The party finds nothing else.
Looking at the map you've been keeping, you see that on the other side of the strange and deaf gillman was another tunnel. The letter here is interesting certainly, but there must be more here....
The party heads back to the bathing gillman who does not notice you (unless you disturb him.) The passage leading from the gillmen’s holy site varies from 3 to 6 feet wide and is coated with the omnipresent bioluminescent fungi. Though you encounter several points where the tunnel branches off in different directions, all of those paths either narrow beyond your ability to traverse, lead back to this main trail, or are blocked by a cave-ins. About half an hour later the scenery changes.
The persistent glow of the bluish fungi dimly lights the way
deeper below the Kortos Mounts. The tunnels broaden to reveal a shallow river that bisects an immense tunnel stretching to the north and south. To the east a small passage exits the chamber at a steep incline.
Everyone check in with a Perception check.
Half the team quickly notices sound in the east. Not being the quietest of groups, it seems like they hear you too!
Kobolds!
Kobolds are reptilian humanoids who have a nasty disposition. +1 question for every 5 over the DC.
Round 1:
Hobbes: Go
Boram: Go
Baddies: TBD
Thann: TBD
Bhielli: TBD
Brillig: TBD
Bodta: TBD
The kobolds yip and bark!
Round 1:
Hobbes: Go
Boram: Move and draw
Baddies: TBD
Thann: TBD
Bhielli: TBD
Brillig: TBD
Bodta: TBD
Hobbes too moves into position. Each of the kobolds opts to hurl a sling stone at the two vanguards:
but neither stone makes contact!
Round 1:
Hobbes: Move
Boram: Move and draw
Baddies: ATK
Thann: Go
Bhielli: Go
Brillig: Go
Bodta: Go
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The thought comes unbidden to Thannaen's mind. He holds up Remembrance and gives it an eye, then nods. Beneath the grime, the stylized script glints in the dim light, perhaps more than it should.
Thann's legs carry him faster than should be possible. He stamps across the shallow river as though its a puddle and presses hard into the kobolds' flank.
Draw the arrow of your movement
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Thann hustles across the water, scaring the living daylights out of the kobolds!
Round 1:
Hobbes: Move
Boram: Move and draw
Baddies: ATK
Thann: Move
Bhielli: Go
Brillig: Go
Bodta: Go
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Brillig advances to the mouth of the cave and takes a quick look at the situation.
He mutters arcane syllables, as smokes streams forth from his hand and coalesces into the shape of an eagle.
The eagle focuses its celestial might (Smite Evil) and swoops back around the far side of the stream to come from behind and rake the nearest kobold.
Brillig's eagle shows up and simply tears into the two kobolds! The first claw rips a throat, and the second does the same!
Out of combat!
If I don't get to morningstar something this adventure... ;)
What now Pathfinders?
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The party, out of harms way, crosses the river. BUT
as Boram crosses the river he accidentally hits a tripwire! A dart streaks out from the darkness towards him . It sticks in his neck! but it's coated in some kind of oil.... FORT save!
Boram grimaces, but quickly fights off the worst of it.
It's greenblood oil. Painful and debilitating, but rarely dangerous except to the very young and very old.
Following Bodta you travel up the tunnel to the east. Soon you begin to hear the faint sounds of combat and a familiar woman’s voice half-shouting and half-reciting, “As the legendary Gregaro Voth successfully battled the wild beasts in the deepest reaches of the Mwangi Expanse, so shall I defeat you, foul servant of Lamashtu!”
Janira! She's still fighting the minotaur and it's just ahead! What do you do Pathfinders?!
Boram speaks the truth, Hobbes thinks he's okay.
Hobbes is advancing forward, what of the rest of you?
That's two for going after her. If I get one more I'll advance that way!
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The normally hasty halfling seems uncharacteristically unsure about what to do next. He seems to be debating with himself out-loud. "Our orders were to leave her...and following orders is generally commended...in fact, there may be no reward at all for saving her, or worse, punishment for disobedience...it'd all be for naught...but think how famous I would become by rescuing my commander and slaying such a terrible beast! Yes! Onward!" Boram draws his rapier and charges forth.
Thann hustles forward, and stops as he gets to the end. The party then takes in the scene. The light of the surface world above provides a welcome reprieve from the blue and green fungus of the caverns below, and light illuminates a stream whose water is hastened by runoff from a recent storm further up the mountains. A ledge to the west rises up to the nearby forest canopy.
That's when you see the fight itself. “You vile beast! I know not what drives your black heart, but I shall not fail in my duty. I shall see you driven from this forest, back to the hills from whence you came!” Janira looks haggard, and the fight is not going her way.
Well Pathfinders, consider this your final exam!
Round 1:
Bodta: Go
Brillig: Go
Bhielli: Go
Boram: Go
Hobbes: Go
Janira: TBD
Than: TBD
Minotaur: TBD
Boram issues a challenge to the beast. He looks at the new halfling, and turns back to finish off his current foe first.
Round 1:
Bodta: Go
Brillig: Go
Bhielli: Go
Boram: Cavalier stuff
Hobbes: Go
Janira: TBD
Than: TBD
Minotaur: TBD
Brillig will hustle up to the river.
Round 1:
Bodta: Go
Brillig: Double Move
Bhielli: Go
Boram: Cavalier stuff
Hobbes: Go
Janira: TBD
Than: TBD
Minotaur: TBD
Bodta leaps into action. Janira sees her new allies now and gives a crooked smile!
Round 1:
Bodta: Move
Brillig: Double Move
Bhielli: Go
Boram: Cavalier stuff
Hobbes: Go
Janira: TBD
Than: TBD
Minotaur: TBD
The party continues to move in, leaving only the dwarven barbarian.
Round 1:
Bodta: Move
Brillig: Double Move
Bhielli: Go
Boram: Cavalier stuff
Hobbes: Move
Janira: TBD
Than: TBD
Minotaur: TBD