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[After the requisite amount of time, a blinding flash fills your vision. When it clears again, you find yourself standing (or sitting, for the less balanced among you) on the beach … except you’re a hell of a lot smaller. And the sand dunes are a hell of a lot bigger.

You and your knights are each approximately an inch tall, with exceptions made for the lucky dragons and other large non-humanoids, who are the correct size, proportionally. A large flat stretch of sand is on one side of you, with a fresh mound of easily moldable sand next to that. Not that there’s any shortage of sand on the beach. In addition to that, you will find a box full of tools that you can use to craft your sandcastles, including shovels in all shapes and sizes, buckets, cups, and other basic sand stuff. There is also a box labeled SPECIAL SUPPLIES, which has the following items in it:

+ One flag (in team colors)
+ One collapsible drawbridge (push the button to make it life-size)
+ One collapsible portcullis (same as the drawbridge)
+ One cute plastic dragon (person-height)
+ One packet of “instant moat” (just add water!)

You will find that all the tools work at amazing speeds with very little effort. Constructing an epic multi-story castle is very doable even within this short time frame.]

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Creepy glow it is!

[HEADIN' THATAWAY]

[no tentacles for me!!

yes, going in that direction]

[Well the creepy glow is creepy!! The sky seems to darken as you approach it. They move slightly too, like a pair of eyes watching you from the shadows.]

[summons a ring of glowing blue letters between his hands '-' just in case]

[oops. it's too late to turn back now, so still going]

. . . It's not going to be dangerous, is it.

[the lights bob closer ... the lights loom bigger ...

Oh, they're just a pair of glowing tepha blossoms. Chilling in the shadow of this little outcropping.]

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[omg]

[lets his light disperse, LAUGHING]

[. . . oh gosh. just looking at them]

What's that?

[Glowing, bell-like flowers about the size of your head. The blossom, not the whole plant.]

They're flowers. Want to pick them? We could use them for lights in the castle.

Yeah. We could use them.

[so big :B tries to take one of them very carefully]

[It takes some effort to sever the stem, but you can manage it. You now have two pretty lights.]

[INTO THE BAGS THEY GO]

Where to now?

Let's see.

[IS THERE ANOTHER PATH?]

[Bits of scale litter the sand here, increasing in frequency until they practically form a trail away from your castle. And to the south, you spy what looks to be a circular thicket of twigs and branches.

Which way?]

[picks up some of the scales, tucking them under his arm]

Looks like something lives in there.

We could check that out.

[following the trail]

[As you head that way, the ground begins to tremble under your feet. Thud. Thud.]

Uh.

[LIGHTING UP THE LETTERS AGAIN]

[OH NO. CLINGING TO THE SPEAR MIKAGE GAVE HIM. Looking around]

[Two lights appear from the shadows! Could they be flowers again??

... nope. This is definitely a rockzile. Except it's approximately fifty feet high and a hundred feet long at this scale, with claws easily three times your size as well. It looms over your heads, long forked tongue tasting the air in front of you.]

[whispering]

Can you see its eyes from here? If they're red or white we're safe...

[whispering back]

I'm not sure.

[TRYING REALLY HARD TO CHECK THAT OUT]

[these are hungry eyes. this is a hungry tongue wrapping around your leg.]

[chatters angrily at the rockzile, barking before switching to human words:]

NO! Bad! Drop it!

[ZAIPHONS THE LIZARD'S SNOUT. slashy knife-sharp glowing wind, basically]

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