Players (Characters)
Scott (Rain)
Jeremy (Grokk)
Tony (Roland, Horkina)
Tom (Garlen, Amber)
DM: Catherine
Roland summoned a pack of horses for the party, and he and Amber protected the group from the cold. A couple of spears with a blanket slung between served as a makeshift sled to bring the comatose paladin along. As the party moved southward, the ground began to rumble. A huge worm-like creature burrowed up through the ground, the heat of its body melting the nearby snow. Garlen tumbled behind the remorhaz and stabbed it with his shortsword, which melted inside the creature's body. As Garlen yelled out swear words in multiple languages, the rest of the party fired arrows and spells at the beast until it finally collapsed.
Garlen continued swearing about the loss of his expensive sword as the party moved onward to the south. When the mountain range came into clear view, Roland and Garlen both realized the largest mountain was the famed Naurim, pride and joy of the blackrock dwarves. Garlen was pretty excited about the chance to see the dwarves and the famed city of Kerah, and certain the dwarves could help cure the paladin and send the party home. On the way up the icy mountainside, Rain heard the breathing of a pair of giants up on a ledge. He and Garlen spiderclimbed up to ambush them and quickly took one down with a barrage of sneak attacks. The other frost giant jumped down in front of Grokk and Horkina, who mauled it.
When the party reached the great Vuthgate leading into the mountain, a group of dwarven guards met them. The guards said the mountain was not safe for travelers right now -- the great city of Kerah had been overrun, and the dwarves were in the midst of a campaign to take it back. "If you travelers can offer us assistance in trade for whatever help you need, seek Uther Ungart, champion of the Blackrock Clan." The party headed through the gate and into the refugee city of Beshin, finding the magically enlarged Uther rallying the troops. Garlen laughed at the sight, as he recalled a young dwarf named Uther losing to a halfling in a wrestling match in the city of Farbottle not too far south of here. Uther admitted that had been him, but when Garlen challenged him, the big dwarf quickly inverted the halfling with a laugh and a smile.
The party was to be provided with passage home, and attempts to restore Tercival's consciousness, in exchange for retrieving an artifact called the "heart of winter" from the frost giants outside. Roland exchanged spells with an elven wizard named Nienna while Rain checked out the local women and Horkina and Grokk had some ale. The party rested up and headed for the frost giant compound in the morning.
The group discovered a cave that was obviously a frost giant home. Rain peeked his head behind a curtain and spotted a frost giant boy throwing a rock against a wall. The party decided to leave the young one alone. A vent blasted cold air into another room. Roland sent a magical eye through the vent and followed the conduit to another grating and a vertical passage. At the bottom of the vertical shaft was a massive, icy dragon heart that dripped icy liquid into a pool below. Vents led off of the sides of the shaft, and the top opened to the sky above. The party decided to enter the complex by flying down the shaft, retrieving the heart of winter, and then fighting their way out of the frost giant keep.
Horkina attached the artifact to a pole and carried it over her shoulder. Rain opened the door from the shaft into the main complex, where a fairly large white dragon waited, chained into a small room. Roland learned that the dragon was upset with being held in captivity, and agreed to release it if it would agree to stay out of the party's way. The dragon agreed, so Roland cast silence on the chains that bound it and then Horkina and Grokk bashed the chains apart. The dragon climbed into the icy pool in the bottom of the shaft and then flew up and away, while the party moved through the complex and looted a giant-sized safe.
Rain opened a door into a large dining room. Two giants stood waiting in the room. Garlen ran under the table and began stabbing at one of the giant's legs while Rain and Grokk helped bring the giant down. Horkina ran to attack the other giant, and they exchanged powerful critical blows. Amber healed Horkina while Roland lit this giant on fire, leaving charred remains on the ground. A third giant came in through the main door but was quickly dispatched.
In a nearby room, the giants kept a troll woman who was busy cooking soup. The party let her know she was free to go, as the giants were no longer going to require her services. She nodded and continued making her soup. The party also found a dwarf woman being held captive in a side chamber, and asked her to follow a short distance behind. The main gate of the complex was being guarded by two baby white dragons. Roland magically frightened them and the party attacked them as they cowered in their pens. The party headed back to Beshin with the heart of winter and the dwarf woman in tow.
Back in Beshin, the local clerics had been able to restore Alek Tercival's consciousness with a Heal spell. The next morning, as promised, Nienna worked with Roland to teleport the party back to where they'd come from. Specifically, the party stopped by the magical fountain so that Alek Tercival could drink some of the elixer and be ready for his fight with Skellerang. The group headed back to Redgorge, and noticed Skellerang and the mercenaries were camped outside the town. As Alek walked through Redgorge, the people became overjoyed, and he walked out to the mercenary camp to meet with Skellerang. With some magical assistance from Amber and Roland, and with the party's best magical equipment, the paladin easily overpowered the guard captain. Tereson Skellerang, badly wounded, surrendered his position as guard captain in exchange for his life.
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