| Location: | One Stone |
| Session at a glance | New characters and key characters this week: – Stone Giants – Three stone giants fighting the adventurers. They appear to be attempting to steal a boulder.Barbarians – Anzan – An impressive barbarian who ran to join the fights with the giants.- A Shaman – a pleasant looking barbarian with flowers around him. A person of great respect.Dozens and dozens of barbarians join the fight. ———————————————————————————————Where we left off:They are at One Stone, attempting to get another relic. During a fierce battle, they were joined by a barbarian ally and tremendous numbers of other barbarians joined them once the danger had clearly passed. They are now considering their next step to try to take the boulder relic, clearly valued by the barbarians. They consider attempting to trick them and offer to take care of the boulder, given the relative success fighting the stone giants – maybe even tell them that more giants are on the way? Thoradin is stoned and not sure, but he is clearly the most revered by the barbarians. Gunther considers magic mouth. The dragon boat hovers overhead. ———————————————————- Player reminder – let the dungeon master know about our next movement. Beorunna’s Well for a new relic? ———————————– Quests:– Taking relics from the Barbarian burial grounds to the All Father Collecting relics will give them access to paths to the Storm Court (1/9 collected – the Shield from the Valley of Kedrun – currently displayed on the side of the dragon boat) – Accessing the King Hecaton conch to root out the evil in the King’s court – Seeking the powerful weapon in the possession of Cerise (Hecaton’s daughter on the throne) – Avenging the slain cloud giant (Igorn) who was killed by his father |
| Last week (flash backs) | After parking the Dragon Boat, they travel 1 kilometre and are met by Stone Giants that seem to be screaming without noise. They consider sending Rillix with a note to call for help. Battle highlights: Giant foes and Barbarian allies They find themselves in furious battle with the giants, in an area surrounded by Cairns to commemorate the dead. Miss Moss is thrown off a cliff when she tries to use her giant-slaying sword. Gunther has also taken a few blows to the head. During a tremendous fight, they notice one of the giants picking up a giant boulder with blue, glowing text, the giant gathers it into his chest and begins to walk away with it. They realise – it’s the relic they seek.Amongst the chaos, they hear someone screaming in Bothe, the Utgarde language. They see a figure racing towards the giants, arms raised. Leshanna hears some voices from the woods beyond. The nearby giant begins to retreat. Thoradin takes his chance and shoots off a guiding bolt and the giant collapses, looking at the sky with a beam of light pouring up to the sky. His eyes glow green as he crumples to the floor. The two other giants turn and watch with amazement and horror. The fight continues, it is long and exhausting and they are still facing two giants. Miss Moss is still down the cliff. Leshanna is reluctant to summon the dragon boat for help but the rest of the gang agrees it’s time. Gunther takes out his bagpipes and plays a tune that sounds vaguely like it is droning “Never going to give you up…”. They are not sure if it was successful as a summon, but Gunther is very pleased with his song.The barbarian running at them makes a sound, they think they can hear him say “Cowards!”.The giant with the boulder continues to turn in the other direction. They continue to fight the other. Londer comes up with a new catch phrase: “Get prone!” Miss Moss does a special bird whistle and Gunther shimmies down towards her. From down the cliff, Miss Moss reaches up to grab his tail, which raises her up. Gunther makes a big groaning noise from the effort. Miss Moss flails around and bashes her shins as she reaches the top together and they sit there laughing before joining the battle again.Gunther does a sad spanish dance and passes on some inspiration to Londer. The running figure reaches the cliff, he launches into the cliff face, using his axe to climb up. He is clear to them now, a barbarian with a glorious beard. He remains perched on the edge of the cliff, yelling. He attacks the giants. Londer continues to chip away at the giant’s knees, Thoradin reaches into the wound and lays down some necrotic damage. Grey colour oozes up and his black veins creep up through the giants legs. He keels over. Thoradin glares at the other giant in warning, his eyes full of blood lust. Miss Moss lets out an impressed woop. Just after the second giant falls, from the forest they see the bushes rustle all around. They hear war cries from the other side of the river. Tens of figures from the barbarian tribe dash out screaming out and running toward them to support the fight. The barbarian nearby calls out clearly disparaging words at them for waiting so long. They continue to fight, the bromance between Londer and Gunther continues as bardic inspiration is given again. The barbarian starts yelling things into the giant’s face and attacks. The giant holds in one hand the boulder, with glowing text. He pulls out his club and hits back, doing tremendous damage. The other barbarians now attack and the giant is overwhelmed. Miss Moss pushes everyone back and strides up with her giant slaying sword. “Stay back”, she says. The sword glitters in her hand. She swings and misses. She looks back over her shoulder, grips it tighter and swings again. She misses, drops the sword and turns and walks away. All the other barbarians swarm back. The one barbarian who joined them at first reaches in and cleaves off his head, which rolls into the stream and the water runs blood. After the battle ends: Thoradin takes out his pipe with some pipe weed. All is well. Miss Moss takes out a muesli bar and inspects the totems. They are in the figure of a pegasus. The red boat appears overhead, responding to Gunther’s summon. They realise they are in a pressing situation, as the dozens and dozens of barbarians stand around. Miss Moss calls out, “Does anyone speak Common?” The bravest of all the barbarians struts around. He has an arrow sticking of of him, the wound seems to be very old. He has broken the end of the arrow off but it’s still sticking out of him. He strings together some words in Common. Thoradin offers to heal the wound. The barbarian shrugs it off, definitely not open to this offer in front of any audience. “My name is Anzan and you are brave warriors. We thank you for what you’ve done. These useless fucking ones could have done something themselves.” A little flurry of activity and mutters ripple through the crowd and he silences them. “We thank you for saving our sacred stone of Utgarde that the Sky Pony tribe holds.” He doesn’t know what the words mean and confirms it is from a giant. They are clearly in awe of the adventurers, particularly Thoradin, following his great fatalities before them. |
| Current journey | – Seeking relics from various barbarian locations- They seek to restore the Ordening |
| Significant other points: | – They are carrying a divining rod to find adamantine in the bag of holding – They recall an Elk (symbolising an omen, like the birth of a new king) – They know stories of giants fighting dragons in the past and of them using adamantine to create a great Colossus – They have encountered the Dragon cult before when they attacked Zephyros – A green dragon attacked Miss Moss’ village and she is seeking revenge |
| Previous encounters | GiantsHarshnagg the Frost Giant – waiting for them back at the templeA frost giant corpseIgorn the forlorn spirit (cloud giant) and his corpse – seeking vengeance on his father, Blagakis Slain Stone Giants at One Note, attempting to steal the boulder relic ———————————————————————————————BarbariansWormblood – the chief, slain in battle by the heroes in the Giant Temple, along with his allies, except Noori and Narft Merft, the temporarily second in charge while Wormblood was awayNarft the barbarian who joined them to find the chief’s cousin’s daughterNoori – the chief’s cousin’s daughter – rescued from the cocoon. Now the new chief of the Barbarian village, cousin of the former chief.Kralk the Utgard Shaman and his three guards Dragons and Dragon boatSky Nugget: Miss Moss’ baby dragonKlauth’s subjects: The dragon cult: leather-clad humans on the red sky ship.Klauth – a Red Dragon – one of the oldest dragons in the land, He is incredibly evil. There are famous stories of him joining battlesA trapped fire elemental: providing heat in the furnace on the sky ship A trapped air elemental: with a system of doors to activate the propellerOther An adult Remorhaz they battled and defeated A serpent like creature, a Couatul, imprisoned in the Barbarian altar |
| Oracle questions | How do we restore the Ordening? The only one to do it is the Allfather. He disrupted it to rouse his children from their complacency. Only he restores the ordening.How can we get the Allfather to restore the ordening?Root out evil in the court of the Storm Giants – the storm giant King Hecaton. You must visit King Hecaton’s court.How can we travel safely to the court of the Storm Giants? You must find King Hecaton’s conch to transport you there and root out the evil How can we find people or items to restore the ordering, including (and especially the conch)?You must prove your worth by finding some treasure. Barbarian kind built altars to Rutgar, their king atop these relics and surrounded the area with burial mounds. Go there and find the lost relics and bring them here to the All-Father as tributes. There are many paths. The more relics you bring, the more paths will be open to you. What more can you tell us about the missing King and the evil in the court of Hecaton?The evil in the court is from multiple sources, the King was undermined by his daughters Miran and Nimh, his daughters covet the throne. Where can we find 5 magical weapons that will help us in our battle?Giants do not entertain small-folk weapons. There is one weapon – the coral nora sceptre, wielded by Cerisa, the one who sits on the Storm giant throne. The daughter of King Hecaton. It is amongst the most powerful weapons known to giant-kind. |
