Serila steps a bit forward and shoots another ray of white fire at the kobold that fled.
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Serila's holy ray fires at the nearest kobold but the kobold is able to dodge behind the wall. A burn mark is left on the wall.
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Farid
Auxavier
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Aux moves through the door and once again orders the kobolds....
"Surrender the children to us."
Handaxe (+1) S
Bhoors shuffles forward and fires a volley of arrows at a Kobold across the way.
Ruthviren strikes out to his left (the kobold right over the "17").
Farid says nothing save the grunts that issue forth as he swing his axe as hard as he can and as mercilessly as he can.
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The warrior, barbarian and paladin all move into the room attacking the kobolds within but none of them hit their targets.
Bhoors fires a volley of arrows at a kobold in the rear. One of the arrows just catches the pulley near the kobold’s head but the other one sinks deep into it’s chest and the red scaled creature slumps to the ground.
The two front kobolds stab out with spears as one in the rear throws another javelin. The larger blue scaled one draws a wicked looking knife attached to a chain and whips it at Farid.
Ruthviren is stabbed with a spear from the kobold near him and hit by a thrown javelin from the kobold in the rear.
The other spear wielder hits Farid but can not pierce his tough leather armor but the chain knife slashes Farid on the arm leaving a nasty rip.
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Fortitude save
Your arm burns a little but you grit your teeth and resist the pain.
Serila moves a bit more forward and fires a ray of heavenly fire at the nearest standing kobold.
She hits the wall again.
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Auxavier
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Bhoors shuffles forward next to Serila and fires 2 arrows at the nearest kobold.
"Someone secure the slumbering kobolds behind us before they awake."
Glares at a kobold, repeating his demand
"The children!"
Handaxe (+1) S
Roo steps back and takes a swing at the kobold to the right of Aux.
sigh
Farid continues to grunt with the force of his swings.
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Ruthviren swing his hammer wildly again and smashes the wall above the kobold's head.
Farid swings at the red scaled kobold in front of him but the axe is dodged easily by the creature.
Auxavier marches into the room yelling at the kobolds, who only respond with hisses, and brings his hand axe down on one of them sinking it deep into its head. The kobold is dead before it hits the ground.
Bhoors fires again into the melee sending a arrow thru the head of the kolbold in the rear ranks.
The large blue scaled kobold moves to the elevator and jumps into the large pot then cuts the rope. The pot shoots down into the darkness.
The last red scaled kobold stabs at Farid but he rogue sidesteps the feeble attack.
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Auxavier
Bhoors
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Serila
You feel an evil presence, can hear the faint rattling of chains and see a small amount of black smoke coming coming from the rough cavern exit to the east of you.
"Something wicked this way comes."
Aux points towards the East exit...
"Though we might vanquish it, we must secure the children."
"I'll take care of the sleeping ones, before they can rejoin the fight!"
Serila moves over to the nearest sleeping kobold and takes her loaded crossbow from her back.
Serila moves into the prayer room to inspect the sleeping kobold's just as the nearest one begins to stir and opens it's eyes. Staring at the bolt pointing straight at him the large blue scaled, hunched back kobold begs for his life. "Kerrdremak always likey pink-skins, me never hurt huu-mans! No Kill Me! I help you!"
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Gritting his teeth in frustration, Ruthviren swings for the kobold by the well.
"We still have incoming from the eastern cavern. We have a door to the west in this room, and one in the previous room. We also have the well that a kobold slipped through."
"We are here for the children."
Handaxe (+1) S
"What do you say Farid, Roo? Clear this room and regroup with the others in the adjoining chamber?"
Farid's attacks become wilder the more he misses. "Yeah Aux yeah!" he snarls.
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Ruthviren attacks the fleeing kobold as it jumps into the large pot but the creature dodges the hammer. Auxavier's hand axe does not miss and slices a chunk off the kobold but it still stands.
Farid growls at the kobold before him before splitting it in two with his large axe.
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Bhoors shuffles back a few feet and fires on the woke Kobold next to Serila.
Bhoors fires at the large blue scaled kobold as he tries to escape but the arrow bounce off the large pot harmlessly.
The rope cut loose by the kobold gives no resistance to the large pot and it drops into the darkness. A few seconds later you hear it hit the bottom with a loud clang.
"Alright people, let us regroup in the other chamber and make sure no one is wounded."
Aux tries to herd Roo and Farid back into the room with Bhoors and Serilia....
"So is anyone injured?"
"Yeah, I got a couple o' bleeders," Roo mutters angrily, disgusted at his inability to connect in the last combat.
"How serious? Can they be bandaged up or is healing needed."
"Looks serious enough to me for a tap," Serila says as she takes out the healing wand and taps Ruthviren.
"Will you be fine, or do you also want a tap?" she asks Fair and Auxavier. "No idea what else we'll face, so we'd better be at the top of our game."
"We still have sleepers. Am I stabbing or someone going to force me to tie. I got all sorts of forgiveness not sure its for kidnappers."
Farid approaches the pit and stares down considering jumping down but Aux pulls him away before he can commit the rash act.
Stepping back into the other room Farid waves off any healing at the moment and hefts his axe.
"Do we kill these little sleeping creatures or tie the up and question them?" His tone leads you to believe he would prefer to slay the lot of them.
"If one is willing to help maybe we can get the children and make our way out. We can return later if anyone would like."
"Pleeese No Kill!! Chil-dren me knows about chil-dren." The hunched back, blue scaled kobold sputters.
As you take a closer look at him one of his ears is immensely over-sized and droops under the weight of several humanoid finger-bone earrings. These grim trophies jangle obscenely whenever he nods his head.
"So he will help. . . the others . . ."
"He's obviously killed humanoids before," Serila says as she looks at the earrings with disgust, "but we can use his help to save the children."
Serila walks up to the sleeping kobolds while putting her crossbow away. "The white fire I used before can only harm those with evil hearts. Those with good hearts are healed, while those in between are unaffected."
She places the finger of her empty hand against the temple of one of the sleeping kobolds.
"I will let their own hearts judge them," Serila says, " Could you interrogate the other while I do so?"
Serila then shoots a ray of heavenly fire directly into the kobold's temple.
If the kobold's unharmed, Serila lets him be. If the kobold's harmed by the heavenly fire, Serila checks him to see if he still lives.
If the kobold still lives after taking damage from the fire, Serila will draw her dagger and use it to slit his throat.
After she's let her heavenly fire judge the kobold, Serila places her finger against the temple of the other sleeping kobold and repeats the entire process.
Serila lets her holy fire judge the two sleeping kobolds and they both fail to pass the test. Both now lie motionless with a small burn hole at their temple.
Seeing his two followers killed the hunched back kobold begins to frantically beg for his life.
"It all depends, scaly. Talk to us! Where are the human children, and who or what is guarding them?"
Bhoors moves over to Aux, "Um cousin keep your intentions pure with that one." He chuckles nudging him playfully.
Serila wipes her dagger with the kobolds clothes and sheathes it. She looks over at Ruthviren, and his somewhat shaky attempt to intimidate the hunched back kobold. With both grace and an aura of calmness, Serila walks over and looks the kobold in his eyes.
"Where are the children?" she asks sternly, using prestidigitation to make her eyes glow with bright, white fire.
Bhoors gulps, and adds to Aux, "Seriously treat her right. For your health."
He allows the others to interrogate the Kobold. He quickly gathers the bodies of the fallen Kobolds and puts them in a pile near the last living one in a place where the Kobold can see. He pipes his head up making sure reinforcements are not bearing down on them.
Once the pile is made he checks them for gear and valuables.
The kobold is visibly shaken by Serila's calm but threatening demeanor. "They are ... were ... down in tunnels ... below ..."
As you begin to move to the elevator room to gather the corpses you hear a low growl. Turning to the sound you see a thin creature resembling a lanky wolf with reddish-brown fur, white claws, and burning, fiery red eyes.
It looks up at you with a mouth full of dead kobold.
"I am glad you have chose to tell us of the location of the children, but we also asked about what we might face in getting the children out of here."
@Serila
"Aye the holy fire can read their hearts, I can not."
@Bhoors
"Fear not, heavenly fire will not harm me."
Bhoors looks at the creature.
Bhoors slowly reaches for his bow and backs up slowly. "Easy there. Just keep eating the Kobold." He keeps his eyes locked in the beast, but talks evenly over his shoulder. "We have company. Big wolf thing."