Re: Chapter 1: The Land of Betrayal
The astonishing group pounds the chuul into a mass of goo.
After this display, the group no longer has any trouble with crowding in the streets, as word spreads quickly of their impressive and rather quick victory over the death giant. Simple questions to the cowed residents of the shantytown reveals that the group defeated one of the more senior members of the Death Giant squad that act as the de facto town guard for Arantor, the dark master of Monadhan. The fact that he was destroyed, along with his chuul pet, goes a long way to scare the pants off of everyone in the demi-plane.
The group is able to reach the central outpost after another twenty minutes of walking after a short breather. A retinue is ready to greet the party at the gate: a tall, ugly human man wielding a pole-arm, surrounded by underlings.
"I am Pelnur Gatesfist, governor of this town. You are not welcome here, troublemakers," he snarls.
The experienced party can see through his façade, however--he is really scared that the party is here to overthrow him.
The benefits of epic-level passive insight is that you can read this guy like a book.
You can assume you have had a short rest.