Opal shoots out some magic missiles at a cyclops.
Chubwart moves up to viciously stab a cyclops.
Opal's missiles slam into the same target leaving the giant severely wounded but standing.
Kal's mist quickly fills the area.
Bjorkus rushes into the fog to aid his friends.
Luthor steps north 1 square and gives C4 two explosive rights.
Kal draws his dagger and tries to stave off any additional attacks from the cyclops in front of him.
Chubwart steps over and happily butchers the cyclops.
The tiny goblin takes the cyclops down in a whirlwind of violence.
Opal flings more missiles into the fray.
Luthor will again step north and clothesline all three cyclops!
Kal moves out of the fog and casts a spell.
Bjorkus directs his full bovine fury on the cyclops adjacent to him.
Opal fires another set of unerring missiles.
Dropping her target.
Chubwart tumbles behind the last cyclops.
And cuts him down.
Luthor will heal himself before searching the room.
He then takes a look around for loot, while finishing their lunch. He then heads south.
Bjorkus joins Luthor in searching the place and then follows south.
Tall, alabaster columns—one of which lies toppled and shattered to the west—surround this outdoor monument. Four short stairways climb to the low, circular wall of decorative archways that wraps around the raised dais, where a triangular pool reflects the sky overhead.
As the party approaches a beautiful woman with pale blue skin breaks through the surface of the water. She looks to you in surprise and then excitement fills her features.
"Outsiders? Here?! Please free me from this place!"
"Who are you? Why can't you leave on your own?"
"My name is Vailea, I was bound to this pool ages ago by the ancestors of the cyclops that dwell here. They kept me here for their pleasure and so I could grant their leaders wishes. Only the power of a wish could free me."
"If you have the power to grant wishes... can't you just free yourself?"
The woman gives a sad shake of her head.
"The giants, despite all appearances, are very clever. The way they built my magical bindings keeps me from doing so. Please, I don't want to be trapped here any longer. I'll do anything. I'll grant you all wishes!"
She seems sincere and desperate.
"Sounds good to me. So we all get wishes and in exchange we wish for your freedom. You got a deal, so what does everyone want?"
"No, please. You have to wish me free first."
Kal frowns. "Wouldn't that use up our wish?"
"No, don't believe all the stories. My kind can grant as many wishes as we want to anyone. They just take time."
"Well, no one deserves to be a slave." And unless someone stops him Luthor will wish for her freedom. "I wish for you to be free from this pool."
Kal holds up his hand. "What kind of time?"
Being an immortal being, she pauses to consider the question.
"About once a year."
"You're kidding right? How do we know you'll even hold up your end? And also, we have to wait a year?"
"Oh, right. You mortals don't live that long..."
She grows despondent.
"You have my word and I'll give you something else in the meantime. What about treasure? I can tell you how to get the cyclops's treasure."
"We've already been promised that." says Kal flatly.
"Oh for goodness sakes. A year isn't really all that long even for us. Wish her free. Besides, if we don't do it, someone else could return here and do it themselves for all the wishes."
"I wish that you were free of the pool."
Also, Opal is still holding onto the rod we all found. ;)
Opal's not sure what she is but she seem honest.
"Please, I don't have anything else to offer you except wishes and knowledge about the giant's treasure."
She starts to cry.
"I miss the sea... I can't stay here anymore."
"Yea, I guess a late wish is better than no wishes. Now stop crying."
Luthor takes a moment as he composes the wish.
"I wish for you to be free from this pool."
Kal's face softens. "You, too, long for the sea? Make it so."
A look of relief fills the blue-skinned woman's features and she quickly climbs out of the pool spilling water onto the ground.
"Thank you! I'll never forget this!"
She looks back toward the entrance.
"As much as I'm dying to feel the seawater on my skin, I'll wait here for you to get the giant's treasure - in case you need help after all."
"Alright." Luthor moves to open the south eastern door.
Three cyclops occupy this room, arguing over a roasted dragon much like the ones that were attacking the ship the previous night.
They shout with surprise and reach for their weapons.
Luthor moves up and throws a hook at C2.
Opal points the rod at the cyclops and wills it to do something.
The giants shout and advance.
Movement and more shouting can be heard from deeper within the building.
Opal points the rod at the cyclops and wills it to do something.
Opal points the rod and nothing happens.
A moment later, she realizes that she's invisible.
Bjorkus answers the giant's battlecry with a roar of his own and furiously attacks the cyclops.
Kal steps forward and fires his bow.
Kal's arrows finish off one cyclops and maim another.
Chubwart darts deeper into the room.
But the giants are too quick and swat at the goblin.
Neither can hit the nimble goblin.
Luthor takes two more swings.
Together, they fell another cyclops.
The door to the east opens to reveal four more cyclops.
Opal tosses a Grease spell under the ogres.
Kal summons a fiery line that courses among the cyclops.
By random chance both cyclops slip and fall into each other, keeping the other from falling down.