The Gang pisses off a giant

Ironspine Keep

• The party is tending to their bastion holdings at Ironspine Keep as a convoy from The Lord's Alliance pulls up. Out of one carriage steps a woman with a full sleeve of swirling cloud tattoos.
• The party is summoned to the administrative chamber of Ironspine where the woman from before is waiting to receive the party. This woman is wearing a half cloak that denotes her rank of War Duke within the The Lord's Alliance. She mentions her domain of responsibility is the area northeast of Waterdeep, including the area around Ironspine Keep. She tells the party that several farms in the region have been pillaged, and tasks the party with investigating, to which the party agrees.
• The party checks out one of the farms an hour north of Ironspine. Larys investigates the grain field and notices that swathes of it have been taken, but they haven't been properly harvested. Instead they've been crudely torn from the ground. Nearby, a corpse is laying on ground outside and Kal notices signs of severe blunt force trauma on the body. Emmaera investigates the farm house, and there is a visible hole in the thatched roof. Inside the house, the debris from the roof can be seen, but no evidence of what it was that made the hole. Emmaera notices that all the destruction seems to emanate in one singular direction. She also notices that nothing of monetary value inside the home has been taken.
  
  

The Evermoors

• #Battle The party enters a nearby marsh and is set upon by a giant toad, a direwolf, an owlbear, and a giant spider. Larys rushes in to take the Owlbear on himself, while Kal charges at the direwolf. Emmaera takes cover behind a tree and fires at the direwolf. Kal is ambushed by the giant spider and the toad. Emmaera and Kal, separated from Larys swarm the Wolf, Spider, and Toad while Larys wails on the Owlbear. Kal delivers killing blows to several enemies and Larys lops the head off the Owlbear.
• The party continues following the path of destruction from the farm and Kal deduces that the trail was left by a giant. The party searches for the giant's lair in an attempt to ambush it.
• #Battle The party decides to lay an ambush at a nearby farm. As the giant coems into view, it's flanked by two direwolves, and two regular wolves. Emmaera springs her attack by launching a fireball into the middle of the group, which kills both wolves, ones of the direwolves, bloodies the other direwolf, and pisses the giant the fuck off. Larys throws a spear and a handaxe into the giant, slowing him. The giant, pissed off and aware he's slowed, lobs a huge chunk of shit and innards at Emmaera, dealing substantial damage as well as poisoning her. Emmaera, now also pissed off, launches two magic missiles at the remaining direwold and three at the giant. Larys rushed the giant and hits him with two swings of his greataxe. The giant lobs another bunch of trash at Emmaera. Kal chases the giant around the side of a nearby structure and slays the giant with a swing of their greataxe.
• Kal searched the body of the giant and retrieves a Belt of Hill Giant's Strength.
  
  

Ironspine Keep

• Back at Ironspine Keep, the party returns to the War-Duke and debriefs on the success of their mission. The party notices that the War-Duke is studying a map with a number of red markers to the southeast, right on the border of The High Forest as they mention fiend invasions, and a blue marker to the NE called Ghalasine The War-Duke sent a party headed by Redknife Drow to Ghalasine, but two party members went missing and the others were found dead. Nearby a fully grown green dragon was found dead, with a giant hole in the ground where its head should have been. She mentions the bodies of a Dwarf and a Gnome from the party were never found. Kal volunteers the party to travel to Ghalasine and investigate the disappearance.