Gnomes, Tomes & Catacombs: Episode 11

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== Synopsis ==
In the passage, Brad Barbo stealthily enters a Mountain Giant's cave but is detected, resulting in a dangerous encounter where he narrowly escapes and joins his party. After resting under Gerald Knott's magical "Leomund's Tiny Hut," the party encounters hobgoblins with human slaves, defeats them, and rescues four slaves. One of the freed slaves, Kel Grey, leads the party to his estate, where they receive rewards and additional quests. In Hillsborough, Gerald acquires new spells, Midori gains strength from a deity, and Brad arranges to poison a giant. Brad successfully kills a giant and collects a bounty, while the party returns to the cave to search for a tomb, defeats more giants, and rescues a Dwarf. The party then encounters a bone snake, which attacks Locke as he investigates it.
==Recap==
===Day 121 (1510-11-29) (continued)===
Roc Peak. Brad Barbo sneaks into a Mountain Giant's cave. He is spotted and a Giant rolls a bolder into him. The second bolder the giant throws misses him. Brad flees the cave towards the party. Gerald Knott makes an auditory illusion of an army. The Mountain Giant heads back into the cave and doesn't follow the Captain.
The party camps under Gerald's "Leomund's Tiny Hut" spell. 3 hours into their rest, they see a band of Hobgoblins with a group of human slaves. The party decide to save the slaves.
The party leave the Tiny Hut, dispelling it, and then sneak up on the hobgoblins. Gerald hides in Brad's backpack and casts Fireball at the Hobgoblins, taking out the entire front group. Only 6 hobgoblins remain. The party move in to kill the rest of the hobgoblins; some flee with slave hostages. 2 Hobgoblins flee the battle; 4 slaves remain alive and free.
One of the slaves says they are Kel Grey of Clydesdale and the party will be rewarded for his return. Brad and Gerald Knott collect the animals.
The party head for Clydesdale.
===Day 122 (1510-11-30)===
Everyone arrives in Clydesdale the next night. They go to Kel Grey's estate. The family is very happy to see Kel Grey back. Locke is rewarded with the magical 2-handed sword "Greybane." Gerald is given the name of the wizard in Hillsborough he can trade spells with. Midori gets a goat. Brad gets some new clothes.
The party rest at the Grey estate overnight.
===Day 123 (1510-12-01)===
Over breakfast, Brad gives Kel Grey a quest to find him some sneaking boots.
The party borrow the Grey family carriage and travel to Hillsborough.
===Day 124 (1510-12-02)===
Gerald visits Scarlet Sorcery and gets given 3 spells to learn: Counterspell, Locate Object & Dragonbreath.
Midori sacrifices her goat to Voraci. She is gifted great strength and also a message.
:"The Time is coming Soon where I'll Call upon You for a very Specific Task. Be Ready. Be Prepared." speaks Voraci.
Brad goes to make a connection with the goddess Efra, but his sea shanty isn't very good. He then makes a promise to Efra that he'll solo a giant to impress her.
===Day 128 (1510-12-06)===
Brad then heads to the docks and with the help of some thieves arranges to get some poison to use on the giants. He cheats the alchemist of his poison.
Gerald tries to make contact with the twin gods of knowledge and wisdom, Mathis and Safia (using their old names of Dorbaff / Guam). When his owl familiar appears, it has changed color, indicating possible success.
Brad wants to poison the Giant on his own, so he convinces Gerald to cast invisibility on him; then he goes into the giant's cave alone. He finds a male giant. He walks up to the sleeping giant and goes to stab the poison into the giant. He stabs the giant and his invisibility breaks. Brad hides while the poison takes hold and then jumps on the giant's back and kills him. Brad then cuts of the Giant's Penis to present as bounty to the Sheriff, Kel Nancy. Brad is given a block of gold as a reward for killing the Giant.
Meanwhile, in town, Locke gives Greybane to Midori and they spar outside.
Brad pays back the alchemist 100 gold.
===Day 129 (1510-12-07)===
The party set out back to the giant's cave and look for the tomb that is marked in the tome. A giant inside the cave attacks the party and the party fight back and kill the giant. Gerald's changed owl familiar scouts ahead and spots 2 smaller giants coming their way. The party kill them both.
The party explore the cave and see a bone pile. Gerald casts detect magic and finds nothing. The party then save a Dwarf who was hiding further inside the cave. The rest of the Dwarf's friends had been killed by the Giants.
Midori prays over the dead snake and feels coldness from the negative material plane, the feeling of necromancy that her goddess Voraci finds repugnant.
Gerald casts "Leomund's Tiny Hut" and the party rest inside. Gerald, using prestidigitation, creates a potato for the Dwarf they rescued.
===Day 130 (1510-12-08)===
Brad throws a rock at the bone snake and nothing happens. Locke insists there must be a puzzle to solve and walks closer to it. The snake attacks Locke.
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