Traveled to the city of Phlan in the Moonsea region where we met our employer. They requested aid in stopping a force from the Cult of the Dragon from getting their hands on some sort of powerful magic that lay a few days away. The others went about their business in either procuring help or researching while I couldn't find much on the matter at all. The next morning we set out early and ended up running into a stone giant but through diplomacy, any fight that may have happened was avoided. We were tasked with delivering a message to another stone giant as payment for our passage through the stone giant lands and so we set off. Another few days of travel and we found ourselves staring into a crater easily two-hundred feet deep. Our group split, with some of them turning invisible and scouting out the area while myself and another hung back as to not alert some orcs we had seen. One of the scouting party unfortunately caught the attention of the orcs and hearing them ready to attack, rushed in but again, one of the party wished diplomacy. I let them talk, the orcs gathered their leader and as one of the group and him came to a deal of one thousand gold pieces to talk to the stone giant that was seen within the crater, the orc leader looked to me and commanded me to drop the magic I had about me. I've found myself becoming less and less patient these days so I told him no and if he had a problem with it I could challenge him for leadership of his pathetic little clan of orcs. He took that about as well as could be expected and thinking he had any sort of advantage due to the numbers, he told his men to kill me. One attempted to but quickly turned into a fine red mist as he jumped into the area of my magic. I think I actually saw the orc leader realize his mistake but being to proud or stupid, he pressed the assault. A war horn was sounded and many more creatures started to come up from the depths of the crater but they were no match for us. Eventually the stone giant appeared and waved us down so we all jumped and through the use of magic, floated down to the center. The stone giant asked us our business there and the message was delivered. Upon our words, he didn't really seem to mind but also told us there was no powerful magic there.....while he stood beside a silvery fount of water. One of the group realized the giant was possessed and as we formulated an idea as to how to help with that, a woman wizard on a wyvern arrived and flew down upon us. As the fight began, I used my magic again to harm a fiendish creature that appeared. Apparently it was the stone giant's pet but the stone giant announced himself as tyrant lord something or other. The battle continued, the wizard on the wyvern kept launching powerful explosions at us but also catching the stone giant and his men in it. I take it this angered him a bit because he tossed a boulder at the wyvern and seeing my chance as we had no way of hitting her well from the distance, help alter the course of the boulder which was going to veer off. This caused the wyvern to fall, hurting it greatly and killing the wizard. The wyvern rose and attempted to stab at me with it's tail but to no avail and as it tried to fly away, I brought it back down once again where I delivered the final blow to it with a swift sword slash. This left the stone giant as last real threat and he was quickly done in by a few more well placed strikes from the group. After we gathered prisoners to take back to our employer, we headed back and gave our report on everything that happened. We were told that they'd try and dispel the fount of what was not water but pure magic and thanked us for our service. We were paid and headed back to the Syndicate.