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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8629115" data-attributes="member: 59816">With their hiding spot seeming secure, the group discussed not "wasting" their time with Gimlak's summoned aberration. This came with a quiet discussion of the wizard's magic, and led to Duvrael offering to turn the beholder-kin invisible to scout while they waited.With that, the hour passed as the invisible Larry would periodically leave and return (surprising everyone with a slightly-too-loud "Gbrabgh!" as he announced his return. During the scouting, the dwarf and the aberration would telepathically argue for a while, as Gimlak tried to get more precise details off the lazy and rude beholder-kin.Eventually, the group were able to put together some (hopefully accurate) details:[ooc]With a map![/ooc][spoiler="Steading General Details"][ATTACH=full]156894[/ATTACH][/spoiler][ooc]Map Key: 1) Where the party arrived; 2) Gatehouse (guarded); 3) Watchtower (giants); 4) Smoke-less chimney; 5) Great Hall bonfire smoke-hole; 6) Kitchen roof (PCs are HERE!); 7) Courtyard (4 dire wolves); 8) Outbuilding (sleeping ogres)[/ooc]Larry stubbornly refused to give exact numbers, but he reported that there was a large party of giants in the Great Hall (a large room in the middle). The "king" was entertaining guests there, probably not more than a dozen, all giants. (Larry was unclear on the type). He revealed that there were actually more than one (Gimlak narrowed it down to three) giants in the watchtower (Kahru had only seen one) and guards (probably ogres) in the gatehouse.Larry had gone down the two smoke-free chimneys. The one in the outbuilding, Larry reported "sleeping ogres", while the one at the south-west corner, he reported "one giant" but had no idea what the giant was doing, other than being "awake in the room". By his reluctant description, Gimlak thought that the giant was likely a Stone Giant.It was fully dark by the time Larry disappeared, but the kitchen fires burned for another hour. A light rain began, washing away the mists that had rolled down out of the hills, but making any chance of a roof fire unlikely. They were cold, damp and cramped from sitting on the wet thatch roof, but the various noises from around the steading had died down and so had the smoke from most of the fires, with one exception: The fire from the chimney that they had initially climbed to get on the roof increased, and the one further south from that one stayed steady.The bonfire in the great hall still burned, but the smoke from the giant smoke-hole calmed, indicating that it was burning low. Things would likely have changed somewhat, since Larry's reports.</blockquote>

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