>>5578169>>5578181>>5578322>>5578341>Flee! Get back downstairs to Morne, he’ll know what to do.You turn on your heels and begin to knock down the hall, the ground about you churning like a boat as the hand clumsily thumbs toward you. You <span class="mu-i">cannot</span> deal with this right now. You begin your descent down the stairs, eager to make good from this mess–but the hound reaches you first. You feel a blur of fur blow past you, a paw on your neck that hauls you by the scruff of your dress with it.
“Wrong way.” He snarls. ”Looks like we’re going by roof after all.”
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You stand on the roof of the house with the wolf, edifice still tenuously upright as a giant runs its arm along the inside like it were a dollhouse. The air hangs heavy with plumes of smoke and the chimes of the monster’s bell. The shouts of villagers, the moans of the colossus, the rumbles of the house–.. they sing like a carole down the RUE DE GUILLOTINE.
“What the hell is that thing..?” You curse as you peer over the roof’s edge at the giant below.
You can’t even get a proper glimpse of the monster while above it–a writhing mass of muscle and twisting fat finagling around beneath you. You can just barely make out a squashed, bulbous head, a massive wooden water wheel roped about its back like a cross.. you tuck your head back over the roof as a villager casts their gaze up.
“That would be the GIANT OF QUARTIER DE PUNITION. They call him BREAKING WHEEL.” The hound runs his new spear along the ground. “They call him the sentinel of the region–crushes any outsiders that dare to intrude upon the cult into a paste and licks at what’s left. He serves the bishop of the quarter, the IRON MAIDEN. I’ve outrun him a few times before–real persistent, but slow.”
“And you thought it not fit to tell me about him.. why?” You stare daggers at the hound.
“You have my sincerest apologies. I thought the massive, loud, slow, lumbering brute wandering the streets and crushing people was common knowledge.” The wolf licks his chops as he sniffs at the air over the roof. “We need to leave now. Help me cross these roofs. Can’t make out a thing.”
>Maybe Morne could stand to fight it with your help.>Suggest he help you get the giant under the control of your rune. It works on the weak-minded, and he seems right weak-minded.>Help him flee over the roofs. You shouldn’t risk anything mad.>Write-In. 