Grayzon took full advantage of his childhood training against such creatures, sidestepping their thunderous stone clubs, his war-axe cleaving red lines of gore. The fighting was fierce and if not for the healing talents of Cassius and Vikiastra the brutes would have surely pushed the adventurers into retreat. As the gas passed through the room the party followed behind, ready with sword, arrow and spell. Lesser creatures would have died on contact with the deadly cloud, but the Stone Giants were merely weakened. They did their best to avoid the gas, but as Volo skirmished with invisible, slashing claws, a few were goaded into braving the choking vapors. Inside the room Volo found the group of Giants waiting, led by Dein and served by an Ogre with a barrel of ale strapped to his back. The party waited for Volo and the poison to do its work. Circe returned Volo’s aid, cloaking him with a veil of invisibility. Meanwhile, Volo transformed into a great Dire Bear and strode into the cloud, his Druidic training rendering him immune to even the most deadly venom. Slowly it wafted forward and began to fill the room beyond the darkness. They also had a few tricks of their own.Ĭirce conjured a great billowing cloud of toxic gases, while Volo lent some of his own natural magic to her sorcery, increasing the poison’s potency. The party were veterans of enough battles to recognize an ambush when they saw one. According to what Y’Dey had told them, the Giants lay on the other side. An open secret door led to a short hallway that ended in a wall of impenetrable magical darkness. The adventurers were near the Giants, and prepared themselves with an aegis of defensive spells. Here dead Ogres and Hobgoblins were scattered like cord-wood. Leaving the other party to tend to their wounded and stricken, the adventurers followed the path they had taken, beyond the trap-door to a large triangular chamber with adjoining rooms. Go, with the blessings of the Cudgel and send that fiend back to the pit that spawned it!” By Cuthbert it was so terrible I thought my old heart would give out! Though I no longer posses the strength of my youth, I have gained the wisdom of age. “There were more than half-a-dozen Stone Giants… and their leader, a thing from the Abyss itself he was! He opened his mouth, and uttered the foulest blasphemy my ears have ever heard. The Canoness stammered out an explanation: Rufus and Ingrith were paralyzed, their eyes wide and mad with fright. Without warning the other party appeared with a flash of light, the air popping with teleportation magic. Time passed and a fat fly buzzed lazily around the nearby pile of Ogre corpses while the adventurers tried not to think about what monster they would have to face next. The adventurers sat recuperating from their latest fight, listening to the faint echo of battle dwindle as the party of Rufus, Burne, Spugnois, Varachan, Y’Dey, and Ingrith moved father and farther away.
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