It was a similar story to the last colossus alert, in that it came "out of nowhere" and was headed right for Dirtwater. Of course the name Dirtwater implies it's nowhere special (we know better but that's the name of the place). So in a way you could say it was a closed loop of a journey for this kaiju.

Another similarity is that Tenly (a Firbolg warrior that has a hard-hitting hammer) and Whisk (who's telling you the tale) were both around to answer the call to arms. They were joined by a dagger-wielding rogue Katari named Katrina, and short bow-firing ranger named, uh, Whisk didn't catch that Ribbet's name but it sure made a big difference to the fight once it got going.

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"Can you describe this monstrosity?"

Whisk seems to stare upward at about a forty-five degree angle, and then replies, "take a a four-legged animal built like a rhinoceros and scale it up to huge, then cross it with a camel (it had a hump on its back that was like a mesa). And finally give it a bird's head and some glowing gems that seemed the source of something power-like. It seemed important, but we never saw it do anything we could identify so maybe we got lucky and stopped it before that could activate. It just seemed like a good target, and ultimately we were probably right because attacking those crystalline shapes did the trick. "

"What struck you the most about this strange beast, Whisk?"

"The size of it. You don't see stone moving all that often but something this big, made of stone, is just an avalanche in slow motion." Whisk gestures with his hand indicating a staggering tallness.

"How high would you say that was, for those of us who weren't there to witness it ourselves?" you ask.

"It was so tall that the wind I can ask for a favor to lift me up couldn't get me up onto its head in one go. So we took on its front legs and after a lot of hits --- some of the biggest damage being caused by Tenly's hammer --- the arms, or maybe we should say the front legs, they gave out. This made it kneel down. We knew that meant they were healing back up and this would be temporary, so we acted fast and tried to shut it down."

"Two stayed at ground level and kept it busy. They took care of the minions it spawned as well. But the ranger also got a couple of great arrow shots to hit the gem in the forehead. And two us got up to the head and building on that we all together destroyed the gem in its nose."

Whisk pauses to summon up a mental image of that disconcerting mental image.

"Or was it a beak? It had an avian shape to its head and neck. but the rest of it was quadrupedal. It was made of rock, with a cracked texture that if you wounded it, could repair itself. It just took a short while for lava to flow out of its veins and cool down to the form of rock."

"When we took out the gem at the front, that made it turn unconscious briefly, and we found a chance then for Katrina (who was thrown up to the torso like a shotput by Tenly) and Whisk to do a tag-team maneuver that did about 50 pts in that one tandem attack. It was two critical hits, one per player in the tag-team."

"We destroyed both crystalline structures-- they kind of reminded us of geodes, and we effectively scooped the pretty parts out of the boring bowl-shapes. "

"Did you recover anything interesting, Mr. Dunestrider?"

"This led to our finding in the wake of the battle four very cool objects that owed their presence there to this magical crystal structure."

Name Recipient

Arcane Prism Whisk

Bloodstone Tenly

Ring of Resistance Katrina ?

Hopekeeper's Amulet Cara's Ribbet?

"And that's all I can tell you. Thank you for buying a round."