Reynaldo swings across the chasm, striking a kobold with his gladius, silencing it!
Nighttail moves into the room astride Hak and attacks the first kobold she can.
Nighttail makes short work of another kobold!
The kobolds attack with slings, hitting Hammerfist and Nighttail!
Hammerfist then swings across the chasm and flattens a kobold!
Lia tells Lao to hold back a moment before shooting a bow at the closest kobold.
After Reynaldo goes, Lao will circle around to bite at the lizard in the back corner.
Ares will try to move to the NE of Lia and fire again.
On cue from Lia's motion to Lao, Reynaldo circles around the minichasm. Can't hide from us, Scales!
In a flurry of arrows and bites, the party makes short work of the remaining kobolds.
As you gathers yourselves, you find only the normal small-sized gear on the kobolds.
You see another hole leading deeper into the kobolds lair.
"You think these kobolds are all for the violence against the folk up top? Or are they just being led by bad chief?" Lia muses to herself.
"Great question. Can they be convinced to change their ways or leave the area is another to follow it. "
"Bad chief!" Chimes in Nighttail. "We go down now?"
Reynaldo nods. Sure, little buddy — lead on!
"Let's put this chief in his place." Lia follows along, bow still at the ready.
Nighttail and Hak lead the way down into another chamber. This chamber is empty, with passages to the east and west leading the to another chamber to the north.
"Ares, mind tappin me a few more times with dat wand."
Once everyone has healed and is ready, Nighttail leads the party north. The ceiling at the center of this cave is twelve feet high. A crude idol stands in the middle of the cave, decorated with grisly strips of dried viscera. A kobold in religious garb and two skeletons stand in the room, all turning to look at the party!
Hammerfist will move to the west of the statue and try and crush the skeleton.
Lia points at the abomination of bones and sics Lao onto it.
Lia herself steps up and readies a shot if the kobold moves to cast or attack. "Call off the bones or we bury yours."
Nasty things! Reynaldo charges forward, drawing his light mace on the go.
Ares taps the dwarf a couple times for healing then grabs his bow and follows.
Upon seeing the skeletons he will shoot at the one Reynaldo charged.
" well these are something new. "
less dr if any
Lia readies a shot and orders Lao into the room. Lao tries to bite the skelton, but misses.
Hammerfist moves into the room and smashes the western skeleton with his hammer!
Reynaldo charges in and smashes the other skeleton into splinters with his mace!
Ares moves over and fires his bow, but the shot goes wide!
Nighttail and Hak circle around and attack the kobold, both injuring it!
The kobold steps the the west and casts a spell! Lia fires her bow as the kobold casts, but the arrow misses by inches!
Lao moves in at Lia's urging and starts to maul the kobold.
Lia tries to put the kobold down with another arrow attempt.
Hammerfist will step up and try and squish the Kobold.
"Ha, your lizard magic is no match for my hammer."
"Soon I will crush the very floor beneath you!"
Ares will move up adjacent to Reynaldo and shoot at the caster(?)
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After Ares shoots, Reynaldo will move up past Gilligan Nighttail and slash at the caster!
Lao bites the kobold, tearing flesh.
Lia fires an arrow, but it seems to swerve at the last instant, missing!
Hammerfist swings his mighty hammer, but the kobold easily evades the strike!
Ares draws back and just manages to put an arrow into the creature! The kobold's eyes widen in surprise as it grasps the arrow in its gut, then falls over lifeless!
Searching the kobold, the party finds, potions of cure light wounds (3);
chainmail, mwk quarterstaff, cloak of resistance +1, spell component pouch, gold unholy symbol.
Lia takes in the surroundings.
"Was that it? I expected to have to get through half the tribe to get to the chief." Catching the looks from others, she adds, "Not sad, just surprised! I'm glad we didn't have to kill more than we had to."
"Once again well done. Anybody surprised not to see more mining tools? I wonder how they managed to collapse the tower."
"Good observation. Nighttail, do you have any ideas about that?"
Nighttail shakes her head at Lia's first comment. "That not chief, just new juju kobold. Chief further down!" At Lia's question Nighttail shrugs. "In other part of upper caves? I'm not sure."
Ares will pick up the items from the fallen caster. He will detect magic on them.
"Reynaldo, you might want to try this cloak unless you have one already. The potions are magic, but I am not sure what they do."
He offers each of the others a potion bottle.
Detect Magic +
Hammerfist holds up a potion and comments. "Cure light wounds"
Hammerfist will motion to the party to follow him and will head deeper into the cave.
Reynaldo gladly accepts the potion bottle, but wrinkles his nose as he takes the proffered cloak using just his thumb and forefinger. Uh...thanks. i don't suppose anyone has a way to, uh...get the kobold sten— er, scent — off it first...?
Moving north through the tunnel. The party soon comes to a fork with tunnels splitting off to the left and right.
"Hmmm, choices. Anyone have a copper to flip?"
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Hammerfist looks back at the kobold guide and grunts.
Nighttail shrugs. "I never been to chief's personal quarters. I do not know."
"But you at least know where it is without going? Maybe?"
Hammerfist will take a quick listen and baring any useful information will head right.
Ares will tap Rey and anyone else with the wand.
"good as new."
Taking the right fork, Hammerfist leads the way through a twisting passage that soon opens into a larger chamber. The northern half of the chamber consists of a two-foot-deep bowl-shaped section of smoothed stone covered with leaves and downy bird feathers. Carefully nested in this space are dozens of scaly, green-tinged kobold eggs, each about the size of an orange.
Two kobolds and a disgusting beast that looks like a slime covered toad, but with two walrus-like tusks jutting from its upper jaw stare at the party when you enter. The kobolds begin to hiss angrily in Draconic, which Nighttail translates for you.
"They says to be gone from this nesting chamber. They says if you leave peacefully, they will warn you of a danger up ahead."
Hammerfist will take one hand off his giant hammer and hold it up peacefully and slowly back out.
Reynaldo nods. I see no reason to disturb the nesting chamber, if we presume the problem is the chieftain. The swordsman follows the dwarf out.
Once the party conveys their peaceful intentions, the egg guardians warn of an explosive trap in the other tunnel, that leads to the chief's quarters.
Lia bows her head. "Thank you for the warning. We leave in peace."
Once out of the chamber, Lia turns to the party. "It's a good thing we're not butchers out to kill them all."
As they progress, Lia looks for any sign, mundane or magical, of a trap that was mentioned.
Moving out of the tunnel and heading up the left one, Lia quickly finds the trap spoken of. She notices that a thin layer of oil coats the walls, floor, and ceiling of this passageway. At the point where the hallway turns west lie a number of well-hidden triplines—any creature rounding this corner causes a dozen vials of alchemist’s fire hidden against the ceiling to drop down into the room, igniting the oil and turning the entire hall into a fiery tube.
"Well... this is a pickle... Anyone want to try to sabotage this? I don't think I can find every trip wire here. But there MUST be a way through."
"Good call. That trap could have been painful ."
Hammerfist will once again lay his hammer on the ground and pull out his tools and go to work on the trap after motioning his allies to take a step back.
Moving gingerly among the tripwires, Hammerfist is able to disengage the wires and the flasks of fire!
Hammerfist grunts back "'ll dun"