D&D with Ed, Scott, Steve, and Steve's son (Sebastian) ======================================== Sat 31 Jul 2021 06:12:45 PM EDT Steve's son, Sebastian, joins us for the first time (and his first time playing D&D). He's playing a wizard, a necromancer. Scott's in Copenhagen, Denmark. We add Sebastian by assuming we find him frozen in a block of ice. We resume in a Leomunds's Tuny Hut, in an ice cave, between two fire giants and two ice giants. Scott: "That is _so_ many giants!" Plan: cast _invisibility_ and _fly_ on Kristabell (Steve). Kristabell flies down to the ice cave to steal a rhemoraz egg. Get the rhemoraz to chase the egg to the giant cave. Get the giant and rhemoraz to fight. We do it. The rhemoraz kills both fire giants. The two frost giants flee down the tunnel, deeper into their dungeon. The (badly injured) rhemoraz grabs its egg, and goes back to its nest. Smudge finds, in the fire giant cave, a two bulging sacks. 2,000 gp. A solid silver bear statue with topaz eyes. Kristabell, still invisible, follows the frost giants down, into the caves, to look for her scabbard. She sees the two fleeing frost giants to move aside a boulder, slip past it, and put it back inside. A south exit in this intersection would possibly be the most direct directional route to the scabbard, maybe. Zoozeki dispels the tiny hut, and we all follow Kristabel into the inner caves. Exits in cave: east and west boulders, plus unblocked north (from where we came), NE, SE, and south. East: huge stalagmite/stalactite column, snake familiar smells a reptile, sound of clinking of coins, a giant treasure pile surmounted by a young white dragon! South: skeleton, broken furniture, ice toad(?) South-east: turns east to a deadend West (past boulder, where the frost giants went, scouted by snake familiar): a giant, bones, giant iron horn North-east: twisty passage, deadend, marks gouged into stone — pictogram of bear, a face like Myan ruins Zoozeki and smudge to north-east to check out the pictograms. Zoozeki licks the face, and feels slightly enlightened. He grinds against it, and learns a syllable of an incantation. Zoozeki takes a rubbing of it. Backtracking, there's a T-shaped intersection, with an east passage we haven't explored. Cave with a frost giant with a big axe and throwing boulders. Giant with bejeweled arm band. Stone box. Eight sacks. Passage to NW. We decide to attack the giant with the arm band before resting. Kristabell, with _haste_ and _greater invisibility_ surprises the giant with multiple attacks, dealing 99 damage on the first round. The second round, Kristabell dealt 49 damage, killing the giant. Wow. Armband. Stone box with carved bear. Eight sacks each holding 200 gp. Smudge tries to open the box. A cone of cold comes from the box, dealing him 22 damage. In box: two more arm bands, five gems worth 100 gp each, six human-sized dented helmets (one with rhino horn, another with big plume), leather pouch with pills, coke-bottle size glass bottle with stopper. Zoozeki sniffs the liquid the bottle. Smells like really bad cologne. We hide the giant's body, then take a long rent _leomund's tiny hut_. Zoozeki think white dragons can sometimes detect intruders in their lair by changes in the air/wind. Possible plan: charm a giant, cast gaseous form on it, have it enter the dragon's lungs, break concentration on gaseous form. Looking down the other passage out the place we just killed the giant, it goes roughly north, then branches right, left, and straight. Right: muttering, heavy breathing, snorting. Left: ? Straight: ?