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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 9590917" data-attributes="member: 59816">GimlakBefore he had gone to bed, tucked securely in his bedroll, lined with furs, under the rocky overhang, Gimak had spent an hour (and much of his remaining mental energy - the hike had been rough work) sending his psychic senses across the gorge, to observe the giants at the crag.First, his senses reached the outer wall (which he could barely see with his own true eyes, across the gorge in the misty night air), then he thrust his senses forward, into the midst of the giant's camp-like central courtyard. Here, giants kept a bonfire going and spoke of little worth noting. A hill giant was among the stone giants, and they treated him as something of a servant - making him add wood to the bonfire or rattle the cage of the owlbear, when the creature made too much noise (which it did, constantly - a mournful hooting that drowned out all other sounds. It was only the noise of the winds that prevented the group from hearing the owlbear from their camp under the rocky overhang.The spire to the west was blocked by heavy stone doors. While Gimlak observed, they remained shut.[spoiler="Central Yard"][ATTACH=full]396931[/ATTACH][/spoiler]Gimlak observed a changing of the guards, which came from and went to the spire to the south. He attempted to follow them, but stopped just inside the spire where a stone giant priest blessed the new guards in the name of Ogremoch. There was an opening to the south-west, high in the wall, and over the gorge, that Gimlak noted as a possible entrance, should they choose to fly in.[spoiler="South Spire"][ATTACH=full]396932[/ATTACH][/spoiler]The giants went down a spiraling, sloping ramp, and Gimlak thrust his eye forward to follow them. They retired to a warren that was filled with stone giants and their families, including children and pets. It seemed that they kept Krenshar as pets, an impressive feat, as these large carnivorous cats were fierce predators, difficult to train.[spoiler="Stone Giant Warrens"][ATTACH=full]396933[/ATTACH][/spoiler]As there was nothing to see but domestic life, Gimlak returned his eye to the yard and then to the northern spire. Here he found guest rooms and a prison. A frost giant had made much of the cavern into his home - somehow even dropping the temperature so that many of the damp surfaces were covered in frost. A trained Ice Hawk hopped around as the giant fed it a dead wild dog from a sack. Then it flew to perch on a rocky flat space that the giant had made into a bed. Another cave-like space was lined with bars, and Gimlak observed a dwarf-woman, shivering in the cell, miserable at her lot. An opening created a 'window' to the north, high in the wall like the one in the south spire.[spoiler="North Spire"][ATTACH=full]396934[/ATTACH][/spoiler]Gimlak spotted another sloping ramp, and he followed it downward, but all he was able to make out before he grew tired and lost his focus, was a large cavern with glowing crystals that crackled with their own energy. A bolt of lightning shot from one crystal to the other, and the bright light nearly blinded Gimlak's mind's eye. He let the spell drop and blinked a few times as his true eyes adjusted to the night under the rocky overhang.[spoiler="Crystal Cavern"][ATTACH=full]396935[/ATTACH][/spoiler]</blockquote>

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