In anticipation of the upcoming fight, W drops AID on BB and Quinn; VS plaintively asks, "what about me?"
"You're a robust woman...I can tell. And also ventriloquist."
DM gives DW Inspiration for this ingenious mis-use of word to attempt to sound intelligent.
Sneak checks successfully passed: Fireball successfully applied. LK kills one, DW kills one, and VS tries to impress DW with a Scorching Ray. Eh. S murders the last one...and 2 Hill Giants and another MF enter.
BB Charms the Giants with her Shawm's Hypnotic Pattern and sics them on the remaining MF. This later turns out to be a breakage of the rules because Hypnotic Pattern doesn't allow for movement of Charmed targets.
MF Mindblasts us. Quinn and DW and VS are Incapacitated, and K, for the second time in this dungeon, dies.
The MF makes a run for it, with S in pursuit. It's a big dome with a giant fountain and sleeping cubbies on the wall...and two more MFs. And two more Giants.
This may end poorly.
Stultus lops the legs off the escaping MF.
The Charmed Hill Giants lumber off to attack the new MFs, yelling FRIENDS! as they do so. They do quite a bit of damage, actually, but they get caught in another Mindblast and now they're free of the Pattern, but...Incapacitated.
S gets Stunned. This is going to be tough. VS yells out loud, "THIS IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!" and runs into the doorway, to drag Stultus out. BB throws a Lightning Bolt through the Firewall VS erected, hitting the sole surviving MF and a Stunned Hill Giant.
Man, these HGs are just not having a good day. Used by everyone!
LK throws his Axe through the Firewall, a literal wall of fire that has thus far spawned a Lightning bolt, a handaxe, and a magic axe.
Well, one of the Stunned Giants just woke up.
WELL, VS just got Mindblasted and the Firewall is down.
Oh dear. And now the other Giatns are coming for BB. Problematic.
Quinn Charms another Giant into attacking the other Giant.
DW throws Sacred Flame at the hiding MF. 3 damage. Good job.
Stultus lops off the MF's tentacles and that's that.
Four Giants left: Quinn Charms one, Friends the other, and sics them on the other two giants.
VS wakes up and staves in a giant's head.
We Persuade the giants into the pit we passed.
DW touches the fountain. It's like coral modern art blocks, and slimy.
LK climbs into a cubby and has a look around. A bed, a basin of fungus...and a chest!
He opens it. MF robes and a weird stone, blank and inscribed with some writing.
He picks it up...and a huge surge overcomes him and he starts convulsing. It yells in his mind that he's too close to the hive, stay away from the children!
Quinn cutts off a MF head. Stultus, in the market, finds a goblin skull, fine clothing - for a MF - but no gold. And 2 other stones, with weird markings on them. He picks them up.
Nothing happens. He keeps them.
DW climbs up to find LK. VS fails her check, climbing up the cubbies behind DW, and therefore looks up his robe. She likes it.
DW sees the unconscious LK, rubs some random herbs in his face, and slaps him until he wakes up. Field-expedient revivals are all the rage this season.
LK wakes up in shock and babbles about the rock.
"It's a talking rock?" DW is still kinda dumb. LK kicks the rock down and yells out not to touch it.
Everybody meets back in the market. LK asks if anyone recognises this writing, on the rock. BB Comprehends Languages, and touches the rock, despite LK's exhortations not to do so.
She gets hit with the same thing...but now learns the meaning of the writing, which is "the eternal eye is in the mind"