valhaven-beta/journal_entries/valhaven-beta/History/20181209 This Bird You Cannot Change.md

This Bird You Cannot Change | 2018-12-09

• Brumwik has decided completely on his own that the inspiration giving stone is named ‘Steve’s Ball’
• Brumwik is officially the caretaker of Steve’s Ball
• The Crown of fire goes deeper into the cave and sees a cave vagina.
• Billy jumps over the Cave Vagina and promptly falls into a pit.
• The others get around the Cave Vagina, and we continue forward into a chamber.
• A wall of fire closes the way out.
• Balial talks to us in our heads with a riddle.
• The answer is fear.
• There are two ghostbusters hounds in the room.
• Brumwik mounts one.
• Balricstein picks up the Rod of the Pact Keeper from a shrine of Balial.
• Billy slaps the butt of the mastiff Brumwik is riding.
• Billy gets frustrated that Balial won’t talk to him and leaves.
• Everyone else leaves.
• Brumwik puts his ring on Balricsteins Rod.
• The Crown of Fire mounts up and flies toward where the clouds are being made.
• As we approach we see an enormous structure atop an enormous mountain.
• The Crown of Fire flies to the tallest tower.
• The windows are 6ft wide.
• The Crown of Fire lands by the front door.
• Billy exclaims What Knockers!
• Billy climbs onto Balric’s shoulders.
• Billy knocks on the door with the knockers.
• Nobody answers.
• Billy pushes on the door.
• The door opens.
• We go in and close the door mostly to not let the cold in.
• Billy shouts IS ANYBODY HOME.
• Nobody answers.
• The Crown of Fire goes upstairs.
• Billy is winded from the stairs.
• Billy goes to the closed door and knocks.
• Nobody answers.
• Billy pushes on the door to see if it is locked.
• It is not locked.
• Billy opens the door.
• It’s a library. Nobody is inside.
• We hear a gigantic smash outside.
• The giant says “Damnit, how long do I have to look?”
• Billy shouts “What’s up dude?”
• Brumwik sees him to be a cloud giant.
• The giant goes inside, and the crown of fire goes to find him.
• Balricstein and Ulligul methodically go down each stair.
• Brumwik and Billy climb up the bannister and Billy uses Brumwik as a surfboard as they slide all the way down.
• Billy does a sweet flip at the bottom and sticks the landing, though a little wobbly.
• The Crown of Fire goes into the observatory room and sees a tornadomachine, as well as a city in the clouds.
• The Crown of Fire start to smell venison?
• The Crown of Fire follow our nose to the kitchen.
• The Crown of Fire sees the giant cooking two whole deer.
• Billy shouts out to the giant,
• The giant looks over but otherwise ignores us.
• Brumwik tries to get the giants attention by stamping on his foot
• The giant slaps him away seeing him as a pest
• Balricstein yells out to the giant and says he has a chef if he needs help.
• The giant seems annoyed.
• He is interested in bear meat.
• He tells us to sit at the table.
• Brumwik climbs up onto the chair.
• Billy climbs up onto the table and sits down.
• The giant sits down and begins eating.
• Billy convinces him that they can help him find what he needs.
• Billy gives him some bear and The Giant uses it as spices.
• The cloud giants used to rule over Astoria, but over time the various giants had wars and they lost the knowledge to make the floating cities.
• He is trying to draw in the city to reappear.
• He is doing daily trips to the floating city to gather information.
• He has searching for 5 years for a book about this
• Billy tries to convince him to let them stay for the night, and fails.
• The Crown of Fire wanders back out and gets to the mounts.
• They plan to fly to the cloud city later.