Kyzen moves into the room, as he approach her... "We are here to help" he grabs is waterskin and gives some to her slowly... he let her drink as much as she needs. Turning to Kyras... "Please can you remove her restreins?" When he sees that she's more able to talk... "Are you Nighttail?"
On it. Kyras responds. And to the kolold he says We are here to help you. Be calm. I'll have you out in a moment.
Hoga stands guard as Kyras does his thing, watching for trouble.
Tamora is on the lookout for Asar, other potential foes and magical traps with her detection spells and senses. If she sees him, she readies herself to distract him with a summon if he appears.
"Looks like we found her. Let's get her freed up and back to her people, uh, kobolds." Kakrish spots the bulging bag. "Hey. What's this?" He moves to the bag and opens it up to look inside.
Kyzen gives some water to the injured Kobold, while Kyras takes care of her restraint. She coughs a bit after drinking a few sips. "Yes... Nighttail... Must... Hak..." She starts coughing some more after those few words. While Hoga and Tamora keep an eye out for trouble, Kakrish heads over to the bag and look at what is inside. He finds a very nice small sized blue leather armor, a well crafted small sized spear, some traveling clothes, also small. At the bottom, he also finds some sort of animal barding that seem to also serve as a saddle of some sort.
"Hey guys. Is this her stuff?" Kakrish drags the bag of stuff over to where they are helping the injured Kobold.
"Slow down, take deep breaths"
Kyzen pulls out a potion of cure light wound...
"Here drink, this potion will heal some of your wounds"
"Do you need more?"
When you can breath a little better please tell us of yourself and how you came to be imprisoned here. And you should know that while we had to fight to get into these tunnels we have negotiated our way past two fights with kobolds of your tribe. We do not want to fight you but only find out why you toppled the wizard tower and make sure you are not a threat to the human town.
Hoga waits for the kobold to respond before asking what's being said.
The Kobold drinks the potion and then a bit more water. She looks around, blinking, trying to make sense of the people she sees around her. As the confusion washes from her face, she starts talking again. "Hak, I need to find Hak! Have you seen him?" She crumples to the floor, yet still manages to lift her tiny arm and points to the southwest corridor. "He should be that way."
"No. We haven't been down that way yet." Kakrish signals Hoga, "Let's go look down that way and find this Hak person, or kobold."
Okay. Follow me, Hoga says.
He hefts his axe and moves towards the corridor.
Kakrish swings his sword to the ready and follows Hoga.
"Will be right there."
Tamora walks to the kobold, pace slowed as her body trembles with slight hesitation. In a brief time, she shrugs back to her regular self and keeps her face professional. When she reaches Night Tail, she kneels to check the kobold's health.
"So what is the hurry of finding this Hak?"
Heal (Take 10) to check health - 22
Kyras offers I think this must be your gear. We are not thieves. If you claim it, it is yours.
Kyzen follows Nighttail and the group to help find Hak
Hoga keeps moving slowly, taking 20 on perception (25).
The group follows the indication that Nighttail gave them. One the way they cross two barred gates, but the way it is built, it looks more like the gate is to prevent anyone to leave in the opposite direction. Opening the gates is rather easy and eventually the group reaches a large cavern. Compare to the other cavern that the group has seen, this one as twelve foot high ceilings. Also, all around the cave, you can see well chewed bones scattered around the floor. From the far end alcove come a growling noise and a few seconds later, an Allosaurus comes into view. It moves toward the group in an aggressive posture, but then stop to sniff the air. At the same time, Nighttail moves to the head of the group. "Hak? Come here girl!" The Allosaurus, hearing Nighttail's voice, goes from aggressive to happiness in a second. It is run toward Nighttail where the two hug for a moment.
Before following Nighttail into the cave... "Hey, can we make sure the gates stays open, so we don't get trapped in here like stupid rats"
Anything we can use to hold the gates: rocks, weapons, gear, etc...
As soon as we find a way to keep the gates open, Kyzen will catch up with Nighttail... looking a bit surprised "This is your friend?"
Tamora aids the other in their effort in using the local rocks as door stoppers. The growl grabs her attention as she sees the dinosaur cooing and rubbing her head against its master as Nighttail reciprocate.
"So this is Hak. I imagined her somewhat differently."
Kyras agrees that the gates need to be disabled as they move through them but makes sure that the could quickly be closed if the group had to retreat with enemies chasing them.
Seeing the Allosaurus, Kyras cannot help but gawk some. That seems like quite a handy friend. I suspect you ride her?
I don't know what you're talking about, Hoga says to Kyras, but we should get back to our friends. Let's get moving.
Kakrish looks shocked when the dinosaur appears. "This? Wow. Quite a handy friend to have with you." Kakrish looks around the cavern. "So what else is in here?"
Let's all take a look, make sure we didn't miss anything.
Hoga takes 20 perception.
Nighttail seems to be in a better mood. "Yes, this is Hak. We have been together since birth. She is still young, but yes, we ride together in battle." Now that the two are reunited, you are able to walk back to the cave where you found Nighttail. She looks in the bag that Kakrish found earlier. [b]"Yes, that look like my stuff. Thank you!" She starts getting her gear on as she continues talking. "You mentioned something about a tower? what tower?"
Kyras details the crash of the tower and the group's findings that indicate kobolds were the sappers.
Kakrish points to a passageway heading southeast. "Hey guys. Let's go down there. Maybe there's something else to fight."
Is Nighttail and Hak fully restored?
Tamora shakes her head and informs the party that there is no other auras. She turns to the female kobold.
"A tower that some wizard lived in above these caverns. A Lord Vergas used your fellow kobolds to launch an assault on the tower after he forced them to submit to his will and bidding. I suppose that he is one who chained you to the walls?"
Hoga can't understand the conversation. He keeps his axe ready, and takes 20 on perception (25).
As you walk the long bend corridor, Nighttail explains a bit more of the recent event that happened to her tribe. It started some weeks ago when a sorcerer named Roaghaz. He showed up claiming that he had a vision about their tribe. That they were chosen to help bring back a powerful Lunar Dragon. Her father welcomed the sorcerer and they started working to make the vision a reality. Sometime later, another Kobold showed up. This time it was a priest. Since the clan didn't have any spell user in generations, her father saw it as a sign that the clan was growing in influence. The priest presented himself as Churgri of Nethys. Finally, a few days ago, Lord Vergas showed up. With the betrayal of Roaghaz and Churgri, it didn't take long for him to overcome their defense and assassinate her father. After that, whoever opposed them were murdered or sacrifice. She was kept alive to serve as an example. Those that obeyed were promised great power.
As you reach the end of the corridor, she signals you to wait. She walks into the room ahead and start moving some rocks along one wall. Those in front can notice that she is disabling a trap, allowing you to enter the room without fear of triggering it.
Kakrish points at Nighttail. "Ha. Look at that. She's disabling a trap for us." He chuckles. "That might have been fun to run into." When she is done Kakrish moves into the room and looks around.
"Indeed"
Her tone is dry and sardonic. Tamora checks the room with her senses (Perception (Take 20) - 30) and magic.
Nodding his approval to Nightfall Kyras maintains his awareness for other traps and stays in the front. He asks quietly I know it would be best if we only hurt these three you name, but others of your tribe are likely to oppose us. Are you with us in that case? Or do you believed your presence will prevent your old tribe members from fighting us?
Studying the room, Tamora doesn't find any other sign of traps or danger. The trap that Nighttail disarmed appear to be a dart trap. If triggered, it would have launched three darts at the victim. When Kyras asks his question, there is a sad look on Nighttail face. "I will try my best to avoid any bloodshed of my tribe, but if it comes to it, I will help you."
After passing the trap, you get in a smaller part of the room. At the far end, you see a hole in the floor. Nighttail walks up to it. "We need to climb down here. The next two rooms are used to breed snapping turtles. they are aggressive, but if you don't step in the water, they won't attack." She waits for the group to be ready, and then climbs down the knotted rope. Once down, she calls for Hak. The dinosaur walks to the edge and look down for a few seconds. It hesitates for a moment, but eventually jumps down to the lower level.
Kakrish peers into the hole. "Looks easy enough." He sits on the floor and scoots to the hole. After grabbing the rope he slowly climbs down.
Kyras takes 10 for a 15 to climb down.
Hoga takes 10 for an 18.
Tamora takes 10 for a 10 to climb down.
Climbing down the rope, you land in an almost circular room. There is a corridor leading out of the room eastern wall. You sometimes see ripples and small head in the pools of water as you pass by. Following Nighttail, you walk one behind the other until the corridor opens up into a large room. A large pool of dark water sits in the middle of this cavern. There are three other Kobolds there and they are talking in Draconic with Nighttail. They look at you with uneasy eyes, but whatever Nighttail is saying seems to keep them peaceful for now. Aside from the corridor you came from, there are three other corridors leading out. One of them seems to be blocked by a fence.
"Let's keep going." Kakrish says to the others and he starts in the direction of the corridor leading to the west.