Episode 10: A Great Upheaval Part 4

Aired March 21, 2017 (Pen & Pixels Episode 73)

The Big Friendly Giant

 * Level up to level 4
 * Flying tower (with a wizard hat) stops a thousand feet overhead and cloud stairs appear
 * Sylren stays in town to sort things out in Nightstone (8bit away)
 * The party climbs up
 * Selsig sneaks in the ajar door but is immediately spotted by a friendly giant (Zephyros)
 * Zephyros speaks of a breaking of “The Ordning”
 * Encounter a griffon in near top tower (Beaky)
 * Looking out of the third floor they are able to magically see distant locations as if they were close and view multiple skirmishes between * giants
 * Greta asks Zephyros why the giants are fighting
 * Zephyros explains the ordning and its breaking

The Ordning

 * Three more griffons (Wingding, Claws, Squawker) enter the tower’s eyrie
 * The party returns to Nightstone to settle their affairs
 * Greta walks down, Ura’ash and Selsig ride Beaky
 * Morak encourages the party to head to Bryn Shander to send word of the death of villager Semile Southwell to her brother Markham
 * Gleek takes charge of ensuring the people of Nightstone deliver the goblins two meals a day

Rest At Last

 * The party finally has a good night’s rest up in Zephyros’ Tower (Ura’ash’s internal organs were getting squirrelly)
 * Beaky shows his affection by bringing them breakfast
 * Zephyros speeds his tower towards a destination he calls The Breakfast Nook

The Breakfast Nook

 * High up on a mountain plateau Zephyros treats the party to a feast of basilisk eggs
 * They learn more details of Hecaton, missing king of the giants, and of his three daughters, Mirran, Nym, and Serissa
 * Zephyros worries Sylren’s silence is due to being offended in some way
 * The tower flies toward Icewind Dale and Bryn Shander
 * Nine humans riding giant vultures move in to attack!