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At dinner, Intaria and Juri are eating together with a few friends and staff as per usual. One of the adjutants arrives and gives the Queen a message. She reads it.
A ship in their navy was finishing scouting and returning home when it came across an iceberg that must have been broken in a recent snowstorm. It looks to have traveled from the island of Frosthaven. There was a giant on it asking to be rescued and offering half of it’s treasure should that happen. They told it to hold on, as they had no equipment on board to mount a rescue. A message was sent. The ship is anchored safely away.
Intaria tells her adjutant to prepare some equipment to send over and she and Juri and a court Magist will teleport with it over to the ship to rescue this giant. They arrive around an hour later and Intaria takes over the role of talking with the giant. It’s clearly a frost giant, often someone led to mendacity. Intaria casts ESP on it, but it makes it’s save and she cannot get any info from it about it’s truthfulness.
It says it’s been starving, and they agree to help it out. Using their equipment, they rescue it, bring it over to the boat, and then feed it. It points the way to it’s treasure, and it wants to head home to Frosthaven. Intaria asks if it has any friends or family on the iceberg and notices a tiny pause before it says no.
Fair enough, she says, we’ll teleport you over now! She nods to the Magist who casts teleport other and the giant heads to Frosthaven just as it was beginning to protest.
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