Raskir eliminates another.
Valeria reaches out and grabs a kobolt who flails his spear in defense.
Val says with a smile
"Ich habe Sie, meine kleine Kobold Freund.
Wir haben einige Fragen, die Beantwortung benötigen.
Wenn Sie richtig beantworten Sie werden vielleicht nicht verärgern diese Tochter eines Drachen."
We have some questions that need answering.
If you answer correctly You might not anger this Daughter of a Dragon."
Alvoise growls, angry that these kobolds have injured him so terribly. He flourishes his rapier as he advances towards the kobold. He thrusts, but at the last moment eases his attack to take the kobold alive, heeding the words of his party members.
Henric moves in on the remaining kobold, his thin blade flashing in the dim light. "C'mon, yeh rat, yeh wanna keep foitin'?" he asks, a wicked grin spreading across his face.
Xiakon looks for her next target to see to see one standing and the other being grabbed tightly by Valeria. She lifts Krist to her shoulder before moving towards Valeria with another arrow notched, all the while keeping an eye out on the tunnels for more kobolts.
The remaining two kobolts surrender at this point and are quite terrified.
In draconic "We surrender! You're too strong we be your slaves!"
"Slaves, eh?" the Varisian man asks with a bark of laughter. "Yeh've go' some kin'a nerve suggestin' tha' after we..." He trails off, looking around the cavern in confusion as the strange accent fades and his posture returns to his usual tall stance. "What in the nine hells...?" he mutters to himself.
it happened again it always does in these circumstances you knew that well id forgotten its been a while no it hasnt why dont you just let me think so i can
He shakes his head, pressing the fingertips of his left hand to his temple briefly before cleaning his sword on a handkerchief. "Well. It appears we have ourselves a pair of captives," he remarks, keeping an eye on the kobold not currently in the clutches of a large, angry woman. "Shall we escort these two undesirables outside?"
In Draconic, he adds to the two creatures, "Ich hätte keine hastigen Bewegungen zu empfehlen. Wenn sie Drachenblut, bin ich sicher, dass Sie genau wissen, was sie zu Ihren gebrechlichen Körper tun konnte, sind."
While the others interrogate the kobolts in a language not familiar to her, she simply stands watch for dangers.
Her metallic eyes glance over the kobolts before meeting Valeria's.
"Are they worth keeping alive? If even one sneaks away that one causes a safety risk."
"I've heard these guys respect and follow dragons, and since I'm the daughter of one, I get the same respect."
"well, Maybe not the exact same respect as a dragon, but enough from some measure of influence."
"What are they saying? Maybe they will guide us if we spare them."
"They said "We surrender! You're too strong we be your slaves!" or about that."
If some past combat would have had such an effect i'd have a team at this point.
"Useful..", she sheathes her rapier.
Val loosens her grip on the Kobold she has grappled.
"Da Sie geben habe, haben wir ein paar Fragen?"
”Slaves?” Alvoise says, his voice harsh. He sheathes his rapier and examines his wounds. ”Bought with our blood,” a groan punctuates his words. ”I like the idea of guiding us, so long it’s not into a trap. I don’t like the idea of slavery though. What’re their names?”
Alvoise wipes the grime and blood from his hands, then rolls a cigarette. He sparks a flame on the end and takes a drag. ”Give me a few minutes to recover from that. I thought I was about to die for a moment.”
"What questions?" says the kobolt Valeria grabbed
"Do you know what happened here,
What caused the town to die?
What caused them to abandon this mine?"
Raskir still can't hear what anyone says. He retrieves his longspear and stands watchfully.
Xaikon decides to walk over to the kobolds she shot to exam them for any possible clues and items of value, and if possibly salvage her used arrows from them, either to clean, or use to make new arrows.
"Our tribe took this place long we drove out the humans like our chief commanded after the big band opened the way!"
"They died to the sickness or left after we drove them out of the tunnels."
"We were stronger then they were so they fled!"
”So the disease didn’t infect the kobolds? They arrived after and drove off the rest of the humans,” Alvoise asks Valeria after she translates the kobold’s answer. ”He said a ‘big band opened the way’ — is that a big band of kobolds or something else?”
"Surely not a group of musicians......"
The chunks of silver ore can be salvaged and are worth 200 gp.
You find nothing else of value here.
Additional information you get from the kobolts:
• The kobolds are very nervous and would like to leave the mines as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, their chieftain and shaman has determined that they must stay.
• Some manner of creature has been stealing members from their camp while they sleep, they never see it but they hear it slithering in the dark from time to time.
• There must be a curse to this mine. Since they have taken the mine Half of their band has already died from strange fevers and horrible coughs or vanished during the night.
• The kobolt shaman has a cure to the plague but it doesn't always work. He claims that those who died were "unworthy". The dead bodies vanish soon after.
"Perhaps before going deeper into the mine, we first take the silver ore to Silas to be kept and recorded what is owed to us."
"A practical thing to do, i agree with that."
”That’s a good idea,” Alvoise says, ”What should we do with the dead kobolds? Are they buried in the ground, cremated, left under a cairn? So the disease that ravaged the village is with the kobolds now. Doesn’t that mean it’s likely if the mine reopens the village will have another plague? Maybe you can make this shaman’s cure better, Henric.”
"It sounds like even the Kobolds are getting sick."
You bring the silver back to Silas who is intrigued to learn you have encountered kobolts. "So it was just kobolts that took the mine then? I expected something far worst!"
Seeing you are injured he offers you some healing potions on credit. Their value can be removed from your later pay.
"But according to them, something hunts them."
"Hmm interesting, see if you can find out what that creature is and if you can kill it. Afterwards it should be a simple matter to drive out the kobolts and reclaim the mine. This could turn out to be a very profitable enterprise!" replies Silas
"But given certain views on the law, the mine is theirs since they are working it.
But if the disease that wiped out the people is also wiping out the Kobolds, I think the mine should remain closed until you can get someone to clean it of the disease, and clean it through."