Giants - Pt 2

Debate what to do about the bear thing that broke Elwin’s mirror. Decide to try to trap the bear in a unoccupied room. Brak and Sky will open the door. Plan goes well except the bare dies before we get him trapped. Brak gets clawed. Elwin sneaks into the bear’s room. He finds a large pouch with several crude gems. Move on to unexplored areas. Find a private dinning area. Elwin listens and looks with his backup mirror. A manticore hide partially conceals a secret door. Plans on walls and table. Dubious and I copy the map and plans. Elwin checks out a nearby door to adjacent room. Another Trophy room. Armor, spears, club and rune engraved javelins. Runes read “Striker”. Large but well lit room. Otter and Bear fur cloaks. Giant sized of course. Look at secret door. It contains scroll and firewood. More info on maps and plans. Also a stairway down into the basement. Go down the stairs. Find a secret door at corner but it is bared from other side. No way to open. Also an open portcullis. Glittery things in room. We move in cautiously. I think I hear something in the next room. A pile of gems has spilled from a chest across the room. Elwin and Dubious signal about sensing something. As I move around the room, I think I see a hidden door. Jian is trying to wedge the portcullis open with some of the giant spears. Three manticores charge into the room. Dubious charges one starting combat. Another manticore shows up. All four quickly dispatched. Gracie hurt the worst. Gems turn out to be glass beads. Bait for the trap. Check out the secret door. Elwin unlocks it. Hallway. Spy holes allow watching the manticore room. I lift Elwin up so he can look thru spyhole at end of hallway. A large room. He spots two stone giants leading six chained dwarves. They bang on door, which another giant opens. An evil looking one. One dwarf is fed to a pair of carnivorous apes which rip him apart before eating him. The stone giants lead the remaining five dwarves out a different door and away. Elwin checks out treasure room but we find little real treasure. Back at big room, check out door and passages. See two bugbears and prison cells and another twelve or so bugbears. Kill the two guard bugbears and talk with prisoners. One is a member of the previous adventuring group. Others are Orcs. Free the adventurer.

Decide to take out the giant shaman the two apes. Prep and open the door. Dubious charges in. Brief fight with several heroic blows landed. I find a small concealed cubby hole. Gems and Au. Elwin finds a second with a jug of liquid. I make a deal with the orc prisoners. We will free them if they go out another way. They agree, happy to be able to extract some revenge on the giants. They name us ‘Orc Friends.’ We proceed toward the cistern while looking for the five dwarves and their keepers. We find dwarves. Dubious recognizes one of them as his kin. The dwarves see us. We see one giant. As I try to sneak across t Elwin and Dwarvs, the giants spots me. He shouts a warning to the dwarves to stay put and attacks. We quickly put him down. The dwarves confirm the way out is thru the cistern using the water breathing potion in the large jug Elwin found. We make our escape. We watch the fun from our cave on the valley wall as the Orcs and Giants fight it out. By morning it is obvious the giants have won but the Orcs did extract a price. Two groups of hill giants head out. One toward the west with the cloud giant body. The second toward the south.

Oosana

XP:
Kills - 2800, Story - 800, RP - 200
Action points +2, Rep points +2
Loot:
1087.5Au value each.