Dicing with Death: Episode 197

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==Synopsis==
After being warned about the chicken, Divan puts his troll hunting plan on hold and returns to the village. With the help of a child, he catches a snake for Platos for blessed snakeskin. After some rest and spell learning, Divan continues his hunt for the troll. Divan encounters a giant and follows him to giant's cave of which he takes note of. After a failed day of troll hunting, Divan meets a wounded giant and greets him. Giant becomes friendly after Divan reveals what he had done to Grindel. After that encounter, Divan finds the troll he was looking for but finds he is no match for him, Divan uses a potion and escapes but manages to collect some troll blood later. The trolls finds Divan later, but quickly loses track of him due to infighting with itself. Divan is found yet again, but this time, he and the troll encounter a giant and 2 of his children. Divan warns them about the troll, but the children run for it, so the adult giant, Brutus, intervenes and crushes the troll with a rock. Divan and the giant get on friendly terms as he slings the troll to 'death'. Divan burns the trolls remains, feeds the giants, keeps the troll's heart, and heads home.
==Recap==
===27th August===
Divan wakes up on Atropos's lap in her cave. Divan gets up and prepares to head home. Atropos wakes up and gives a dire warning to Divan: "Don't Forget About The Chickens". Divan remembers Atropos mentioning the Chickens in her vision last time, and is still confused to their context. Atropos is unable to explain what she means, so Divan uses the ESP of his crown on Atropos to try to understand. Divan feels Atropos's fear about the concept of a White Chicken, and Atropos desires a ward or charm to keep the chicken away.
Divan arrives back in Nekkraut. Akitos as started work on the qanat. Divan is still injured from the ghost and decides to rest in town for a few days.
While in town, Divan visits with the village elder about finding a Cleric or Priest. The Village Elder says that Psynes has a holy man. Divan remembers the mixed reception last time he was in Psynes.
Divan then visits with Platos and asks about getting some leather blessed by Platos or a Priest of Platos. The snake says he can bless some skinhide (from a normal large snake recently fed) for Divan. Divan agrees and goes snake hunting.
Divan goes out hunting for snakes with some children. They find a king snake circled up between some rocks. Divan drives the snake out from the cover with his staff and then grapples the snake. Divan then carries the snake back to Platos's Shrine. Platos tells Divan to kill the snake. Divan strangles the snake to death. Platos then devours the dead snake over 20–30 minutes. Platos asks Divan to come back in a few days for when it is ready. Divan, with magic, creates a figurine of a lizard to the child who helped him catch the king snake.
Divan then goes to learn some spells. He learns fails to learn Detect Invisibility over 4 days.
===31st August===
Platos shits out some blessed snake skin. It is very gross, but it is blessed leather. Divan uses this blessed leather to cast a new spell.
Divan then learns the spell over the next 4 days.
===2nd September===
Divan collects some supplies and heads north out of town to go after the Two-Headed Troll of the Swamp again. 
In the afternoon Divan spots a giant some distance away to the North West. Divan makes sure not to attack the giant's attention, and they disappear between the hills. Divan goes to look for the giant and notices the giant went into a cave. Divan notes the Giant Cave location and makes sure to avoid it and camps a distance away.
===3rd September===
Divan leaves the hills and walks though a forest at the edge of the swamp, looking out for the troll and doesn't see one during his day's search.
Overnight Divan hears groans and sounds coming from the swamp. Divan wakes up and goes to investigate. Divan casts his to scout out over the bog. The source of the sound is coming closer and closer. The magical fireflies from the spell reveal a wounded giant limping out of the swamp. Divan goes to meet with the Giant. The giant appears to have gash marks on his legs.
Divan greets the giant. The giant is reluctant to speak with Divan at first, but becomes more friendly when he finds out he was the one to fight Grindel the giant and blind her in one of her eyes. Grindel had eaten this giant's first born. The giant fought with a troll in the swamp and threw them a distances away. The giant then continue to walk out of the swamp and away from Divan.
Divan remembers that Trolls don't have night vision like he does, so he decides this is a good chance to go after it, and heads into the swamp himself.
Divan sees a will-o'-the-wisp in the distance. Divan uses his fireflies to distract the will-o'-the-wisp and moves away from it. Divan doesn't travel far before encountering the two-headed troll. The troll doesn't see Divan at first. Divan attacks the troll with a then attacks the troll with his spear. The troll lashes out at Divan, breaking his spell. Divan drinks a tea-cup of Gaseous Form and escapes from the troll.
Divan waits around for the troll to leave the tries to collect some troll blood. Divan is able to retrieve the blood from his spearhead as well as some reeds. Divan then leaves the swamp and makes camp.
===4th September===
As Divan breaks camp he sees the Two-Headed Troll in the swamp watching him. Divan slings the troll. The troll gives chase after Divan.
The troll is relentless in the chase. The troll tracks Divan by his scent and gives chase out of the swamp and into the forest. Divan gains some ground when he gets to a creek and hides his scent. The two Ogre-heads disagree on which way Divan went at the creek, buying Divan maybe 10 minutes.
Divan jogs all the way back out of the forest and back into the hills, in the direction of Nekkraut. Once in the hills Divan line of sight is longer and he can see the Troll trailing behind him.
As Divan jogs he spots 2 hill giant children. Divan yells out a warning to the giants about the Troll, but the giant children pay the warning no heed and skip over in Divan's direction. Luckily the giant's father comes out of the cave and listens to the warning. When the Troll crests a nearby hill, the troll gets knocked down the hill by a boulder thrown from the hill giant father. Divan goes to investigate and finds the troll is crushed under the large rock, pinned to a tree. Divan approaches the struggling troll and casts .
The troll crushes it own right leg in the process of getting the boulder off of it. The troll then starts to climb up the tree to try to get away from Divan. Divan misses with his spear throw so just slings at the troll. The Hill Giant Father just watches the scene, entertained by it.
Divan and the Hill Giant start to talk as Divan keeps slinging. Divan explains who he is and apologises for scaring the children. As Divan starts to collect firewood to smoke the troll out of the tree, the Giant offers to help. The hill giant father walks over to the tree and throws the troll into the air. The troll lands on the ground near Divan. The troll regenerates enough to be able to stand back up and stagger a very slow retreat. Divan continues to sling at the troll until it falls unconscious. Divan then closes in and beats the Troll to -10 HP.
Divan then collects some blood, makes a fire and ignites it with Ignite (reverse of ). Divan then burns the remains of the troll over a bonfire. The Hill Giants eat some of the troll as Divan cuts out the Troll's heart. Divan speaks with the Hill Giant Father, who is named Brutus, about the other Hill Giant he saw in the swamp. Brutus says that must have been Lobos. Brutus says that Divan is a good human and that Brutus will try to not raid his village in the future.
After giving his farewells, Divan then force marches back to Nekkraut. It is night when Divan gets to his hut.
==Experience==
5700 exp for the Troll (2,850 exp to each class)
*400 exp for fighter (40 exp per hit die defeated)
** Fighter total now 13866.5 exp
* 32 MP spent = 320 exp to Wizard (10 exp per mana spent)
* 2 level 2 spells learned = 400 exp (100 exp per spell level learned)
** Wizard total now 16408.18 exp
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