OOC:
Sorry for my tardiness. Hopefully we can all now begin to get right to it. :D
The time passes slowly into the night, as you focus your energy on sifting out the secrets of the lower steading. As expected, there is a full lower set of chambers, long ago carved from stone and rock to create storage chambers, slave cells and other such locations. Interestingly, there is also a set of natural caverns where many of the orcs seem to have taken up residence. In addition, you find a worked stone tunnel that appears to have collapsed (or was collapsed).
In addition to the orcs, you spy a huge giant working the prisoner area, and during your investigation you watch him torturing an elf, tossing the remains into a small pile of broken bodies when he is done. Finally, in a caged chamber, you spy a huge beast with the body of a lion, large leathery wings and a spike tail. What is most unnerving is the head of the beast looks almost human. You have heard of the manticore before, but having never seen one personally, its description pales in comparison to the real thing.
The Hill Giant King stays up late, once again feasting with the stone giant guest before retiring to his sitting room for a while in private consultation with the visitor. After a period of time, he retires to his bed. While you do not know what is said between the two, the stone giant gives Nosnra a large piece of parchment, which he reads and then hands back to him.
OOC:
The below map is also in the ATG Maps thread
[ +- ] Steading Lower Level
