• Provided there's nothing left to talk about, all players rest until the next morning. Deduct one Ration from your inventories, apart from GREEZ who deducts two for sharing his. Nothing occurred during the night-watch.
> The Next Morning <
• Sunlight pours in from the Cenote of the cavern , appearing like a pillar of light from the heaven's above, a warm golden glow. The party could see this clearly from their raised ground.
• ODAK could be seen curled up next to his armour and shield, lacking blankets he resorted to donning his iron boots, helm and using his tower shield as a blanket.
patience doctor. It'll be done soon enough.
The large orc was sleeping as long as possibly could. Body just sprawled out fully on a dry patch of softest spot could find. Every now and then a almost loud snore lifted up from him whole time slept.
Tigerwolf would look at the light and sighs. "Rest, we can move to a night schedule. I will go see what I can get for this badge I found. If you want something to do maybe you can look around for something or start looking to get ready to head up the vine when night falls." She would straighten herself and touching Odak's shoulder. "Next time we will bring you some blanket and bedding." She says softly to him before heading down the tunnels the kobold's headed looking for one.
Upon finding one she would say. "I am looking for the new leader of the Protectors of the Burnyness. I wish to speak with him."
• ODAK mumbles to himself, having been woken up but still half-asleep; he knows it's TIGERWOLF so he rises slowly from his makeshift bedding as she heads off.
> KOBOLDS BY THE FARMSTEAD <
• Over by the farmstead where moss was being grown and a few wooden building stood, a handful of Kobolds, including a couple of important ones such as the BURNY CAPTAIN and the KABOOM CAPTAIN where talking in Flawed Draconian.
BURNY CAPTAIN: "As new Leader of the Protectors of the Burnyness, you need to keep this burny goblin oil safe! That is all you do, let the others do the actual burnyning since they do it way better!"
TIGERWOLF enters the conversation and speaks her line. The BURNY CAPTAIN nervously looks up at her, looking like the runtiest Kobold she's ever seen, almost as if he hadn't eaten in a week.
BURNY CAPTAIN: "*Ka-yipyip* What do you need with me!?", he said as if being accused of some crime, whilst looking a little guilty all the while.
Tigerwolf stares him down trying to sense if he actually did something wrong or if he is just intimidated.
"I have something you may need. I was looking to trade with you."
> TIGERWOLF: Sense Motive <
• TIGERWOLF attempts to determine the BURNY CAPTAIN's behaviour. From a glance you can tell that the Kobold seems really nervous and looking around all over the place, especially with the Kraggy-hided KABOOM CAPTAIN nearby. You remember that last night this one had been promoted to the position moments after the discovery of the last Burny Captain's corpse.
BURNY CAPTAIN: "Something I need?! I need a bodyguard, I can't protect the Burny things!"
KABOOM CAPTAIN bops BURNY CAPTAIN over the head with his fist, not too hard though,
"Stop your meowing! You are Leader of Protectors of the Burnyness, lead your protectors like our great king Perz the 14th; ravaging each foe like a godly dragon!"
BURNY CAPTAIN looks down at himself looking sorry, "How will I ever be as great and as wise as the King, he is truly the best of us"
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Tigerwolf smiled and looked down at the Burny Captain and Kaboom Captain. "I see you are smaller than the others. Worried that they won't respect you for your size or that your size will be a detriment to protecting." She kneels looking the Kobold in the eye.
"Listen to me Dragon Blooded one. I came in with a group of large Orc's giants and half-orcs. Who do you think they look to as a leader? Me, when they don't know what to do I direct them to do something. When they have a good plan I support them in it. I am the smallest and yet I am a leader. You too must learn this. You see the blade on my back. I took it from someone as large as Odak, the large one in armor. I will tell you the secret of doing the same thing and ravaging your foe's like a godly dragon."
Tigerwolf grins at him showing her small tusks. What she was about to tell him would appeal to a kobolds inner nature of being tricky and taking advantage of their small size. "I tricked those larger than me into thinking I am not a threat and then stab them when their guard is down in their softest parts. I am smaller so I dodge their blows and throw dirt in their eyes. The strength of a dragon is they are smarter than everything else. So I know you are smarter than everyone else, you are still alive and you got promoted to LEADER of the Protectors. So you lead all protectors. That means they have to do what you say. But you must be smart enough to get them to do it." She pulls out the badge showing it to him.
"I found this and will trade it to you for something of equal value. This is the symbol of a leader. Do you want it?"
• While Rock-Eye Kobolds were always the big-eyed starey sort, the little BURNY CAPTAIN stared up towards TIGERWOLF with even greater awe than before as she described in detail the secret to being a good leader, even if you aren't as burly as the moss-devouring KABOOM CAPTAIN.
"*Yipyipyipyip!* BURNY BADGE BURNY BADGE! You found the Burny badge! I want the burny badge and be like godly dragons!"
BURNY CAPTAIN lets out what he considers to be a mighty roar, but ends up coming out as like a meow, or a yawn. It still doesn't damper his spirits though.
"I get you something great and good and great!"
• BURNY CAPTAIN runs off towards the cave entrance, the route normally taken by Kobolds and not by oversized Orcs and Golians. KABOOM CAPTAIN merely watches with caution as BURNY returns with a few bomb-shaped objects in his arms, the third balancing precariously on top of the other two.
"These from up top, the BURNY KA-BOMBS! They go BOOM and make everything BURN!"
> BURNY KA-BOMBS <
• BURNY CAPTAIN has brought TIGERWOLF three Fire Ka-Bombs, they work similarly to the old Ka-bombs only they're filled with explosives and goblin fire to mix together to deal high damage at point of impact and deal fire damage-over-time, including leaving a fire patch for a time.
As before, the bombs are particular in the way they arm, so the bigger fingers of the giants cannot light the fuse on their own. Bombs explode at the end of the second round after they're lit, lighting a bomb takes a move action, bombs explode prematurely if they're thrown and hit a surface after being armed.
> KABOOM CAPTAIN <
• While BURNY CAPTAIN gives TIGERWOLF some nice explosives, KABOOM CAPTAIN steps in soon after,
"Miss Orc Lady, the Ka-bombs are ready to move out. Careful they do not KABOOM on you! *yipyip*. Also tell your friends to watch their step, they are scary big and scary"