After waiting in
Scardale for several days, Finwe, Yaro, Hand and Searos decided that Belros and
Elexan had taken far too long to arrive.
They also learned that Ambrogio had ridden into Scardale the night
before and quickly booked passage on a ship traveling north, leaving port just
in time to avoid a large storm coming in from the east. Consequently, this has delayed the Blue Nixie
from escorting the Galleon, Chrysanthe, for severl more day. They decide to use this time to search for
the other two. On their way back west,
they run into one of Ambrogio’s many creations.
In a small outpost known as Evanlow, he turned the two guards garrisoned
their into vampire spawn. Arriving just
in time, they were able to save most of Evanlow’s meager number of inhabitants
and secure a place for them to rest for the night. In the predawn hours they awoke to a
tremendous blast and blinding light from the west.
Similarly, Belros and
Elexan awoke to the same blast, but for them it was from the east. Belros and Elexan were first to arrive at the
source, a crater with a glowing object in the center. Upon seeing the glowing mass, Belros fell
into a trance, seeing himself forging a sword of Corellon from the glowing
mass, now recognizable as starmetal, an extremetly rare and valuable
material. Upon waking from his trance,
the sun was high in the sky and Elexan was no longer by his side. Of more immediate concern was the small orc
horde charging into the crater, intent on retrieving the starmetal. Unbeknownst to Belros, his allies, Finwe,
Yaro, Hans and Searos, were far to the distance in the east and had just come
in sight of the large crater and orc horde.
