Session 2026-06-02
In brief: The giants come to Golden Fields at last — the crew steals across the fields haystack to haystack to bring down two hill giants, and a butcher's knife reveals what the raids were always for.
The bell
The session opened with the Golden Fields town bell hammering out its alarm without pause. The crew turned the panicking villagers toward the abbey, and the abbot met them there and closed the wounds of the two worst-marked from the night's fighting. Then they followed Zi Liang — an acolyte of Chauntea — up into the bell tower, where the iron clangor was near deafening, to get a look at what was coming. From that height they saw it: hill giants, striding in over the walls of Golden Fields.
Across the field
Zi Liang broke off to go help the town guards, and the crew went with her — but not to hunker behind the stone. They pushed out past the wall and ran across the open field toward the giants, moving haystack to haystack to keep out of sight, closing the distance before the brutes could mark them.
The two giants
Two hill giants met them in the trampled wheat, and the battle was a long one. Overhead, the orcs were working catapults — launching their own goblins, spiked helmets and all, up and over the wall as living warheads, each one splattering as it came down. The crew wore the giants down and dropped them both. When it was over they climbed to the top of the wall to see the far side, and watched the surviving goblins and orcs streaming away into the distance — the orcs dragging with them the crooked catapults they'd used to fling the helmeted goblins.
The skinning knife
Among the giant dead, Fiz turned up a skinning knife sized for no human hand — a butcher's tool, curved for dressing carcasses where they fall. An insight check on the whole bloody season read the truth off it: the hill giants aren't making war. They're foraging. Every raid, every emptied pen, every sack of vegetables and every goblin flung over a wall has been in service of gathering food — and hauling it to their queen, a mountain of hunger named Guh.
What's next
- Find Queen Guh, and learn why the giants are being driven to gather for her.
- Golden Fields is, for now, holding — twice raided since the crew arrived, and twice still standing.
Original session notes (Fiz's POV)
Town bell ringing, tell villagers to get to abbey, abbot heals two of us.
we follow Zi Liang, Acolyte of Chauntea, up to the bell tower to get a better view of what's going on. The sound of the bells is deafening. We see giants are coming over walls. Zi says she must go help guards, we follow. We run across the field toward where the giants are, haystack to haystack to avoid being seen.
We battle two giants. Goblins in spiked helmets are being launched over the walls at us, splattering on the ground when they hit. We defeat the giants after a long battle. We climb to the top of wall to see what's going on on the other side. We see goblins and orcs fleeing, the orcs carrying catapults that they used to launch the spike helmetted goblins.
Fiz finds a giant sized skinning knife
Insight check tells us all hill giants care about is gathering food and bringing it to their queen named Guh.