Leira notes how Droja reels back and smiles when she explains about cooking. She is just starting to realize how the party is changing her.
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Before moving into the caves, Leira casts message and spider climb. She walks in advancing through the ceiling of the cave.
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At the sight of the boulder slightly missing on Ulfgard, Leira moves forward looking for the menace that made it.
Unable to reach it with most of her spells, the young girl opts out to fire the crossbow "Leave alone my dwarven friend!"
Leira will note that the roof of this wide cavern slopes steeply upward, forming a naturally vaulted ceiling. Two natural stone columns rise from the floor next to a pool of stagnant, brown water. In the northeast corner of the cavern stands a collection of roughly chiseled stones, each about three feet tall and carved with a single rune. Above the stones, dangling from a row of spikes pounded into the wall, hang long strings of dead bats tied together in clumps. Numerous tally marks have been scratched into the wall next to the bats.
Leira will also see that the Cave Giant is not alone. The Rogue Arcanist can see a couple of frilled lizards.
Not seeing the lizards, but moving up, Haskyll drops the lead, and brings up a Sheild of Faith upon himself.
(+3 Deflect AC, 9 Minutes)
Anga casts shield upon herself and moves up
Ulfgard quickly moves forward and smiles at the giant. "Come piggy, piggy!"
Surprise Round
A Massive Cave Giant throws a rock at the party's Ranger. Ulfgard deftly dodges the rock.
Round One Start
Anga cast a Shield upon herself and moves up.
Droja begins to weave a spell.
Haskyll moves up an brings a Shield of Faith on himself.
Kaos is heroic.
Ulfgard moves up and smiles. He sees more lizards when he can see the whole cave.
Leira spider climbs along the ceiling. She fires her crossbow at the Cave Giant. The bolt sticks into the creature. It screams.
The Massive Cave Giant continues to scream. It moves up and launches another rock, but this time at the crossbow wielding Rogue Arcanist. But the rock was no where near its target.
One of the frilled Lizards moves around the dirty-watered pool and attacks Ulfgard. But its bark was worse than its bite.
The other lizards move closer.
Kaos' Round One and Everyone's Round Two, including Kaos'
A Giant Bat appears over Ulfgard's head. It flies over the frilled Lizard and moves against Cave Giant.
The Cave Giant reacts to its approach by taking a swing at the incoming flying mammal.
It lands a powerful blow on the over-sized bat. It shimmers and fades away about the same time Droja rounds the corner below.
"That wasn't helpful. Let's see how this works." Droja tries to hold the giant. "That's better."
Seeing things are mostly in hand, Haskyll moves up some more.
Damn these stubby legs.
Only to find that he is just short of being able to strike with heartspit.
At which point he brings forth a blessing upon the party.
Observing the lizards, Leira quickly attempts to identify them.
With the crossbow shot and the new enemies not being giants, Leira saves the giantbane crossbow and starts saying arcane words. As she completes waving her spell a ray of fiery magic erupts from her left hand flying to the heart of the held giant.
Followed by a second one towards the lizard facing Ulfgard.
Anga moves up a little more and casts fireball, set to detonate as many targets as possible without torching party members (not certain of the scale)
DC20 reflex for half
Ulfgard quickly bangs the lizard infront of him.
Round One
Kaos cast Shield and advances.
Round Two
Anga drops a Fireball into the midst of all the enemies in the cavern. All saved with the exception of one of the Frilled Lizards.
A Dire Bat appears and flies toward the Cave Giant. It reacts to the flying mammal with a swing of its greataxe. It slices into the flying rat and sends it back to where it came.
Seeing this, Droja tries to place a Hold on the Cave Giant. She is successful.
Haskyll advances, but is still too far away to strike at the nearest Lizard.
Kaos attempts to move past the closest Frilled Lizard. He is unable to do so against the big reptile. The fourth Frilled Lizard takes a bite at the tumbling Dragon Disciple, but is unable to penetrate Kaos' magic protections. Kaos comes up short of his destination.
Ulfgard pounds with Agrimmosh, but misses his back swing. He then delivers a critical strike with his shield crushing the Giant Frilled Lizard's skull. It collapses on the cave floor dead.
Leira determines that they are indeed Giant Frilled Lizards as large, if not larger, than a horse. She then sends a Scorching Ray at the held Cave Giant. She was about to send the second against the nearest Frilled Lizard, but seeing it fall aims again at the held Cave Giant.
The Cave Giant breaks its hold and lets out a blood curdling scream from both pain and rage.
The first and second Frilled Lizards retreat from the fire.
The third one does the opposite. It overlooks the pain in order to feed its belly. It tries to bite Kaos, but comes up with air only.
Round Three
Still clinging from the ceiling, Leira moves forward while drawing her bow. With the new weapon, easier to load, she shots at the giant trying to finish it before he can damage anyone "You! Ugly caveman! Don't touch Kaos!"
But she entangles herself with the string of the bow and almost falls from the ceiling "Oh bad! I should stop using this stuff while my head is pointing down the ground"
Putting his shield away with a flick, Ulfgard charges the next lizard, the debris cleared by the fireball.
Droja will call out in Giant, "Your Doom has come." The Oracle casts the spell.
The Cave Giant is having a bad day. It becomes Shaken.
Haskyll moves up, coming up short again.
He reaches up and Taps Ulfgard on the shoulder.
Round Three
Anga is heroic.
Droja gives the Cave Giant a sense of Doom.
Haskyll gives Ulfgard a bit of Aid.
Kaos hacks into the third Frilled Lizard with Gorum's Thorn. It falls down dead.
Ulfgard charges the next Frilled Lizard closest to him. The Dwarf Ranger's blow with Agrimmosh glances off the big lizards moist hide.
Leira, clinging to the ceiling, gets caught up in her bow string. Her arrow falls harmlessly to the ground.
The Cave Giant flies into a rage and steps upon one of its pets to get to the human that just killed it. But the big Cave Giant was too careless in its swing and missed the Dragon Disciple.
The second Frilled Lizard attacks Ulfgard. Though it misses with its tail, it delivers a critical bite into the Dwarf Ranger's left shoulder.
The first Frilled Lizard appears anxious.
Anga's Round Three and Everyone's Round Four
round 3
Anga moves up and casts an empowered magic missile into the giant
x1.5= 30 damage
round 4
Anga casts a standard magic missile at the giant. Or a lizard if he is no longer alive. Also if he is dead, Anga will move up 20ft
Leira shots an arrow at whatever for remains on foot.
Round Three Complete
Anga hits the Massive Cave Giant with an Empowered Magic Missile.
This Cave Giant survives the strike and continues its enraged attack.
Round Four Start
Anga sends another Magic Missile at the Cave Giant. Amazingly, it still does not fall.
Haskyll stumbles onto the body of the fallen lizard, then drives Heartspit across the bodies at the giant.
Round Four Contiues
While Droja hesitate, Haskyll moves up and near the bodies of the fallen lizards to drive Heartspit deep into the Cave Giant. The Cave Giant falls over unconscious, then soon dies.
Droja, seeing that the battle is going the party's way, will go back and collect the mule.
Ulfgard looks at the ugly bite and retaliates with hammer and shield.
Round Four Complete
After hitting the massive Cave Giant with a pair of Magic Missiles, Haskyll drives Heartspit into the massive humanoid. With the thrust the creatures rage subsides and the Cave Giant falls down dead.
Droja shrugs and goes back to check on the mule.
Kaos, with its enemies dead at his feet, heads toward the first Frilled Lizard.
Ulfgard bashes the second Frilled Lizard, nearly killing it.
Leira's clearest shot is at the first Frilled Lizard. She takes the shot. The arrow buries into the reptile.
The first Frilled Lizard defends itself and attacks the approaching Dragon Disciple. It was far too injured to defend itself.
The second one gives a last ditch attack against the Dwarf Ranger. Its efforts were equally as feeble as the first one's.
Round Five
Leira tries another arrow at the most injured lizard "For my friends!!!"
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Leira arrow will drop the second Frilled Lizard. The one on Ulfgard.
All your enemies have been defeated before you.
Heal our wounds, check the dead for valueables and then continue with our adventuring.
The roof of this wide cavern slopes steeply upward, forming a naturally vaulted ceiling. Two natural stone columns rise from the floor next to a pool of stagnant, brown water. In the northeast corner of the cavern stands a collection of roughly chiseled stones, each about three feet tall and carved with a single rune. Above the stones, dangling from a row of spikes pounded into the wall, hang long strings of dead bats tied together in clumps. Numerous tally marks have been scratched into the wall next to the bats.
Ulfgard will check the Barbarian Cave Giant and will not find anything of value on it.
Kaos will find next to the pile of stones in the corner, a Large wooden mallet and a chisel with a wooden handle carved to resemble a cave bear. Also near the stones is a three-legged bronze tripod whose top consists of a bronze ring bisected by a worn bronze rod.
Nothing radiates magic.
Droja will look at Kaos, "You likely use the mallet to hit the chisel. As to the bronze tripod? No idea."
Leira attempts to decipher the runes.
"Perhaps we have to orient the tripod ring so some way of pointing unveils us something?" Leira casts a light spell on the tripod ring and uses the chisel through it.
The runes are carved with an archaic form of Giant numerals. A single numeral on each of the stones, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc..
Leira was unable to determine the purpose for the tripod.
Leira also notices additional pit traps to the east side of this cave. They would have been an issue if the party had approached from that direction.
I wonder if those marks are what the giant was using to count the days? A String of bats for the days, and the numbers for the months.
Haskyll muses a bit while he tries to help puzzle things out.
None of the rune stones fit on the tripod.
"Numbers in Giant..." Leira shrugs "Perhaps we better understand what else this might serve once we have finished exploring the area"
The young girl moves northwest to the last section of the passages they have yet not explored.
I think it was a stand for a censor, so I don't think anything else is worth it here. Let us continue on.
Haskyll carefully leads the mule around the traps, and follows along with the party when it heads out.
Ulfgard shrugs and points to the middle of the system."Haven´t been there!"
Leira, along with the party, will discover that the last explored passage opens into a wide cave with a high ceiling and smooth walls webbed with cracks. A thick crust of cave sediment covers the floor, along with a scattering of broken bones and other refuse. The walls are smooth (aside from the cracks), and are painted with stylized primitive images in faded colors. The most striking of these paintings are four huge pictographic murals depicting enormous stone buildings in a variety of settings. An arch of painted runes frames each mural.
The runes accompanying the paintings are recognizable by anyone who speaks Giant as being written in an archaic form of that language.
in the floor. Four of the lines point toward the four murals on the walls and are divided into equal segments by small, regularly spaced carved notches.
I am assuming the party will move into the cave and look over what was found.