The Undaunted head out into the nearby wilderness to use the magical flare to hopefully summon the Cloud Giant mercenaries
- interconnected stuff of cloud
- takes a long time to climb
- you see 4 huge cloud giants – air elementals & silver dragons
- giant invites us to refresh ourselves, his voice booming from across the cloud islands
- Cloud giant asks what the job is that we can negotiate for
- Nidalru says what we’re looking for, and the giant suggests he might not have it, but what would it be worth
- The giant asks in more than one way what we can offer to have him give up such an item, but the heroes are at a loss
- legion suggests that we can retrieve for them something lost to the ages from within the belly of the stone thief, and this piques their interest
- they suggest they want the hoard of the Great Gold Wyrm
- Idris reacts poorly to this and would not agree (and Merian should have been more reluctant)
- The giant goes on to offer that they have already made a deal for the eye
- the deal is with the 3 – that they will offer over a large part of the overworld
- Nidalru suggests that the giants are being taken advantage of by the dragons and that they won’t live up to the deal
- Giants take (quite understandably) offense and move to engage
FIGHT!
- heroes badly injured – Thane almost killed – he seems to relent
- the ones who want the eye promised the giants a great deal, but now he’s reconsidering
- The heroes and the giants pause, each considering what they can get from each other….
