Session 79 - 9/20/2024 - Chapter 2 - Meeting Lucretia, Briefly Chasing Jorn to the Exit, and then Sidetracking to Kill More Giants
In Session:
DM : Lasarian
Party:
Talo - Easeis - Human - Sorcerer/Spell Void - Dice Set and Thieves' Tools
Stel - Eilo - Fairy - Warlock/Celestial - Flute
Khaie - Magar - Grey Elf Wizard/School of Evocation - Herbalism Kit
Ojike - Quiropsius - Amethyst Gem Dragonborn Fighter/Psi Warrior - Bagpipes
Koram - Koram Orchammer - Hill Dwarf Cleric/Life Domain - Mason's, Cartographer's and Smith's Tools - Herbalism Kit
Absent and Unplayed:
Baiz - Dour Warmfury - Mountain Dwarf Fighter/Champion - Mason's and Smith's Tools - Hollow Person Hiatus
Rox - Kismet of the Woods - Wood Elf Druid/Circle of the Land (Forest) - Herbalism Kit - Hollow Person Hiatus
606 CY - Reaping 7th - 11:05 pm
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The session begins as the party finishes up their meeting with Lucretia, receives their gifts that she delivers from Sister, and then decides to head back north in pursuit of Jorn the frost giant. As the companions prepare to depart, Magar casts detect magic to scan the area of the battle. The spell reveals a magical emanation from the fire pit which Magar points out. Investigating, the party finds a glowing blue crystal orb several inches in diameter that looks a bit like a magical snow globe. There is a rune in giant that simply means "Home" within the orb. Magar recovers the item with mage hand and identifies it as an object used to teleport back to a frost giant hold by touching the orb and saying the command word, home. Easeis places the item into his bag of holding.
The party heads west back into the main tunnel and then north where they saw Jorn fleeing during the previous battles. The group comes up to a set of double doors set in the northern end of the tunnel and as they open them, a pair of half-giants is revealed. It appears that these may have been some of the fleeing half giants from earlier and Easeis easily intimidates them. One drops his weapon, frozen in fear, the second not only drops his weapon, but falls to the floor, groveling in fear. Easeis tells them to flee. From just behind, and directed at, the half-giants comes cursing and threats from two hill giants preparing to attack.
Momo flies north but holds near the door since the giants are too far away. The western half giant cautiously gets up and, leaving his weapon on the floor, runs south towards the party. Easeis casts a hypnotic pattern, freezing one hill giant in place, but the other shakes off the spell. The second half giant, also ignoring his dropped weapon, runs south past the party. Sprinkles also flies north to just inside the door, preparing to distract the first hill giant that approaches. Magar slings a fire bolt into the chest of the approaching west hill giant, causing a large burn. Quiro steps into the doorway and prepares an attack for the approaching enemy. The hill giant, patting the blackened spot on his chest, heads right at the dragonborn, but gets a face full of Sprinkles as the owl dives in, distracting the opponent. As the giant waves its hand at the annoying owl, Quiro lands two cuts across the giant's midsection. The giant grunts and then slams its massive club twice into the dragonborn, staggering the fighter. Eilo focuses her hex and eldritch blasts landing one beam on the angry giant. Koram casts toll the dead but it seems to have no effect. Momo then flies in from the east also distracting the enemy. Easeis glances over to make sure both half giants are continuing to run away south, then turns and throws an acidic chromatic orb into the giant facing Quiro. Sprinkles flies past the giant again and Magar takes advantage, his fire bolt just clipping the enemy. Quiro again lands two solid slashes with his longsword, blood spraying as the first giant falls, the dragonborn walking up over the corpse to head north towards the second charmed giant. The ever impulsive Eilo shifts her hex and eldritch blasts the charmed giant before anyone else can get into ideal positions to fight. Both beams find their mark, pure force and necrotic magic from hex damaging the opponent with the first beam grasp also pulling the awakened giant south towards Quiro. Koram steps into the room, toll the dead further damaging the giant. The hill giant, awake and angry at the blasts from the warlock, swings its club up at the flying warlock, smacking Eilo twice and spinning her about in the air. Momo flutters past the giants head and Easeis lands a ray of frost on the distracted giant. A moment later, Sprinkles zips past, and as the giant follows the flight path of the owl, Magar blasts it right in the face with a fire bolt. Quiro steps in and growls, "Pick on someone closer to your own size.", landing one deep cut into the giant's hip. Eilo turns to fly away east, but the giant takes the opportunity to smack the fairy like a ball. Even with Quiro deflecting the worst of the hit with a shield of psionic energy, the fairy tumbles off in the general NE direction she was heading before righting herself. She turns back and her first eldritch blast beam slams the giant to the floor.
The party quickly takes stock of the room and their condition, Koram casting cure wounds twice on the severely injured Quiro, the worst of his wounds vanishing to the healing magic. The party heads out the eastern door tot he room and finds themselves in a large entry hall, a huge opening leading to the outside just to the north. The sounds of battle echo up from the south and the party can just make out a huge flaming skeleton and the unmistakable sphere of darkness from Lucretia facing off against a couple of hill giants. As the party quickly looks for Jorn, agreeing that the frost giant must be fleeing back to whoever hired him, they decide that trying to catch him in the wilds with the lead he has isn't the best option. Instead they turn to the south, intending to assist Lucretia against the immediate threat. Eilo pulls an ape and giant hyena from her bag of tricks as the party heads south.
As the party draws closer to the battle, the giants intent on facing Lucretia and her flaming undead pet, Magar unleashes a fireball, sculpting the undead ally out of the blast. Both giants are wreathed in fire and Easeis peers into the void, learning the wizard's spell. Easeis sends a ray of frost at the closest giant, but it skims past, missing. Eilo targets the same giant with her hex and eldritch blast, one beam slamming into the giant. Koram targets the same giant with toll the dead, necrotic energy eating into the giant. Eilo's ape charges south. The party, having spent their initial surprise attacks and advancing south on the giants, fall into the regular rhythm of battle. Koram rings out another toll the dead on the north giant as Lucretia strikes the southern enemy. Eilo eldritch blasts the northern giant again, dragging it north over her ape, before slamming the enemy with the second force beam and then flying SE, closer to the fighting. Easeis throws another ray of frost, but it misses the northern giant. Magar lines up a fire bolt, the northern giant shrieking in pain as it falls to the floor. Momo flies south close to Eilo as the giant hyena charges south towards the giant fighting Lucretia, and Sprinkles also flies towards the fighting. Two additional hill giants enter the huge room through a door to the east. The giant facing Lucretia swings into the darkness, but the vampire only giggles as the swings miss and her flaming undead pet, Smokey, smacks the giant from the flank. Quiro charges SE, but carefully plans his stop where he thinks the giants will not immediately reach him and be able to attack. The ape stops directly behind the giant facing Lucretia and punches the enemy twice right in the butt, earning the nickname, Mr. Fister. Koram heads SE, casting toll the dead to no effect on Lucretia's target. Lucretia also misses her opponent, followed by Eilo missing the same giant with both eldritch blast beams. Easeis breaks the trend, moving south and landing a ray of frost on the seemingly untouchable giant. Magar heads south just far enough to see the hill giants coming from the east and drops fireball directly over both of them. Momo flies past the giant facing Lucretia, tickling its ear and distracting it for a second as the giant hyena bites into the giant's leg. Sprinkles flies past the now smoking NE giant. The SE giant heads SW, picking up a rock and heaving it into Smokey. The NE giant heads towards Quiro, stopping to pick up a rock and throwing it at Koram, but the rocks sails over the dwarf's head. The giant facing Lucretia looks annoyed as it once again swings into the darkness, but fails to hit the laughing Lucretia before taking another hit from Smokey. Quiro closes the gap to the NE giant, slashing it once and then blasting it with his seemingly way cooler force breath weapon. Two additional hill giants appear through the east door and Magar jokingly comments about looking for a hill giant mother off that way. Mr. F., the ape, again slams the giant facing Lucretia. Koram calls up his spirit guardians, and as the dwarven ghosts appear, he steps closer to envelop the giant facing Lucretia, the radiant spirits swarming the enemy and killing it. Lucretia moves NE and hits the giant squaring off against Quiro. Eilo flies up above the giant facing Quiro, shifting her hex and eldritch blasting it, the first beam landing and pulling the giant up 10 feet with Grasp of Hadar, but the huge creature easily drops back down unaffected by the fall, before being hit by the second eldritch blast beam. Easeis twins acidic chromatic orbs and sends one at the giant facing Quiro, and one at the giant to the south. The enemy facing Quiro crashes to the floor, gurgling as acid eats away its face. The second orb hisses as it hits the floor next to the southern enemy. Magar heads south and prepares a fire bolt on the southern giant, launching it and scorching the hill giant seconds later as Momo distracts the target. Another hill giant moves in from the east as the giant hyena lunges in, biting the southern enemy. The hill giant responds by smashing the hyena with its tree trunk club, and another giant coming in from the east also smacks the hyena with a thrown rock. Smokey heads SE and hits the enemy facing the hyena. Quiro psi-leaps south, landing and closing the last few feet before cutting two deep slashes into the southern giant that looks surprised that the dragonborn closed the distance so quickly. One of the hill giants from the NE moves in and swings twice at Quiro, landing one hit with its massive club, but missing with the second swing. Another giant from the east moves towards the melee and launches a rock at Lucretia that just sails through the darkness, missing. The ape charges from the NW, closing on the new enemies. Koram moves SE and the spirits close over the southern giant, radiant energy killing another enemy. The cleric also casts toll the dead at the giant facing Quiro, but the enemy resists the necrotic magic. Lucretia casts a spell of some kind and then moves up on the giant facing Quiro. Eilo moves north a bit and casts rainbow explosion around three of the giants that entered from the east, but isn't happy with the damage it does so she flies north a bit to sulk. This is followed immediately by fireballs from both Easeis and Magar, the giants burned by fire and radiant magic, one also blinded. Momo flies past the giant facing Quiro. The northernmost hill giant from the east moves west, picks up a rock and throws it, hitting Easeis squarely, the sorcerer stumbling from the impact. The giant hyena moves in and bites the giant to the east of Quiro. Sprinkles dives past the NW giant that just hit Easeis with the rock. Another giant from the east moves SW and throws a rock, Smokey the skeleton taking a crushing hit, but the pet still manages to land a strike on the same giant just bit by the hyena. Quiro just barely hits his opponent with his breath weapon, but lands a solid hit with his crystal blade. The giant to Quiro's east slams its club into the hyena and it magically poofs out of existence, and the giant's second swing hits Smokey, the undead looking battered, its fires sputtering. Mr. F. slams both his fists at the giant facing Quiro, but only hits once. Koram shifts east just off Quiro's flank and the spirit guardians tear at the giant east of the dragonborn, the cleric also landing a toll the dead on the same enemy. Lucretia lands another hit on the western giant facing Quiro. Eilo flies south and casts eldritch blast, one beam hitting the NW hill giant and the second hitting the furthest east enemy. The fairy then flies back north, still upset about her rainbow explosion spell. Easeis moves east and then twins another chromatic orb, hitting both the giant facing Quiro and the one to the north, both flinching at the corrosive acid. Magar again waits for Momo to dive past the giant facing Quiro before casting his fire bolt, and once again the bolt hits perfectly, the enemy bellowing at the flames momentarily before falling dead. The northern hill giant whips a rock at Koram, blasting past the cleric's shield and battering the dwarf. Sprinkles flies past the NW giant's head, distracting it. The southern giant swings at Smokey twice, missing once, but its second blow crushing into Lucretia's pet, its bones scattering to the floor. Quiro, free of melee opponents, heads north engaging another target. The fighter hexes and then lands a psionic boosted slash with his crystal sword, cutting the enemy down. The blinded giant to the east staggers west, swinging wildly, but hitting nothing but air. The ape moves east and attacks the blinded giant, landing two pummeling fist attacks. Koram advances east towards the blind giant, the spirit guardians killing the hapless foe, before the cleric turns south and the radiant spirits begin burning the final giant to the south. Koram also tolls the dead, but the final enemy shrugs it off. Lucretia also tolls the dead on the last giant, necrotic energy damaging the enemy further. Eilo eldritch blasts the stubborn final enemy, but both beams miss. Easeis lands a ray of frost, and the giant staggers, battered, burned and frozen. Momo zips around its head, the giant barely paying attention anymore before Magar's fire bolt streaks in and immolates the final opponent.
End Session 79 as the party finishes killing the remaining hill giants with Lucretia.
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Session 79 XP - 3,120 for sidetrack giant fight
New XP Totals: Easeis - 47,733, Eilo - 47,066, Magar - 45,476, Quiropsius - 42,300, Koram - 55,281
Piety Totals: Easeis - 22, Eilo - 27, Magar - 15, Quiropsius - 20, Koram - 32
