Our Heroes spent the evening thoroughly exploring and looting the home of the brutally murdered Dunderbas, but found little they wanted to steal until Olaf happened upon a small wooden box, hidden under the disgusting fleeces and furs of the ogre's bedding. He smashed it open, revealing a mass of shiny, glittery stones.
Most of them were just pretty stones, but among the clutter there were some real gems. There were four worth at least 1,000gp each, another twelve worth 500, another eight worth 100. All together, Olaf estimated the little hoard to be worth over 11,000 gold pieces — a tidy reward for a spot of murder and looting.
The next morning, they were woken by somebody calling from outside:
"Yoo-hoo, Dundy-bubbles, Mummy's here!"
"Where did all those children go? You haven't eaten them all already have you, you greedy boy!"
"Oh my, what's happened here to old Harvey? You know how hard it is to get reliable servants..."
Peeking out they saw a huge, hideously deformed giantess, who was herself bending down to peer into the tower through a hole in its wall. "Here, who are you? What are you doing in my Dundy-bubbles' house? Burglars!" and she reached in through the hole and started groping blindly about for anyone she could grab.
Everyone scrambled for another hole in the wall, on the other side of the tower, and clambered out as fast as their clambers could carry them, each of the children being carried by one of the adults. The giantess missed grabbing anyone by a mere whisker, and they all hot-footed it off down the grassy slope towards some trees in the bottoms.
The giantess lumbered after them, shrieking imprecations, but even burdened as they were by the children they could easily outpace her, and they made it to the cover of the trees by a decent margin.
Then, inexplicably, while the rest scurried off into cover, Tirana decided to stand and wait for the creature, peppering her with arrows as she approached. Her aim was true, but the arrows didn't appear to have much effect except to make the giantess even angrier, and she smashed Tirana into the afterlife with a single blow of her massive fist, breaking her neck.
----- More to come later, when I can get my act together -----
