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Campaign Excerpts: Minor Events
Fleeing the Hall of Kings
We vacated the Hall of Kings and had a harrowing escape from the magic infused area since evening was nearly upon us. While magic
infused bolts of lightning began to ring through the obsidian walled canyons, the party made great haste to be away before their
strength was too great to resist. Sasha invoked a wind walk spell upon herself and
Al-Rathis, but she did not count on the power of magic in the air
and a surge of magic made their gasseous state permanent. Tellzann
employed other means to escape and barely made it out with his life.
Fortunately, Tellzann's companion, Elena, was able to fix the problem of the permanent wind walk
spell during the next morning. The party then traveled to Mendenton, from which they would
travel to Tel-Akbar and make arrangements to obtain a greater teleport
scroll so that they could at last return to the Kingdom of Arend with great speed.
Traveling in the Mountains North of the Darkenwood
They decided to travel over an ancient mountain pass known as Frenalg Groft, the Giant Steps, to save some time. This
ancient causeway was a fifty foot wide road of solid stone cut into the mountainsides. The traveling was not difficult, though
there was snow to deal with. The pass was known to be inhabited by giants.
Stone giants built the road for the Kingdom of Arend almost two-thousand
years ago, and still dwelt in the lower areas. Cloud giants dwelt
on the mountain peeks above the mountain pass. The two races of giants do not get along well and travelers need beware since they both
watch over the roadway.
About midday the party came upon a frost
worm, which was a not too challenging fight, though Tellzann
was almost eaten. Having slain the creature, Sasha turned into a
storm giant to drag its corpse along with us, but some members of the party didn't think this was a good idea as the other giant races
might look upon a storm giant as a threat and intrusion. So, she
instead turned into a gargantuan scorpion and dragged the thing
behind her with one pincer while the rest of the party road upon her back. In this way they traveled quickly.
Later, they encountered some stone giants, but when they saw that the adventurers had slain the frost worm
they let the party pass in peace in exchange for giving them the corpse of the worm.
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