The Daimyo's Gambit - Game Thread

Tonton follows his ears right to the plant and looks to where they have led him. There, in the bonsai tree house, three miniature adventurers look up at him. Tonton can recognize them as the three that ran in to fight the Widow while the others untied him. They look relieved as they finally have gotten your attention. They are tiny and you can see evidence of others now that you are looking. There is a small community within the tree of others that were similarly tricked, no doubt.

Big movements of agreement, exaggerated nods from Shan and Kildrak and a big thumbs up from Cassandra, confirm that they can hear Fēng. They confer for a moment and start making exaggerated movements with their arms clasping them together and swinging them from over their head and bringing them down in front of them or out to the side.

Tonton as you resume your search of the building you can hear the voice of the goblin child pleading with Utamuro.

The tiny adventurers can tell from the confused look on Fēng's face that he is not understanding. They begin to make exaggerated motions with their arms, Cassandra partnering with Shen thrusting her clutched hands toward him and Shen grabbing his abdomen and falling to his knees. Utamuro and Tonton begin their grisly task, limbs quickly being detached from the torso, as the child responds.
As the child finishes speaking, Tonton, Utamuro, Fēng, and Urki can hear a great cry come up from outside, closer than they would like. From their position in the hall, Tonton and Utamuro can see a flaming blade pierce the paper walls to the south, setting fire to the exterior panels.The blade hurries out of site around the corner, continuing its fiery journey.

The children all cringe at the cry outside, some of the younger ones wetting themselves and the older ones huddle together quivering. The one that has been helping responds to Tonton. Utamuro can just barely glimpse the familiar red burning eyes before they are out of view, careening around the building and out of sight. The paper walls quickly catch fire and the room, and building, will soon be a blazing inferno without any intervention.

Tonton steps forward to scoop up the small child that is unresponsive. Hrog weighs almost nothing in his arms, emaciated and missing limbs. Even though you can see the glow of fear from the fire reflected in their eyes, he others respond to the herding by Fēng and Utamuro.