<div class="floatleft">(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111224023358/creativethoughts/images/f/fa/Cloaked_figure.gif)</div><br/>The party would find the going easy, up the gentle slope. It wasn't long before the lead elements happened upon the remains of what could only be described as a walkway, leading straight towards the ruins along the ridge of the rise. It was long overgrown now, but there was no mistaking the cobblestone that was underfoot. Broken up in places, a few stones here and there, but the sign was obvious even to the uneducated. It would certainly speed up walking - as long as you avoided the loose stones.<br/><br/>The road west, as you could put it, quickly disappeared down the slope and into the thicker foliage that was creeping up the slope. Walking east along the walkway, towards the ruins, offered a glimpse of their ship in the bay to the South, and open waters along with the curve of the land spiraling to the North. It was clear even from this vantage point that they were certainly not on some large island but of man and his kind there was no indication.<br/><br/>Birds chirped in the trees around them, and small animals rustled in the bushes. There was no sign that man had ever set foot here other then for the ruins of the castle that they steadily approached.<br/><br/><br/>(http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/116/2/0/shore_castle_by_macrebisz-d6323ue.jpg)