Chapter XX: Giants on Faceless Mountain

After defeating the hobgoblin soliders who were pursuing the South Face refugees, the party learned that Faceless Mountainton was being attacked by a group of giants, who were throwing boulders at the town from the Faceless Mountain.

The party returned to the town to aid the residents in finding shelter, and rejoin the missing party members. Kristandra remained behind to seek aid from the Brinkmoor army, while the remainder of the party rushed up the mountain.

The party confronted Smashmouth, the frost giant, and his two stone giant companions. Kristandra soon arrived with the finest Brinkmoor archers and aided in the attack. After defeating Smashmouth, a post-date Enna arrived to aid in defeating the two stone giants, who were very much in love.

Soon after the battle, a lone hill giant came across the party and was persuaded into revealing Channer's location within the mountain. Seeking knowledge of how to disrupt Channer's plans, Ormul submitted his beloved wolfskin pants as an offering to the gods of nature. In exchange, he learned of Channer's plan to summon the glabrezu with whom King Thaldurl made a deal many years ago. To prevent this plan from coming to fruition, the party would need to disrupt Channer's gate.

The party and archers stealthily entered the chamber in which the ritual was taking place. On Metamorpheus' cue, Ford cast the Private Sanctum spell Metamorpheus had placed in the ring of spell storing, preventing Channer from teleporting or travelling between planes, and shrinking the portal which Channer was opening.

Enraged, Channer unleashed a Psychic scream upon the party, leaving all party members but Ormul unconscious or incapacitated. With the help of a Healing Spirt racoon, Ormul managed to stabilize most of the party, allowing Metamorpheus to cast a spell of Mass Cure Wounds from his ring. The stress of all the attacks had unfortunately caused Kristandra to transform into a werewolf. Once the party had managed to regain its footing, Channer revealed that one of the party members was not of the material plane, and that he intended to return them to their original plane with a Banishment spell.