After another two minutes, they enter a vast chamber and Tasen, Reed Xander, and Wrathale, see heat signatures with their Infravision emanating from inside and above a small underground lake located close to the door.
Tasen, Bhass, Xander, and Reed turn around and head back down the hall. Meanwhile, Jack decides to pick up a rock and he throws it into the water.
Wrathale suddenly sees the heat signatures start to move and whispers to Jack, “Jack come on we should follow the others.”
Jack turns around and runs toward Wrathale but slips and slams into the stone wall and falls down. He quickly recovers and follows Wrathale down the hall.
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Everyone, except Wrathale and Jack, enter the hallway they chose not to take earlier and begin to explore it. They keep walking without saying a word and stumble upon another hall but it looks like it curves toward the lake room. At that moment, Wrathale and Jack make it back to the group and walk with them.
The party walks down the hall for about a minute then come to a cave opening. They spend about twenty minutes moving through the cave before the walls make a turn.
Wrathale and Reed both hear a soft Pffff, Pffff, like leather being dragged across stone.
Wrathale says “Something’s following us…”
Xander replies “Let’s keep moving. Maybe we can lose it somehow.”
After about four minutes, they find a door similar to the front gates, except they are closed. Xander and Jack open one of the doors a crack so they can slip through.
They step into an enormous room with a fireplace, a bed, a chair, and a wardrobe all extremely oversized. There is one more thing there, an orb atop a giant pedestal.
Everyone heads over to the bed to see what’s on top. Those who are tall enough to see could see a short Elven female bound by silk cloth on the bed. Reed then lifts Tasen up on top and he cuts the binds and picks her up.
Just as Tasen is about to jump off the bed, the fireplace roars up in flames and a Mountain Giant slowly steps out of the fireplace. It sees Tasen jump off the bed and roars. everyone plugs their ears except the Elf who seems to be breathing but doesn’t wake.
The Giant runs toward where he saw Tasen jump off the bed and attacks.
Before the giant comes into view, Tasen hands the Elf to Bhass who carries her on his back and under the bed.
The Giant misses Tasen and Jack charges with his long sword. He swings and hits the Giant. Wrathale fires with a volley of arrows and hits a few times.
Tasen runs up to the Giant and slashes at its foot hoping to get behind it. Reed also attacks with his short sword but misses. Mee fly’s off of Reed’s shoulder and out of the room.
Xander asks Wrathale, “Do you have any rope?”
Wrathale replies, “Yeah I do, but only up to fifty feet… why?!”
“Just hand me the rope!” says Xander.
Wrathale stops shooting and tosses the rope to Xander.
Bhass run’s with the Elf under the bed and across the room. The giant then slams his fist at Jack and hits him but, Jack still stands.
Jack smiles and takes a swing at the Giant. He hits. Wrathale keep’s firing his bow and is now missing with most of his shots.
Tasen gets behind the giant, while Jack has him distracted and makes a swing. The Giant howls in pain as Tasen cuts the Giant’s right foot off. This results in everyone plugging their ears again.
After the howling stops, the Giant falls to the ground but is still conscious. Reed then takes his chance for a strike and misses.
Mee says to Reed telepathically “There is something out there trying to grab me, but I can’t see it.” Reed translates to everyone else.
Xander takes the rope and uses his psionic power to make the rope float in the air and wrap around the
Giants other leg and begins to pull.
Bhass sits by the oversized chair and watches the rest of the party hold off the giant.
The Giant finds Jack trying to climb up his back and quickly grabs him and throws him at the wall in front of him. Jack slides down the wall stunned.
Wrathale now puts his bow away and charges with his battle axe. Tasen, astonished by what he did, runs to the Giant’s other foot and starts to climb.
Reed runs up to the Giant and starts to swing at the Giant’s side. Mee then says “Can I get some help??? It almost got me that time.”
Xander lets go of the rope, pulls out his spear, and charges at the Giant.
Bhass runs away from the Giant and towards the door. During his running, the Giant grabs one of the bed’s legs and throw’s it at him. It misses him, but hits Xander, Wrathale, also the door, making the door swing open.
Afterwards, a green beam of light shoots at the Giant and hits him in the face melting away his skin. This causes the Giant to scream in agonizing pain. Everyone must again plug their ears.
Mee says “That problem solved and… now for the other one please…” Mee then lands back on Reed’s shoulder.
Reed quickly translates and everyone stops and looks around the room for treasure. They find nothing. When they look at the doors, they see some flat surface creature stuck under the door trying to eat it.
To keep it distracted, they cut up some of the Giant’s foot and everybody tosses a piece onto the carpet creature and bypasses it. They then run down the cave halls to the entrance…
