Episode 6
Trading Blows
Deciding to follow Sovemil, the companions travel north, meet a jewelry trader, face a hungry giant, and are met by a previous adversary.
Recap
Deciding to follow Sovemil on his quest to the Kingdom of Khorir, the party continued traveling north along the Imperial Road. They were soon confronted by the jewelry merchant, Garrett Lionmane, from the Imperial Inn. He offered to pay the adventurers handsomely to guard his caravan to Oaktown, and they agreed.
That night, Anton began to have a string of odd and disturbing dreams, but he never spoke a word of it to his companions. The following day, the group confronted a famished hill giant, seemingly consuming everything in its path. It devoured every crop from a local farm, stomping its owner in the process. To flaunt their abilities to their employer and to cease the mad giant, the party launched into combat. Though the giant inflicted a number of hard blows to Anton and Willa, the party managed to slay the behemoth.
In the process, however, Gemma unveiled her magic abilities to Garrett, but he assured them all he was impartial to such arcane practices – as long as his wares reached its destination.
As night fell, the party made camp under the nearly-full white moon of Ria, assigned watch, and fell asleep. On Sovemil's turn, he alerted a few of the adventurers of sounds he'd heard in the distance. The warlock of the Hag Mother, the mysterious elf from the Crimson Knuckles' hideout, and a couple other red-scarfed bandits, attacked from the darkness in an act of revenge.
Gemma, while using more of her untamed magic, summoned two imps to the Material Plane, whom attacked Sovemil to unconsciousness. Meanwhile, Anton, Raz'sik, and Willa finished off the bandits and surrounded the warlock. The elf then raised their hands in surrender and offered up information in exchange for their life.