Southspire
Codex prepares a Heroes Feast for everyone, including Derzyk, Grundil, and Bevry Snowborn. We then teleport to the treasure room of the Fire Giant Stronghold.
We head to the throne room and behold King Boldo, the former third in command. He and his two Fire giant guards are talking. We proceed to storm in through the rear secret door, Maud unleashes a Prismatic Spray for the first time and we get into a brawl.
Boldo calls out an alarm, and three more fire Giants join the fray. Queen Alzahar and her two handmaidens. The fight is intense, and Codex ends up casting a Banishment on the Queen and one of her handmaidens. We have a few moments to catch our breath, and then Codex releases the Banishment and is immediately broken by boulders. After they dispatch the Giants, Bale teleports to Codex and pours a potion down his throat, saving him from death.
We move quickly to the barracks, taking down 4 more fire giants.
Then we rush to the armory, defeating the Fire Giant quartermaster and then fight the Chimera pet they have in an adjoining room.
We then fight our way through the remainder of the first level of the stronghold. In the end, exhausted, bloody but victorious, Codex almost dies two more times, we have cleared the first floor. We take a short rest, and the lower level awaits.