Round 2
Grobnar finishes summoning his illuminating pet - a fire beetle. It appears directly above a kobold that Jobo just slashed and begins to attack.
He then sings an inspiring song accompanied by his masterful lute-playing.
Round 2
Conner healed Drakr
Drakr hits a kobold hard on the shoulder, and though his movements are stilted and he is bleeding profusely, he is still an effective combatant.
Lorelei looses and loses a bolt.
Jobo is able to cut two kobolds almost in half with a single swipe of his polearm.
Grobnar completes his spell, and a fire beetle now stands over the two halves of freshly dead kobold. He begins to play and sing, inspiring you all
Round 3
Kobolds 1 & 2 set thrust their spears at Jobo’s heels, hoping to trip him over.
1 Trip =
2 Aid =
Jobo is whacked in the back of his right knee as a kobold brings his spear between his legs and levers one leg against the other. He falls prone. The two kobolds watch eagerly, waiting for him to attempt to stand, cackling evil-like.
Kobolds 11, 12, 13 work together to attack the flanked Fire Beetle.
Damage:
It is thoroughly defeated and returns to its plane.
Round 2
The fire beetle attacks the kobold it flanks with Jobo.
Bite damage
Even in death, it continues to glow, providing light out to 10', for the next days.
Round 3
Initiative order:
Kobolds 23
Conner 14 <---
Drakr 13
Lorelei 7
Jobo 5 = Prone.
Gobnar
Conner's eyes widen as Jobo falls . He quickly reaches out with his wand to cure the barbarian.
Jobo tries to retaliate with ranseur and prevent the trip
Confirm critical (if not needed maybe give it to kobold 2 :-}
Lorelei misses with yet another shot of her crossbow as she takes a 5 foot step back to give Jobo more room to attack.
Drakr watches the big man fall. "Why you little rascals!" and he attempts to split a kobolds head
Atk:
Dmg:
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Drakr, that's a missed - he slid left as the axe was coming down.
Lorelei looks worried as Jobo goes down, fearing that he may be overwhelmed and swarmed by the foul little creatures.
Hoping to prevent such a possible swarm upon the prone and vulnerable barbarian, Lorelei drops her crossbow and draws out a scroll and reads it.
Jobo will get up and attack even if it provokes attacks. Hopefully the hurt kobold is no longer up. With no cleave no -2 AC (may still be in effect for AoOs, I'm not sure).
Round 3
Conner heals Jobo, returning 3 points of bravery.
Drakr continues in melee with the kobold in front of him, but the canny kobold clever claps the cleaver askew with his spear.
Lorelei pulls a new scroll from her pack, and casts it, conjuring a field of rubbery black tentacles to appear, burrowing up from the floor and reaching for any creature in the area. These writhe about like giant, up-turned squids, and quickly squeeze the life from all within its grasp. None escape.
Jobo stands and two kobolds stab at him as he does so. He retaliates, thrusting his ranseur right through kobold 2 as he gains his feet.
Gobnar begins to construct a riddle for his friends amusement. It begins: How many Happy Sticks does it take for a gnome to…
Round 3
Stabitty, stabby!
AoOs from Kobolds 1 & 2:
1 -
2 -
Damage:
1 -
2 -
Kobold 11, turns as the tentacles almost reach him, rub against his tail. He shrieks and jumps back. Then fearing a short life on the end of an axe he tries to regain his feet before he has landed. Overbalancing he throws his spear as though this will correct it, and lands dramatically admidst the tentacles.
Most of the kobolds are caught up in Lorelei’s Black Tentacles. They scream and squeal. They bend and break. They crack and are crushed. Soon enough, they are silent and the tentacles continue to writhe, still seeking further victims.
The five kobolds at the back turn and flee, and are quickly, though noisily, out of sight.
A look of concern flickering over her face, Lorelei looks over Jobo. "Will you be allright to continue on?" I sure hope so because we can't afford to lose anyone else if we are to defeat these foul little creatures..."
Drakr wipes the Kobold brains off his axe. "That was some spell." he nods at Lorelei.
"It was just good luck that we found a scroll with such a useful spell upon it. I shall have to remember to learn that spell for myself when my arcane skills increase to that level."
"Thank for saving me Lorelei, I am sure it won't be the last time. No need for any distance now."
Jobo will give Lorelei a big hug making sure the blood from any of his many wounds don't get on her clothes.
"Let me walk behind Drakr again. He definitely knows how to avoid hits while I know how to take hits."
As the slender half-elf almost disappears from view as she is enveloped in the big barbarian's embrace, Lorelei lets out a surprised little: Eeep! of surprise as she wasn't exactly expecting that sort of reaction.
After he lets her go, Lorelei is finally able to reply to Jobo's thanks. "You are welcome Jobo, afterall, you did a great job of keeping any of them from hitting me."
A brief moment to catch your brief, heal some wounds, and you are ready to move on.
Grobnar scouts ahead looking for sign of where they went. Soon enough the passage ends in a T intersection, heading left and right off this corridor. The gnome has a good look about and cannot make out fresh footprints from old because of the heavy traffic in this area (and none of those fleeing were bleeding at all).
Both corridors look the same, left or right. Within 20’ of where Grobnar stands there are a series of columns erected within the tunnels – made from a sandstone where the rest of the structure is a much harder grey stone. There are three lines of columns that break up the passage through the corridor so that even kobolds must traverse through in single file. It is difficult to make out any details beyond the columns.
All seems quiet.
Perception:1d20+7
There are kobolds chanting to be heard faintly coming from the right,
and movement far away coming from the left.
Drakr does look a little beat up.
"The right looks just as good as the left to me? These columns are going to pose a problem though. I can go first but what's to stop the little buggers from doubling around and attacking the person at the back?"
perc
"How about I cast light on a pebble and just keep throwing it ahead of us? That way if anything just targets light it won't hit us." Lorelei looks around to see what others think of the idea.
Healing for Drakr.
We have items from the dead kobolds to also use for light tests in the corridor.
Conner also can cast light so we can have two sources of light.
"Hmm...I think chanting worries me more than running feet."
"Drakr, you look much better and I feel much better. Let's engage the chanters as soon as possible and end them. How about some light on my ranseur, we know how well it worked last time."
Jobo follows Drakr to the right (unless Drakr picks a different direction, then he goes there).
If Jobo is requesting it, Lorelei will cast light upon his ranseur and then follow behind him.
"I'll go first" Drakr moves through the columns, shield held high eyes searching the stone walls roof and floor for traps and abnormalities.
Right behind Drakr.
Drakr walks along carefully, worried about his eyes, head and feet in particular. He notices, with some relief that he was just in time, that the floor gives way under his weight BEFORE he has overcommitted. And Jobo was about to tread on the false floor when Drakr noticed.
Careful prodding reveals it to be a pit trap with a heavy spring holding it up. It may even be strong enough to hold Grobnar, possibly Lorelei, but definitely not Drakr. The false floor runs the length of the column section (12' long), and the depth of the pit is difficult to determine as the light is reflected back from a watery surface around 20' - 50' below. You cannot determine the depth of the water.
Sensibly, the other passages between the columns are checked, and found to be similarly trapped.
No one has crossed yet.
Drakr looks through all the gear that he's carrying trying to think of a way to cross this new hazard. He holds up a scroll and says "Well unless this is a scroll of float the party across the pit trap, I got nothin'." He holds the scroll out for Lorelei to see.