As the majority of the party is underway to make a personal visit to the top of the wall, the ettin and the giant position themselves at the top of the stairs.
Hoping he'll go first, Daseem pats Ivan on the back crying lustily, "Gorum be with you!"
As Ivan comes up the stairs, he is greeted by the ettin and the giant who push him back down. This sends him bouncing sown the stairs and makes hin an hazard for everyone behind him.
Menrozzar gets bowled over by the ironclad Dwarf and falls down the stairs as well.
STRIKE! The dwarven bowling bowl knocked Daseem over as well, sending him tumbling!
Amira steps to the side and lets Ivan and Menrozzar pass. At least Daseem stays with her, so she isn't alone up front with the giants.
She casts glitterdust on the large brutes in hopes to blind them.
The giants laugh at the dwarven bowling ball and the futile attempt from Amira.
Bupkis jumps out of the way of the tumbling dwarf and shots a retaliatory shot at the smug giant. But it throws off his aim.
Bupkis misses. The two guardians of the wall come charging down the stairs.
To Ivan's surprise, the giants were smarter than most. They managed to get a hold on the bottom of his shield, and with both their strength managed to actually upturn the stable rock that was the dwarf. His shield, with its slight curve, turns him into the equivalent of a 300lbs metal pipe.
The bowling ball of dwarf barrels down the stairs, he angrily looks up to the two creatures that had managed to insult him so.
Alright then, Ye ought not ta' 'ave done that. He uses another of his martial flexibility's today to cast fly on himself and 5ft step up into the air. Ready to barrel towards his enemies.
Menrozzar stands from the ground, grabbing his longspear as he begins running back up the stairs.
Bupkis tries again, with little better accuracy.
Like Menrozzar, Daseem picked himself up, dusted himself off and headded back up the stairs!
"<Stay down, you can't win. I have the high ground!>" the ettin teases Daseem in Giant.
Amira throws another glitterdust at the giants, to prevent them from hitting her, which is really painful.
The giant and the Ettin flail around blindly in their rage. Daseem is lucky, Amira not so much. She gets a blunt hit from the giant's greatclub.
Doing his best Neo impression, Daseem dodged the rain of blows. The fact the Ettin was blind was something Daseem didn't even consider! Realising he was still wounded, he gingerly touched his head and the ache vanished with a burst of radiance.
"My T-T-Turn!" he cried as he swung his oversized, god blessed sword at the Ettin!
Daseem cut into the ettin, drawing first blood on that one.
Menrozzar finished running up the stairs with a roar as he stabbed at the ettin over Daseem's shoulder.
Bupkis tries to protect Amira by shooting the giant, but fails miserably - again.
Amira protects herself, by leaving mekee. She start singing an encouraging song.
You underestimate the power of an angry dwarf! Ivan bellows back to the two before flying over their heads and giving the Ettin a whack on one of its heads.
Menrozzar stabs the double headed creature and Ivan finshes it off.
The giant keeps attacking, but smashes into the orphaned stair, where Amira stood.
Without a second look, Daseem rushed past the fallen ettin and with a wordless cry his sword flicked out towards the giant!
Menrozzar turns his attention to the giant and stabs at it, roaring.
Daseem hits the giant with his big blade, and Menrozzar takes the hill giant apart, by ripping his innards out with the large spear.
Checking the dead you find large equipment of questionable quality, but the belt the ettin is wearing looks different. It's of fine make.
When the combat was over Daseem felt deflated and he sat down on the steps and was quiet for a long while as he scrupulously cleaned his sword and armour with a rag. One the gore had been removed he then poured a little water from his canteen onto his whetstone and set about sharpening the edge of his blade, there'd been a few burrs from the spine of the Ettin that needed attention.
Once this was done he stood up and took a long look into the area beyond to see if there where any obvious next targets.
There are no threats in sight. Only more valley on the other side of the gate.
Bupkis heals Ivan, "Lets not hang around to see if more coming!"
Following Bupkis' suggestion the group gets off the wall and moves further away from the Cathedral of Minderhal. After walking for several hours through a nice valley you come to a fork. The way doesn't go on, as the mountain side is in the way. The options are to follow the path to the South, or the North.
Dseem looked left and then Dasseem looked right. He glanced at his companions as he pulled out a coin and he remarked, "H-heads north, tails s-south?"
He turned south and walked a few feet before stopping and remarking, "The coin s-say south!"
Bupkis has no reason to argue with the luck of the coin flip, "Guess we go south."
South it is. With walking some more hours through nature you come across something made. The boulder-strewn slopes of the mountains on either side of the valley give way to a series of jagged ravines that split the valley floor. A tremendous stone bridge arches over the widest of these gorges, connecting to a worn path on the far side. On the bridge stand two stone giants, keeping watch.
Bupkis tells his comrades, "Me sneak up to bridge and hide. When giants see you coming, I open fire!"
He creeps forward, doing his best to stay out of sight.
A green Bupkis uses the vegetation to sneak up to the bridge. This brings him within 180 foot of the giants, who are on the other side.
Daseem had been waiting for what seemed like a long time. He idly polished his sword with a rag. Not that it needed polishing, all his kit was extremely well looked after, rather it was a force of habit. It was either that or pace.
Glancing to Ivan, he suggested, "Should be e-enough time? Let's go!"
Ivan gets a push with the encouraging "You go first!" Which is all that is needed to have the dwarf charging across. But the bridge is long and the legs are short, so it takes a while.
The giants notice that and react with throwing rocks. Their stock of rocks is dwindling quick, without any effect on the dwarf. It is really loud, every time the metal can is hit, but it doesn't slow him down.
Bupkis moves forward to get in range of the giants.
Once he moves in range, Bupkis powers up and opens fire!
Menrozzar runs after Ivan, keeping behind the Dwarf.
Daseem lopes behind Menrozzar, keen to get into the fight but glad Ivan went first!
Ivan stacks three boulders high on his shield before finally reaching the melee. He lashes out with his hammer. Moving to provoke as he closes.
Bupkis hits each giant once. And Ivan makes, that one giant has now a hurting kneecap. The giants switch to their great clubs and try to smash the dwarf.
Bupkis fires again, providing supporting fire for his dwarven friend.
Amira doesn't dare to come out of cover. Those flying rocks are large and heavy. And also, two giants are no challenge for the group.
Menrozzar roars and charges at the giant on the left with the Steelhand's spear.