“We’ve slept on enemy territory before!” Corrin pipes up. “But if Captain Sana says we go one more, we go one more! Hopefully nothing really bad happens...” 

"If the Captain believes that we should go on, then I shall go."

ROOM FIVE - THE GRIND CANYON

"Misha laugh een zee face of danger." She turned away from the group and laughed loudly and proudly for a little bit at the now peaceful asteroid field. She turned back to the group, nodding once - as if making a point.

We sailed on to the next chamber. It was gigantic and spherical. It was approximately one and one half miles across. a glowing crystal in the center illuminated it like a sun. The ground was covered with rocks in many places, but green grass and scrubby trees and bushes grew in many places. Stones were floating through the air all over the chamber. Some were very small, others boulders, others the size of a palace. The air is thick with them.

"Are you *******.." Misha mumbled, and trailed off.

We could sail through them, but only the best pilot would be able to avoid them all because of how small some of the rocks were. We looked at the ground. It was with a deep canyon that ran along the floor beneath us to port and starboard and all the way up the cube fore and aft. The canyon was a quarter mile deep at its shallowest point and much deeper elsewhere. In many places, we saw swaying ropes and wooden bridges cross the canyon. Below, on the grassy hillsides, we saw small villages surrounded by wooden walls. Civilization? How? We could see men tending flocks of goats. On closer inspection, the men were either very huge, or the goats were very small, we couldn't tell. Some of them saw us, and waved, while others ran towards little villages.

As we traveled, looking around, a "ping" sound was heard. Misha looked at her armor - a small pebble had tapped her shoulder. Immediately, Misha shoulder became much heavier, the shoulder armor slowly turning to stone. As she watched with concern and mild panic, in a few moments, it gradually turned back to normal. She moved her arm and shoulder around, realizing the stoning affect was only temporary, much to her relief.

Upon stepping aboard the skiff, Yasei immediately slumped down in her seat and took a quick catnap (short rest).

She woke up when she subconsciously heard the pinging noise, of the pebble striking Misha in the shoulder.

“Chikusho!” she yelps out loud, before quickly stifling her surprise by slapping her hand over her mouth.

”What was that, Misha-san?!”

"Chillaxiteev, Yerpsei." Misha said, taking the pebble and quickly showing it to Yasei, then promptly tossed it into the air. "Zee stones here have petreefyeeng properties." She shook her head in disappointment. "We must be careful here."

Sana watches the rocks. "Oh boy...this'll be fun. One of these things hits us, we might be going down fast. Again."

Relief washes over Jill when she sees the petrification fade off of Misha's shoulder. "I have a hypothesis that the severity of the petrification effect is tied to the size of the rock, although I have no means of testing this. My only suggestion is to minimize contact with the pebbles, avoid contact with any rocks larger than that, and destroy the eye as soon as possible."

Misha nodded. Jill's words rung true, and the thought of being hit by a boulder the size of what landed on her just hours ago actually made her nervous. She would have to remain vigilant even more in this cube, not just for herself, but for her friends.

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"Misha hef feeling that wherever leetle keetee ees, owner ees not going to believe a word of what leetle keetee has to say." Misha said, randomly, sadly. "Too bad.."

Off in the distance, we found a truly massive cave. 

It wasn't an exit, no, it was an entrance. The problem was, there were more rocks than the eye could count in our way. The humanoid creatures below us didn't seem to mind us too much, but we had a hunch that something was in that huge cave.

Jill looks at the cave entrance and furrows her brow. "Hmm, we cannot enter that way without making contact with all of those rocks. Normally, I would suggest that we bring the Belle in and have its cannons blast away at the rocks, but in this scenario, I do not believe that it would be able to maneuver safely. Perhaps the locals below might be able to grant us some assistance. What do you think, Captain Sana?"

Misha turned to look at her old friend and Captain.

Sana nods. "Let's see if the locals can give us a hand getting there." She begins to take the skiff down towards the humanoids below.

Yasei: "These folk appear to be simple farming folk, Cap'n.  Perhaps we should barter with them?  Offer them assistance, in exchange for assistance?"

Lowering the Skiff down, we came to realize that the people down on the "surface" were actually stone giants. One of them approached us, a few others had stones in their hands, ready to throw at any sign of provocation. Misha sheathed her hammer and shield and kept her hands raised - a tactic of peace she learned long ago. The stone giant that approached us spoke to us in a language we did not understand.

Swiftly thinking on her feet, Yasei tries to make the stone giants laugh by entertaining them with a funny dance (Performance: 6).

For a moment, Yasei's dancing causes Jill to think back to Avernus and Persephone, the nice but rather silly Shadar-Kai who traveled with them. But her focus returns to the task at hand. She sheathes her sword and raises her hands to show that she and the rest of her party come to the giants in peace. "Greetings. I am called Jill Moon. Can you understand me?" 

In broken Common, the unarmed stone giant speaks. "Yes. I am Kolto. Beware the snake that eats the sun."

Misha groans. She didn't like the sound of that. But the Glory in killing it..whatever..it was.

Yasei stops her weird dance when the booming voice of the stone giant shatters her poor performance.  "Master Kolto....<bowing deeply>....we seek permission to enter your beautiful and noble lands.  We come in peace.  We only seek the great eye ball - have you a magical beast of huge proportions here, resembling a giant eyeball?"