Session 3 - Crossroads and Giants

After leaving Sir Archibald Gruff's estate we split up for a bit. Ape, Austar and Raskin went to Goldie's Pot to procure a mask for Ape so he could hide his now hairless skin due to smoking something in the Foggy Pipe the day before.
 
I made my way to an information board to see if there were any jobs available on the way to Pentareach. I was approached by a middle aged man with a long tied up pony tail that goes to his lower back. He identified himself as Alistan Preen, owner of Preen's Laughterhouse and father to Gregor Preen, who had tried to take advantage of our weakened state after Wera's Barrow. Due to that mistake, Gregor's body is now hidden in Wera's Barrow. Alistan mentioned that hardly any work gets put up on the board for sell swords. Mentioned Sir Archibald Gruff's job a few days ago. He recommended I go to Adventurers Crossroad which is found along The Royal Road about 2 and a half days travel on foot.
 
I made my way to Cloverdry Stableyard to get some information on how much horses would cost to buy or rent. The following prices the man gave me were as follows:
 
Draft Horse - 50 gold
Riding Horse - 75 gold
Pony - 30 gold
Donkey/Mule - 8 gold
 
As a group we decided to save our coin and just travel on foot. Malaphor decided to go to Preen's Laughterhouse and he was seemingly followed out from there. Not sure why he went there since we killed his son and friends...
 
On our journey towards the Adventurers Crossroad I spoke with Austar and asked what he was looking for in the world and he mentioned he had been tasked with checking and restoring old Raven Queen temples. One of them is located in The Besansir Woods.
 
We had an non eventful nights rest and continued on our way to our destination. Part way through the day we came across a bridge where Peryton Guards with Winged Obelisk symbols on their armour were crossing towards us with horse and carriage. The winged obelisk symbol likely indicates they are apart of the Royal Guard.
 
We arrived at the Adventurers Crossroad which is essentially a large tavern/inn with an attached stable yard. We found a table and sat down. Not long after we sat down a young boy walked in and went straight to the bar and passed over what looked like a bag to the bar keep. It was then announced that the new bounties had come in. The rules were simply to only take 1 bounty per group. Raskin and Malaphor both managed to grab a bounty each. While they did that I went to the bar to speak to the dwarven bar keep.
 
The bar keep was a red headed and bearded Dwarven male that goes by the name Devrin Ironjaw. The Ironjaw family are a high ranking clan within Dwarven society, but it seems as though Devrin has cut most of his ties with the family and didn't want to speak about them much. I asked him about the Words of Moradin but he didn't know too much of it and is no longer a follower of Moradin. Still believes the Words of Moradin to be a story tale. Devrin did say that if there was any truth to them, I would be able to find more information at the Stone Archives in Khulbor's Summit. An Ironjaw is the current lord of Khulbor's Summit.
 
The job we decided to do was to slay a Flab Giant which had been terrorising farmers and farms down at the northern base of the Blacktop Pass mountains which we would then need to provide proof of the kill to a Magistrate office. Upon completion we would be paid 300 gold.
 
A lot of my dreams the night at the Adventurers Crossroad, was to do with a rainbow coloured sphere.
 
The next morning we made our way along Alabasta Pass and then followed the river round before heading North. We notice some splintered trees and eventually come across a destroyed farmhouse. Not far from it was the Flab Giant we were looking for. In our battle with the Flab Giant, it eventually exploded and a ox sized boar with tentacles on the tails came out of it.
 
We took the Flab Giant's head, boars tusks and the tentacles the boar had and put them onto a cart I managed to create following a ritual I can do with metal. Some of the powers Moradin blessed upon me. Now overlooking the village of Kard with Pentareach in the distance.