
** Martha is given the responsibility of navigator, and she puts on a good show of understanding how to read a map.
** She spots the cave entrance to the Lone Grave
* It is high tide, but there’s enough room for the boat to fit inside the cave. They can tell the cave goes further. 
** Martha uses her hand mirror to reflect sunlight into the cave so they can see. 
** Eddy the Raven is helping to look for things.
* Alec volunteers to swim deeper into the tunnel and finds it goes down to the point they can’t touch the bottom.
** Alec is a mad lad and tries to swim into the tunnel, but can only hold their breath for 45 seconds before they have to turn back.
** But they did see an incline in the tunnel.
** High tide isn’t for another 6 hours (around sunset).
* Alec does find a clam shell, though. 
* Meanwhile Cyrus brings out the crystal ball looking for anything spiritually malevolent, but gets nothing. 
* Martha gets the clam shell from Alec who gets a towel in return. It’s fall in New England afterall. . .
* They decide to row south towards Chacomount Beach, and the wreck of the Thelma Phoebe
** It is a 25 ft schooner, most likely a merchant vessel
** They deduce however that Fisher Island isn’t big enough for big trade, and this location wouldn’t be a proper route for such. It’s likely the Thelma Phoebe was a smuggler's ship.
* Eddy looks around the coast and returns with a piece of green smooth glass. A broken bottle, possibly wine. 
* Cyrus focuses again on the crystal ball, expecting to hear back about the shipwreck, but instead gets a strong feeling of love associated with anger.
** The common feeling, love and rage. 
** It’s a deeper feeling, like it’s part of the Island.
** Not something sourced from the island itself, not from the water
** ***Possibly a shared consciousness summoned by the locals???***
*** Or someone from a south village who is scored or acting on behalf of the scorned. . .
* They moor the boat and head up a path where they find more pieces of broken bottles, probably bourbon/rye/whiskey
** Martha is aghast that it could be bootlegged!
* Cyrus and Alec share a thought: the shipwreck is just south of the moors where the vagrant camp (of werewolves) are. It’s possible there’s a moonshine distillery there??
** That could be why people don’t have any issue with them being there.
** They want to engage with the camp once reunited with Signe and William
* Continuing south along the coastline they come to a large standing pool of water. It’s not very shallow and shiny things catch Martha’s attention. 
** It looks to be a wishing well. 
** She finds an old Spanish coin that’s probably a couple hundred years old. . . A pirate coin!
** Martha pockets a few of the coins (7) despite Cyrus’s warnings. 
* They finally make it back to Munnatawket and meet up with Signe and William in the tavern
* We have (spit) soup, bread, and scotch (non tarte variety)
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
* The group has the following things in their inventory:
** Rope
** Knife
** Parasol (repelling)
** Towel
** Small mirror
** Compass
** Snorkel
** Eddy the Raven 
** The shell and green glass
** 7 (definitely not cursed) coins.
* The rage/love feeling is NOT coming from the ocean. Not a mermaid or siren?? It’s coming from the island itself, or “within the island”
** There is a tunnel we need to come back to at low tide