The Black Wyrm of Brandonsford

Nessa considers the wand. Whatever is going on with it certainly is curious, but this might not be the best time to experiment with it. She instead opts for a more practical approach.

Using her dagger, she reflects the sunlight towards her companions, hopefully drawing their attention towards her and the boogers. Preferably without alerting the latter.

A flash from near the treeline to the west catches Wren and Sable's attention as they start their break for the trees, and after a second or two they see Nessa. And her gesturing towards a thicket that looks... occupied? It's hard to say by what, there there's a rustle and small figures are seen lurking behind bushes.

Back at the southeastern corner of the cottage, Gann takes off--leaving the giant to his bloody finger-stump curses. The brute thunders back to the front door... where leans his heavy club. Seconds after Gann takes cover behind the big stone hearth that juts out of the side of the building, the giant rounds the corner with a glower on his face and a frighteningly large piece of wood in his hands.

"FIE FI!" he shouts, his voice practically shaking the surrounding trees. "NO POT FOR YOU, LITTLE GOBBIE! INTO THE STOMP AND SMASH PILE YOU WILL GO!"

And with that, the giant lumbers forward, towards the back of the cottage--and Gann's hiding spot.

Hearing the giant’s threats, Gann doesn’t wait or look back. He stays as close to the cottage as he can and runs north until he can round the corner, hoping to clear it before he’s spotted.

Once around the corner he runs full speed towards the tree line, skirting left of the makeshift toilet and to the right of the stumps. Once he’s occluded by the trees, Gann makes a sharp turn left and does his best to get away from the spot where he entered the woods.

Once the group is out of sight, Sable is surprised at Nessa's gesture and the clear evidence of something lurking in the bushes on the edge of the woods. It is perfectly situated to see what they were up to in the window and potentially seeing inside as well. Clearly, whoever was there was not a friend and potentially a foe since they did nothing but watch the situation. The prowler turns to the others and jerks his thumb to the rustling bushes, whispering, "Nessa and Brother Dirk, watch my back. Wren, is there anything you think you can do for Gann?"

If there is nothing else he can help with or have Kitt to help with Gann, he will sneak further into the woods to try and approach from there to block escape and see what is in the bushes. He will have Kitt on standby to potentially scare the lurkers towards him.

Hearing Sable's plea for her to help Gann, she nods and immediately makes a sharp turn to the south, running around the SW corner of the giant's house and into the wide open door of his hut. Her plan? To set fire to the giant's bed, run outside, and yell at the giant that his bed is on fire, and he'd better deal with it, thus giving us time to escape!

With her warning revived, Nessa readies her dagger, this time to strike. Should the little bastards try anything funny she will leap out from her hiding spot and attack them.

Wren wants to be at the bed this round, lighting the torch and running back to the doorway next round, then yelling to giant and double moving away in round three.