Chronicles of Rygorh: An Interesting Church

We left the inn and all the while I am thinking, "I will see Jim again". Heading to the priest’s house there was little conversation. Neil is muttering to himself again, the Elf is scribbling in his book. After a lengthy conversation with the priest – Casey and Rumus do most of the talking – we find out all sorts of information that the villagers left out. Primarily we learn that rumor has it removing the Sword from this village will remove their protection and invite attacks . . . Hmm, maybe that would be a good thing for these people then the flaming no good nobles would have to look into this village more in order to continue their oppression of these folk. The priest confirms for us that the church is in ruins, and he is attempting to raise money to rebuild it. He does seem interested in hearing Tilk’s impression of the sense of belonging when in there. We then head to the church with the old priest as our escort.

We can the Church as we get closer – indeed it is in a horrible state of repair even one of the doors is missing and leaning up against the wall. As we enter . . . What? No . . . How can this be? By Firinna’s Might! A sense of peace, of belonging, a part of me long lost now found, IN THE CHURCH OF ANOTHER DIETY? This is impossible, I must leave . . . but, no, I don’t want to. A temple of Blediwesse? How can this be? Firinna, give me Strength! I must find the truth . . . I begin searching through the rubble the old priest immediately asks me to stop. I must know what is here! Hmm, I hope the others haven’t noticed my confusion and weakness. By Flame and Blade this is all wrong! The Knife has long left the church; I should join him and be rid of the weak feelings in another church. Firinna, forgive me my weakness. Thankfully we soon leave, a feeling of loss overcomes me . . . what is wrong with me? Rumus is writing in his book yet again; damn, that’s a surprise.

Standing outside once the old priest has left we begin discussing the church. I briefly tell of an odd feeling without giving away too much about my weakness. Casey points out that I have a birthmark of the Reaper on my neck . . . gee, I never noticed that! Then without realizing . . . so does Rumus and the others all have Birthmarks in the shape of their birth stars. Tilk and I both share the Reaper, and by both of our feelings in the church we decide that the feeling must have to do with the stars rather than the gods. Rumus finally pipes in that the sword must be there, and we should come back and search. That’s his second best idea I have heard all day! Hmm, one of six people in this world with the mark of their birth star tattooed on them by the Gods can only be for a higher purpose. The High Priestess has told me my whole life that Firinna has watched over and protected me some reason; this must be it. We decide that we will go back to the inn, wait a few hours until it is late, then return to search the church for the Sword. On reaching the inn we discover turmoil; it appears that two children are missing and they were picking berries where we saw marks of a battle earlier today! We immediately offer our assistance to help search – knowing in the back of my mind this will most likely lead to the haunted mine.

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