(049) The Blasted Abbey

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 12:26 am

waysoftheearth wrote:
Without warning, a section of in buildings opposite the bridge collapses with a huge racket, and a hideous GIANT bursts forth from the wreckage!

The guards too, recoil is disgust and retreat toward the abbey doors.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:19 am

mushgnome wrote:
Does the giant appear to be wearing metal armor?

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 2:51 am

waysoftheearth wrote:
The giant, emerging from the huge cloud of dust, appears to be wearing some sort of dinosaur hide carapace; he carries a great wooden palisade of a shield and a huge metal sword that might cleave horses in twain!

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:01 pm

mushgnome wrote:
Highbough licks his lips in anticipation and prepares to cast the Torrefaction on the great metal blade, forcing the Giant to drop it (and possibly burning up its hands, too). But at the last moment, he hesitates---if the guards are agitated by the giant's presence, then maybe they are enemies, and maybe the enemy of his enemy is his friend?

"Come on, Olaf, let's take a closer look," he whispers. As the guards retreat, Highbough stealthily advances toward the abbey doors.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Sun Apr 07, 2013 8:35 am

waysoftheearth wrote:
Highbough crouches low, wrapped in his Cloak of Elemental Night and creeps out toward the bridge. Moving through the bubbling smoke he is but a shadow as he creeps up to the near corner of the abbey...

The Giant is creating some commotion in its local area. The guards and their wolves have withdraw across the bridge and are now in the very door arch. Olaf is holding his position at the base of the bell tower.

From here Highbough could either leap the tar pit to attain the rear wall of the abbey, or continue to move along the side of the abbey, toward the bridge and the guards. To do the latter he would be alarmingly exposed! Unless he were invisible...?

What now?

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:09 pm

mushgnome wrote:
Good idea. Highbough will turn invisible and approach the bridge/guards. (No way he's jumping through those questionable vapors!)

"Olaf, I'm going in for a closer look."

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:16 pm

eris wrote:

mushgnome wrote:Good idea. Highbough will turn invisible and approach the bridge/guards. (No way he's jumping through those questionable vapors!)

"Olaf, I'm going in for a closer look."

Olaf keeps an eye on Highbough, but isn't exposing himself to the guards and wolves, not yet anyway. He has his bow out with an arrow nocked and ready to fire if the enemy spot the old elf and move to attack him.

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Thu Apr 11, 2013 1:34 pm

waysoftheearth wrote:
Highbough pulls the black hood of his cloak over his head, and to Olaf's astonishment vanishes utterly from sight!

Invisible Highbough then creeps through the curling vapours toward the match-shift bridge over the tar-moat, and the entrance to the blackened abbey.

By good fortune, the priests and wolves there are distracted by the giant, whose head and shoulders stand out through a gaping hole in the roof of a building some 80ft across the internal yard. It seems to be surveying the scene, and as its glare passes over him, Highbough has to remind himself that he is Invisible Highbough.

Barely two minutes later Invisible Highbough is as near to the "bridge" as he dares go. It is really nothing more than a few pieces of timber crudely thrown down to create a 10ft wide walkway over the tar moat. Invisible Highbough has the impression that the whole of it is a relatively haphazard addition to the abbey structure.

Crouching near the far side of the bridge, he can glimpse and hear the priests just inside the doorway, barely 30ft away, and is amazed that somehow they haven't detected him yet!

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:45 pm

eris wrote:
Does Olaf recognize Guntrum as being the giant as the big guy crashes through the buildings toward the Abbey and its bridge?

Post by **waysoftheearth** » Mon Apr 15, 2013 12:13 pm

waysoftheearth wrote:

eris wrote:Does Olaf recognize Guntrum as being the giant as the big guy crashes through the buildings toward the Abbey and its bridge?

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Alas, Olaf's wisdom is only 8, he hasn't joined the dots yet. All he sees is a terrific cloud of dust roiling forth as a 12ft giant bursts through the opposite wall, sending timbers and stones tumbling in all directions! The monster has a h u g e sword that looks like it could cut Olaf in two, and it's making a beeline for the abbey gate, wherein the priests have already withdrawn.

From Invisible Highbough's perspective it is far more frightening. The giant is lumbering right at him! The priests and their wolves have disappeared from sight inside.

What now?