A veritable symphony of screeching griffins descended upon us.

Nolin immediately activated his [Control: Size] Skill and charged into battle. The aged dwarf, Chancellor Grimly I presumed, had run over and was gripping his hair on both sides of his head as he wailed, “Not again!”

My first instinct was to draw my sword, but that would require dropping the very important crate of eggs. Instead, I stood there awkwardly debating what to do as seven winged monsters attacked the now very upset outpost of some twenty dwarves.

For their part, the dwarven guards were impressive. They brought out forged steel netting and all manner of excellently crafted weapons to stave off the monsters.

The griffins turned over roof shingles and carts, dodging the occasional thrown axe or spiked boot as they did so.

An expert level crafted spear that glowed with a +1 Strength modifier went flying past my face. That was when I decided it was time to act.

I leaned over to get in Chancellor Grimly’s face and told him, “Hold the eggs!” shoving the crate into his arms.

He took the crate with both hands and looked ready to faint.

"Excuse me." To help, I reached out and grabbed an armoured dwarfess running past. She looked like some manner of authority figure and had been yelling, "Vanguard to me!" when I did so.

The look of pure insult at being dangled from my hand turned into menace as she activated [Control: Size]. I dropped her as the dwarfess promptly dwarfed me, "You dare-"

"GRIFFIN EGGS!" I pointed at the crate, then back at her. "Keep them safe, please!"

Her expression dawned with realisation and she ran over to help.

I was already gone.

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