Once in Silverymoon our heroes decided to hunt around for some magic items, happy at the new cash they had just made. In addition, they saw little use for some of the items they had found/received and so decided to sell them for money. Zesh almost died from shock seeing the wave of wealth threatening to sweep her away.
Seraphina decided to look for a new bow. She found one at a discounted price, but was warned people avoided this bow due to some sort of dark warning. She bought it anyways. Tao decided she would look to buy herself a belt of cloud giant’s strength. Instead she found a belt of storm giant’s strength. She immediately wanted to buy it, although the price was much higher than she would like. Still, having just sold some items, she felt it was worth the purchase. Finally, Zesh wanted to find herself an Amulet of Health. She managed to find herself a silver dragonborn willing to sell it to her. They had made plans to meet at a local tavern the next, however he didn’t show up.
Zesh enquired a bit and learned he was a traveling merchant that passed through town on occasion, he liked to make transactions at the tavern. Zesh used Locate Person to try and find him but could not. She then tried Locate Object to find the amulet. She followed it to a nice looking mansion and was about to give up when her party members encouraged her not to. She then tried Locate Object and was able to locator the seller’s corpse. Seraphina broke a window and snuck in, she heard some chanting, and left the building to get some thieves tools. The party regrouped and went into the mansion, where Seraphina tried to pick the lock but failed.
Tao decided to break through the door, as they saw a group of cultists in circle. On the ground was painted another large circle with 4 smaller circles. Along the wall at the back 3 dragon borns of varying colours hung motionless on the wall, including a green one. Our heroes began to fight their way through the cultists, but as they did energy came from each of the dragonborns infusing the cultists and transforming them into a dragon like creature. Zesh commanded her own army of tiny wooden dragons to assault them, and our heroes came out victorious. Zesh double checked the green dragonborn and sighed a sigh of relief when she realized it was no one she knew. She found the amulet on the silver dragonborn’s body, and with that our heroes reported what they found to the authorities.
They procured a cart and horse and headed to the Graypeak Mountains looking for the Deadstone Cleft, home of the stone giants. On their way they passed a family of 3, a mother, father, and daughter. They thought nothing of it but then heard a large crash. Looking behind them they saw the carriage destroyed and a gargantuan bird flying off with a horse in its talons. Rushing over Zesh and Seraphina found a little child crying as both her parents had died. They quickly cast revevify on the parents and tried to ease everyone’s concerns. They offered them their own horse and carriage before continuing on.
Once in the Graystones mountains, Seraphina used her survival skills to track passage by the stone giants deeper into the mountains. It took them a number of days, and they regularly saw that giant bird. They eventually came to an opening where they sensed stone giants and there were more tracks. Following along the mountain they came to a small opening in the canyon, with a giant nest by the entrance. They tried to sneak along, but Tao was just too noisy. The bird saw them and swooped at them. Seraphina was its first target but she disappeared and ran for dear life.
Tao was the next target, and even when Tao summoned ancient giant magic to increase her size she was still small in comparison to the beast. It picked Tao up with ease as it began flying off with its prey. The two fought in the air, with Tao escaping the bird’s grasp just to get caught back up in it again. Seraphina was shooting arrows as Zesh ran helplessly, hoping to heal Tao if she fell. In the end, Tao did manage to fell the beast and came crashing to the ground, where Zesh quickly healed her.
Thus time once more came to a stand still, as our heroes weary souls took a well deserved rest.