Sedret and Calar enter an archaeological dig site based around the location on the map. Several indentured workers are moving around, digging and shifting rocks, and have already made significant excavations. Several guards watch over the workers and protect the site.
Forewoman: Welcome to the site, sir. We've estimated the location that this map points to be around here somewhere, and excavations are well underway. Our sensors have failed to pick up anything inorganic, and we've yet to find anything. With all due respect, I'd like to remind you that
you haven't actually told us what we're looking for.
Calar, pointedly ignoring the forewoman's statement: ... so how have things been around here?
In what would go down as one of the biggest coincidences in history, one of the miners hits the rock wall and it instantly begins to crumble. The forewoman grumbles to herself.
Calar: Ah, perfect timing, I see. Order your men to clear up this rock, this ought to be it
The wall is quickly cleared away, leaving an ominous passageway into the rock
Sedret: Err, sir, where exactly does this passage go? Should you be going alone?
Calar: This cave is the lair of an ancient mad AI, a twisted abomination of magik and metal. I must go alone, as that is part of my journey. At least, I think that's what that old mysterious book said.
Without another word, Calar enters the passage, Sedret and the forewoman staring after him, stunned.
???: Ooh, it's been a while since anyone last ventured in here after me! I know exactly who you are and why you came here... Calar Ghorin. You wish to bring back the dead, restore what was... and I know that you'll never succeed. Even my powers will not grant me that. Yours is a fool's errand...
Calar: Maybe, but it's worth a shot
???: I can see that you're resolute in your faith... Let's test that faith...
Calar jumps into the pit silently, the battle within his mind already taking place...
