| Current location | Eye of the Allfather, the Spine of the World |
| Last week at a glance | Battle with three young remorhaz in a room with a fire, making it a warm oasis in the cold, frozen temple. They fight against the remorhaz with Harshnagg dealing brutal damage, Leshanna is dismayed when they are immune or resistant to fire and cold. Thoradin and Londer rally and heal Harshnagg and they all fight the remorhaz to the death (except Leshanna who does nothing of any value at all) They find some gems worth 300g and examine the rest of the room. On the giant stone tables are blood and grease. On the Southern end of the room a large metal object glints. They walk past the fire. They find the body of a frost giant, long dead, slumped across the bench of the table. He appears to have met his end because of a remorhaz attack. He has a bag, three decomposed dwarf heads roll out of the bag. There is a wagon wheel and a large cooking pot and a huge axe lying nearby. Harshnagg picks it up. They head back to the main statue room and Hashnagg replaces it in the Frost Giant, Thrim’s arms. They find two secret doors, if they touch the stone the doors move aside. They move the levers and it reveals entrances to the hallway. One by one, Harshnagg collects each of the weapons and struggles to carry them to the churning fog archway. He tries putting them through in different orders and touching two of them to the arch way. They touch the stone boulder to the bottom left and the club to the left middle. After each, there is a magical reaction, with the first resulting in confusion and Londer attacking Leshanna. With the second they all fall upwards, taking immense damage. Miss Moss and Leshanna are in trouble. The Runes On the Eastern side of the room there is an archway with churning fog inside it. Around the archway are runes. Harshnagg recognises one as an Ice rune (bottom right). The others remember that the Fire rune is on the top left. |
| Current journey | The Frozen North · A tremendously difficult journey at the coldest time of year· Following an epic battle at Xantharl’s keep, Harshnagg the frost giant joined the party· The Giant Ordening is disrupted, a hierarchy normally exists, with the following order:o Storm Giants at the top (monarchy)o Cloud Giants o Frost Giants o Fire Giants o Stone Giantso Hill Giants· The Giants are all trying to work out how to please the Allfather.· The King (Hecaton) has gone missing. His queen and the whole court has gone and there is no-one sitting on the throne. His daughters have taken up running the kingdom.· The giants are looking for a ring, they think it’s going to restore the ordening. The adamantine rods have been an attempt to please the Allfather· Up in the spine of the world there is a place called the Eye of the Allfather – it’s a long and dangerous walk. Up there is an oracle. · The Allfather may be willing to talk to the heroes, if not to the giants. |
| Current surroundings | · They are in the giant temple, The whole place is on a ramp, from West to East slanting upwards towards the staircase. Each of the hallways leads to a room, where there are switches. · On the western side, there are switches that control the stones, one on either side.· The north has a switch for one side and the south has a switch for the otherIn one large 100ft high room with vaulted ceilings is a kind of temple, with gigantic statues of the various giants, each holding a weapon except the great Frost Giant Thrim is missing a weapon.Each of the giant types is represented:· Hill giant – club· Stone giant – stone boulder· Fire giant – great sword· Frost giant – hand empty· Cloud giant – mithral spear· Storm giant – admantine tridentIn the centre of the room there is one large robed statue that each of the others appear to be offering the weapons to. It is the Allfather. Around the giant doors are runes, and writing that saysChildren of mine, enter in order If ye seek to cross this borderStart with low, end with highFrom the hills to the stormy sky |
| Party/associates | Harshnagg the Frost Giant |
| Other recent encounters | Spider killingRemorhaz killing A white wyrmling and some barbarians – fought them at the entrance. · They charmed and captured Narft after defeating the others· Their chief’s cousin’s daughter Noori was seen leaving the camp and they tracked her to this place. She’d been complaining of strange dreams and then one night she just left· They triggered the traps in the tunnel to keep the adventurers outKlauth – a Red Dragon – one of the oldest dragons in the land flew overhead as they approached the temple, not taking notice. He is incredibly evil. (Don’t throw stuff at him)Narft the barbarian who joined them to find the chief’s cousin’s daughterNoori – the chief’s cousin’s daughter – rescued from the cocoon |
