Round 3 (ongoing):
Initiative Order
Party (Huc & Arien acted)
Kobolds
Reload
Shoot at kobold
Temperance slashes at the southern kobold, his temple sword going snicker-snack. "They are proving to be tenacious," he says from atop the ledge.
Both Rowane and Master Temperance hit their targets, but do not drop them.
Master Temperance continues to dodge the efforts of the two kobolds attacking him. Huc is again the target of massed sling fire
Round 4:
Initiative Order
Party
Kobolds
Temperance again swings his sword, small rings at the base of the blade clinking slightly.
"That's better," he says to himself, as the blade connects rather well against the dog-dragon-humanoid thingy.
Round 4 (ongoing):
Initiative Order
Party (Master Temperance acted)
Kobolds
With grace and skill, the gnome cuts at one of the kobolds and passes his heavy blade neatly between two of its cervical vertebrae, severing its head easily.
Huc whirls and slings a stone at the closest kobold in the far eastern group. "Awesome," he grouses, amidst his pelting, "now let's see if we can speed things up, huh?"
Fynn continues his defensive stance.
Round 4 (ongoing):
Initiative Order
Party (Master Temperance, Huc, and Arien acted)
Kobolds
Huc's sling stone sails over the head of its target. Arien has better luck with his flask of alchemist's fire, which impacts on one of the kobolds and splashes the other two with the burning liquid. The targeted kobold goes down.
Rowane loads and fires another bolt at a kobold
Rowane's bolt follows Huc's sling stone into the upper reaches of the cave, unfortunately without first passing through a kobold. The remaining slingers decide that Arien is a greater threat than the hunter, and unleash a volley on her. One hits
Round 5:
Initiative Order
Party
Kobolds
”Nice!” Huc calls out encouragingly as Arien flames the trio of kobolds, then he follows her … trotting across the bridge and pulling out his own vial of fire-liquid. He points to the elf and calls out to his best friend, ”Fynn! Defend!”
[ooc]Move across the bridge, draw out alchemist’s fire. Command Fynn to Defend Arien.
Temperance turns to the other kobold, his sword dripping with the ichor of its brethren.
His strike is no less deadly as he aims at the other kobold.
"Pharasma receive you," he says mildly as the sword bites into the little humanoid.
Round 5 (ongoing):
Initiative Order
Party (Huc and Mater Temperance acted)
Kobolds
The monk kills the second of his hereditary enemies with similar grace and ease, while Huc prepares to bring the fire.
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Temperance turns to the other kobold, his sword dripping with the ichor of its brethren. His strike is no less deadly as he aims at the other kobold.
Arien takes a step back, glaring at the two singed kobolds on the ledge above. Bursting into motion, leaps up the wall face to attempt tp scramble over the ledge and into the cramped space above.
Round 5 (ongoing):
Initiative Order
Party (Huc, Arien, and Master Temperance acted)
Kobolds
Arien jumps up to the ledge, pulling herself up! Luckily for her, the kobolds don't have melee weapons out, so they aren't able to take advantage of her brief distraction while scrambling up.
Rowane reloads another bolt and then moves in to get better line of sight..
The two wounded kobolds near Arien drop their slings and snatch up spears, trying to stick the investigator. One manages to do so . The other three try to do some more damage to Huc with a smaller volley of sling stones, but none of them are effective.
Round 6:
Initiative Order
Party
Kobolds
Temperance slides down from the now bloody perch and crosses over into kobold land with the rest of the party.
Huc throws his alchemist's fire up at the front-most kobold.
Fynn barks excitedly as he tries to scramble up the cave wall.
With new targets, Rowane takes aim and launches another bolt...
Rowane hits the kobold he shot before and drops it! Arien cuts down one of his assailants, and Huc's alchemist's fire wounds the other two kobolds on the northerly ledge.
The kobolds have only their equipment and a total of 20 copper pieces between them.
Huc smirks at Arien's glibness as he roughly ropes the remaining kobolds together. "Rowane," he says back to the priest as he works, "you said you speak their tongue. See if you can sweet-talk'em into tellin' us what all else waits of for us in here. I'd love to sidestep as many remaining ambushes as possible."
Then, once they're bound, he searches the room carefully, looking for anything else useful.
There's nothing else of interest in the room.
Rowane approaches the captures kobolds and stares down at them.
The least wounded replies.
For all its bluster, it doesn't look very confident.
"Er, what is it saying, Rowane?" Temperance looks puzzled.
Finding nothing, Huc settles in to await translation, as well.
"They serve a dragon named Aeteparax. And of course threatening us."
Rowane gestures towards Finn.
The surviving kobolds say nothing.
"Can't we...hmm...send them back to the town?" Master Temperance is dubious of his plan.
They glare at the gnome.
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"Can't we...hmm...send them back to the town?"
“And what will they do with them, there? What do the other ones do, while we travel there and back again? If they embed in these tunnels, we might have to fight our way back to this very spot. If you’ve got a idea that puts them well out of our way, I’m all ears – but I won’t leave them at my back.”
Huc grunts, "Let's leave'em bound and knock'em out." He shrugs at Arien uncomfortably, "I don't like killin'em cold-blooded, either, even if that's what they'd do to us."
Unless told otherwise, he goes about doing just that, clubbing the kobolds into unconsciousness one at a time.
"Ready to move on?"
"If we drag them outside, the sun will dazzle them," says Temperance.
A little further up the tunnel, and it branches to the east and west. Arien can see a glimmer of daylight down the western branch, while the eastern branch splits again after ten or fifteen feet.