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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raidkillsbugsdead" data-source="post: 3762641" data-attributes="member: 54134">Yeah, so anyway, like the dwarf said, those two big vultures bombed us with rocks, and we were able to take one out and left the other flying for home.  We had been warned before we left for Harney Peak that there had been word of small groups getting ambushed on the road that passed by the prison.  That's why the elf wanted to pay us to go along with him in the first place.  Looking to where that bird flew away, the elf, he came with us on the road back to the city after dropping the Bug off, said it might help to look into things a bit.  Though we really didn't have to, we knew it was the right thing to do.  If we could help put an end to folks getting rocks dropped on them, we'd have done good by things, right?    So we checked in the direction of that bird's flight path and headed that way a bit.  Not too long after leaving the road, the elf found some tracks near a dry gully that he said like kobold prints or something like it.  Now I don't know about you, but from my experience, most kobolds don't usually mean too good by people, so we followed those tracks to see what we could find.  Let me tell you, what we found was an amazing site to say the least.  A couple of miles north of the road, past a few turns through the gorges that cut through the mountains this side of Angelspire, we came upon a more open area, like a big bowl in the mountains.  Right there in the middle of it was this big rock looking like a big giant bird head with an open mouth sticking up into the sky.   Crazy stuff, I tell ya'. It must of been a few hundred feet high or somthing like that, and it's kind of hard to describe it if you haven't seen it, but it was a pretty awesome sight.  Definitely nothing back east like that for sure.   We looked on from some cover at a distance for a bit and saw that there were a bunch of flying shapes circling it...looked like a bunch of vultures and one or two big ones.  There were a bunch of small cave-looking holes along the front of the "bird head" too.  We wanted to get a closer look, but those caves looked too in the open for our tastes.  We wanted to get a look to see if there were any other ways up there, so we used the brush and rocks along the edge of the basin we were in to give us some cover to check out the other sides of that rock.  After a little bit, Brennan spoke up, saying that he saw some kind of ledge along one of the sides of the rock leading up from the base to the "mouth" of it.  We figured that we might be able to make it up there without being seen by any of those birds if we did it the right way.  We did make it across the floor of that bowl to the ledge, but I'll tell ya' this, we only made it about halfway up it when those big birds found us.  Yeah, you could say we were stuck between a rock and a hard place...the hard place being a fifty foot drop off that ledge.</blockquote>

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