You know giants obey the ordning, a hierarchy of superiority that goes: storm giant, cloud giant, fire giant, frost giant, stone giant, hill giant. But there is also something with wedding, but you don't know what it is.
(Sooooo... Ordning order except for the couple? But they're already at the top of the Ordning... Try them last?? That seems wonky. Any other thoughts?)
(Oh! I was imagining going through the Ordning in regular order but putting them last. So fire, frost, stone, hill, storm, cloud. Or maybe they bookend it or something...?)
(Oh! Are giants chivalrous? Would they put ladies first? Are there any females other than the bride? Am I overthinking this? Am I looking forward to Gintarou getting lightning'd again? 😈)
" I'm the son of a rice farmer! How can I know the giant's tradition of weddings! " Gulping with nervousness, Gintarou tries to pour the water again… and stops. '' Wait a second. Druquilla, can you order your ghost fish to pour the water for me instead? " Thewarrior finally remembers that his companion can cast Mage Hand.
(Not that player forgot about it! Gintarou will ask Druquilla to fill the cups in order of hill, stone, frost, fire, cloud and storm)
"I suppose that would be the safest bet for everyone," Druquilla remarks with a light grin summoning forth her spectral fish once again. "Though you were rather impressive though dodging that lightning."
With the fish now holding the waterskin Druquilla will command them to pour the water into the hill giant's cup first then wait to see what happens.
(Try fire, frost, stone, hill, storm, cloud...? Or split storm and cloud up at the beginning and end...? If we're doing it without adverse effects, can we just say we spend a bunch of time on it until we get it right? 😅)
(Wait...... I sorta kinda almost got a puzzle close to right??? 🤣)
"So's this a potion for heroes or for those what want to be heroes? Magical labeling standards could really be held to a higher standard, eh?" Mist babbles, seeming notpointedly not impressed, as he stuffs one into his pack.
He brazenly opens the door on the right. "What have we here?"
" Oh poor little guy! " Gintarou is horrified at the sight of self-roasted-fish. When the cups turn into bottles, the warrior gets out from the cover. He takes one portion in hand and read the labels aloud. " What about it,Mist? It's better than some infamous giant heroes or exotic metaphors. I like their efficiency. But… the letters these labels are somehow similar to… my dialect " ( Till this point Gintarou didn't know the language his village speaking is Giant)
Gintarou goans when Mist opens the door with zero hesitation. " At least knock on the door! Give us some time to respond and run! "
A huge bed dominates much of the room. Against the wall opposite of the bed is a painting of a cyclops woman. She has cropped red hair and wears a long, dark blue robe. A gaggle of cockatrice are gathered at her feet. The name "Berinike" has been carved in Giant into the top of the frame.
Next to the bed is a large desk. It is disorganized, covered in open books, loose scrolls, and gnawed bones. Of note are a treatise on 'giant etiquette' at weddings and other occasions, and a scroll relating a method of using cockatrice’s feathers to make a balm that cures petrification. Also while you search the table discover notes.
Gintarou you can decipher a journal that summs up as below.
Gintarou
In the overlooked Bodden islands is the ruincovered land of Eemios. Built by storm giants in the distant past, it was once a beautiful island of great marble edifices upon rolling hills. Though now ruins, they still hold the lore of the storm giants, including the legend of Giant’s Spur.
Kolganra was different from the other cyclops of Eemios, educating himself from the teachings of the storm giants and rediscovering their earth-shaping magic. In his youth, he crossed paths with a cyclops from a rival clan - proud Berinike, who had likewise taught herself to decipher the giant’s lore. The two fell in love and, inspired by the giant’s history and empowered by their magic, rebuilt a ruined temple of learning from which they commanded the surrounding lands.
Upon the wall behind their thrones, in the form of a great mosaic, was recorded the story of the Giant’s Spur, the greatest work of the giants. Kolganra and Berinike stylized themselves after the storm giant ancestors: a king and queen fated to rule vast kingdoms, sitting together on thrones atop the Pillar of Giants.
Their dream turned to folly, as Kolganra sought to unify the island through belligerence and drove the feuding clans to all out war. The clans dashed themselves to flinders on each other's wrath, coming to a climax with a siege on the temple of Kolganra and Berinike. By chance, Kolganra survived as the columns crashed down around them, but Berinike came never again from that broken hall.
Kolganra fled to lonely seaside caves, where he wasted away in mourning for his lost love, his lost kingdom, and his lost dreams. Unable to come to terms with the cascade of failures set in motion by his own hand, he moldered long in exile, until it seemed that all that remained for him was death. Then there came to Kolganra a sign - a shooting star that arced through the sky. As it fell, a fragment fell into the waves near the cyclops’ caves.
It was clear to him that this was a message from Berinike and that she waited for him in the Astral plane, just as was spoken of in the legend of the Giant's Spur.
Kolganra set out from Eemios to the island, intending to ascend it and reunite with his waiting Berinike. On reaching the top, however, he discovered that the legend of the giants was a lie. For all its height, the tower did not reach the Astral plane, and the stars above were as distant as they had ever been.
Unable to accept his loss, Kolganra rejected life and plunged into madness, swearing by the Spur to restore his wife to life and complete the work that the giants could not.
Once he has obtained enough stone, Kolganra intends to complete a life-sized statue of his lost love and bring it to life with the magic of the star fragment. Whether such a plan will succeed cannot be said, but Kolganra works at his grim task with a determination that nothing can stop.
In the opposite corner of the room rests half of an unfinished cloud golem.
A large hole in the eastern wall is loosely covered by a tattered cloth billowing weakly in the wind. Pushing the cloth aside reveals a large field of cloud. The ocean is no longer visible from the vantage point, fading to a hazy blue far below.
Mist scrunches up his face and shakes his head. Looking back to Gintarou he grins mischievously.
"Right, then. Give it another go, bigm'n!"
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Continuing to look at the relief Aubric is racking his brain for anything he can remember reading or seeing in all his studies.
History: 15
11 (You forgot advantage.)
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
Well that didn't help any.
You know giants obey the ordning, a hierarchy of superiority that goes: storm giant, cloud giant, fire giant, frost giant, stone giant, hill giant. But there is also something with wedding, but you don't know what it is.
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
(Sooooo... Ordning order except for the couple? But they're already at the top of the Ordning... Try them last?? That seems wonky. Any other thoughts?)
Characters currently being ruined on this forum:
Neria Tallfellow (Halfling Rogue) - Curse of the Crimson Throne with Ashen_Age
((No I think that might be the right choice, start with hill, then go stone, frost, fire, cloud and end with storm))
(Oh! I was imagining going through the Ordning in regular order but putting them last. So fire, frost, stone, hill, storm, cloud. Or maybe they bookend it or something...?)
Characters currently being ruined on this forum:
Neria Tallfellow (Halfling Rogue) - Curse of the Crimson Throne with Ashen_Age
(Oh! Are giants chivalrous? Would they put ladies first? Are there any females other than the bride? Am I overthinking this? Am I looking forward to Gintarou getting lightning'd again? 😈)
Characters currently being ruined on this forum:
Neria Tallfellow (Halfling Rogue) - Curse of the Crimson Throne with Ashen_Age
" I'm the son of a rice farmer! How can I know the giant's tradition of weddings! " Gulping with nervousness, Gintarou tries to pour the water again… and stops. '' Wait a second. Druquilla, can you order your ghost fish to pour the water for me instead? " The warrior finally remembers that his companion can cast Mage Hand.
(Not that player forgot about it! Gintarou will ask Druquilla to fill the cups in order of hill, stone, frost, fire, cloud and storm)
"I suppose that would be the safest bet for everyone," Druquilla remarks with a light grin summoning forth her spectral fish once again. "Though you were rather impressive though dodging that lightning."
With the fish now holding the waterskin Druquilla will command them to pour the water into the hill giant's cup first then wait to see what happens.
Kraven will back out of the room just to be safe.
Lightning jumps out at the fish, no need for a save I would say it goes through them even if they save.
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
(Try fire, frost, stone, hill, storm, cloud...? Or split storm and cloud up at the beginning and end...? If we're doing it without adverse effects, can we just say we spend a bunch of time on it until we get it right? 😅)
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(Fair enough, storm first cloud last)
As the water is being poored into the last cup, all 6 cups slowly change form, and turn into potions, each labeled with potion of heroism
The only new way to go is up the stairs on the north side of the room.
I assume we head up, there is a door to the right, and a small hall with a door to the left. Which door do we go into?
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
(Wait...... I sorta kinda almost got a puzzle close to right??? 🤣)
"So's this a potion for heroes or for those what want to be heroes? Magical labeling standards could really be held to a higher standard, eh?" Mist babbles, seeming notpointedly not impressed, as he stuffs one into his pack.
He brazenly opens the door on the right. "What have we here?"
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Neria Tallfellow (Halfling Rogue) - Curse of the Crimson Throne with Ashen_Age
" Oh poor little guy! " Gintarou is horrified at the sight of self-roasted-fish. When the cups turn into bottles, the warrior gets out from the cover. He takes one portion in hand and read the labels aloud. " What about it,Mist? It's better than some infamous giant heroes or exotic metaphors. I like their efficiency. But… the letters these labels are somehow similar to… my dialect " ( Till this point Gintarou didn't know the language his village speaking is Giant)
Gintarou goans when Mist opens the door with zero hesitation. " At least knock on the door! Give us some time to respond and run! "
Kraven grabs one of the potions and then squawks loudly, "No!" with his feathered hand stretch out as Mist brazenly opens the next door.
A huge bed dominates much of the room. Against the wall opposite of the bed is a painting of a cyclops woman. She has cropped red hair and wears a long, dark blue robe. A gaggle of cockatrice are gathered at her feet. The name "Berinike" has been carved in Giant into the top of the frame.
Next to the bed is a large desk. It is disorganized, covered in open books, loose scrolls, and gnawed bones. Of note are a treatise on 'giant etiquette' at weddings and other occasions, and a scroll relating a method of using cockatrice’s feathers to make a balm that cures petrification. Also while you search the table discover notes.
Gintarou you can decipher a journal that summs up as below.
Gintarou
In the overlooked Bodden islands is the ruincovered land of Eemios. Built by storm giants in the distant past, it was once a beautiful island of great marble edifices upon rolling hills. Though now ruins, they still hold the lore of the storm giants, including the legend of Giant’s Spur.
Kolganra was different from the other cyclops of Eemios, educating himself from the teachings of the storm giants and rediscovering their earth-shaping magic. In his youth, he crossed paths with a cyclops from a rival clan - proud Berinike, who had likewise taught herself to decipher the giant’s lore. The two fell in love and, inspired by the giant’s history and empowered by their magic, rebuilt a ruined temple of learning from which they commanded the surrounding lands.
Upon the wall behind their thrones, in the form of a great mosaic, was recorded the story of the Giant’s Spur, the greatest work of the giants. Kolganra and Berinike stylized themselves after the storm giant ancestors: a king and queen fated to rule vast kingdoms, sitting together on thrones atop the Pillar of Giants.
Their dream turned to folly, as Kolganra sought to unify the island through belligerence and drove the feuding clans to all out war. The clans dashed themselves to flinders on each other's wrath, coming to a climax with a siege on the temple of Kolganra and Berinike. By chance, Kolganra survived as the columns crashed down around them, but Berinike came never again from that broken hall.
Kolganra fled to lonely seaside caves, where he wasted away in mourning for his lost love, his lost kingdom, and his lost dreams. Unable to come to terms with the cascade of failures set in motion by his own hand, he moldered long in exile, until it seemed that all that remained for him was death. Then there came to Kolganra a sign - a shooting star that arced through the sky. As it fell, a fragment fell into the waves near the cyclops’ caves.
It was clear to him that this was a message from Berinike and that she waited for him in the Astral plane, just as was spoken of in the legend of the Giant's Spur.
Kolganra set out from Eemios to the island, intending to ascend it and reunite with his waiting Berinike. On reaching the top, however, he discovered that the legend of the giants was a lie. For all its height, the tower did not reach the Astral plane, and the stars above were as distant as they had ever been.
Unable to accept his loss, Kolganra rejected life and plunged into madness, swearing by the Spur to restore his wife to life and complete the work that the giants could not.
Once he has obtained enough stone, Kolganra intends to complete a life-sized statue of his lost love and bring it to life with the magic of the star fragment. Whether such a plan will succeed cannot be said, but Kolganra works at his grim task with a determination that nothing can stop.
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
In the opposite corner of the room rests half of an unfinished cloud golem.
A large hole in the eastern wall is loosely covered by a tattered cloth billowing weakly in the wind. Pushing the cloth aside reveals a large field of cloud. The ocean is no longer visible from the vantage point, fading to a hazy blue far below.
Thom Everyman- Midgard One Shots
DMing- The Voyage of the Fallen Star
Aubric would be interested in the half finished golem and would want to inspect it and see if he can gleam anything from it.
Investigation: 18