"Ack! No! Pits! I will handle! Yes!" Shozole, not owning thieves tools, will make his way back to the dead kobolds and use one as a weight to trigger the pit.
Shozole drags a body back and triggers a pit trap by tossing the body on it. The pit opens up and the kobold body fall into the pit.
The party traverses the pit and continues east until, the come to a larger chamber. 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. A single forlorn kobold sits in the middle alcove in the northern part of this cave, her arms, legs, and snout tightly bound with rope and her body lashed to iron spikes driven into the cave wall.
"Yes! Bears live in caves, but walk on all fours! Walk on all fours to fit! Yes!"
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Upon finding the stink pile, Shozole will take notice of the kraken sacrifice-esque Kobold. "Yes. Allow Shozole. Kobold lady will understand Shozole and I will seduce her. Yes."
Shozole approaches the (Green?) Scaled female and, barring Oytug attack, will start to free her via dagger and examine her as a favored target. He will also horribly mis-apply pick-up lines (in Draconic) that learned in the bar.
"Hello, clearly-young female. You must be a dragon, because you look fantastic and have stolen my heart and put it in your tremendous treasure pile."
The bound kobold smiles and bats her eyes at Shozole. In Draconic she says. "I must have pleased Tiamat to have one as you show up to save me." She then says in Common“Hey! You look like you’re changing things ‘round here! I’ve suffered enough at Chief Roaghaz’s stupid whims. I’ll help you!”
Shozole takes the bait like a bearman and a pot of honey in a cave opening that's only a smidge to small for him to fit through. "Yes! Let's help her and Tiamat! Yes! Egg clutches! Yes! Tribe for me! No! I mean us! Yes!"
Shozole moves to (but does not touch) the leather sack mentioned. "Girl Kobold! Yes! Sack is treasure, yes? Or no? Is whose treasure?"
The kobold nods emphatically at Boris and smiles alluringly at Shozole. "Yes, yes. Help me And I'll help you! The sack is my gear and equipment. That fat frog of kobold, Roaghaz, left it there to mock me!" She motions to her bindings. "Do you think you could cut me loose?"
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Shozole finishes cutting loose the kobold and stands up, stretching her cramped legs and massaging her wrists. She leans over and gives Shozole a kiss on the cheek. "I thank you for letting me loose." She grabs her bag and begins to restoring her gear on her person. "So what are you all doing here? I offered to help, but I'd like to know what I'm getting my self into. Oh, and I have friend, Hak, nearby that I need to set free also."
"Yes, my friend Boris here summed it up nicely. My name is Emraeal, by the way. Greetings to you!"
"Well met. I am Garen."
"Yes! I am Shozole! Mighty Man! Yes! All bad kobolds will be gone or dead! Not you or surrender kobolds or Hak! No!"
If Hak is a female name, he is emphatic about rescuing her. If it's a male (or unclear) name, Shozole is visibly jealous and hides it poorly. "Yes... Who's this Hak? How good of friend...?"
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The kobold nods again. "I am called Nighttail, it is an hinor to meet you all." Turning to Shozole, she shrugs, "He is a very dear and trusted friend. Follow me"!
Nighttail leads the way to down a tunnel heading back to the west. Quickly, the tunnel opens into a large cave with twelve-foot-high ceiling. Dozens of well chewed deer bones lie scattered around the cave. As Nighttail opens a set of stout wooden gates, a low, rumbling growl echoes through the cave. Nighttail calls out and begins making clicking and cooing songs, as a young allosaurus appears at the gate. It nuzzles the kobold ans she scrtaches it's neck, the hops onto it's back. "This is Hak! Hak meet my rescuers. Now where would like to go?" Nighttail asks.
"Excellent! I haven't seen such a creature since I was in the Mwangi. Well met, Hak!" the elf gives the allosaurus a pat on the head.
"Let us continue heading east, shall we?"
"Indeed, we should keep moving."
Nighttail tells the party that east leads to an entrance leading down, deeper into the kobold lair. She also notes that there are a few areas to the northwest.
Heading east, the tunnel quickly turns north and winds for quite a distance. Coming to a rounded chamber, Shozole, with the aid of Nighttail, notices a tripwire for a trap.
Shozole is at a loss for words upon meeting Hak (likely for the first time ever.) "Oh." *beat* "Hello Hak! Yes! I am Shozole, mighty man Kobold man! We are here to smash bads! Yes. Or bites," noting the perfectly-good smashing tail on the beast.
When "assisted" finding the tripwire, Shozole also silently laments not actually buying thieves tools (thus preventing him from showing off more of his many, many talents.) "Yes. Should have brought more bodies." Shozole then looks for what the tripwire actually activates and whether or not the spear can be used to trigger it without causing any harm to himself.
Shozole waves everyone back out a little an uses his new spear to trip the wire.
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Shozole will also keep point and an eye out for more traps, being the brave man Shozole will be until all the reptilian ladies are out of line of sight and earshot.
Garen will give the lizard casanova some before he trips the wire.
Shozole easily trips the wire, causing three darts to fire off harmlessly into the cave wall. Moving forward, the party sees a hole in the floor with a knotted rope secured to the side of the hole.
"Shozole will be first! Yes! Brave!"
Shozole inspects the top half of the rope first for any strangeness.
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Pending any strangeness, he will T10 for 11 down the rope.
Shozole climbs down the rope into the next level. As he hits the floor, he sees and hears a kobold. It begins yelling and runs down a corridor, disappearing around a corner!
Boris climbs down to see the last visages of the kobold disappearing down the corridor.
Garen will be third down the rope.
Everyone gets down the rope, followed by Nighttail, with Hak jumping down. Looking around you find yourselves in twenty foot round chamber with two small pools. A tunnel leads off to the east.
Shozole waits at the bottom of the pit. "Kobolds turned on 'Snappers.' Yes. Not sure what 'snappers' are. No." Shozole says, looking for whatever these snappers are. Shozole finds no snapping turtles.
The heads down the tunnel, that quickly turns south, led by Boris and trailed by Nighttail. As Boris enters the next room, two guisarmes swing out from behind the corners, trying to trip him.
One of the small pole arms brings Boris to the ground, but he manages to keep from falling into the pool!
"Get up before you miss the fun, my Ursine friend." Garen imbues the bear-man with his goddess' protection.
As Boris stands, the kobolds take a swing at him, but both miss their target!
Boris then swats one, breaking its back and silencing it!
The kobolds attack again, one with its guisarme, the far one with a sling, but they both miss!
The snappers swim around in the water, waiting for something to snap!
Mighty-Man Shozole will move forward (with plans to fight defensively), maybe probably provoking from each person in the path indicated by arrows. He draws his spear as part of the move, then stabs!
Garen will double move around the snapper-filled water.
Emraeal moves past Boris, Shozole, and the mean kobold.
He will then stab his dagger at the thing in the water (assuming I can reach it).
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Shozole moves into the room and tries to stab, but misses. The kobold trying to cut him misses as well!
Garen moves around the pool!
Emraeal attacks a turtle, stabbing it and sending it to the depths!
Boris puts up is dukes and crushes the skull of another kobold!
Nighttail rides into the room on Hak, circling the pool and stabbing at the remaining kobold, but misses.
The remaining kobold drops its sling and attacks Nighttail, but misses as well.
The snappers swim over and try to attack Boris and Garen, but continue the flurry of misses.
Shozole moves up in a fury, planning on fighting defensively again!
"No! You'll not stab at her!"
He provokes from the turtle moving to where he is. He hops over the 5-ft gap with ease. He then stabs at the kobold!