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General Summary

The Giant

• Farren, Alton, Harold and Beau the scared they will make her walk the plank bard returned to the entrance to the cave.
• When they created light, the giant reappeared, scolding them, saying they would wake the dead, and moving in to attack.
• Captain Farren attempted to talk the matter through but the giant was not successfully persuaded.
• Krumbleton eventually joined the fight.
• The giant was defeated, in no smal part by smashing/melting the ice beneath him and sending him into the water.
• When Harold attempted to go in for the Big Suck, the giant vanished again into the other plane.
• Alton, with the help of Harold's light, witnessed another giant carry the giant away in the mirror dimension. There was a tall, giant sized, glorious city in the reflection.
• The rattling of bones could be heard in the distance in all directions.

Ahh A Puzzle!

• The party struggled with the statues for a while
• When trying to walk by them, they would immobilize the target before shoving them back after a minute.
• If approaching the candle with a lit candle, the statue would deal magical damage, but allow the person to pass
• If approaching the sword with a sword, the statue would raise a sword in challenge.
• The statues could see through magical illusions, but not through walls/behind total cover.
• When standing 10 ft away, the statues glowed blue.
• When standing 5 ft away, the statues glowed red.
• In Alton's Mirror, there were two shadows, which reflected what light landied on them, similiar to the guardian of Luin encountered in Shrine of Luin at Luin's Darkwood Temple. They were bound in chains and struggled to move.
• The party eventually passed by the statues when Beau put up a dome around one of the statues which prevented the magic from reaching outside.

The Cave

• The party ventured through the icy cave.
• There was what appeared to be one of Zed's snowmen by the entry.
• There were human sized corpses huddled at the sides of the cave. They gave off stale necromancy energy. They were all completely naked and charred.
• The skeletons rose up when light rested on them.
• The skeletons seemed to have some measure of personality, though Fernando, who arrived late, was insulted when the party hinted that they were like his brothers. They were not fashionable enough.
• Through a crack, a frosty wind creature was seen moving in one direction.
• The captain intimidated a pair of skeletons and smote another, which woke up again but left him alone.
• Alton and Beau scouted ahead with some help from Vaena the bird. Who apologized sort of when she rudely asked what Alton wanted. 

Zed Wuz Here

• The party found a barricaded section of the cave. 
• The captain went around the barricade 
• The party set off a glyph of stored fireball while trying to defuse it. It seemed it was rigged like a mine to trigger, among other events, when it overlapped with the aoe of another aoe spell. 
• It was cast at higher level to hinder dispelling. 
• The captain found a glowing light. 
• The room contained some giant sized bottles, a door that led nowhere, and a journal of chicken scratch. 
• The only information that could be read from the journal were :
  • a note on someone called kurrulk the undying with frowny face drawn next to it
  • "I am Zed" written repeatedly
  • note on doors: to open doors you need to knock when the lights are on
  • mentions of a bar run by a giant named Scorn makes life bearablebeerable
  • necromancy notes? "I need a big whistle"
  • a detailed sketch of two sets of dragon bones face to face annotated with the word "iedei?"

Character(s) interacted with

• Kurrulk  
• Fernando 

Report Date

19 Sep 2023

Primary Location

Graveyard Below

Related Plots

• Save Zed

Related Characters

• Iedei the Deathlord
• Kurrulk
• Scorn