Taking a couple of nasty shots by the commander, Batu tries to repay him in full. Raising a hand up high to call the earth to him, he forms a fist and throws it down hammer-like, the stone responding in kind toward the commander.
Rao braces for a spear in his gut, but the kobold is a bit too slow and stabs the wall instead.
Both Kylan and Batu land nasty blows on their targets, but both kobolds shake them off, though the mook is looking quite battered.
Yellow kobold stands up and stabs at Batu, while teal kobold steps forward to engage Oryn. Blue kobold flips his spear around and tries to club Kimi.
The commander swings again at Batu.
Kimi attacks blue kobold while Edgrin casts against yellow.
Kimi’s blow is enough to stagger the kobold, but not bring him down. Yellow kobold is dazed.
Batu continues to attempt to trade punches with the commander.
Kylan raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft a polished phostwood deluxe kobold memorial dragonchess board into the air and fling itself at mister Blue.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Checkmate on dark blue.
Marioc’s beam of frost also slams into its target, but the elite kobold is still on his feet. Though he eyes the shaft behind him as if considering escape, he sets his gaze firmly on you, plainly ready to do his duty to the death, and take as many of you with him as he can.
Oryn and Rao left to go.
Yellow takes another hit of fire.m, and it’s clothes begin to burn.
Oryn takes a step back and fires a blast at the nearest kobold
The blast sails high once again.
Yellow is too dazed to put the fire out, so continues to burn. Meanwhile, Oryn takes a nasty spear thrust in the side, and Batu receives another slice from the chain dagger.
Kimi bravely steps up to also swing at the commander, clubbing him in the head.
The two kobolds cry out, ”We save oh Great Miss Lots but Still Freed Us!” and charge the commander with their bare hands. They provoke AoOs for the move and the untrained grapple.
The kobold commander cuts down both of your rescued friends.
Finally, Edgrin casts daze on the last kobold still vulnerable to it.
Teal kobold states at the blood on his spear and giggles.
You’re all up.
I had thought they take burn damage on their own turn, but it says once per round, so maybe it should be yours. Either way, the new damage is enough to reduce yellow to a pool of burning kobold.
Marioc nails the commander between the eyes and he slowly falls back to land with a thud on the floor.
With only the one kobold left, Batu concentrates the loose earth upon it.
FINALLY bringing the last one down, Batu breathes a sigh of relief. Wiping the sweat from his brow, "Well that was challenging to be sure. Fortunately we are a resilient group," he states proudly, grinning. He then pulls out a couple of vials and drinks their contents.
The last kobold drops, bring an end to a difficult battle and leaving you exhausted. Your kobold friends lie bleeding out on the floor. On the nooks, you find more spears and javelins, and on the commander, a MW flying talon, 3 more cure light wounds potions, two doses of centipede poison, and a really fancy cloak that feels extra protective (+1 resistance).
You also feel your own power surge within you as you gain a closer connection to your chosen elements.
DING!!!
With the battle over, Kylan rushed over to their Kobold allies to see if they could be saved.
If needed...
Kylan rested his hands on the patient and golden green healing radiance sank into him to heal and also inflicting 1 burn and 2 nonlethal damage on him as well.
They both need healing, but it brings them both around. They fall all over themselves thanking Kylan for saving them, referring to him now as the Great Lord Life-Giver. The two of them then move off discussing how if Kylan has given them life, does that mean that he’s now their mother...
In the room the kobolds were defending, there is a shaft leading down, a pair of doors on the left (barred from this side like the ones in the outer room), and a rough-hewn tunnel off to the right filled with smoke. Indecision hits your for a moment until you hear the sound of someone coughing down the rough-hewn tunnel--someone with the high-pitched cough of a child.
You make your way into the smoke-filled tunnel. The acrid smoke burns your nostrils and lungs if you breathe it in. It also limits sight to within 5-feeet, so you're slowly feeling your way along. Do you allow the children and kobolds to come along?
Making your way through the smoke-filled tunnel is slow going, but eventually the space opens up into a larger room. Here, the ceiling is higher and the smoke thinner. A loud crackling sound fills the room. The smoke that pours from it is blistering hot and lit with a strange orange light. A massive forge responsible for the hellish atmosphere
takes up the entire far wall of the cavern. Between the forge and the entrance stands a massive anvil, and nearby rest hammers, prongs, and other blacksmithing tools. A faint whimpering sound is almost lost in the roar that comes from the forge.
To your left, a wolf-like creature, albeit one wreathed in flames, raises its hackles as you enter. It's master, appearing at first to be a dwarf, though one wrapped almost completely in chains and also covered in fire that doesn't seem to burn its flesh, stands by the anvil, hammering away at a massive length of chain. With each blow, however, does not come the sound of clanking metal, but the sobbing, wailing sorrow of the souls of the damned. As the undead monstrosity raises its hammer, the faint flicker of light from a ruby ring catches your eye.
The hell hound is prone, its flesh sizzling angrily against the magical ice.
Batu follows suit behind Marioc and draws forth loose stone, blasting it toward the wicked looking dog.
Traveling down the tunnel...
Fail.
In the forge chamber...
Kylan took a step south and west.
He raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft an unattended forging hammer into the air and fling itself at the flaming dog.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Success.
Oryn left to go.
Oryn will send a blast of air at the dog
The hound scrambles to its feet, turns to face at you, and breathes a gout of flame towards you, catching Batu, Marioc, and Oryn for fire damage, Reflex save DC 14 for half.
The undead creature heads over towards the unconscious boy and grabs him by the ankle.
Edgrin drops prone to the floor where the air is clearer. He can't see anything, but he starts to sing inspirationally anyway, granting everybody +1 bonuses to attack and damage.
You're all up.
Oryn sends another blast of air at the hound
Oryn's blast of air sends the hell hound flying across the room. It doesn't get up again.
Rao doesn’t really see anything useful, at least nothing that would help him do any damage to this creature, assuming it’s immune to fire.
The smoke is thinner here but still too toxic to breathe.
Kylan cautiously took another couple of steps into the smoke filled room. He felt the burn of the elemental overflow inside him spilling out, rippling his clothing and hair in a room with no wind.
Spotting the creature grab the child, Kylan shook his head.
"No ye don't laddie..." He growled.
He raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft another unattended forging hammer into the air and fling itself at the chain covered creature.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Fails. He takes nonlethal smoke damage.
The blast forms ice around the fire creature for a moment, then the sizzle of fire and the creature’s sharp barbs begin to melt and chip it away. It doesn’t succeed in removing all of it this round, however, so it’s still entangled.
Taking some seriously unpleasant burn damage from the dog-like creature, once it falls Batu turns his attention toward the undead creature still left.
The undead dwarf releases the boy's ankle and turns to exact his revenge against the ice wizard, with a pause to swipe at Batu with its adamantine warhammer.
serendipitously bypassing his DR
The bits of ice stuck to the undead are all that save Marioc having his face ripped from his body.
Edgrin stops singing, but the effects of his music linger in your ears and hearts, continuing the bonus to hit and damage.
He then casts a spell.
Grease coats the undead's warhammer and it goes flying from his grasp. Unfortunately, the thing's chain is actually a part of the creature, and so can't be similarly disarmed.
You're all up.
Oryn will extend his Air Shroud to include Kylan, Batu and Marioc.
Finding himself in dire trouble, Batu decides to create a blade out of the earth around him and strike with it.
You can gather power to offset the cost of kinetic blade, so it shouldn’t be any burn.
Rock meets metal, cracking several links of soul chain. Souls of damned dwarves moan at their release and the undead stumbles slightly. There would seem to be some manner of link between the creature and the chain.
Kylan took another step north, and realized he could breathe freely again..
As his hair rippled due to elemental overflow, he raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft set of tongs into the air and fling itself at the chain covered creature.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Marioc is left to go.
You missed the bonus from Edgrin's inspire courage. I mention it because it's what you needed to make your crit stick, which is quite important.
Marioc's freezing ray strikes the undead dwarf full in the chest. The ice sizzles against the fiery heat of its flesh, then spreads out along the full length of its chain. Super-chilled metal cracks and groans, then begins to shatter from the sudden temperature inversion. As the links begin to fall away, the room is filled with the pitiful cries of the souls that had long been imprisoned within the iron, and as the last bit of chain is destroyed, the organic remains of the dwarf quickly smolder into ash, leaving nothing but a grease-covered warhammer, and a platinum ring with a thumb-nail-sized ruby that calls to Rao. The other rings in your possession also vibrate in sympathy with its sibling, INCLUDING THE TWO CURRENTLY SITTING IN SOMEBODY'S POCKET.
Jurin lies unconscious in the corner of the room, but once you get him clear of the smoke, he starts to come to. He weakly opens his eyes.
"Get your hands off me, scum! You had better let me go, or my father will bring hell down on anyone who thinks they can eat me or sacrifice me for some stupid ritual!"