Where Lies Adventure!

            And not a moment too soon.   The giant’s arm had fully re-grown, and it was on the offensive once more.   It approached the young warrior slowly - a drawback of its incredible girth and earthen attachment.   The young man kept his eyes on it, even as he addressed the dwarf.          “Can you at least tell me what this thing is,” he asked of the deity.          “An earf giant.   I thought that would’a been obvious.   Name’s Alteus, son of the very earth itself.   He’s got brothers all over the world.   It’s been a while since I’ve named’em all, but I can try…”          “Why are his legs growing out of the ground?” the warrior said hurriedly, cutting the dwarf off from an hours-long genealogy.   That was the way to the dwarf’s heart, he suspected: lecturing.   The knight rolled past Alteus making his way closer to the tree behind the giant, where the god sat answering his questions.   He knew that turning wasn’t something the giant did easily,

              The stalwart knight quickly rolled out of the way as two gargantuan masses of vines, branches and bare earth came crashing down upon him.   The creature they belonged to was comprised of little else, and it used these appendages as arms.             In frustration, the monster grew to its full height and threw back its head, as if to roar.   Instead of noise, however, the earth underneath it shook.   The young knight had been dodging the giant’s attacks for some time now, but this new development caught him off guard.   He fell on his face, still clutching his sword, and as he looked up at the beast before him he was finally able to see it in all of its horror.                It stood ten feet tall; a giant borne of the earth with a torso as wide as a tree trunk and legs that did not end in feet, but instead were grown out from the ground.   The tangle of vines and foliage that made it up did not fully cover its innards, and deep within the chest and