We decide to stay a week and I go to the temple each day to study. On the third day, I see a big commotion and one the guards tells me that “He” is here, but don’t know the name of “He” is. He supposedly can heal “fast”. I search out the guide that I met originally and ask who he is and learn that his name changes all the time, but current name is Mike. I ask if I can meet him and the guide shuffles off, comes back, and says yes. We head back and I hear a small child scream, but do not become enraged. When I get back, I see the back of a man with his hands on a small child whose finger is regenerating before my eyes. After he’s done he turns around and I realize that it is Bob, the man that has Glaive spooked. I commend him for the work he’s doing and tell him I would like to have a drink with him some time to learn more about what he does. He tells me Glaive really needs to learn her stuff. People will get “riled” because he will only see the poor or children. Speed at which he is healing people is not heard of in this order.
When we eat dinner we relay stories and I tell Glaive about Bob. Apparently Kross and Ghoral both meet the same very large guy named Chad at different times. He offered Kross training and he drank with Ghoral.
At week end on the 5th day, after breakfast on the morning we are to leave, a mage approaches and tells us that there is a “situation” with our trip. Someone had approached a Lord about a month ago about an abandoned silver mine in the same area we are going. An expedition of 20 was sent and they had a similar beacon that we have. The lord was funding the expedition with a large cut from the find. There has been nothing heard from the expedition since it left and there should have been a week or two ago. The young man that approached the Lord was Thorin Somerson, which was one of the guys researching the dead religion (and possibly Ille’s son). The mage asks us to investigate since it involves Thorin.
On sixth day, Kross comes back at end of day and says he saw Bob heading for the same manor that Chad was at. We all decide to go check it out. When we get there and try the gate, it is unlocked. Kross mentions that Chad needed a key when he came. Glaive says it’s the same mansion that Bob brought her to when they first met. We go to front door and knock, but get no answer. Kross suggests we go around back to see if anyone is there and we do. House is dark and it appears no one is there. We are talking about why is the gate unlocked and is it only geared for some people to open and magical. From the trees we hear, “You have someone that can tell”. I yell, come out Bob and he steps out of the trees, mysteriously. Glaive and Kross hear a scraping sound, turn around and see Chad. They both swear on foot looks like it is coming out of the stone. Perrol starts to ask lots of questions. We notice that they look similiar and could be related. Glaive decides to go for training with Bob and Kross will train with Chad tomorrow. I ask to meet Bob on healing and he asks to come in the morning. Then they say it’s time for dinner (alone) and we take off. At conversation over dinner, Ghoral starts discussing how it’s weird how we all ended up together.
My training is disappointing because he cannot teach me. He is not a follower of Hospin; his healing is natural. He does let me know if I want to learn resurrection, I would most likely need to switch emphasis from Kilbern (Skyfather) to Hospin.
On eighth day, we get ready to take off to Fellburg via boat; mages are paying way there and back. We stop in Bridgerton and get two weeks extra rations and a pack mule. As we approach the foothills, we will see off in the distance a couple vultures. We head that way. As come over a ridge, we see a thrashed camp with obvious dead bodies. We head towards it, some of us notice that the majority of the animal tracks stop ~100 yards from the stream. We tie ropes to Perrol and he gets close enough to detect magic on the stream and sees nothing; sees scat by stream. He sees a contraption further downstream, probably for sluicing for silver. We tie the rope on me and I go down and try detect evil; nothing. Perol and I both noticed depressions in the ground. We all start going to the river and Kross notices that the depressions look like Rock Snake markings. These are large constrictors that have been known to eat humans; they are 30 feet long. We go to the camp and find about 13 bodies. We find the homing device, so this is the guys. I perform detect evil and I detect evil from a book in a collapsed tent but the book is not magic. Us our device to take pictures. We collect the equivalent of 50 cp and 5 sp. The sluice is basically destroyed. We find sub-standard weapons. We pick up some flint.
After much debate about the dangers of Rock Snakes and Perrol and Kross trying to argue that we should check someplace else, we decide to head up to the rock wall, up the ramps. 3/4ths of the way up the last of three ramps. Perrols horse gets spooked and he goes back down to the second level and Glaive and my horse get spooked. Glavie, Kross, Perrol, and I get toward the top and see three A-frame winches over holes. I drop a rock down the closest on hole, which is ~16 ft wide, and it’s ~25 ft deep. I look over and see movement from what looks like a rock…..(too be continued).