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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7128413" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 15 (138) Part One - Into the North</strong></p><p></p><p>The journey into the Shawl Mountains promised to be an arduous one. The unit waited a day for <em>endure elements</em> scrolls to arrive from RHC HQ and in the meantime bought supplies, researched their destination, and hired dwarven porters to guide them north. When they learned where they were going, the porters warned about frost giants and agreed to take the group only just beyond the foothills. </p><p></p><p>Though the going was tough, their pace was good. Having forged some kind of link through his contact with the <em>Skull of Cheshimox</em>, Rumdoom was able to unerringly know the location of Knutpara (though not the path they would need to get there). Leon was able to open up <em>dimension doors</em> to traverse really difficult terrain, and take short-cuts that would otherwise have been impossible. Gupta had a knack for finding the nearest path and learning, almost as if from the mountains themselves, where hidden perils lay. (At her insistence, Rumdoom removed his <em>tyrant’s teeth</em> so as not to cause avalanches.) Uru ranged ahead with Rahu Ketu for company and kept a lookout for evident danger.</p><p></p><p>On the second day, a stroke of bad luck saw Leon badly injure his wrist and ankle in a rock slide. They were making such good time that the group decided to find a secluded, defensible spot and wait for him to recover. Two days later they were on the move again and halfway through day five they reached the glacier. </p><p></p><p>Soon they came across a cracked stone pillar carved with words in Infernal. Xambria set about trying to decipher them, while Leon took the easier option of casting the <em>comprehend languages</em> ritual. The words read, “Gaze ye upon Knutpara, eternal bastion of the Demonocracy, built to withstand any army’s siege”. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level snows stretched far away. (Ahem…)</p><p></p><p>They headed down the glacier, cautiously. (Xambria refused to allow Uru to use her as a sled.) Rahu Ketu took to the air and reported a deep rift about a mile away, carved by a river, and flanked by three icebound towers. Soon they were able to see them in the distance. There was a camp of gigantic tents on the other side of the river. Uru spotted that the intervening ice was dotted with small totems, spaced every few hundred feet: dwarf, human and animal skulls with frozen red entrails dribbling from their mouths.</p><p></p><p>Korrigan decided that they should hunker down and wait until nightfall before they approached any further. (Xambria was able to confirm that frost giants were not a race known to possess darkvision.) When it was dark, they followed Uru and Rahu Ketu through the field of totems. Uru misunderstood the purpose of the totems, and decided to leave an offering beside one. It was not long before he realised his mistake, as just a few minutes later, a pair of fast-moving frost giants strode across the river from the south. They were accompanied by a pair of large beasts that Uru could not make out at first. He hissed a warning to the others and they all hid. Leon created the illusion of a lone dwarf running back up the glacier. The giants and the beasts gave pursuit. As they surged past, Uru saw that the beasts were bloody and fleshless and wore polar-bear pelts (whether for warmth, camouflage or disguise he could not say). Leon felt sure they were demonic.</p><p></p><p>As the illusory dwarf ducked out of sight, Leon opened another <em>dimension door</em> and in an instant the unit was clustered up against the easternmost of the two north towers. Carved stone dragons adorned its walls. There was no way in here. Uru checked the snowbound roof to no avail. With the rangers returning in cautious confusion, Uru used the grim candle to hide the unit from distant observers while Leon cut a hole into the stonework with concentrated <em>starfire </em>(granted by his patron, the Thinker). Uru <em>walked through shadow</em> into the gloomy space beyond and found himself in an unoccupied giants’ bedchamber with broad stairs leading down. Uru lit a sunrod. Now that the room was visible, Leon created another <em>dimension door </em>and the group stepped inside. Xambria began a cursory search, and found broken dragon teeth and dragon egg shell fragments, as a well as a steel-bound book written in an ancient tongue. (It later turned out to be a book on dragon breeding and rearing.) Her study of this was interrupted by heavy footsteps from below: a frost giant guard investigating the sudden light in an otherwise empty room.</p><p></p><p>As soon as its head appeared, Leon cast a <em>curse of mouthless muttering</em>. The giant’s cries were muffled, its whistle useless, as the group rained down blows upon it. Gupta’s <em>razorburst rapier</em> cut off the tip of its finger (which the poor giant couldn't even suck), and Rumdoom knocked it back down the stairs where it lay dead. Uru followed it down into a chamber with several exits: a door to the south; a hole smashed into the northeast wall, with a passage carved into the ice beyond; and the further descent of the tower stairs. Footsteps could be heard from the ice passage and a rumbling female giant voice called out, “Karl, er du okay? Faldt du ned ad trappen igen?” With a nervous chuckle, Uru imitated the voice he now heard (with what he hoped was a more masculine timbre) to respond, “Ja, ja. Okay. Ho ho.” The other giant shook her head and went back to her post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7128413, member: 79141"] [b]Session 15 (138) Part One - Into the North[/b] The journey into the Shawl Mountains promised to be an arduous one. The unit waited a day for [I]endure elements[/I] scrolls to arrive from RHC HQ and in the meantime bought supplies, researched their destination, and hired dwarven porters to guide them north. When they learned where they were going, the porters warned about frost giants and agreed to take the group only just beyond the foothills. Though the going was tough, their pace was good. Having forged some kind of link through his contact with the [I]Skull of Cheshimox[/I], Rumdoom was able to unerringly know the location of Knutpara (though not the path they would need to get there). Leon was able to open up [I]dimension doors[/I] to traverse really difficult terrain, and take short-cuts that would otherwise have been impossible. Gupta had a knack for finding the nearest path and learning, almost as if from the mountains themselves, where hidden perils lay. (At her insistence, Rumdoom removed his [I]tyrant’s teeth[/I] so as not to cause avalanches.) Uru ranged ahead with Rahu Ketu for company and kept a lookout for evident danger. On the second day, a stroke of bad luck saw Leon badly injure his wrist and ankle in a rock slide. They were making such good time that the group decided to find a secluded, defensible spot and wait for him to recover. Two days later they were on the move again and halfway through day five they reached the glacier. Soon they came across a cracked stone pillar carved with words in Infernal. Xambria set about trying to decipher them, while Leon took the easier option of casting the [I]comprehend languages[/I] ritual. The words read, “Gaze ye upon Knutpara, eternal bastion of the Demonocracy, built to withstand any army’s siege”. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level snows stretched far away. (Ahem…) They headed down the glacier, cautiously. (Xambria refused to allow Uru to use her as a sled.) Rahu Ketu took to the air and reported a deep rift about a mile away, carved by a river, and flanked by three icebound towers. Soon they were able to see them in the distance. There was a camp of gigantic tents on the other side of the river. Uru spotted that the intervening ice was dotted with small totems, spaced every few hundred feet: dwarf, human and animal skulls with frozen red entrails dribbling from their mouths. Korrigan decided that they should hunker down and wait until nightfall before they approached any further. (Xambria was able to confirm that frost giants were not a race known to possess darkvision.) When it was dark, they followed Uru and Rahu Ketu through the field of totems. Uru misunderstood the purpose of the totems, and decided to leave an offering beside one. It was not long before he realised his mistake, as just a few minutes later, a pair of fast-moving frost giants strode across the river from the south. They were accompanied by a pair of large beasts that Uru could not make out at first. He hissed a warning to the others and they all hid. Leon created the illusion of a lone dwarf running back up the glacier. The giants and the beasts gave pursuit. As they surged past, Uru saw that the beasts were bloody and fleshless and wore polar-bear pelts (whether for warmth, camouflage or disguise he could not say). Leon felt sure they were demonic. As the illusory dwarf ducked out of sight, Leon opened another [I]dimension door[/I] and in an instant the unit was clustered up against the easternmost of the two north towers. Carved stone dragons adorned its walls. There was no way in here. Uru checked the snowbound roof to no avail. With the rangers returning in cautious confusion, Uru used the grim candle to hide the unit from distant observers while Leon cut a hole into the stonework with concentrated [I]starfire [/I](granted by his patron, the Thinker). Uru [I]walked through shadow[/I] into the gloomy space beyond and found himself in an unoccupied giants’ bedchamber with broad stairs leading down. Uru lit a sunrod. Now that the room was visible, Leon created another [I]dimension door [/I]and the group stepped inside. Xambria began a cursory search, and found broken dragon teeth and dragon egg shell fragments, as a well as a steel-bound book written in an ancient tongue. (It later turned out to be a book on dragon breeding and rearing.) Her study of this was interrupted by heavy footsteps from below: a frost giant guard investigating the sudden light in an otherwise empty room. As soon as its head appeared, Leon cast a [I]curse of mouthless muttering[/I]. The giant’s cries were muffled, its whistle useless, as the group rained down blows upon it. Gupta’s [I]razorburst rapier[/I] cut off the tip of its finger (which the poor giant couldn't even suck), and Rumdoom knocked it back down the stairs where it lay dead. Uru followed it down into a chamber with several exits: a door to the south; a hole smashed into the northeast wall, with a passage carved into the ice beyond; and the further descent of the tower stairs. Footsteps could be heard from the ice passage and a rumbling female giant voice called out, “Karl, er du okay? Faldt du ned ad trappen igen?” With a nervous chuckle, Uru imitated the voice he now heard (with what he hoped was a more masculine timbre) to respond, “Ja, ja. Okay. Ho ho.” The other giant shook her head and went back to her post. [/QUOTE]
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