So the director told us we were too valuable to join the main fight since we had the shards of Utgard-Loki, those gem things. Which wasn’t really a tactic I was a fan of, sneaking out the back door just isn’t my style. I resisted the urge to protest…I shouldn’t have. Because we really probably would have been better off if we’d just fought our way out the front door. Which is how you know that the sneaking part of the plan just went to hell.
It started well enough, between the map of the tunnels I had and Lexi’s sense of direction we didn’t have any trouble making our way through. But there were a few trolls that made themselves something of a nuisance. They just kept trying to drop rocks and debris on us, which got really annoying after a while. So I shut off my light, went up to the ceiling, and snuck forward as best I could.
And I found three of the little bastards trying to saw through a support and collapse the tunnel on everybody. So I promptly sent the ugliest one flying back into the wall of the tunnel with a good right hook. I heard Lexi say something right before I hit, she must’ve been trying some of her social magic. But it was too late for me to pull up by then; I didn’t even know they’d seen the trolls. Afterwards I tried to just knock out the one I’d hit, briefly. Then Lexi got one under her spell, and the one I was fighting tried to grab hold of me…so I just shattered it with another good punch. Claire pretty much cut the other one in half with an axe throw.
I got a piece of the one I killed stuck in Grimmur Klærnar; Ken took a look at it for me while Lexi was talking to the troll. Ken said it’d let me see in the dark like she could. After that we flirted for a bit while. Which was…nice, really nice. Especially since things just went downhill from there.
The troll led us through the tunnels, avoiding the giants’ other forces on the way out. But we still had to get past Graback, Niddhog’s son. And, given who my birth mother is, I’d really rather not antagonize Niddhog. Anyway, at first we were going to try and sneak past it. But then the troll insisted that Lexi couldn’t leave him, and then it got the idea that she was tricking it and threatened to get us all eaten by the dragon. Which seemed to be a very real threat as it started raising its voice. So I grabbed the damn thing and clapped a hand over its mouth to shut it up.
Then there was the argument over what to do with it. Lexi and Andrew were in favor of sparing it, the rest of us wanted to kill it. Though I didn’t kill it because I didn’t want to upset Lexi…I should’ve just crushed its skull instead of grabbing it. Cindy tried to kill it, but Lexi did something to stop her…those two seem pretty mad at each other. I just know that’s going to come back to bite us somewhere down the line. Then Lexi gave a big speech to convince the troll to leave, which seemed to work. So it all would’ve been more or less fine…
…but the dragon woke up.
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