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They have some sacks, and among nasty smelling clothes and lumps of ruined and decaying meat, there’s a +1 hatchet that they are using to skin their kills and such. It’s balanced for throwing.
They gather themselves, do some resting, and regen has healed Alzar.
Alzar and company rise and head out. The area looks to be cleaned out, with giants, gnolls, bears, cats, all handled.
Alzar moves and takes the Carpet back to the southern pass, and they continue along the way/ After about an hour of ground travel…
The pass is getting narrower as they move out, and there is a 12 foot tall fire giant standing there who shouts that they must pay the toll of the mountains, with a pile of boulders collected and ready to toss.
Hmm….12 feet? Alzar has a lot of experience with Fire Giants, and that’s about half their real size. He slips the Star of Mi’Pilar off his belt and looks through it. It’s a polymorphed Ogre Mage.
There is a giant wall of thorns in front of the Ogre mage, it’s not easy to close to him. Good defenses. The giant is a chatty sort as Alzar begins to talk to it, and not altogether unpleasant. He mentions that he has to work and his chieftain makes him, and the toll is 10 gp per person or animal, and 25 gp for wagon or cart.
Alzar tells the giant to wait, and begins to reach out to is belt pouch and tosses it to Forz, and tells him to count out 50 gp for the giant. As he does, the not-giant but Ogre Mage looks at the cash to make sure the money is appropriate. Alzar then bends to his belt and the giant is too powerful for something like the Bands of Bilarro or the Rope, he’d likely break out and destroy them. But Alzar’s Warp Marble is on his belt too. He adds the Warp Marble to the coins, and a few gems as well to add some shining things to it and tells the giant that he wants to pay now to come back through in a few days. The giant agrees, and reaches down to take the money, gems, and marble. As he grabs them, Alzar calls out the activation password for the Marble ,but he makes his save, and looks oddly at Alzar’s weird word.
He checks and all of the gems and coins are real and as promised. He backs away and heads up the pass.
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