They were invited into the tower by a elderly, pleasant seeming if somewhat quirky Fire Giant, Slehad He told them about the tower, and the track that descended to the desert, and mentioned that he left Carzala three hundred years ago, soon after it was settled by humans. However, during the night he attacked the party, and it was only with the greatest of struggles that they defeated him. They explored the tower and found that his larder was stocked with human and elvish corpses.

In the tower they also found a curious clay ball, a chest, and a small box. The small box proved to contain a moderate quantity of an unknown drug. Jamie broke the ball, releasing a strange shadow-like creature, and found that the ball also enclosed a key. When Jamie used the key to open the chest the key bit him. Later, Jamie ingested some of the drug from the box and experienced strange hallucinations and euphoria. Cormac summoned the Giant's spirit back to explain the strange contents of the chest, but the Giant's answers were obscure at best, and not of much use.

Magic.  During this adventure the party picked up a scroll with three spells inscribed upon it, broke open one small clay ball which turned out to have a biting key and a shadow creature in it, and ten other clay balls, one of which was later broken when warring against the Queen of the Thri-Kreen and released another shadow creature.