Yliakum Journeys (vol.1)

[Myrthe]

"Laragorn, if anything starts to go wrong, tug the rope twice and we will pull you up as fast as we can." Myrthe adds just as Laragorn disappears down the hole. He ties the end of the rope to the pole. "Grab it here." he says. He walks over to the edge of the hole and starts listening. "There's something else down there..."

[zorbels]

While Myrthe lowers Laragorn down into the dark pit of black, Zorbels does the same with Easton. "Let us know if there is anything you need. We will be sure to toss it down to you both. Take this Easton so that you can see." Zorbels hands him a lantern before she continues to lower him.

[Farren Kutter]

As the others are helping the newcomer, Farren slowly comes back form being unconscious, and rises to his feet. His wounds are healed for the most part, but his body still aches badly. despite the pain of doing so, he gets up and limps over to the others, short swords still gripped tightly in his hands, as they had been since he was slammed to the ground.

[Spetyco]

Meanwhile, Spetyco has been sitting idly by watching as his new found friends begin their rescue efforts.
He's so eager to get out he hasn't been paying attention and a gobble sneaks up on him and grabs him with its claws.  He struggles with it calling out for help.
He wrestles with the gobble rolling on the floor.  He can see Sir Easton and Laragorn decsending and the his hand finds the hilt of zorbels sword.  With one quick move he decapitates the gobbles.
Sir Easton and Laragorn reach him just as he's struggling to get the gobble's body off himself.
"So what's up guys?  My name is Spetyco and this is my friend Gobby.  Sorry he's kinda shy.  I think he bit me..."  Then he passes out from loss of blood.

[LARAGORN]

On there decent to the bottom Easton and Laragorn hear something in the abyss. They watch helplessly as the Gobble atacks. Once they reach the cave floor Laragorn immediately casts a healing spell, and Easton’s ankle feels better. “Sir Easton, take this” Laragorn says as he hands him the Armuutriik. “I’ll get to work on Spetyco right away”.

[Easton]

Easton sees the gobble's body at Spetyco's feet and it's head rolling away and coming to rest next to the wall in the cave, "Well, i see you've found yourself a nice Gobble cave to fall into." His smile quickly disappears as he raises his lantern to see Spetyco's leg. Looking to Laragorn, Easton says, "Well, i'll let you get to work, im just going to check this hole first." Easton begins walking to the right where the previous Gobble had come from. "I'll be back in two minutes."

[LARAGORN]

As Easton leaves to explore, Laragorn gets to work on Spetyco. In the back of his mind he is still thinking of the pack of beasts that attacked for no reason. Looking up he yells “lady Zorbels, is everything still ok up there? There aren’t any more beasts coming are there?”

[Myrthe]

Myrthe sighs in relief as the gobble dies. "I thought it as going to be something bigger. It sure sounded like it. In fact...." he pauses listening "...the sound is still there. I dont think that theres only a couple of gobbles down there. I would like to go down myself to check it out." He ties his rope to another staff and wedges the staff between two rocks. He slowly rappels down into the hole. As he reaches the bottom, he greets Laragorn, Easton, and the newly found friend, Spetyco. Easton walks off to explore one way. Myrthe walks off in the other direction, following what he believes to be sounds of something large.

[Farren Kutter]

Farren collapses as he reaches the pit where everyone is helping the new arrival, nearly falling in, but catching himself right before the edge. "What happened?" he asks in a groggy, exhausted, and pained voice as he sits back, legs stretched out a little, supporting his body with his arms behind him, leaning back.

[zorbels]

Zorbels shakes her head and then realises Laragorn can't see her and shouts softly down the dark hole "Yes, everything is fine. I still am wondering how it came to be that we were attacked by so many. This puzzles me, Ulbers don't travel in packs. They also don't attack people unless aggravated. She pauses looking thoughful and then shouts down to Laragorn "How is Spetyco doing? Are his injure's bad?"

[LARAGORN]

“He is one strong fellow; a lesser man would have died from the fall.” Laragorn says as he looks over Spetyco. “He has a broken leg, a nasty gash from the gobble and a nice big lump growing on his head. He should be ok to move in a couple of minutes.” As he says this Laragorn hears some noises from deeper into the cavern.

[steuben]

"i'm sorry about you daughter." her tail unwraps from around her body. "is it always like this," tovera says to hokinon, muffled through her arms. "does it get any easier?"

[Spetyco]

Spetyco wakes up deleriously and looks at Laragorn,
"Hey there fella, nice to meetcha.  My name is Stetokyo...  How did you grow three heads?"
Then he passes out again.

[LARAGORN]

After casting two spells of healing, Laragorn feels Spetyco can be moved. He makes a harness of sorts from the rope and puts it on the wounded man. As he ties the rope around his waist, he calls to the top “Ok we are ready to be lifted out, be gentle Spetyco is still fragile”. Laragorn is wondering what the sounds are from within the cavern. Are Easton and Myrthe ok, have they come across some trouble? “I don’t know where the others are, but we must get this man out of here” Laragorn says as the rope tightens.

[Easton]

Easton comes running back into the main area of the cave to see Laragorn tying Spetyco to the rope. His heart is just about beating out of his chest as he finally gathers enough air to say, "Hurry...*pant*..get him up... you too." Laragorn looks at Easton with a puzzled look. Knowing there is no time for hesitation Easton begins tying Laragorn to the rope that Spetyco is already attatched to. "Tell Zorbels she has to throw the rope down as soon as possible, i need to get Myrthe. Hurry.." Easton then runs off into the darkness that swallowed Myrthe minutes ago...