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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1890840" data-attributes="member: 8530">Game #3 - 11/14/04Chapter Four, “Like A Rolling Stone”, May 27th, 1020, 1:00 P.M. The group rides on for another four miles as the road winds thought the valleys under the higher peaks.   They reach a section where the road narrows to around twenty-feet between the high cliffs on either side and much of that is strewn with rocks and a half dozen boulders from prior rockslides.   They carefully make heir way around several of the larger boulders when the ground beneath their horses’ hooves suddenly transforms to mud.   Serita is able to get her horse out of the mud moving forward and Mark follows, trudging through the muck.   Mojo and Purge likewise work to extract their horse from the rear of the mud area.   Narg and Fiona’s horses are towards the center and are in the worse shape, sinking up to the saddle.  Fiona calls her pegasus to fly over and she climbs off the horse and onto its saddle instead.   Narg decides to abandon his mount, tossing and looping his magical rope onto the top of a large boulder and having the rope pull him up towards there.   The rope contracts to a six-foot length and Narg’s feet brace against the side of he rock.   Much to his surprise, the rock moves, standing up on two rocky legs and parts of the stone move to reveal eyes and a mouth.   Narg scampers up onto the top of the creature.  Three other boulders also become animated and Mojo complains about not liking this.   Fiona tries to urge her horse out of the mud to no avail.  Rocks of various sizes before the party move together and create a wall preventing them from moving forward.    When rocks then begin to do the same in the rear Serita calls for a retreat.    Mojo and Narg object until the earthquakes then begin and rocks start to shower the area from above.   They then reconsider, Narg jumping onto the back of Mojo’s horse as it rides past.   A falling boulder strikes and kills Fiona’s horse. The rapidly growing rear wall is about three feet in height when Serita and Mojo reach it and they are able to have the horses successfully jump the hurdle.   They retreat a good distance until the earth around them starts shaking.    Mojo’s first comment is “I guess it’s official, everybody hates us if even the stones in the road decide we’re the enemy.”  Fiona flies back to see what is happening on the other side of the wall, seeing that the avalanche has ended and the mud has been turned back to stone.   There are six rock creatures now around the two dead horses, eating them.    She flies back and reports this to the others.   Serita complains, “I don’t think that King gave us very good intelligence about this mission.   You’d think he would have known about the rock creatures.  What should we do now?”  “Go back and throttle that King,” Serita replies.   Mojo says, “I don’t know, this may be a valuable find.  Do you know what the market is for a self-building wall?”They decide to set up camp and cook supper, sending Fiona and Mark out to scout for an alternative path through the mountains.   They return and announce that avoiding the notch ahead will add at least a day to their journey.   “Forget that, what are the other choices?” Narg says.   “What’s wrong with the Bag of Holding?” Mojo exclaims.   Fiona replies, “The four remaining horses, I only have one Reduce spell left.”   After a short debate they decide that is still the best option so decide to stop for the night where they are and have Fiona study enough reduce spells in the morning to shrink all four horses. May 28th, 1020, 7:00 A.M. They get an early start.  Mojo suggests, “I don’t like loosing.  Let’s go back and fight the rocks!”  “I don’t think so,” Fiona states.   Mojo replies, “No, really, I’ve figured out what to do.   We go back and drill holes in each of them.  Then we fill the holes with water and cast a Cone of Cold spell.   The water will freeze and expand, causing the rocks to split open.”    She responds, “And how do you propose drilling these holes to begin with?”  He answers, “Hey, I’m just the idea guy, you folks can work out the details.”  He is overruled and the party Serita again suggests going back and yelling at the King.  She is also overruled.  The four horses and reduced.  Purge goes into the Bag of Holding with them to help keep the animals calm after putting makeshift blinders on the animals so that won’t panic at being in an enclosed space.   Narg insists on getting in the other bag of holding.  “Don’t like the smell of horse dung?” Mark asks.   Narg replies, “Actually it’s Purge that I don’t want to smell.”  Narg, Mark and Mojo get into the other Bag.  Serita joins Fiona on the back of her pegasus and take to the air.   They fly low over the road in order to still look for evidence of the knights and also not make themselves a target to giant eagles or rock-throwing giants.   The reduce spell is good for an-hour-and-a-half during which time they manage to cover a distance of over fifteen miles, landing at the far end of a large lake and letting everyone out of the bagsThey scout out an area that looks like another group camped there before.  Mark checks the tracks and concludes that a group of six to eight humans and their horses camped there a month ago.    The lake itself hugs the foot of a steep mountain pass and is about three miles long and a mile-and-a-half wide.   The water in the lake is clear but also very deep, as they do not see the bottom. The group enjoys and mid morning meal and watches the active volcano immediately to the north.  The party’s map indicates that it is Mount Torch, one of two active volcanoes in the region.   A plume of smoke can be seen rising from the crater at the top.   Following the meal the group prepare to depart.   They are down two horses but do not see this as a significant problem as Fiona can now ride her pegasus instead and at the speeds they are traveling through the mountains the monk Purge can keep up with them on foot. The road circumnavigates counterclockwise around Mount Torch, heading first northeast, then north, then northwest and then west.   When they have traveled for around six miles since the lake they reach a narrow winding section of the path.   Fiona is in the lead, flying quietly slightly above the road as the scout.   As such, she is the first to approach a crossroads in the next notch, where several roads meet surrounded by steep cliffs.   From this point one road continues southwest around Mount Torch and two other roads branch off to both the north and northeast.  Fiona spots a group of a half-dozen fire giants sitting around a campfire in the middle of the northeast roadway around fifty feet north of the crossroads.  She is able to have her mount sharply bank up and back before they spot her and flies back to the other to alert them about the giants.</blockquote>

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