SESSION NINETEEN

SESSION NINETEEN

Kythorn and Flamerule

Chapter One: To the mountains

            Setting off the next day with their small band (swelled by the presence of Phyloe, Gan and Chitlin), the party headed off for the distant Thunderspire Mountains. With the map given them by the priest of Vistna, they figured two weeks would take them to the Frost Giant Fortress, a week to explore, and another two weeks back….just in time to rejoin the merchant train heading back to Norvik.  With Argois, Galgadayle and his animal companions traveling a quarter mile or so in front of the wagon as scouts, the rest of the party rode around the wagon and mules, with Chitlin driving the wagon and Phyloe and the mage Arcus riding aboard.  The first few days the group enjoyed the ride, with no encounters, as the summer weather was particularly comfortable.  Game and water were plentiful, and the trip was most unlike their hazardous journey to Karlsfjord, or to the Vistnan tomb.  On the 5^th day, with the mountain range looming only a day away, the druid and ranger scouts noticed many winter wolf tracks criss-crossing the ground coming from the mountain range….interposed with the tracks of a frost giant!  Sending Argois back to warn the party, he reached them just in time to see a large striding figure surrounded with over a dozen giant wolfish forms heading towards the party from the south.  It soon became apparent that a frost giant surrounded by a dozen winter wolves was on some sort of patrol of the area, and he had seen them!  Several fireballs were sent at the giant and his pack, but they were spread out so the damage wasn’t as much as it could have been.  A pitched battle followed, with the scouts finally destroying the giant and his wolves.