Arriving in Presidio, the Guardians quickly got a hold of High Priest Nugga, and turned over the 3 artifacts of the Moradin-church. After finishing the "deal", they told Nugga of the invasion, and asked him if he could get them in to see the Lord General, leader of the city. The High Priest wrote them a letter of introduction (something like: Let the bearers talk to Raul, or face the wrath of Moradin) and the Guardians immediately headed towards the palace where Lord General Raul Sarazin lives.
About an hour later, the Guardians found themselves in Raul's war room. They told of the army, he asked some questions, and then thanked them for riding hard to warn Presidio. He told them they would be contacted, if the city needed to call upon their services once again.
89th day of Autumn, Year 185 of Vecna
The next day, the Guardians asked Christobal about a sage to tell them about the rod they had found, and were introduced to Garix, a gnome friend of Christobal, who apparently also knew Balaros. They struck a deal with Garix to find out more about the rod. He told them it would cost about 500 gp per library he would need access to, and there was no way of knowing how many libraries he would have to bribe his way into. They gave him 1000 gold to start with.
While Garix the gnome started his investigation, the Guardians decided to find out about who attacked them. Via Nugga, they found the smith who had made the weapons that a lot of the riders had had, and it turned out he had sold large shipments of weapons to the church of Moradin, to the palace and to a noble named Zuckran within the last year.
Jelastra also hired a guy to make a sketch of Mr. Garotte, based on what Jelastra could remember. He then spent the rest of the day trying to find anyone who knew anything. At some point, he was referred to the Rotten Rat, where he should look for the Shadow. Contact was made, and the Guardians were told to show up at a certain place in the severs at midnight. There a cloaked figure met up with them, and took the picture. He told them they would be contacted.
90th day of Autumn, Year 185 of Vecna
The next morning, Garix had news. He had connected the rod with an ancient giant temple about 4-5 days up in the mountains. The Guardians quickly decided to investigate, and Garix suggested that they bring him, so that he could decipher things if needed.
Before leaving, Christobal told them that someone associated with the House of Zuckran had been there the night before, looking for them. Not a noble.
4th day of Winter, Year 185 of Vecna
Arriving at the site of the temple, the Guardians were in for a surprise. There was a huge giant fort built right were the temple was supposed to be.
After some scouting, the horses were left a bit away, and the Guardians snuck over the walls under the cover of Heian's magical mist. Inside they avoided 5 direwolves, and entered the main building. Heading through a dining room, they ended up in a kitchen with some hill giant cooks. They doubled back to avoid making too much noise, but when they got back into the courtyard, a giant exited another building and saw them. The giant and the wolves attacked. All were quickly killed, although the Guardians had a bit of a scare, when the giant changed into a big ass werewolf.
The Guardians moved into the building, going through a room or two, avoiding a lot of young giants playing and wrestling in what seemed like a huge bedroom area, only to find a small meeting room, with chairs covered in human skin. There Jelastra almost "stumbled" over a huge dire bear. He tried to kill it before it woke, but no luck, and while they did manage to kill it fairly quickly, the noise had attracted a lot of giants from an adjacent room. First a stone giant, who was dispatched as well, before they tried to barricade themselves in the meeting room......
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