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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8331111" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Been awhile since I've updated <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-was-your-last-session.667468/page-38#post-8261860" target="_blank">my Eberron campaign's </a>progress in this thread. I'll do a few posts in the relatively new future going over what has happened since then. The party, now known as "The Fortunate Four" ventured to Xen'drik to learn the secrets of docents. At first they were debating on whether to simply gather enough docents to not have to buy/retrieve more in the future or to try and discover how to create docents, but they eventually settled on seeking how to recreate docents to prevent trips to Xen'drik in the future. The Fortunate Four bought a place on a boat that was heading to Stormreach and left on their expedition into the distant jungle continent. When they arrived, they spent a week in the local bars and taverns, listening to whispers and rumors about Giants, Docents, and previous expeditions to Xen'drik. During this week of carousing, they managed to hear tales of a giant settlement on a volcano to the south east, <a href="https://i2.wp.com/nerdarchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Eberron-Xendrik-map.png?fit=850%2C568&ssl=1&resize=848%2C400" target="_blank">Tempest's Spine</a>, which was just north of Dread Lake. The rumors described a huge city named Cloudhold Keep, build upon the clouds and inhabited by Cloud Giants, with settlements below of Frost Giants (on top of the mountain) and Fire Giants (inside of the volcano), and they learned of a renown Cloud Giant historian that lived there, Mistress Azara Zephyros. The party bought a rowboat, travelled through the Thunder Sea into the bay just north of Tempest's Spine, and landed on the shore, about three days travel to the mountain. On the way, they encountered a Wyvern, which they slew, a group of Ettin Hunters, whom York quickly befriended with the help of the Enlarge/Reduce spell, and a Half-Ogre that kindly pointed them towards a trail up the mountain. Just before sunset on the last day, the Fortunate Four got the top of the mountain, and found a settlement of Frost Giants that were strangely wearing clothing made out of vines, feathers, and cloth, instead of the typical Nordic-style armor. With a bit of persuading and gift-giving, they convinced the Frost Giant Chieftain to contact the Cloud Giants of Cloudhold Keep and get them to lower the drawbridge up to the floating city. After walking up the giant-sized drawbridge that was made out of pure mithral, the party was met by a Cloud Giant courier that invited them into an apartment-sized leather bag (with airholes so that the party could breathe) who then took them across the giant city to the Halls of the Titans, where the party met with Azara Zephyros, the noble Cloud Giant that was intrigued by the adventurers and gladly pointed them in the direction of a Fire Giant that could help them with their goal of discovering how to create Docents, in exchange for a favor (they exchanged Sending Stones so that they could contact one another when the favor was ready). They made their way to a Fire Giant tinkerer that Azara directed them to, who was known for being kind to smaller races and often employing them to help with some of the finer details of his craft, that lived in the central volcano of the Fangs of Argarak. After multiple random encounters (like a weeping tree that was surrounded by impaled, decapitated skulls/heads that the party slowly and carefully backed away from, a Were-Panda that was happily munching on some bamboo in the jungle that the party entirely ignored, a squad of hobgoblins that were searching for a stolen ancient Dhakaani artifact that was taken to Xen'drik, and a battle between some Ezdari (homebrew wasp-folk) and drow were-spiders that the party also ignored), they made their way to the Fire Giant's lair and were able to convince him to direct them to a sentient, ancient Warforged Colossus made for the Giant-Quori War nearly 100,000 years ago named Xartohs the Hivemind.</blockquote>

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