Previously on D&D and D.

Your Excellency.

Quick question.

How must we prepare for the sacrifice?

One of the counselors looks to you, Marjoran, and says, well, we're off to a great start.

It's been years past your deadline, but you finally brought us the heir of Erthadar.

Wait, did they say sacrifice?

No.

Oh.

You see a massive pale hand reach through the brush and just toss a tree right out to the side,

revealing a hulking figure with one singular eye.

Fuck.

I'm going to cast fireball at its feet.

The Cyclops doesn't react at all.

So he grabs all of you and kind of bunches you all together and then walks into the forest.

Music While we've been with Marjorin and Juno, the rest of the team has been carried by this giant

Cyclops to a ruined country estate deep in the forest. Zabas, you can tell that this used to be a very nice country

estate, like somewhere between a castle and a house. There used to be like a turret tower.

It's two floors, but it's since fallen to ruin, and it looks as if the roof has been

completely blown off. Scattered around the house are ceramic tiles and stone and things as if it's been blown apart.

You can kind of feel that there's like a magical energy to this place.

You are carried up ramp kind of thing that the Cyclops built to get up to the top of the house.

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