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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 180490" data-attributes="member: 63">So . . . what happened after this.  I think I might skip a chapter or two, speed ahead to the good stuff.In the next chapter, Chapter Eighteen, the group returns to the eastern rift bridge to discover that, while they were gone, Bhurisrava's Goblin led the priest into a trap.  In the middle of the night, Bhurisrava, Roth, and Lafayer (the priest who had already been at the bridge) were kidnapped.  Guards heard a few shouts in the distance, but by the time they got there all they saw were a few drops of blood here and there, and one broken arrow shaft, with red fletching.James, Harley, and Vic try to follow the trail, but it crosses over rocks.  Since the trail heads generally south, they are able to guestimate where it is heading, but when they still can't pick the trail back up, they go to Thurmaster to ask if anyone had seen anything suspicious.  No one has, but when they ask about the red fletching on the broken arrow, they eventually hear from a swamp hunter that there are a few red-feathered birds that live in the Shreiken Mire.  By this point it's nearly sunset, but they don't want to leave Bhurisrava endangered so they head out immediately, bringing lanterns to provide at least some light.Unsurprisingly, they quickly lose all sense of where they are in the swamp.  Vic promises that he can use the water currents to guide them back to the river if they have to leave, but they have no idea where they are or where they're headed.It is several hours after sunset, as they're trying to set up a system for plotting out the land they're traveling through, when Harley notices a pair of glows in the distance, like lanterns, bobbing up and down.  Hoping they've found someone, even if it's not the kidnappers, Harley, James, and Vic chase though the muck after the lights in the distance.</blockquote>

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