The Chronicles of Rygorh: New Arrivals

Tilk busied himself with tying up our two prisoners; Neil and I began searching the corpses as the waters continued to rush out of the chamber. Suddenly three figures bubbled up to the surface of the water; well, two came to the surface but the third went tumbling down the raging torrent. "By Firinna’s blade" I thought "what is going on now?" as I stopped what I was doing and gripped the hilt of my sword ready for any surprises this time. The two strangers standing before us were not hobgoblins or even close to them. In fact, one appeared to be an elven female; hmm a striking woman – for an elf that is. The other appeared to be a human male. Neil became very excited and began muttering anew and speaking really fast introducing himself and asking many questions talking about the Tump and stars and such. "Damn halfling needs to learn that there are times in which you need to KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT rather than volunteer information!" The female elf introduced herself as Larien and the Human was Alevonius. About that time Casey returned carrying The Knife as well as an Elf that I didn’t know. Rumus had a small boy clinging to him like a leach (well maybe he will keep that bloody book put away for a while).

Before any formal questioning of these people could begin two heavily armored figures came walking up the passage from the direction in which the water had run off. They immediately attacked the group one struck the human Alevonius before anyone could act, and he dropped to the ground. The other moved across the cavern towards the others, but was cut off by a mighty swing from Tilk! Drawing my blade I ran to the aid of this new human who had already fallen and calling on Firinna’s power. She healed his wounds enough to stop the bleeding, but he won't be seeing anymore of this fight. Once I was satisfied that he would live I rushed to the aid of my new comrades blade in hand. Just as I reached the fight with another bellow from deep in his throat Tilks blade tore through this second assailant nearly splitting him in two.

Brief introductions were made, and we told the newcomers that we needed to get these two boys back to the Village. We set off, stopping briefly to retrieve the corpse of the ghost we had encountered on the upper levels. Once the ghost saw his corpse he seemed satisfied and disappeared as we continued on our way. We spoke as we walked, and it turned out that these people had also been brought here as we were with one exception the voice seemed in trouble and these people had seen a very hideous creature before being dropped into the water. "Firinna come to the lady's aid if you will. She seemed to be soft and unable to defend herself." The female elf named Larien seemed ok, although very inquisitive. The small weak human named Alevonius was a quiet sort keeping to himself much. "I wish more of our group did that." The third new comrade, who obviously cannot swim well, identified himself as Celegorm. Actually he sang it and seemed content to serenade the party all the way up. "Sword and Flame this is going to get old." As we reached the mine opening into to night several members of the group noticed someone watching us from a one of the out buildings. Upon hearing this Tilk yelled at him to come out of hiding. "I really am starting to like the bold fearlessness of this barbarian." The figure stepped out to where we could see him, and it's that flaming low life Jim. He motions to the building and his henchmen also step out. "Hmm, looks like he was planning an ambush; by sword and flame I swear my blade will be clothed in his blood before long."

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