Chapter 13 - What Ramon wants

Alana sees the other two fussing around a stone wall, then looking for something around the area.

"What are you doing?", she shouts over to them while scratching Ripper's belly. "Being left out of this adventure sucks even more!"

We found something. It looks like a drawing of a hilt of a sword. It's possible that something is behind the brick. All we need now is something pointy to get the mortar out from around it. Do you see anything around you...possibly metal? Logan says as he stands up and looks at Al.

Al looks around for anything suitable.

Alana looks around her. There are three garbage cans set at regular intervals along the rocky pier, a couple of benches, but not much else.
In one of the cans she finds a discarded engine oil bottle. Looking better, she sees some paper towels with oil smears, and a discarded metal dipstick.
It is snapped half way (hence useless as a dipstick), but it feels sturdy and pointy enough to use as an improvised tool.

Al takes out the dipstick, getting disgusting oil all over her fingers. "I have this," she says.

That might do it. Johnny ran over to the fence to retrieve it from Alana while Logan fiddled with the mortar around the stone. I wonder how long that's been there? Did Ramon put it in or just know where it was? he asked the other two, assuming they might know more about the lighthouse than he did...which was practically nothing at all.

That may work, let's see if we're lucky. Logan says as Johnny brings up the dipstick. Taking it Logan begins to chip away at the mortar around the brick. I'm not sure, Ramon could've put it here, but just as easily heard about it. There's no telling really.

Thanks to the metal object Alana found, Logan starts breaking the mortar all around the irregular shaped stone block. It comes away with ease, and soon Logan has cleared a good area all around the block.
Trying the block with their fingers, Logan and Johnny feel it wobbling slightly. They are now able to insert their fingers in the gap around the block to apply some strength.

The block slides forward one millimetre at a time, and to their surprise it reveals to be less thick than the rest of the wall, revealing an alcove behind it as it pops out of its place.

There is an old metal cylinder in the alcove, a little rusty. It has a screw-on cap.

Carefully taking the cylinder out, Logan looks at it. Looking at the cap, Logan looks at Johnny. I wonder what's inside? We should look in it, but lets wait until we're back on the other side of the fence. That way Al can see it as well.

"What did you find?", Al asks, trying to see through the fence what they're doing. "Is it a sword? A ghost sword?"

Let's just hand the tube to Alana through the fence and then get across to the outside before we all open it together. Johnny offered. That way in case there's something in there that falls apart in the open air we can all see it before it goes to pieces. Plus, it could be curse whoever opens it. he shrugged nonchalantly. If we all open it the curse should only be a third as effective, right? The thought mad sense to him, at least.
That's all that was in the hole, right? he asked, taking a closer look in the dark hole for anything the might've missed in the euphoria of the initial discovery. No writing or arrows pointing somewhere else?

There is nothing else in the alcove they discovered. Replacing the stone block to its original place, it kind of looks like the wall was never touched, as the piece is held in place by the neighboring blocks.

Logan and Johnny walk back to the fence to show Alana their finding. Ripper barks happily thinking it might be food, or a toy soon to be thrown for her.

The metal cylinder is small enough to fit through the gaps in the fence.
Alas, Logan and Johnny are too large for that.

Logan pokes the metal cylinder through the fence. This is all we found. Will you hold onto to it, until we get back on that side of the fence? I don't want to fall in and get it wet, that might destroy what's inside. Keep it safe and once we're back together, we'll open it. Logan asks Al as he waits for her to grab the cylinder.

Al takes the cylinder and shakes it next to her ear, trying to get a clue of what is inside.

The cylinder doesn't really make any sound when shaken. Could it be empty?

Ripper gets all poised to run, at Al's gesture, thinking Al is about to throw the object for her to catch. The intense expression and tense, short legs make for a comedic spectacle.

"I can't throw this for you, dummy," Al tells Ripper. "It's a clue in our mystery." She looks around for a stick or something she can throw for her dog instead.

Al finds a sea-smoothed stone to throw, and Ripper runs fast to catch it and retrieve it.