Post by David on Dec 1, 2015 21:10:46 GMT -5
A strange woman stumbled into Portown and started asking questions at the Dragon's Lair. The dwarven bartenders sent for Bethany Drake, who spoke with the woman and quickly determined that she had come from another world. Her name was Linnea and she was a Norse mage from another Oerth. She had be experimenting with a defunct gate that had recently come back to life and had appeared in the Cairn Hills amid a giant settlement from which she narrowly escaped. This information dove-tailed nicely with reports of a new slavery ring operating to the south of Portown, apparently with the victims disappearing off the face of the planet... Bethany managed to gather a group of heroes to help her deal with the cloud giant threat and go through the gate to seek out those carried off. Answering the call were the dwarven fighter/cleric of Haela, Helga, the elven archer-ranger/cleric of Solonar, Wynd, and his cooshee companion, Thundr, and the ranger, Pudic. Together, the group headed due south from Portown with Bethany aerially scouting in the form of a copper dragon. About six hours away was a giant settlement with the defunct gate in the center...surrounded by the giants' fire pit.
The heroes simply charged in, trusting in their bravado over the fact that the cloud giants living there outnumbered them AND were three times their size. Although Helga's spell deflect rock made a huge difference, the fight still got off to a rough start and only an obscurement from Wynd kept half the party alive. Luckily, a bipedal bunny six feet tall charged into to join the fray, saving Helga and Pudic at different points in the fight. Bethany, meanwhile, drew off a few more foes. Pudic got in the first kill, but was stunned for his efforts. Wynd animal growthed Thundr and rained down arrows of jotun death and Helga used her amazing combat skills to whittle away at the giants while keeping them occupied. The heroes were victorious, but only just barely. Cliffy arrived and teleported to Amberwood where the heroes healed up and got a nap.
Returning, the group went through the gate and arrived in a very mountainous area with dense trees. They quickly fought and slaughtered the lone cloud giantess that escaped as well as three others. Soon, the group located a rough series of caverns and followed the tracks of the slaves. They battled an odd collection of guardians, including a hobbit thief, a drow, and two dwarves as well as bugbear, gnolls, a gnomish cleric of Garl Glittergold, a troll, and an elf. Helga and Bethany were quite careful to save the demi-humans. Later, the group also battled two intellect devourers and four ustilagor before finally meeting and slaying a mind flayer WIZARD doing spell research. They group rescued over a dozen slaves and returned through the gate.
The heroes simply charged in, trusting in their bravado over the fact that the cloud giants living there outnumbered them AND were three times their size. Although Helga's spell deflect rock made a huge difference, the fight still got off to a rough start and only an obscurement from Wynd kept half the party alive. Luckily, a bipedal bunny six feet tall charged into to join the fray, saving Helga and Pudic at different points in the fight. Bethany, meanwhile, drew off a few more foes. Pudic got in the first kill, but was stunned for his efforts. Wynd animal growthed Thundr and rained down arrows of jotun death and Helga used her amazing combat skills to whittle away at the giants while keeping them occupied. The heroes were victorious, but only just barely. Cliffy arrived and teleported to Amberwood where the heroes healed up and got a nap.
Returning, the group went through the gate and arrived in a very mountainous area with dense trees. They quickly fought and slaughtered the lone cloud giantess that escaped as well as three others. Soon, the group located a rough series of caverns and followed the tracks of the slaves. They battled an odd collection of guardians, including a hobbit thief, a drow, and two dwarves as well as bugbear, gnolls, a gnomish cleric of Garl Glittergold, a troll, and an elf. Helga and Bethany were quite careful to save the demi-humans. Later, the group also battled two intellect devourers and four ustilagor before finally meeting and slaying a mind flayer WIZARD doing spell research. They group rescued over a dozen slaves and returned through the gate.