Victor Leaves the Password Tsunami

After the dragon died, the empty treasure room had one secret left. Only one chest remained protected by magic. Gumbo tried to approach it and was repelled, but the party could come close. That difference made the chest feel less like dungeon loot and more like something deliberately addressed. The graffiti confirmed it. There was Maine's old tsunami disaster, the word noobs, and a note left with a medium amount of love, signed VS. The seven-letter password was TSUNAMI, because Victor Shaw did not only leave a cache. He left a joke sharpened into a memory. The answer reached backward and sideways through time. Victor had already cleared this dungeon during a time-travel mission with Trixie and Exuba. He had seen enough, taken enough, and prepared enough to leave a protected cache where the party would eventually find it. The chest was not merely treasure. It was evidence that Victor's plans had crossed the party's current timeline before they arrived. The dungeon had held a dragon. Victor had still gotten there first.