Fingers clutching at the sky...

The Great Stone Hand (#25/30, #268/365)

"The hillsides in these parts are barren and strewn with rust-coloured boulders. But up ahead is something different! A great hand carved from white stone has clawed its way out of the rocky hill side, fingers clutching at the sky. Perhaps it is part of a larger statue still buried under the hill?"

Contents: The hand actually belongs to the petrified TITAN hero and adventurer, Pallias the Protector, who was turned to stone while attempting to slay Garjana Grimgaze the Gorgon Queen, and buried under a landslide. If the rest of Pallias' stone body is excavated, a process taking 2-7 days depending on the number of diggers present, the Titan can be restored to life, if the Heroes have some way of reversing the petrification process. They will be eternally grateful and accompany the Heroes on their adventures in the Pit, while also listening for rumours of Garjana's current whereabouts, their eternal foe, who has stolen the Banner of Titans from Amarillia, which Pallias intends to retrieve.

Stats:

Pallias the Protector, TITAN, SKILL 12 STAMINA 20, 4 Attacks, Fire Sword, Breastplate, Large Shield, Double Damage. Once per combat Pallias can perform one of the following actions:

- hurl a lightning bolt at any one opponent as per the Lighting Blast spell

- clap their hands together to create a sonic boom that causes 1-6 STAMINA damage to everyone in battle, who also must reduce their SKILL score by 2 for the rest of the combat

Pallias has the following Psionic powers: PSIONICS 8, 24 Psy Points, Tradition: Physical Adept, Abilities: Psychic Evasion 2, Levitation 2, Impossible Moves 2, Telekinesis 1, Psychic Blade 1, Heal Self 1.

Once unpetrified, as well as their giant-sized Fire Sword and armour, Pallias also has a leather satchel containing 173 GP in various currencies, a brass hipflask containing Herbal Liqueur (see Encyclopedia Arcana: Volume 1, p. 59), and an abridged single volume digest version of the Encyclopedia Multiversica, written in Giant Speech.