Nope Totally Normal, FOR EVIL!

It felt like we'd been descending for hours, but I'm pretty sure it was only a few moments. It was like swimming in a sea of evil. I can't express how awful that ruin was. Outside of all the evil in the air it would have been fairly boring, just simple traps to avoid, some hidden walls, the usual for ancient ruins. But the evil? Oh man it was vile, it soaked into me like a bad smoke cloud. Everything I did seemed to make it worse. Like trying to swat nats you couldn't see. And the worst part of it was Vontresa did not seem to be affected by it at all! Completely oblivious to the dark energies swirling around us. I learned my lesson about saying anything, after I mentioned again I didn't to be there and Vontresa pistol whipped me (bad enough that she closed my left eye entirely, which made seeing some of the traps a pain in the ass let me tell you).Eventually we came to a dias literally swirling with evil energies.

Sitting on top of the dias was a simple box, wooden in construction. The walls of the room were written with all kinds of dire warnings and bad shit. Like a history of horrific conflict was etched into that stone, in what seemed like dried blood and bone (literally someone etched bone in the walls). The stories they told were all bad, I mean I knew we were in some trouble when we got there, but honestly the walls were covered in "please do not let this box leave here" and yet Vontresa ran right up and took it off the pedestal. In a sign of things to come the rest of the evil went right into the box when she did. Like one moment we were swimming in it, and then the next the air was fine, the room was just covered in blood and bone writing (which while creepy isn't like evil in itself maybe uhh ok still pretty awful).

I would have said something at the time like "What's in the box?" Or "What do we do now?" But my thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a steamer ship blowing its horn. I thought somehow Vonresa had planned this, but thinking back on it, something else had clearly set this in motion and we were just the unwilling (well I was unwilling Vontresa was hella willing) participants. The ship was a sign of even worse things to come, but hey at least I was off the island.