<span style="color: #ff0000">"Nice to meet you, Aritage."</span>Maria smiled, and she gave the others a polite nod and smile as they introduced themselves. Many of them seemed shy and reticent in making their introductions, earning a slight chuckle from Maria. They were hardly a stalwart group of bold and fearless adventurers. Hopefully they could all handle themselves in a fight at least.<br/><br/>Grummush certainly seemed made of tougher stuff, though that could have just been his being an orc...and quite an orc, Maria noted, looking him over. By the look of him he could have broken her in half...though not before she reduced him to a charred skeleton. Unless of course he split her in half the "right" way.<br/><br/>He earned a beaming grin from her as he passed the flagon to her. Offering her thanks, she took a long swig, though she had the politeness to leave plenty as she passed it back to him, but it had certainly hit the spot. Noting the shy priestess shuffling closer to her, Maria wrapped an arm around the smaller girl's shoulders and pulled her up against herself.<br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000">"I imagine we should all get comfy with one another." </span><span style="color: #000000">she smiled</span><span style="color: #ff0000"> "We'll be working, fighting, and possibly dying together so it's only natural." </span>She kept her arm around Aritage as she listened to the other speak.<br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000">"As to what's down there...I personally hope it's a trove of knowledge. Scrolls and ritual books and the like. The older it is the more power it holds, and I'll take a treasure trove of power over shiny gold any day. Certainly beats sex with the undead, or demons for that matter...yikes."</span>She added with a chuckle, lightly squeezing Ari as she did.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>