I was busy looking the stuff when I received a call from Sandhya itself. She asked me about the hotel I was staying and the room number. I inquired ab...ut it and she told me that she has given a gift for me to a friend who would deliver it to me. I told her the location and the room number. After 10 minutes she called me again and told that her friend was on the reception but the receptionist was missing. I told her the direction for my room and to ask her friend to directly come to the room.. It was just barely fifty degrees outside, and I was in the skimpiest outfit I owned. Needless to say, my nipples hardened like rocks. I bent down to pick up the newspaper, and I heard a loud BANG come from the side of the house. I was legitimately scared for a brief moment, but then I figured it was probably just an animal or something. I turned to go back inside, and just as I was about to close the door, I heard the BANG! again. This time, it was clear it wasnt an animal. What could an animal. "Esfalan shrugged. "Very well, then Debra. I shall not ask."It had been a whirlwind of shafts and stairs, passages and natural stone walls passing by the lantern's light. Esfalan had picked up some shards of granite, and concentrated, frowning, on four of them as he walked. Debra watched as they grew a grey-brown crust, then he wiped each on his breeches as he walked.Looking up, he noticed her attention, as they waited on a landing next to an underground lake. "Please, hold these," he had said,. ‘Three times,’ he repeated, ‘three times.’ Kurt had been very excited when Space Cowboys, 3rd Edition, had come out from Fantastic Gaming House. He had never gotten into Dungeons and Dragons or the other more traditional role-playing games, but Space Cowboys looked fun. And it had been, despite the numerous mistakes in statistics and misprints in the first and second editions. Now that the third had arrived, he was desperate to find a group to play it with. That was his first hurdle to clear..