After Catten's death, there was an undocumented journey over a glacier which was marked by multiple stops where they drank the same booze, where all of Bim's clothes became
xtattered
x, and where great ice walls emerged causing the oddest detours. The arctic adventure was abandoned and they decided to travel back to Twinklelather, capital of the frozen north. None of them really knew what their goal had been. They did find a sea serpent frozen in the ice. This sea serpent was promptly butchered for 300 meat, 30 brain, and a very heavy skull. On the way back Cerol, who had become insane rushing off to kill very small crabs, but running in fear from gigantic ones, lost a hand to a polar bear. It was his cosmic debt for being a murderous bully. Upon their return to the series of hamlets south of Twinklelather, Cerol gave up the bow to learn about the spear and shield, as somehow this is more believable when done one-handed -_-
During their pause in Twinklelather, Bim made a solitary journey to hunt
Sunwaxes the Saffron Winds, the third webbing titan. While non-web/non-fire titans are just better XP ettins (for better or worse), webbers (at least for any of my characters) are subject to arrow volleys rather than melee. The first webber was a one shot. The second took around 30 arrows. Sunwaxes, the third webber took close to 175 arrows to bring down as it was made of amber. There was the hope Bim could evolve into an elite bowdwarf here, but
the RNG was merciful enough to strike down the boredom.As always, archery is just
a brute force shower. But there is a little set up, as outside, the targeted creature needs to be at the very edge of your field of vision:
Here there's one tile of extra room just incase Sunwaxes dodges upwards, as a small fire enclosure was built, if only because of the lack of trees.
There was also a trip back southwest to Catten's town, Glitteredmasters which is the * left of the evil mountain range (Twinklelather is the ☼ at the top center of this map):
This trip was to retrieve a bookcase left at the only tavern in Glitteredmasters. It had been found at a bandit camp the group stumbled upon along the way. The joys of playing boarder.
Here and later in a hilllock called Drinkglaze, our three would hold a multicultural recruitment drive for a grizzly bear woman (who knows how this will work for Cerol), a dwarf, and a human...