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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6752773" data-attributes="member: 6777052">BoldItalic replied, "there is only one thing we can do about them, and that is to recruit them to aid us."Turning again to the frightened creature, BoldItalic spoke slowly and clearly so that there would be no mistake. "We will let you live if you swear to serve us to defeat the dragon lady. Do you speak for all three?"The kobold looked nervously left and right at his two fellows and hissed something in the draconic language, receiving some kind of assent in reply. "They say they more afraid of you than they afraid of her. Also, you here and she not. Where you want we dig?""Tell us your true name," demanded Rylnethaz. "You will be bound by terrible oaths to serve us."The kobold was almost too terrified to speak, but managed to mumble "No laugh. Me called Diggur. It mean brown-tail in kobold-speak. It shameful name." and his ears turned flat against his head, a sure sign that he was telling the truth."If you serve us well," said BoldItalic, "you shall have a new name. A proud name. A name that will spoken in awe through all the halls of the underdark."At this, the kobold's eyes gleamed and the tip of his nose grew a whole inch wider. It was obvious that a good bargain had been struck. Diggur turned again to his companions and hissed something, at which the other two skipped and hopped around in obvious glee, reaching up to pat BoldItalic on the knees."Yes, well," said BoldItalic gruffly, thinking for one fleeting moment that perhaps grandchildren might be fun after all, "names must be earned. First, tell us what lies down the tunnel and how we can find the dragon-lady.""Many twisty-turny tunnels, all alike," said Diggur, "You walk very careful or you fall in spiky pit and be eaten by Grue.""Who is this Grue?" demanded Rylnethaz, and, trying to chose his words simply, "How big is it, and is it soft or hard?""Grue is grue. It eat kobolds who get lost in tunnels, they never seen again.""I have heard legends of this creature, far back in the mists of time," observed BoldItalic, "in the age of EightBit, long go. Little did I think it still survived. This is most interesting. But we digress.""Lead us to where the dragon-lady lives," insisted Rylnethaz.And so they set off down the tunnel, following Diggur who led the way proudly with his tail held high. They turned steadily right and downwards for a long time, passing many side-tunnels that led who-knows-where, until they came to ...</blockquote>

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