Fire Giant King Slain: Game 22

General Summary

The Company of the Furies: Eumenides quickly moved through the upper level of King Snurre Iron Belly's lair bypassing threats and potential encounters until ambushing and slaying the Fire Giant king. The game session ended with the Company fighting Fire Giants and Hellhounds and planning their escape. At least one Fire Giant has fled, likely seeking to raise the alarm.

Area 14: Guards to Council Room

The Company ended Free the Prisoners: Game 21 observing Area 14, which consisted of two massive fire giant warriors guard large, ornate doors of what must be an important chamber. These guards have almost as many bristles as Queen Frumpy, and must be two of the most handsome fire giants among their kind. It is well known that King Snurre prefers to be surrounded by all forms of beauty, including gems, jewelry and handsome warriors.
The Company decided not to attack or seek direct entrance to Area 13, and instead explore and potentially enter through a back entrance and Area 12.

Area 24: Hall Guards

This is a guard post with Fire Giants on duty here at all times. The guards are armed with sword and spear, with boulders nearby. An iron cylinder near the north wall can be struck to sand the altar if intruders are seen.

Area 12: Dwarf's Cell

Gnoll servants/bodguards are lounging here. The chamber contains a mixture of small, medium and large furniture. There is a small table, a plush chair with a footstool, and couch in small sizes. There is a long table, 2 benches, 2 huge chairs, a table, and footstool sized for giants, and 12 chests sized for man like creatures. There are rugs on floor, tapestries on the walls and bronze cressets with flaming torches.
There is a grossly fat, but very strong looking dwarf. He is in his Spartan study, Area 12A. There are several scrolls on a plain wooden desk in the room. There is a case against he north wall which contains various maps, scrolls, etc. The dwarf uses a plain wooden box as a footstool. Also in this cell is a wooden pallet that the dwarf appears to use to rest. Area 12B has a soft bed, a small stand, a table and a chair, a cabinet, two iron chests, an arming rack, and stores of food and ale.

Area 13: Council Room

This is the council room where the King and his council meet, but it is now empty. There is a long table and five great chairs around it. Against one wall is a stepped platform with a small chair around it. There are hides covering parts of the polished black floor and rude tapestries apron the walls. There are several torches in the room, but none are lit.
There are two alcoves. Alcove A has a table with flat chest iron it. Alcove B has four extra chairs, and huge cabinet filled with scrolls on other items.

Area 15: Kitchen

This area is filled with busy with huge and fat workers, including both fire giants and gnolls. The Company did not explore the kitchen.

Area 16: Storage Chamber

The Company did not explore this storage chamber.

Area 2: Grand Hall

Two ettins were in this area watching in all directions with their four heads. The Company killed the ettins. The floor of Grand Hall is of reddish black, highly polished stone, the pillars are carved into the shapes of dwarves staining to hold up the figures atop them, and the light flickers weirdly from burning gases putting from eh walls, The tapestry on the south wall screens the entrance to the Royal Apartment.

Area 3: Throne Room and Audience Chamber

The Throne Room was unoccupied. Two steps of white veined black marble lead up to this area. The floor is a deep red polished stone, the huge stone pillars of polished obsidian, between them a massive throne of jet and black and white banded onyx, the whole inlaid with sard and set with fire opals and rubies. The walls are inlaid with colored stone to show various scenes of victory by King Snurre over opponents. Behind the throne wall shows the flaming skull which is Snurre's own device, and reliefs of fire giants with clubs. Huge torches burn in bronze cressets. The Company located a secret door and used it to sneak into the King's Royal Apartment.

Area 7: King's Private Royal Apartment

The walls here are set with torched cressets and covered with crude tapestries. The hall has hellhounds and six chairs and two benches along the walls and a bench near the entry, and three tables interspersed each with a keg of ale, beer or mead and leather or horn drinking vessels at hand. Weapons and armor line the walls.
The King's bedchamber contains a huge bed, a table, a small throne of baby and three lesser chairs, a cabinet, trunks, a chest, and bench. The floor is covered in pelts, and the walls covered with weapons, armor and tapestries. The King was engaged an orgy with his guards and servants. The Company entered the room, killed the Kind and his lovers, but raised the alarm with guards from Area 6 arriving, with one fleeing to raise the alarm.
The hallway leads to the King's second wife and her chamber maids' rooms.

Report Date

24 Jan 2023