16.4.2.6 Rescuing Dire Bears, Killing Giants, Grinding up the Icewall, AMBUSHED by frost Wyrms, Discovering a secret passage into the TOMB.

General Summary

I leave the Sylvan Hideaway first to take a looksee and make sure things are safe for the others.   I forgot protocol and did not slip into the shadows but simply stepped to the side of the exit.   I look around its just after sunset and there are a pair of dire bears running towards me battered and cut up. It becomes clear by what.. as a trio of giants tossing the boulders at the bears. I take aim and fire, click.. i forgot to reload.  I do that and take aim again.
  Giggity moves out in winter wolf form and hides behind one of the trees, Fitz flies out on top of Pingo and takes a look around, Celebrimbor follows next bounding north to one of the tree enlarging himself and slipping into the shadows to ambush the nearest giant. Daemon slips out and speaks a magical incantation that i do missed hearing over the winds. Zexel moves into the middle of everyone and prays to Brigh to grant her Blessings upon us. I unload four rounds with the Seed Rifle into the first stone giant blasting his shoulder good.  All three giants throw boulders at the bears, the frost giant misses but both stone giants connect.  OUCH that bear is not doing good, its dropped to the ground and does not appear to be moving.
  Giggity sneaks up near the dire bear that is laying bleeding out, she reaches out with a prayer to Erastil upon her lips to grant healing to the bear.. it works a flash of divine energy flows from her paws into the bear healing it and bringing it back from the brink of death with a knowing nod it thanks her in sylvan and runs off to the south. Fitz draws his icy repeating heavy crossbow and unloads four bolts into the first stone giant.  Celebrimbor reaches out with Heartspit and stabs the first stone giant in the side, just missing his heart. Daemon again casts a magical invocation that i was not able to hear the words for, i think it was haste as we moved quicker then usual.  Dredoc moves up on his broom and inspires us to fight better with a song.  Zaxel fires and hits three times on the first stone giant.  I fire and hit three times as well hurting the second stone giant.   The giants throw boulders at the second bear, almost killing him as well.  
  Giggity moves up to the second dire bear, again invoking her healing magics to restore it.  This bear too thanks her before fleeing to the south. Fitz switches to the flaming repeater and unloads on the frost giant with all four shot connecting. Celembrimbor stabs the first stone giant in the heart slaying him then slips back into the shadows. Daemon creates a magical fire that melts the frost giant. Dredoc continues to inspire us all with his song. Zaxel fires at the second stone giant connecting four times on him.  I too fire four rounds into the frost giant dropping him to the ground dead.  The remaining stone giant tries to squash zaxel with his club but misses.
  Giggity heals the second bear again just before it leaves range making sure that it will have a better chance of staying alive.  Fitz fires four shots into the stone giant, hurting him badly. Celebrimbor stabs the giant in the back, piercing its heart and lifting up into the air.. the giant dies twitching upon Heartspit, a smirk upon Celebrimbor's face.   
  Taking a moment we grab the giants bags and i remove the beard of the frost giant.
  Zaxel calls up his faith to grant us the ability to become one with the clouds and winds.  We fly swiftly to the drake cave setting up nearish the ice wall.   Zaxel speaks the words of the prayer to summon forth Brigh's Clockwork Wall with the intention of chewing up the ice wall.  Things were going good for a few seconds until we heard a loud rumbling sound and were ambushed by a pair of Frost Wyrm's that took over the caves after the we killed the wyrm's last night.    Thankfully we didn't have to face the wyrm's and the drakes at the same time.. that would have been a nightmare.
  Wyrm's
  Fitz goes first, him and pingo try to fly up and spread out from the rest of us. The wyrm's spit ice in the chamber.  Daemon uses a fiery disintegrate upon the first wyrm, Fitz shoots his fiery repeater hitting the first wyrm. The wyrm's breath upon most of us.. thankfully the magical protections from earlier still stood strong upon us and nobody was hurt too bad.   Celebrimbor throws a fire bomb at the wyrm's burning them in the explosion.  Zaxel channels healing everyone some. Giggity zaps herself with a wand of healing, i taunt the second wyrm into charging me.. bracing myself for it with my trusty bayonet set I get lucky the wyrm charges right into the point.. piercing its eye.  Dredoc flies up and to the south of the chamber inspiring us to battle better with his songs.  
  Fitz charges the first drake slashing it open with his katana, Pingo even gets in a bite. The first wyrm turns and blast everyone with another frost breath.. stripping away my magical protections and draining most of the others lower. it then takes a huge bite out of Zaxel dropping him to mostly dead the wyrm spits him and out and turns towards me. Celebrimbor moved near Zaxel and zapped him with a healing wand.  Zaxel is so nearly dead he doesn't even twitch. Giggity also heals Zaxel with her wand.  I choose a different path firing into the frost drake with four connections one of which was a perfect shot into the brain of the wyrm.  Unfortunately for all of us we learned something the hard way.   When a wyrm is slain it explodes.  I almost killed the rest of us with those shots.   Myself.. I was badly wounded with a chunk of the wyrm's bones stuck in my side. Dredoc uses a rod to cast a pair of quickened heals upon Zaxel.. between everyone they were able to save his life.
  Fitz and Pingo are slugging it out with the remaining wyrm he challenges it trying to get its attention. Daemon moves south near the chamber entrance and casts a second fiery disintegrate invocating upon the wyrm.  Fitz makes an Honorable Stand and drinks a pair of cure serious potions quickly and tries to break free from the wyrm's grasp but neither he nor pingo are able to. The wyrm swallows them whole!  Celebrimbor stabs three times trying to rip open the belly of the wyrm missing with each of them. Zaxel moves in the middle of everyone and channels again, hoping that he his the wyrm also as that would mean Fitz and Pingo would be healed as well which it does.  Giggity moves up and bites the wyrm scoring a perfect chomp where zaxel's clockwork wall had chipped away some of the scale before the battle began. I move and shoot one time hitting the same scale she bit.  Daemon call out an Order to us all using his magical powers to send a message. "Flee the chamber, I am going to unleash powerful magic upon the wyrm and do not want to kill any of you if it too explodes."
  Fitz manages to reach his wand and heals pingo with it, otherwise they struggle but cannot get out of the wyrm. Klark delays his action until we are all clear.  Zexel and Celembrimbor runs south the both of them moving around the corner behind Daemon.  In the west Giggity and myself run around the corner.. Somehow.. Pingo and Fitz too have escaped the wyrm and made it around the corner.  Daemon holds up a talisman, a necklace I think..  He speaks a word that echoes in the chamber.. it sounds like 'SleeeeeeeeP' but i think it was something else he said.  Second late he dives around the corner to the south as an explosion ripples the air.. chunks of the wyrm landing just a few inches from the four of us to the west.    It was a very close call.
  We gather near Zaxel's 'Clockwork Wall' and between Daemon and Zazel they are able to channel enough divine energy to heal all of us.. thankfully as both Fitz and myself were hanging on by a single thread when the battle ended.   Daemon was able to create a wall of fire and melt the chunks of ice that the clockworks broke down.   After a few moments it was revealed that a passage existed behind the ice!  it lead into some old old construction, we presumed the Tomb..   Good lord i hope we did not alert anything within of our presence.   
  We did find a few things that were frozen within the ice.. a small pile of coins, a few garnets, a cog stuck on a stick.. something to do with transmutation. Farther examination of it revealed its function.  two buttons upon it.  the first transforms it into a 20' ladder. the second locks it into place..  we have found one of the fabled Immoveable rods, this one somehow also a ladder!    

Rewards Granted

Experience awarded to Celebrimbor, Daemon, Dredoc, Firato, Giggity, Varr'os, Zaxel was 7721XP.   Journal XP will be awarded in 2 weeks to those that make an entry.   1 Preserved mammoth tusk (750 gp, 50 lbs.)
2 Rough Gold nuggets weighing 14 pounds each (574 Gold)
1 Frost Giant Beard
1 Large Chain Shirt
1 Large Greataxe
2 Large Greatclub
22 Platinum Coins
714 Golden Coins
3 uncut Garnets gems worth about 65 gold each now.

Missions/Quests Completed

We Rescued a pair of Dire Bears.
We made the area safer by defeating the pair of Frost Wyrm's that moved into the area. We found a secret entrance into the Tomb!

Character(s) interacted with

Haflos and Cramir the Stone Giants.
Lokikmir the Frost Giant.
The Pair of Dire Bears that were rescued.
The Pair of Frost Wyrm's that were slain.

Created Content

A Mated pair of Dire Bears have escaped from the giant village with our help.. who were they.. one of them spoke in Sylvan the other with elvish hand signs.