(G17 12/07/08 BG)(sat)

The two despicable guards went down an alley by the house and I leapt through a window
to cut them off. For a moment it was quiet confused in the dark. Arrows, crossbow bolts
and knives flew back and forth in a silent, but deadly exchange.

Dek ran on ahead, while Hulog blocked the alley. I was still invisible when I swung at
him, and still wearing a dress! It must have surprised him a good deal to see an angry
looking wench appear from nowhere and strike at him with a scimitar! I missed, but it
did give Shifty the opportunity to run him through with his rapier.

We pursued Dek into yet another abandoned house. I cast a Light spell on my scimitar
so I could see into the shadows. It almost looked like he had disappeared but Nobby found a
secret trap door under a barrel and we all jumped down into a small round chamber.

I quickly removed my dress and retrieved my shield from Raz. The others got ready also
and Shifty opened one of the two doors.

I suppose it must have been blind chance, but just at the same time a patrol of three
thieves were on the other side of the door! Raz and Shifty cut the first two down
fairly effectively but the last one at the back made a run for it down the corridor.

I summoned a crocodile. What happened next wasn't pretty, so I am rather glad it happened
at the other end of a gloomy passage, Suffice to say the crocodile did its job very
efficiently.

After that we cautiously followed the corridor from chamber to chamber, we seemed to be
circling a large water filled cave, which we would occasionally glimpse through small
'windows' in the passageway.

We didn't meet anyone else until we had almost gone all the way round. There was quiet
a few of us down here, six people and one badger, and we had to go single file along
the corridors. So Raz was at the front when we were attacked again and I was at the
back with Mashai.

At the front of the line, from across a shallow pit a rogue shot at Raz. Shifty jumped
down into the pit only to see that it extended into a small cavern where a crocodile
happened to be!

During this time though, I had my own problems as another rogue was shooting at us
from the last room we had just passed through. Mashai rushed to attack, I drew my
bow and advanced.