Game summary for July 10, 2012, Priscus Venatus campaign, G1: The Steading of the Hill Giant Chief adventure; present PCs included Althion Whiteoak (fighter), Ardel Blueback (dwarf fighter), Crularin Gellantara (druid), Drake Spellking (human cleric/magic-user), and Emeran Galathar (elf fighter/magic-user).
The dozens of giants are hungry after the battle and kill Drake as well. They stew up a pot of human, dwarf, and half-elf with potatoes and cabbage. Crularin is left to linger in a cage for a later meal. The crafty druid shapeshifts into a weasel to slip through the bars, steals some of the meaty stew (for reasons to come), snatches Blackrazor, turns into a condor and flies away. He was unable to carry the stew, the sword, and Whelm, so the hammer is left behind.
Crularin meets up with Althion (who is still running for his life!) and takes him to a druid circle in Sterich (this is Crularin’s homeland, after all). An old druid owes him a favor and repays him by reincarnating Rowena, Drake, and Ardel! Rowena, sadly, comes back as a troll. Mortified, and realizing she will never be accepted in normal society, she gives up her adventuring days and agrees to stay with the druids protecting their grove.
Drake is reincarnated as a human, losing all his half-elven heritage. His experience with death drives him closer to his faith, and he forgoes the path of the magic-user to focus on his clerical studies.
Ardel is reincarnated as a centaur! Although at the peak of combat training for a centaur, he finds himself in a strong powerful body well-suited for the use of the blade. Of course, Blackrazor calls out for its companion and the two are reunited!
The group then traveled back to the steading. Crularin scouted as an eagle overhead and then entered the building as a mole. The team masked itself using invisibility, Drawmij’s scent mask, and silence 15’ radius to slip into the steading. They moved through a room with half a dozen giantesses and into a wide hallway. What else is lies beyond?
