...Where The Company of Heroes Gather and Bond

Aelfric, Alain, Julian
The healing magic flows from Alain, lighting your hands in a warm, yellow-orange glow. Hands upon Julian's chest, the warmth seeps into the cold skin of the fallen mage and a light shade of pink begins to return. With a heaving gasp, Julian inhales sharply and your eyes fly wide open. Quickly looking for the demonic entrails that stole your life from you, you see the glowing sigil upon the floor, the black stealers-of-life still dancing about slowly, as if a breeze blew across a field of sickening, black weeds.

Silently, for what seems like an eternity, but in actuality is but a minute of time passed, Julian struggles to focus his energies. Unfortunately, the ringing in your ears and the queasiness left from your near-death experience has you too rattled to do more than gather your thoughts.

As you try hard to shake it off, Aelfric, you spy a giant heading across the chamber to your south, apparently noticing the light coming from the king's chamber.

Aelfric, Alain, Julian
Moving quickly, you aid each other in crossing the room and ducking behind the bed. It sits high, so you are able to use it for cover as the giant reaches the bedroom door. Pushing it fully open, you hear it roar, as it sees the arcane symbols aglow in the room. From somewhere toward the to the south, you hear giant's replying, shouting alerts throughout the lower half of the steading. The noise from the revelry in the great hall is loud, however, so you think that those in there have not yet heard the cries.

Taking a deep breath an concentrating, Julian, you finally are able to commune with your helm, and you feel the spark of energy within you as you tap into the arcane energies surrounding your small group.

Aelfric, Alain, Julian
Whispering softly, you conjure the wizard eye and send it out of the room and into the next. There, you see three giants coming toward the room, apparently curious as to what the first giant has found.

The giant in the room stands near the door, sniffing and looking at the glowing circle of arcane symbols.

Aelfric, Alain, Julian
You slowly begin to move your eye back from the south chamber where the giants lurk and head back through the interior of the steading toward Nosnra's private chamber. As you do, the three giants move to the bed chamber. When they arrive, one of them begins shouting at the others, and for a moment it seems like they are arguing. With a snarl, the apparent senior giant again begins barking what sound like orders to the others, and they react as if they had been slapped in the face. The three junior giants begin moving and looking under things in the room.

Meanwhile, your arcane eye dips under the door of the king's private room, and inside you see the giant king sitting there in one of the chairs, his faithful bear at his side. He is not alone, and sits in the company of the stone giant and another, robed figure. As your eye enters the room, the robed figure's head jerks up, and a hand, sheathed in a glove of bright white, raises up and flicks fingers toward you as a parent might shoo a child away.

Immediately you find your arcane eye ended, and the giants rummaging through the room.