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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 3842167" data-attributes="member: 11760">Katadid wipes away his tears of fear and sorrow. Soon enough, the prospect of further exploration has driven Renraw's gruesome puppet show from his mind.Using Renraw's staff, Kat sees if he can determine anything from them. The tunnels are dark, smell vaguely of old dried urine and are too twisty to see far down with the staff light."Huh."Kat looks up and shrugs toward the others. He walks over to the chest and opens it, looking quite empty except for the rack of potions. Taking one of the bottles, he puts it in his sack. He takes another one and uncorks it to sniff experimentally. Looking toward the others, he shrugs again."This should be interesting.""BIRD!" Tock yells. "Don't drink that!"Katadid smacks his lips and looks around, seemingly unchanged."Yum. Tastes like almonds."And then Katadid has the strange sensation of falling, of everything whirling away. When the sensation stops, he's less than six inches tall and the Gentlemen Delvers are as tall as trees. The two-foot high tunnels the werebadger vanished into are now enormous, far taller than any roof back home in Maidensbridge ever was.Kat blinks. He looks at his hands and then up at the Delvers, whose shocked faces he can just barely make out."Huh." He feels to see if his clothes and equipment shrank as well. "Fascinating."Ragglus stares down at Katadid in horror.Renraw's eyes go wide with manic glee when he sees what happens to Katadid. He puts his face down low to the ground and whispers to his compatriot. The onion, bratwurst, 12-days-with-no-oral-hygiene-whatsoever halitosis almost causes the tiny wizard to pass out."What does it feel like? Does it feel temporary?" Renraw booms. "How long do you think it lasts? Shuffle your feet or something! Do a cute little dance for us!"It takes a few moments for Katadid's coughing fit to stop."Well ... interesting. Perspective is different. I would IMAGINE it's temporary but ..." He blinks as if realizing something. "You have very bad skin, Renraw."Averting his eyes from dirty pores the size of a plate, Katadid stares at the tunnels."Why do these exist?" Kat motions toward the holes where the werebadger escaped through, "He obviously doesn't need them.""Bird, my buddy, they exist for the same reason other holes exist: To go into." Tock says as he takes a potion and gulps it down, wincing. "Come on, guys, no going back now. If this ends up permanent, I've heard pixie tail is even sweeter than elven."Renraw thrusts his potion into Ragglus' calloused hands."Drink down, Chaplin! We haven't got all night!"Before Tock can wonder about Renraw's sudden enthusiasm for going last in the shrinking process, he finds himself collapsing down, down, down, until he and Katadid are the only two normal-sized people in a cave full of giants."Huh," Tock says, feeling all his parts, making sure that none of them shrank any more than the others did. "Neat.""Shouldn't someone stay big?" Ragglus asks uncomfortably. "Just in case?""Maybe," Katadid shouts up to him. "But could one of us fit through the holes regular size? Ooh!"From this position, Katadid can see what he thought were pebbles are dried rat droppings. Lots and lots of dried rat droppings. He runs over and picks up one of the rat droppings, cradling it in his arms. Tock wrinkles his nose and sighs as he massages his temples."These are rat droppings!" Katadid yells. "I think the passages are rat warrens, as opposed to badger setts, which means the passages could get much smaller.""Chaplin, dear man, if those tunnels DO get smaller as they go, the two of them could need someone a good deal brawnier to protect them, don't you think?" Renraw says, reasonably, attempting to guide the potion flask up to Ragglus' lips. "I believe I'm the best choice to remain 'large,' as it were."Ragglus shuts his mouth and turns it to the side, like a recalcitrant child unwilling to eat yet another spoonful of applesauce."Confound you, Chaplin!" Renraw fumes, "Just come here!"Renraw grabs him by the back of the neck and pours his potion down the other man's open gullet. With a growl that cuts-off just sort of becoming a furious scream, Ragglus drives an elbow into the wizard's nose. Renraw has no time to reel back before he finds Ragglus' potion stuffed into his mouth, its contents cascading down his throat.And so, sputtering and spitting, the pair shrink down to mere inches in size alongside the bemused Tock and oblivious Katadid.</blockquote>

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