Dragon's Demand (Inactive)

Game Master David_Bross

*Shrug*

"Let's take our chances."

for the sake of speed

"I said yes take us to Nighttail"

"Chance for fight? Braggom say 'yes'."

The kobolds lead you up throw some narrow winding caves. Along the way they say Don't step in this space... walk like us You uncomfortably squeeze through a tiny alcove filled with rubble, when you follow their direction.

Eventually you see a mound of what appears to be rotten vegetables, fruit, and excrement sits heaped in the middle of the room. A bulging leather sack rests atop the mound of garbage. Inside the mound is a bound and lashed kobold with something written in draconic next to her. As she sees you she squirms and moves in her bindings. She has bindings on her legs, her arms, and her snout.

The kobolds say This is her, Nighttail... Chief no like her

"So the two of them had conflict over the tower. She lost and by that your custom is to bind them like that?"

Speaking of bag & tag.

The mound squirms more.

She always fighting with Chief. She made him too angry this time. Most of us didn't think tower was such a good idea, but chief said to...

"How many would you say support this chief? The majority, or less than half?"

I step up to nighttail and undo/cut her bindings and free her from her confines while saying

She wiggles free and starts talking, "Thank you! Thank you! thank you!" She picks up the leather sack from the mound of refuse and brushes it and herself off.

“Hey! You look like you’re changing things ‘round here! I’ve suffered enough at Chief Roaghaz’s stupid whims. I’ll help you! You help me get rid of him, I can promise you we'll never bother humans anymore."

"To answer your question, Nobody supports a dead chief, I can tell you that much"

She starts cleaning off some kobold sized leather armor, and begins putting it on, she also digs out a sharp looking wooden spear from the pile.

Are any of you obviously wounded?

"We must make sure she is willing to lead the tribe away from here, away from humans."

“Live and let live is my motto”. These chains were my reward. Once I take over the tribe, we'll never bother you humans again. I promise! You can make sense motive checks if you like

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

Braggom has 7 points of damage.

Suave rogues avoid situations with risk of taking dmg. ;)

She pulls out a stick from the leather sack and says This should make you feel better, if you'll allow Does Braggom let Nighttail touch him?

"Braggom let dragon-rat touch Braggom. If hurt Braggom, Braggom hurt dragon-rat."

She flicks the wand and touches Braggom. Healing: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

I have an ally nearby. We should go to Hak and get him. Do you agree to follow her?

"Braggom follow dragon-rat. Hack ally. No hack up Hack."

"I agree" and follow

"Lead on."

she leads you to the mouth of a large cave opening. Let me go in first. You'll frighten Hak if you go in first... and that might not be good for either of you Do you let her go in first?

"We've no reason to distrust her so far... but what is Hak please?

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10 Nat peers suspiciously at the kobold.

Nat is hobbling along using her club as a walking stick since she can't ride Demii, by the way.

I've known Hak since he is little. She walks in and a few moments later is tackled by a medium sized dinosaur licking her face. She pets him and then stands up and says We should be good to go now!

Knowledge Nature wolud ID him Nat

kn nature: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

That is an allosaurus!

"..they are keeping...a dinosaur, as a pet."

Cassandra shook her head lightly.

Good thing it seems tame enough.

"You have tamed terror lizard? Very impressive," Nat allows grudgingly.

"Why are you and Roaghaz enemies? What has he done besides ally with the mad mage who knocked down the tower? Does he have friends, strong friends who will aid him?"

After the other kobolds return to their bunks to await the downfall of Roaghaz you speak more with Nighttail. Came here about 1 year ago. My tribe was slaughtered by heartless murdering gnomes... Came here, and Roaghaz was in charge. He makes bad decisions all the time, and if I'm in charge, we will all do better.

Everyone can make a sense motive check on that

Sense motive: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

"Dragon-rat make sense!"

sense mtive: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (15) - 1 = 14

"That's an Allosaurus... but small?"

Knowledge ( nature ) : 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16

"I think it is... I don't know the word in Taldane. Not a child, and not an adult; in-between. In elven it's:"

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"Both are reptile kind, so i guess there's some mutual acceptance here."

Nighttail warns you of a trap as you approach a bend around a corner. You evade it and as you come around you see a dark hole leading down. She cautions [b] Those below will probably attack us. I'd send your strongest down first. [b]

Marching order to descend the thick knotted rope leading down the hole

Looks at Braggom

How far is it? Demii will probably have to jump.

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Braggom will go to the head of the line.

"How far down first, dragon-rat-friend? If short, Braggom will jump down. If long, -- Braggom maybe will jump down."

The passage terminates 20 feet below

Its only about 20 feet

"Braggom jump down now."

Acrobatics check to try to completely ignore the first 10 feet: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Non-lethal damage from second 10 feet: 1d6 ⇒ 3

Braggom lands with his greatsword prepared to strike whomever he sees.

Attack and damage: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 92d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 3) + 4 = 9

Nat and Demii follow Braggom silently.

acrobatics Demii: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Acrobatics Nat: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (20) - 1 = 19

NL damage Demii: 1d6 ⇒ 5
NL damage Nat: 1d6 ⇒ 4

Cassandra takes no risks and climbs the 1st 10 feet in accelerated fashion before making an acrobatic jump to ignore the last 10 feet.

Climb, accelerated: 1d20 + 6 - 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 6 = 19
Acrobatics last 10 ft: 1d20 + 9 - 1 ⇒ (17) + 9 - 1 = 25

Braggom jumps down, landing in a pool of brackish water. As he does so, a kobolds eyes go wide in surprise. It head is narrowly missed by a large greatsword. As he dodges that attack, he shouts something in draconic.

A tiger nimbly scales the walls down. In the next few seconds the tiger and Braggom both maul the lone kobold to unconsciousness or worse if you'd prefer

I figured I'd skip a combat with a lone kobold. How do our adventurer's respond to his shout?

"It said ready the snappers... maybe a trap or defense.. maybe crocodiles.."

"Braggom prepare. If Braggom see snapper, Braggom hit snapper. Everybody else come down now."

"Agreed, that sounds like crocodiles, other reptilians possibly?
Taking into consideration the fact, that they keep a dinosaur as a pet, it could even be something worse than a crocodile."

Hey! Hak is a good boy Nighttail scratches him behind the ear and he lets out a deep purr in appreciation.

"I wasn't saying anything about the personality of your saurian pet. Merely referring to the possibility of worse things than crocodiles."

Cassandra looks at the others, then back at the kobold.
"Any idea as to the possibility of traps ahead?"

I don't know what they have. I can only tell you they've never messed with Hak or I. They would have regretted that. I'm not sure of any traps immediately ahead. Nighttail replies.

"Hmm...pity i don't see in lesser lighting, or i could have checked for any. Very well, what sort of traps do you usually set for intruders?"

Demii sniffs around, trying to smell out kobolds, as Nat gets back up on his back, and uses her wand to heal both of them.