Hoga will inch towards the pit, watching carefully.
Remember Kobolds love to build traps. Kyras warns. He goes first and searches, taking 10 for a 23, as he goes.
Tamora stays at the back, watching carefully with her detect spells and senses after picking the loot and giving it to Hoga for holding. (Perception (Take 20) - 30 or Take (Take 10) - 20 if we are rushing)
Kakrish follows Hoga and Kyras as they move towards the pit. "What an awful place. Smells horrible in here. Or is that you Hoga?"
Hoga walks into the room on the left. He gets closer to the pit and look down. At the bottom, he sees a dark liquid reflecting some of the light back to him. Sniffing the air, he is able to recognize the liquid as water, it is slightly stagnant, but it is water.
The rest of the group walks forward, still on their guard. Tamora and Kakrish detect some movement in the room to the right. It looks like there is something in the thick mounds of moldy straw. They can't identify what, but there are at least four or five creatures in there.
Kakrish points off to the right. "What was that? I saw some movement. I'm going to check it out." He moves towards the moldy straw.
Kyzen stops in the middle of the stairs, turns and sees Kakrish entering the room, Kyzen runs down and catch up with him and stands ready to blast anything that looks like it'll attack... Whispering "What is it? What did you see?"
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"I don't know. It was just something moving there in the straw. Probably more than one thing." Kakrish continues to move cautiously, his greatsword in hand.
Hoga will go along with K & K, ready to fight.
Likely kobolds, but perhaps large rats. Kyras surmises. Knowing his foe's fondness for them, he maintains his diligence in looking for traps.
Tamora loads her crossbow, ready to shoot at an enemy if they show.
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Tamora loads her crossbow, ready to shoot at an enemy if they show.
Kakrish and Kyzen walks into the room. The smell of moldy straw mixed with feces hits them. As they try to ignore the smell, they see pairs of red eyes near the floor sticking out of the straw. It is soon followed by a loud hissing noise. You think that Kyras might be right, and this could be a nest of some large rats. You also get the feeling that they don't seem to want you to investigate this room further. With no other exit in this room, you recall an old saying about cornered rats...
Looking towards Kyras "You might be right my friend, those seems to be large rats." now turning back is focus towards the rats, Kyzen say to Kakrish "There's an old saying about cornered rats..." wainting for Kakrish to complete the sentence....
"Yeah. Cornered rats bite cats." Kakrish grimaces when he remembers learning this first hand as a young dwarf in the mines. "Sometime I'll have to tell you about some rats I ran into as a kid. But for now..." He turns his attention to the moving straw and waves his sword towards the musty pile. "Want to come out an play, smelly rats?"
Hey, I want to get in on this, too, Hoga says, catching up to K & K, axe at the ready.
Kyras prepares an alchemist's fire and hangs in the back. I hope they do not swarm.
Seeing Kakrish moving the straws... "Let me try this!" Kyzen launch his blast into the midle of the pile, so that the rats would come out and we could finish this and be on our way...
Kyzen sends a blast of energy into the straw. The blast misses the rats, but sends straw, dirt and feces flying everywhere. Before everything settle back down, five giant rats jump out as one, ready to fight the group. Tamora, finally seeing a good target, send her bolt flying. It hits one of the rats on the side. The creature shrieks in pain, but it is still standing.
Tamora reloads her crossbow while calling a raging badger out of the blue to attack a nearby rat with a berserker's zeal.
Kyras advances and cuts at the rat in front of him.
Tamora's badger attacks the rat in front of him. The rat is able to avoid most of the attacks, but one of the badger's claws dig deep into the rat's side. The rat is hurt but still standing... barely. At almost the same time, Kyras swing his Fauchard at another rat, slicing its head off.
Kyzen launch another blast at the green rat, but is clearly distracted from one of the straw stuck in his left eye. He takes is move action to remove the straw.
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Following the barrage of attacks, the rats reach the group and try to bite their way through. Kyzen gets bitten on the leg while Kakrish as one of the rats getting a hold of his arms.
Unable to attack creatures adjacent to him Kyras tries to finish Green.
"Ah! Battle at last!" Kakrish eyes the rat on his right then swings his sword with a massive stroke.
Assuming that 15 hits (since it did with Kyras) and Kakrish killed the Blue rat, Kyzen, using his amazing acrobatics skills, will pass through
Kakrish square "Sorry my friend!" and the former blue rat square to place himself out of reach "Ah ah too slow... Damn rats!" and then launch a blast of energy directed at the green rat... But too cocky about his acrobatic skills, Kyzen blast the ceiling instead...
Tamora moves and shoots a bolt at the yellow one while his badger continues its fury on the one that survived its wrath.
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Hoga gets between Tamora and the rat in front of her.
The group successfully dispatches the rest of the giant rats. With nothing of value in this room, they are able to head back into the room where Hoga saw the well. The room as two exits, one north, and one east.
Tamora scans the black liquid with her detect magic and alignment spells. If the waters are detect as evil and magical, she will shoot a few rays of positive energy at the hole.
The water doesn't detect as magical or evil. It is just plain regular water just slightly stagnant.
"Hmm, I detect nothing down there. The water is mundane water. I wonder if this is a well or a waterway."
"Seems like it." looking at the two exits, Kyzen moves toward the north exit... "Mmm, Hey friends what do you say we go north." at the entrance Kyzen gives a look to Hoga, letting him know that he waits for him to take point. In the meantime Kyzen listen into the corridor...
After finishing off the rats, Kakrish wanders back towards the well with the others. "Thanks for checking the water, Tamora. The last thing we need is to be poisoned." He scans the room looking for exits. "Yes. North is the best way. I'm sure." he replies to Kyzen.
Hoga bravely (foolishly?) heads north.
Kobolds. Traps. Kyras says as he takes point and checks the passage as the group advances.
Oh, yeah. After you, Hoga says, going right behind the half elf.
Kyras leads the way in the corridor, looking for possible traps. He doesn't find any and eventually gets into the next room. A few torches wedged into niches in this cave’s rocky walls burn fitfully. This area is obviously used for labor-intensive tasks such as making rope from vines, drying meat, and tanning hides, but the working conditions are squalid at best. You can hear the cries of people and the sound of whips coming from the opposite side of this room. As you try to make out what is going on, a Kobold come into view. Sadly, he notices you at the same time and let out a cry. Three more Kobolds come into view and they look ready for a fight.
"Tamora, we still don't necessarily want to fight are way through right?, So someone... Tell them we don't want to fight if no need to..."
Then Kyzen moves beside Kyras and take a defensive position, trying to let the Kobolds know that fighting is not necessary, like moving both hands in a "no fighting, no fighting" gesture...
Nodding, Tamora moves next to Kyzen and keeps her xbow dipped to show that she is non-hostile but readies an attack in case their approach backfire. She asks Kyras to translate for her.
"You have two choice; let us through without violence or resist us. If you value your lives, you have a chance to abandon this senseless crusade of your masters now."
If the party's parley failed, Tamora shoots at the kobold across her facing. She will tell her badger to move with total defense (Total AC 13 + 4 = 17) to the front to block the choke point.
The Kobolds look at each other, weighing in on what Tamora said. After some whispers, one of the Kobold speaks up to the group. "And what would we gain by this? Perhaps you could hand over your gold and some items. This way we wouldn't have to loot if off your corpse."
Tamora stares at the kobolds without faltering.
"Escaping with your lives intact. If that did not satisfy your end, at best we will assure freedom from your master's leash and deal with them so that you don't have to deal with them again. In addition, we will make sure your basic needs such as food are met, no more. Requesting more will make my companions extremely unhappy. It would be wise not to provoke them into attacking. So do we have a deal? What we offer in exchange for not fighting us?"