The party of four hiked up a mountain trail in search for the pass to the other side. Leading the way with his book in hand was a battle scared gnoll in dirty leather armor named Ker'eg. He was only 6ft tall, short and scrawny for one of the fearsome wolf men warrior. Following Ker'eg closely was a fifteen year old half-elf named Iera, she looked cold but listened intently on what Ker'eg had to teach her. A few feet behind was an older women about twenty-three clad in chain mail armor but went with out a weapon. She was Noj she looked very much like a human but was actually a Xeph, a race that has tapped into the powers of psionics. Bringing up the rear was Drem, whose half demon blood was apparent in his pointed ears and swishing red tail.

"Don't touch me!" Shouted Noj as Drem tapped her on the shoulder.

It was only two days out from the city and Noj already didn't like Drem. He was a tiefling and well, she just naturally thought that tieflings were bad creatures.

"Stop being immature Drem." Iera said as Drem tapped her on the shoulder.

Drem, not getting the reaction he wanted ran up to Ker'eg and huffed,

"When we gonna get there Ker?"

Ker'eg stopped and looked around.

"Well, it looks like we might not be there for a while Drem."

Ker'eg, Drem, Iera and Noj all stood staring at the huge mountain range that stood before them.

"We gotta climb this to get to where we're goin'?" Drem moaned "Why don't we just do ourselves a favor and kill our selves now?"

"Drem, I am so tired of your complaining" Noj said "if you wanna go home then just go home we're gonna go whether you come with us or not."

Drem looked at Iera and Ker'eg for support but no one looked eager to jump into this argument, which weren't uncommon between the two.

Drem sighed,

"So how we gonna get to the top in a day? Looks like there's no where to rest or anything, just a vertical wall."

Ker'eg flipped through the diary.

"It says here that we are looking for some kind of cave like entrance. Obviously there are none around here so we must keep going and try to find it."

Everyone just sighed and followed him as he walked along the foot of the mountain. They walked and walked and walked without finding any signs of a path through the mountains. As night started to knock on their door and Drem started to complain about his legs hurting Ker'eg decided that it was time to set up camp.The hustle and bustle of setting up camp reminded him of his last days with his tribe back before the first gnoll war.

Ker'eg well remembered his time as chieftain of the Roughside tribe during the war. He had tried to show his men how strategy and cunning could work just as well, if not better, then their usual wild and savage attacks. His men, unfortunately, hadn't agreed with him and in the midst of a battle had turned on him and his guards. His sword had run red with the blood of his own tribe that night, and Ker'eg had barely escaped with his life. He implied his cunning strategies on himself and somehow managed to get away with only a large cut across his back.

"Okay, so we need to set up night watches. We'll have three changes during the night; who's gonna do the first." Drem said

Ker'eg awoke from his bad memory. "I will."

Drem wheedled, "Than I'll do the second shift. That's when I like to be awake anyway."

Iera excitedly announced, "I'll do last shift!"

"No you won't. Noj you wouldn't mind doing the last shift would you?" grunted Ker'eg with a meaningful head shake.

"That's not fair! Why can't I stay up and watch? I wanna do it!" Iera complained.

"I'd be happy to watch the last shift." stated Noj with a nod.

"Iera you can't, your only 15 years old you need your sleep." Ker'eg said soothingly.

Feeling completely denied Iera stormed off into the woods.

"Come back before it's my shift kid!" Shouted Drem with a smirk on his face.

"Shut up Drem. You're only three years older than her anyway. I'm letting you do this cause I know you and I can trust you to put up a good fight." Ker'eg said.

Drem just went and sat by the fire to check on his food.

Ker'eg sat by the fire reading Scavo's diary as he did his first watch. He was also half waiting for Iera to come back. As he started to get to the passage where it said how to get into the falls he suddenly he heard a scream and a loud roar from the woods.

"Iera! IERA!" Ker'eg shouted, not trying to hide his anxiousness.

Noj and Drem rushed out of there tents and looked around. Ker'eg had grabbed his bow and long sword and ran off into the woods. Noj and Drem looked at each other and Noj ran after him.

"Why me, why me. I don't even really like this girl." Drem mumbled as he grabbed his knife and chased after them.