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Zindra
Zindra and Glork had just We hadn't reached the other two scouts and he let them get comfortable with the ogre. She then said, "That's 1 - 2 - 3 new friends that you made today. I say that any day you make one friend is a good day. 3 should make this a very good day. But wait! There are more friends! Let's meet them too. We all are angry with the giants. Hill giants wanted to eat my horse! "

She was sure he was confused, especially about the numbers, but she reached a hand out to hold his and lead him to the camp site to meet the others.

Glork

Glork initially took Zindra's hand as she leads, but it's not easy for the lumbering creature to walk that way. He withdraws the hand. "I follow. Meet more friends."

As the trio plus their new club-wielding carnivore arrive back with the other group he stays very close to Zindra until he is introduced.

Kriv

The Dragonborn noble regarded the new, brutish arrival dispassionately. Ah well, they’d travelled further with worse.

“Welcome, Glork.”

Glork

As multiple party members offer him welcome, the ogre nods toward them. As his own introduction, he gestures toward Zindra. "This one save life," he says. "I pay back...."

He pauses, his large brow wrinkling in thought. He doesn't seem to know the common word for what he's trying to express.

He uses the Giant language word. "Maat." Anyone in the party who speaks the giant language would recognize that as representing an act of honor.

Davroar

He is quite surprised to see Zindra, Bern and Jaliera returning with the ogre. Here he thought they were going to end up in an unnecessary fight, and instead it seems they gained an ally at least for the time being. Walking alongside Jaliera, he points a thumb to Glork and asks, "How, you ever get him to come along?"

Jaliera

She grins.

"Giants had stolen his food so Zindra fed him. And we are against the giants as he is now so he has offered to help us. Probably only until a giant fight is over but better on our side!"

Glork

As the party discusses his arrival, Glork looks around, noticing where the rations are carried.

Kriv

The Dragonborn noble, a weather eye the ogre, tried to follow that wandering gaze.

<Bern>

It may have been based on his past dealings with ogres, but, despite Zindra's 'endorsement', he was still suspicious. He continued to 'keep an eye' on the newest 'addition' to the 'team'.

Glork

Glork isn't suspicious. He's hungry. But he doesn't do anything yet. He does inquire about the plans, though.

"We go fight giants? Or we eat?"

Zindra

"You honor me," she says back to the ogre in giant. "I think we can eat and also fight giants. Eating comes first. I'm going to do some hunting. There has to be so good prey nearby."

She looks about to see if she's going to do this alone.

Jaliera

"I can help if you want some company?"

This ogre is likely to eat a lot given his size.

Zindra

"Sounds great. It can take a while to find enough to eat so be patient Glork. I'm sure, if you're hungry, some of my friends will chip in a nibble for you. Jaliera and I will get to work."

She headed out with Jaliera and said, "Hopefully Whisper can spot some big game from above."

Glork

Glork tells Zindra, "I help you hunt?"

He does like his meat rare.

Granted, Glork's idea of hunting is finding penned animals from the local farmers and he would be far from stealthy.

Zindra
"Jaliera and I are small and sneaky and good hunters. I would like you to become friends with my friends. Tell them the story about what the giants did. We will be back soon with food."

Glork

"If food too big for you to carry I help," Glork offers, perhaps hoping for some large prey.

He thens turns to face the rest of the group. "Giants stole my black rock," he begins, looking around to see who's listening.

Jaliera

She nods to Zindra, sending Whisper aloft with the instruction to look for game, picturing a number of suitable animals to giver her a better idea. Deer, large game birds, rabbits.

Then motions to Zindra to slip away whilst Glork is distracted. She moves into cover and away.

<Bern>

He listens to Glork's 'story'. He was curious what the 'black rock' was to cause so much 'trouble'.

Zindra
She follows Jaliera's direction and soon the pair are away from Glork and ready to hunt. She takes out her bow and keeps an eye on Jaliera who has Whisper scouting from above.

DM

Whisper heads off on a searching pattern to find suitable game for a meal, methodically scanning the area nearby the pair of hunters. After several minutes, the familiar returns and communicates the inventory of edible beasts it encountered.

The images indicate that in the nearby area, there are plenty of smaller ground creatures such as rabbits. A rough estimate of the vision indicates 15 such creatures spread across the nearest 1000 feet or so. Not as plentiful as the previous night's dinner gathering; it would take a few hours to go to all of them.

What's more interesting, however, is identified about 2500 feet away, to the east-northeast. A herd of 9 reindeer gathered in a clearing.

And Whisper is clearly trying to communicate something special about one of the reindeer, the image "zooming" in on it. Rather than the pale brown color of antlers of all the others, its antlers are shiny. They appear in the image to be golden.

Kriv

Sounded similar to what the giants had raided the town for, potentially. Kriv nodded and listened on.

Davroar

With Zindra and Jaliera off hunting he will introduce himself and ask, "Glork, how many giants were there? You said fire giants and hill giants are around, working together or separately?"

Glork

The ogre has at least a small audience and continues. "Lots of giants," he answers Davroar. If not precisely. He holds up a hand.

No, two hands.

There are a few moments where he tries to figure out the right number of fingers to show, but it's evident that if he's trying to communicate an answer, the number is over five and under ten. "Fire giants steal rock. With magic. Hill giants not steal."

Jaliera

She thanks Whisper.

"Zindra, Whisper has found an area with rabbits but also a herd of reindeer. She is showing me that one of them has golden antlers. Sounds strange. Worth a look?"

Davroar

He does not know everything there is about fire giants, so he asks Glork, "Did all use magic or was it just one fire giant?"