Scanlan is scolded for his recklessness, but the gnome dismisses their concerns, reasoning that the party got their artifacts and loot. As Grog stands over him, greataxe in hand, the ritual leader only smiles with yells 'Vengeance!' as Grog finishes him off.Īfter the battle is over, Grog and Vash retrieve the ruby eyes of the statue of the god, Arnicor and Thurista collect the treasure, and Scanlan remarks to readers 'Now that will make a great story!'.īack at Stilben, the party discusses their adventure. Grog starts to exclaim to Scanlan that he has made it through the entire battle without flying into a rage, just as he is grappled by the frog, but as he is about to be reeled in, another Fireball detonates nearby, exploding the frog into bits and pieces and leaving the ritual leader prone on the ground. Three sahuagin witnessing this stare in stunned silence, allowing Grog to behead them with one swing of his greataxe. The ritual leader calls out for his sahuagin brothers to aid him, for the ritual is broken, but the frog swallows him whole. The giant frog heads straight for the tattooed humanoid male, grappling him with its tongue. As Scanlan flees a sahuagin that Grog quickly kills and Vash casts Fireball at a group of sahuagin. Just then, two bursts of light come out from the frog's eyes, causing Grog and Scanlan to flee to a larger chamber, where the rest of the party is fighting sahuagin, where a tattooed humanoid male wearing a headdress is leading a ritual. Scanlan deduces that the ' shark-god temple' was constructed atop an even older 'frog-god temple'. Grog starts to pound on a small drum he is carrying as Scanlan lights a candle, places it on the rock, and rings the bell, causing the boulder to animated into a giant frog, who croaks the name Hoarmorath. Scanlan jokingly thanks Grog by telling the goliath that he 'want to have babies' and tells him to 'hit it'.

Scanlan, curious if the bell will summon a creature that they will fight and loot treasure from, asks Grog for his opinion, and Grog supposes that Scanlan should go with his gut.

Scanlan expresses his desire to ring a bell they find on a boulder, but Arnicor warns against it and Thurista threatens to Fireball him if he touches the bell. Grog Strongjaw, Scanlan Shorthalt, and partymates Arnicor, Thurista, and Vash are in an underground sahuagin temple to their god, Hoarmorath. Returning to the city, they’re almost killed by assassins and then almost arrested by the Watch! What the hell is going on in Stilben? And what does this pompous sorcerer want? Synopsis Scanlan and Grog loot a shark-man temple in the swamp outside Stilben.

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