After the meeting, Holy had left with Kitau and Grimly to search for the crystal. Igatho had shown at the meeting also, but was completely covered up in a tarp of sorts. On the way out of town, Holy buys a gallon of ice cream. When the four were out of town, Holy lifted the tarp and gave Igatho ice cream as promised. "Good girl! You managed to fool everyone at the meeting! Who's a sneaky baby? You're a sneaky baby!"

Igatho giggles and lets out that squeal babies tend to make when happy, then licks at the ice-cream.

Kitau smiles and pets the baby's back with her left stub.

"Mamma proud."

Her right hand almost always has a whip in it.  She only put it up for the meal.

  Grimly sees his was not the most awkward of family experiences, and that's saying something.

  "I know there is a reputation for violent tendencies, but does she have a choice in the matter here?"

Holy answers, "You heard the princess; none of us really have a choice - it is do or die. But if the world were safe, Igatho here is safer fighting at our side than ganged up on by a whole city of angry mob out to kill her because she was too rough with someone. In other words: It's either leave her alone to die, try to raise her in a city to die, leave her with her own kind who will raise her to kill innocent people, or take her in and raise her ourselves while we continue to try rescuing others. I did the research and even tested how she would do in isolation... she needs violence like you and I need eyes - Sure you can live without them, but it would be real hard to find direction."

With one hand, he is holding Igatho's hand, but with the other hand, he pets Kitau's hair.

Igatho smiles brightly at Holy and Kitau. She is OH so happy to make them proud.

"Baby needs violence too," Kitau clarifies.

Oh right.  He already said he was talking about the frost giant.  Kitau knew that and just smirks.

  "A better answer than most could hope for, I suppose."  Grimly just maybe has some issues with parents deciding life choices that involved life and death for you.

  Holy and Kitau probably do not have 'we had to see if it worked before we did it ourselves' as part of their reasoning, though.

  "Quite unfortunate for whoever is in our way.

Atop a low rise is an excavation site, partially protected by a high wooden fence. Rubble lies strewn about the area.

Igatho whispers, "I hear people..."

Holy glances to the other two and whispers, "Sounds like they're around Kit and I's size." he looks at Grimly. "Fell like scouting it out?"
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Kitau pets Igatho with her stub again.

"Good girl.  Whispering to tell us about maybe bad people is smart."

  Grimly is quiet enough to make the footpads redundant.

  He returns, "Eleven kobolds, most of them frail in flesh.  The slingers could be troublesome.  They are excavating, though no way to tell what is down the pit from here."

Igatho smiles big as Kit compliments her intelligence. Then asks quietly, "Bad kobolds? I can destroy them?"

Holy says, "Wait up, Igatho. We'll form a plan, then we can all destroy them together."
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Kitau gives it some thought.

"You boys circle around to the back.  Then I walk Igatho up to their front.  If they are bad kobolds, they'll be mean to us.  If that happens, you can surprise them from behind and we'll smash them in front."

  "Seems sensible enough."  Wow Grimly, you sure adjusted to using a baby as a decoy fast.  Even if it is a baby that could snap you in half with her bare hands... Then again, so could the Gnome most likely.  Strange day.

When Holy and Grimly are in position, Kitau and Igatho approach. Their innocent approach is immediately met with attacks! No questions, just attacking. Two charge the giant and one charges Kitau. A slinger throws one of his pots! And out of all those attacks... only one manages to do any harm, piercing Igatho's skin and making her squeal.

  From the other side of the area, Grimly swiftly (but not running, KEYWORDS!) approaches the largest batch of kobolds, coming to a stop as he sweeps his sickle in an arc in front of him.

  Of the four Kobolds directly in front of the Monk, three of them collapse to the ground gurgling with slit throats as the last ducks away.  An entirely unrelated kobold is feeling their neck nervously, "Sometimes it takes a moment."

Actually, Igatho DIDN'T get hit. Kitau told her "watch out!" and Igatho chopped a minion in half with a knee-jerk reaction!

The remaining slingers both throw pots at Grimly out of panic. One pot hits him in the kidney for some pain, but really it's the stink that hurts worse. Rancid water.

"Good girl, Igatho."

Kitau flicks her whip at one of the kobolds.

"That one next."

Reacting to the whip, the kobold yells, "Ow! I'll show y-" wheee! There goes that kobold's head. Igatho smiles. "I cut 'em!"

The kobold who was feeling his throat freezes and his head slides off.

Holymoley walks up to the edge of the excavation. He holds his staff in his right hand and reaches out with his left hand. When he turns his hand to face palmside up, spikes shoot up from the ground below the slingers! The slingers react fast, but two of them get scraped up!

Holymoley snaps his fingers a few times as if trying to get his magic to ignite or something. "Hmmm.." he says, mostly to himself.

Igatho PUNTS the nearby kobold and then uppercuts his midair self with her axe! The two halfs go falling to the ground and some blood rains down. Igatho then hurries down the stairs to the kobold who was "lucky" enough to dodge Holy's spikes.
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A slinger panics and throws a pot at Igatho, but misses horribly.

The one minion to survive the initial onslaught rushes up behind Igatho to flank with his buddy and stabs at her, seeming to only scrape the outer layer of Igatho's skin. Or was that a layer of ice-frost on Iga's skin?

  Murphy has apparently taken offense to Grimly's first turn going so well, (three out of four hit rolls made, still kills 4 enemies), so inflicts catastrophic dice failure upon the monk this time around.

The slingers freak out and throw pots at Igatho! One of them hits and it explodes into fire, making Igatho look scared!

The pot itself scratched her.

"Kill the one that hit you, sweetheart."

Kitau points at the minion and begins walking down the stairs.  Iga smash!  She strolls past the blood spray and stands next to the slinger next to Grimly, flanking it with him!

"Good girl."

Holymoley waves his staff in Grimly's direction and Grimly's wounds close up and he feels good as new, albeit slightly more exhausted than when he woke up this morning.

Holy continues snapping his fingers. "Why won't it.. darn it. Sorry, Grimly! Sorry Igatho! Just hold on; I'll get the bad pot mojo off of you soon..."

Still on fire, Igatho growls and her eyes start to glow slightly. "BAD KOBOLDS!" She swings downward, execution style and the kobold meeps, managing to dodge aside! The axe causes a crack in the ground, but Igatho easily pulls it free.

Igatho then moves over to put herself between Kitau and the other slingers.

Then another slinger tosses a gluepot at Igatho, hitting her hard enough to actually get past her raging toughness. Igatho is crying like a tantrum toddler.
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Mass dice failure the sequel, but at least he's been healed since his last turn.

A kobold tries to shift away from Igatho WHAAAAAM! And you thought these guys looked tougher than the minions. OK, so they survive a hit from Igatho, but still.

He manages to get back, hurls a pot at Igatho, reigniting the fire that was JUST starting to die down! "WAAAAH!!!!!"

Another slinger throws a pot at Igatho, but misses. "These monsters are too powerful! I'm warning the others!"

"You do that," Kitau says.

She steps forward and makes an opening for Grimly to attack a slinger.

"Tell them to make peace with their false gods before they die.  Or come out here and beg for mercy if they want to live."
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Holymoley snaps his fingers and the slinger next to Grimly spontaneously combusts in white flame, collapsing! "There we go." and the flames on Igatho die.

Igatho turns, still furious as frost clouds just spill off the giant and her eyes are glowing pure white. She screams "NOOOOO!!! DIIIIE!!!" and her axe starts getting covered in a thin layer of ice as it spills over from covering Igatho's skin. The baby demonstrates she can reach the kobold from where she is, despite being 10 feet away.

Igatho hacks the kobold who was GOING to run. Her swing goes upward, chopping the kobold in half vertically while knocking the kobold up before Igatho spins violently and BATS the two halves with her axe, chopping them into smaller pieces while sending the pieces everywhere! It literally rains body parts.

Half of the kobold's head lands at Kitau's feat, encased in ice. The other half of his head lands at Holy's feet, also encased in ice. His left arm lands in front of Grimly, the kobold arm blackened from frostbite. A gift for her family and friend!

You thought we were done describing this wonderful scene? The kobold's intestine lands on the fence, appearing as an icy wreath for decoration! Honestly, for all the parts flying everywhere, that's as much as can be kept track of during combat...
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  Grimly pulls back his left hand, and throws a punch from where he is.  This is somewhat more notable than usual because at the average stopping point his bones just keep going, the kobold's face ripped clean off before Grimly's bones snap back into place like nothing ever happened.

  Which is what the monk acts like is the case, totally nothing out of the ordinary. really.

Kitau smiles proudly.

"Goood giiirl, Igatho!  No bad kobolds got away!  Now Mommy kiss to make it better."

She's sure to wipe her lips dry first lest they get stuck to the frost giant baby.  She spares a smile for the boys too.

"Not like you need praise, but I gotta say I love watching you boys in action too."

Igatho hears her mom's voice. She looks around, teeth gritted, and sees no threats. Her breathing begins slowing as Kitau kisses the baby, Igatho's wounds healing. The ice dies down a bit, slowly vanishing from the axe and Igatho's skin. "...no kobolds?" she asks, looking curious. Then flops to her butt and hugs Kitau. "Yay! Kobolds dead!"

Holy hops down from where he's at and says, "Thanks, Kitau. Though all I did was snap my fingers... Good job, everyone!" he waves a hand at Grimly's direction and the stink goes away. "Is everyone alright?"

He gives Igatho a quick lookover, then looks over Grimly. Then gives Kitau a smile.
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  Grimly readjusts the stereotypical monk fist bandages around his hand, and comments "So long as you are not a kobold, things seem pretty good right now."

  The Monk considers the hole in the ground, in case it's more possible to see it's bottom from next to it.

Kitau smiles and thumbs-ups at Holy.  More mommy cuddles for baby.

"You make me so proud!  Such a good girl!  So brave and strong!"

Kitau's affections have thoroughly brought Igatho back from insanity to sane and really happy. She squeals happily and munches on a kobold. "Crunchy!"

Shaft: A large hole drops 20 feet to the top of a staircase leading to room 2. A sturdy rope ladder hangs from the southern lip. All Grimly sees below is a dirt floor.

Holy says, "We can rest now, so I advise we do so." he then heads over to Igatho and switches from cold logician mode to endearing daddy mode. "Rawr! Daddy TACKLE!" and leaps onto Igatho's belly. The giant plays along, flopping on her back and giggling while he raspberries her belly.

After some resting, Holy elects Grimly go scout things, "But we'll be RIGHT behind you. Meaning Kit and I should descend first and let you know if it is safe. If it isn't, Igatho can pull us up quickly. If it is, you and Igatho can come down."

  Eating kobolds, the model example of sanity.  Well, compared to the alternatives it's downright sedate really.

  His dice luck is back up again, so he returns shortly.  "Some blood spatter around the general area, and some people hiding behind a statue that looks like it could easily tip over.  The obvious temptation of pushing it over towards them, probably would not be able to be done fast enough"

Kitau nods.  "Igatho can, but would likely do more damage with her axe.  There anywhere closer we can lure them to?  Slingers are a nuisance."

Holy ponders. Then says in a hushed tone. "I don't really think the kobolds are going to abandon their own ambush trap, but Kitau has a valid question: *are* there places to seek cover once we're engaged in combat? And I agree we should avoid the statue until we see a chance to tip it onto the enemy, rather than them tipping it on us."

Igatho copies her dad's hushed tone as she says, "Squishhhhhh..."

  "Not unless you count a small corner, it is a simple hallway outside of the statue and tapestries on the walls."

"Direct approach it is.  If with a try at surprising them."

She does her best to sneak.

A dragonshield charges Igatho! It looks like he would have hit were it not for Kitau giving Igatho another one of her veteran warnings, causing the baby to dodge and HACK!

The kobold manages to keep his insides inside himself. For now. But that HURT!

Kitau brazenly moves past the kobold, inviting it to attack.  But Iga interrupts the attack with an axe parry.  Kitau whips at the dragonshield.

"Bad kobold!"

Where there's a whip, there's a way. Igatho finishes the dragonshield!

The kobolds behind the statue gasp in surprise at the overpowering might of the giant.

A kobold in the back moves up a bit, but doesn't charge.

Holy holds a fist forward and then suddenly stretches out his fingers! A ball of fire appears amidst the kobolds and explodes! The skirmisher dodges, but the dragonshields get hurt.

The caster kobold in the far back spreads his arms and all three kobolds become more muscle-bound! He then heads over to the east and flings a ball of energy at Kitau, hitting her hard! It feels like she got punched by Igatho or something. "Fooooolssss! I am mighty and you are not!"

  Grimly steps over the rocks and recently slain idiot, draws his longbow, and fires an arrow across the room into the chest of the Wyrmpriest.

  "Sometimes, simple works."

Igatho hears Kitau say, "Igatho; squish" and obeys! She rushes forward and pushes the statue! It crashes down on one of the kobolds, but misses the other.

The kobold squirms and squirms, managing to break free.

Kitau spits to the side and looks almost all better all of the sudden.

"Good girl, Igatho!

"One good shot deserves another, Grimly."

After Grimly adds another quill to the caster's new porcupine look, she strolls over to stand beside Iga.
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The skirmisher charges Kitau and misses!

Holy does the palm-up thing again and spikes shoot up from the ground, severly wounding the prone kobold and almost downing the caster!

A dragonshield hurries around the downed statue and charges Igatho! ...to no avail.

"FOOOOOLSSSSS!" The caster rushes forward and spews cold all over the heroes. Kitau, Holy, and even the dragonshield are all hit and hurt badly, shivering wildly. Igatho is unaffected. Aside from starting to get mad.

  Grimly is thankful he was somewhat out of reach for that particular attack, as he steps forward and demonstrates a close blast power of his own.  The dice rolls may be smaller, but it is enough to get the job done as the Priest's eyes swell with blood until they pop.

  The dragonshield suffers a more mundane open slash across the chest.

  "He couldn't see how outmatched he was... Well, actually I guess he could because he had eyes up until just now."

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Dragonshield: 10 HP left, 6 Ongoing DMG (save ends).
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Igatho SMASHES the kobold next to Grimly. Yes. Smashes. Not slice this time, she flattened the kobold with the flat of her axe. "MOMMY! DADDY!" Turns on her heal and charges the kobold next to Kitau! The kobold manages to dodge.

The other kobold hops to his feet and charges Grimly, missing badly.

"Ouchie!"

Kitau puckers her lower lip, playing up the hurt so baby gets infuriated.

"Bad kobold!"

She flicks her whip at the skirmisher.  SLASH!  He loses an arm.

"Still alive, hon."

SLASH!  He's dead.

"Good girl!  Now Mommy kiss Daddy to make him better."

And she steps over to kiss Holy's cheek.

Holy stands up straight and stiff, his ears wiggling. "Hoooooly moley!"

He rolls his face to peck Kitau on her cheek and all her wounds literally fall off of her as if they were just makeup. As if this was a cartoon.

He fires two fireballs at the remaining kobold! One with his staff the other with his free hand! The kobold goes down!

  Grimly is still adjusting to the fact that Nerull cultists do not make the strangest parents.

  "This really is a terrible day to be a kobold."

Kitau blushes and smiles at the reaction she got.  She gives a smirk and thumbs-ups at Grimly's comment.  Then she mommys on Igatho to help calm her down.

Somewhere else, May is smiling and in kombat with a bunch of enemies. "Today is a GREAT day to be a kobold!" as she shifts twice and flanks someone...

But back to present company!

Igatho calms down, sniffles, and says, "...all done?"

Holy says, "Not yet. I'm positive a crystal is here, based on the reports. Let's see..."

He peeks around the corner. "Yup. There's another room."

  Our thinly veiled narrative bait worked, hooray!

  "Sorry Igatho, there is more smashing ahead of us."  Well, okay so the baby might find this to be a good thing rather than a bad thing.

Igatho says, "Yaaaay! More smashing!"

Kitau smiles proudly at her (not so) little girl's enthusiasm and nods.

"Yaay!"

She holds hands with the baby, pretends to shush her, then sneaks to the next room.

Holy just chuckles from Igatho's proclamation and giggles from Kitau yaying along.

He follows Kit and Iga to the doors. "Well I guess we open the door and be ready for attack?"

The chamber is decorated with a dwarven motif: carvings, paintings, and tapestries depict scenes of dwarven triumph and domesticity. Many of these once-fine works have been vandalized. At the south end of the room, a set of iron doors blocks further passage into the keep.

Several kobolds wielding short swords mill about. Set back into an alcove and resting on a raised stone is a large chair carved from oak—not quite a throne, but not far off either. Curled atop the chair on a pile of coins is a white dragon. She hisses commands to the kobolds. You can't see this yet, but you do hear the sounds of draconic being spoken from around the corner.
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  The critical mass of minions is the meta reason Grimly is here instead of Rhagar again.

  "I suppose under other circumstances, someone would find the wyrmling sitting on the throne cute."  If this is a Dwarven place, why is the throne sized for a giant?

Kitau opens the door.

As soon as Kitau opens the door, kobolds yell, "They here!" even as they attack! Two come and hack at Kitau and Igatho, but Kitau manages to warn Igatho enough for the baby to dodge, but Kitau gets hurt in the process!

Another kobold positions himself, looking ready to attack, but does not go into melee yet.

  Grimly manages to evade the attacks from minions, but fancy movement doesn't prevent the closest slyblade from hitting him (weakly) anyways.  The monk's bipolar dice in turn, make him-
A: noddle armed strike the slyblade.
B: miss literally half of his targets.
C: Proceed to bring the Slyblade to near death, with an additional case of more blood on the floor than inside his tiny kobold body.

OOC: two minions dead. Closest slyblade (A? B?) down to 16 HP, with 6 Ongoing DMG.
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"Bad kobold!"

Kitau snaps her whip at the kobold that attacked her baby and Iga takes it out.  She then hurries over to help Grimly hold the front line.

The slyblade Grimly missed hops around Kitau to flank her, but misses horribly.

Another kobold charges Kitau and nearly trips over himself, missing so bad he almost hurt himself!

The kobolds are hissing loudly in draconic. Too bad nobody in the team understands them.... does that make them emo?

Holy does the palm-up thing again and spikes shoot up from under the slyblades (who dodge it) and the minion near Grimly (who doesn't). The one kobold collapses dead.

Holy looks at his hand with an unimpressed frown.

Igatho heads over to flank one of the slyblades with Kitau. "Momma!" she says as if to say "look what I can do", but Murphy laughs and causes her to miss as horribly as the kobolds have been.

Three kobolds charge Igatho, all of them missing. Then the dragon comes up and shoots frost at the group. Once again, Igatho seems uneffected, but she kills one of her minions, downs Holy, and almost downs Kit and Grimly.

The slyblade stabs at Kitau and misses.
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  Grimly throws one last punch out of spite into the slyblades face, before shifting back.   Shame it isn't QUITE enough to finish the job, after the Dot the kobold will still have twice as many HP as Grimply does right now.

  Well, unless something else splatters him.
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Kitau inhales sharply through her teeth, suppressing a scream from the pain.

"Up!" she hollers at Holy through her chattering teeth.

She snaps her whip at the flanked kobold.

"Iga smash!"

With that one out of the way, she steps over to shield her hubby.

"Iga!  Here!"

She points then snaps her whip at the slyblade. "This one!"

"We need to get back in the hall," she suggests to her allies.

The slyblade tries to hit Kitau and gets an arm sliced off for it. "NO!" Igatho yells angrily!

Holy stands up. "...ow." and says, "Alright. That's enough." and steps forward, bursting with holy energy! All his allies' wounds close up (Grimly's wounds START to close) and the dragon and slyblade look weak-kneed!

Holy then says, "Thanks, Kitau! Now you heal up!" and all her wounds vanish. Then Holy snaps his fingers and two of the three remaining minions spontaneously combust, collapsing!

Kitau calls out for Igatho to "grab daddy!"

Igatho cleaves the slyblade's head off, then does as mommy asked. Then charges the dragon! "BAD DWAGGY!" and hacks deeply into the dragon! The dragon shrieks in pain!

The kobold swings and the dragon claws at Igatho and both do so in vain, hitting air as they find it hard to reach the baby's legs from their standpoint.

  While things are looking up in general for the group, Grimly's dice luck remains it's usual self.  At least he doesn't have to roll for his second wind health like he would have in another system?

Kitau stops shivering and blink-blinks in awe.

"Wow.  Nevermind the hall, then.  Spread out, boys."

Kitau hurries over to flank the last kobold with Iga and snaps her whip at it.

"This one, hon."

Down it goes.

Holy snaps his fingers again and the dragon gets burned! Holy points his staff at Grimly, who then no longer feels weak or slow. Same soon happens to Holy Moley.

Igatho says, "Dwaggy looks yummy!" and hacks deeper into the dragon, who squeals!

The dragon moves to try and run for it, but Igatho smashes the dragon again! Bone crunching can be heard.

The dragon is unable to flee, so it tries a last-ditch spite move! It does that nasty breathe again! But coughs and sputters. It claws at Igatho violently and only manages a little scratch.

  "Thanks for that." Grimly says, as he becomes significantly less ****ed up.  He circles around the weakened Dragonling, and hooks his sickle into one of it's open wounds, violently tearing it free along with a spray of blood.  Not quite enough to finish the job himself, but more than enough to make the end results inevitable.

Dragon HP: 10, with 6 Ongoing DMG (save ends)

Kitau steps over to the dragon and whips it.

"It's made of ice and blood, hon.  Your favorite!"

So much for that dragon!

Igatho chops off the head, flops to her butt and begins nomming on fresh dead dragon! Happy baby squeals come from her as she does.

Holy Moley glances while heading to the back caged area and says, "Good girl, Igatho. Good job, Kitau, Grimly. I'm gonna check back here for the crystal. One of you check the throne?"

With that, Holy finds the lever and opens the bars to reveal some captured dwarves. No sign of crystal back there.

But with a cursory search, anyone looking around the throne will find a crystal about the size of Holy's torso.

  Grimly doubts the dragonling is literally made of ice, but isn't about to bring this up to the baby currently chewing through it's skull.

  "Hmm, it seems not all of these crystals are so large you need a cart for them."

Kitau gives a nod to the dwarves.

"We'll be taking this crystal.  We'll be needing it for saving the world."

She sits with her baby and has a taste herself.

Holy Moley decides not to partake unless it is offered. The dwarves look at the crystal and then the team. "To save the world? Sounds a bit extreme, even if it is a big crystal. But aight... go right ahead. We would have been too dead to have it anyway were it not for you. Now we can enjoy everything else we normally own."

Igatho offers a chunk of dragon meat to Grimly. "Nomnom?"

  "Well, hopefully what you have left is easily replaced."  How did the Kobolds get 'Bane Rulz' no the ceiling? Maybe they stacked things?

  The monk botches either his perception or insight check, as he absentmindedly grabs the chunk with his left arm and noms it in two bites.  "...I think I would have preferred-" brains?  "It more well done, but thank you."

Kitau nods to the dwarves and smiles that Grimly shared with baby.

"You did great.  Been meaning to say I especially liked that arm-stretch thing."

She hops up and pat-pats Iga.

"Good girl, sharing!  Time to go.  We can take the rest with us to eat on the way."

Igatho picks up the dragon, stuffs it in her mouth to "hold" it with said mouth. Then hefts her oversized axe and sucks on the dragon while following the others.

Holy Moley says, "Don't forget that while we can teleport there, they don't know about Igatho yet and she didn't touch the crystal. So we'll need to go there on foot." Not that they have far to go.

  "While every bit helps, and you gave your reasons.  If the crystal didn't call her up in the first place that means according to prophecy logic she could sit out of this whole thing without endangering the world."

"Where we go, she goes," Kitau explains.

Holy Moley nods and says, "What she said. Let's see if we can get audience with the princess."

After some tarp-cover on Igatho again, the team manages to get audience with Adrie again. Holy then explains that he had hidden their fourth party member in the interest of not causing panic. "I didn't know there would be a gnoll and a kobold present at the meeting... or that people would somehow not panic over that. But here she is: Igatho."

And he unveils the baby giant. This affords a raised eyebrow from Adrie. Which soon morphs into a helpless smile. "Cute. Well... Let us see if touching the crystal will cause her to be chosen..."

Soon, Igatho touches Adrie's crystal and, like it did for the other three, it glows. "Looks like your child has been chosen. Know, then, that she has my protection whenever you teleport here."
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Kitau nods.

"Ok, thank you."

She looks to the others.

"On to the next."

  Let's be fair.  Igatho is totally worth panicking over more than Gnolls, Kobolds, and poison drooling acid bleeding monstrositi-oh, Rhagar didn't take that checkbox?  Okay, Gnolls and Kobolds.

  "I do not suppose we have an estimate for how many of these there are?"

Adrie nods. "Approximately 100 of them."

Holy ohs. "Wow... well... good thing there are multiple groups looking for them."

Adrie nods. "That would be why, yes."

Igatho looks over at Grimly. "Do the arm thing!"

Adrie asks, "Arm thing...?"

Holy looks at Adrie and shrugs. Then looks at Grimly.

"His arm thing is for smashing, Iga.  Now is not the time for smashing."

She bows to the princess, holds Iga's hand, and heads out.

  "Doing 'The arm thing' is not... strictly voluntary." For smashing is a good sum up.

  Polite bows are go, as is going back outside is go.

Igatho reaches towards Grimly with one arm while being dragged the opposite direction by Kitau with the other arm. "ARM THINGIE!!" as her eyes water.

But Grimly explains he can't. With wording she doesn't understand. So Holy translates, "He wants to, honey, but he can not right now."

Igatho stuffs her thumb in her mouth, pouting.

The group makes it outside and people are murmuring in the street at the sight of the now-exposed baby giant. But since they JUST came from the palace, most people are assuming it is safe... well... safe enough to not riot.

Kitau nods and pets Iga as the group walks.  She gives the frightened people proud mommy smiles.

  Don't put that arm in your mouth Igatho, it would start punching your stomach after you ate it and tummy aches always make a cranky baby.

  "I wonder, after we leave how many people will want to still mention being scared of a baby?"  Sure, a giant baby, but it's always hard to make that sort of thing sound good even with context.

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