Oryn once again spends the time to free himself from the goo.
As a multitude of loose stone begin to circle the kineticist at an angle, it picks up speed as he forms a blade in his hand and strikes at the nearest kobold with it.
Round 1 Cauldron hauled up by children. Batu and Marioc jumped down. Oryn removed goo. Kobolds threw javelins. Edgrin threw one back.
Round 2 Kylan gets in cauldron, children lower him. Toads do belly slide. Marioc falls in grease, then stands, taking an AoO that missed; he then cast a kinetic blast, which triggered a second AoO that also missed, but he then hit the toad (no entangling, however, since he couldn't gather power). Oryn stabs the other one with spear then finishes it off with air blast. Batu missed his attack. Edgrin begins inspire courage.
Round 3 Remaining toad coats Oryn with more goo, its rider slashed at Oryn (not Batu, oops) and missed. Oryn removed goo. Kylan stepped out of cauldron, blasts red kobold with debris and takes him down. Children haul up cauldron (Rao can get in NEXT round). Everybody else still to go.
Batu brings forth loose stone and launches it at the toad-riding kobold.
Marioc, boxed in by the slimy trail has nowhere to go, so he flings out his hand at the toad creature. The creature takes advantage and clomps his teeth on Marioc's forearm, but doesn't succeed in thwarting the kineticist's icy blast down its gullet. The creature spasms and tips over, leaving it's rider stuck to its back. That kobold spends this round extracting itself from the back of the dead slurk.
Everybody is up. Rao gets into the cauldron and the kids lower him. He'll be able to act next round (if the battle is still going). There is one kobold left: he's on his feet and adjacent to Marioc.
Oryn attempts to navigate through the grease and the friendly kobolds to get next to the remaining foe.
Positioned next to last toad rider, Oryn creates a swirling blade of air and swings it at their enemy.
Oryn bobs too much for the kobold to hit, then his blade of razor thin air drops the reptilian.
Combat over.
The kobolds each have 2 cure light potions and nothing else of interest.
"Hmph. Right then." Said Kylan as he surveyed the battlefield. He took his pipe out and loaded it with some pipeweed.
"Anyone need a bit 'o healin'?"
Kylan rested his hands on Marioc and golden green healing radiance sank into him to heal and also inflicting 1 burn and 3 nonlethal damage on him as well.
Oryn looks around and spots what appears to be an opening/door in both east and west walls. The room also looks like it may go further north.
"Is everyone OK? Should we continue searching?"
There’s a rattle of the chain as the kids shimmy down its length to join you below.
There is a structured opening to the west, whereas the kobolds have broken in through the north and east walls from outside the room. There’s no door on the west wall and peering through the opening, you see barrels and crates, most smashed. It looks like a storage area.
Batu hears a sound coming from within: laboured breathing and an occasional whimper. Someone, or something inside is badly hurt.
Oryn looks around and spots what appears to be an opening/door in both east and west walls. The room also looks like it may go further north.
"Is everyone OK? Should we continue searching?"
"All good here, Oryn Goldenstalk!" Batu responds, giving a thumbs up. "Thanks for asking! Let us continue on."
There’s a rattle of the chain as the kids shimmy down its length to join you below.
There is a structured opening to the west, whereas the kobolds have broken in through the north and east walls from outside the room. There’s no door on the west wall and peering through the opening, you see barrels and crates, most smashed. It looks like a storage area.
Batu hears a sound coming from within: laboured breathing and an occasional whimper. Someone, or something inside is badly hurt.
Pausing to listen intently, Batu quickly turns to the others. "There is someone on the other side of that wall who sounds as if they are terribly hurt. We must find our way there quickly." He then looks for some way in.
There’s no door, meaning, there’s no physical door blocking access to the next room. There is a standard doorway you can go through.
Batu leads the way inside. On the ground between some partially-destroyed crates, lies a strange creature. This hunched-over wretch has long, pliable arms like tentacles capped with five wide, spiny claws. A kobold barbed spear, it’s point coated in poison, protrudes from the creature’s back. Whatever it is, it seems to be near death.
Batu immediately pulls out a potion while seriously considering removing the spear, but remains a bit leery due to the concern for killing it if he does so. "This creature is a choker. It typically would attempt to kill us but obviously it can do no such thing at the moment. I will do what I can to help it." He then attempts to administer the potion to the creature.
"Hold on!" Said Master Kylan as he came forward. "Potions are best reserved for combat."
Kylan tried to examine the creature as best he could to determine proper treatment.
Kylan rested his hands on the creature and golden green healing radiance sank into it to heal and also inflicting 1 burn and 3 nonlethal damage on it as well.
With that heal result, Kylan is able to safely remove the barbed spear, and though he heals some of the creature’s wounds, it’s still weak from poison. It looks at Kylan with what he guesses is confused gratefulness before it drags itself off to some corner to hide.
Looking around the room, there’s nothing left of value that hasn’t been ruined by time or some recent fierce battle.
That leaves the dug tunnel north or west?
Oryn looks at the contents of the room and says "What a mess, everything is ruined." With a closer look he adds "and some of it appears to be done recently. Whatever injured that thing" as he nods towards the creature Kylan just healed "might still be nearby. We should be cautious. There was another passage on the opposite side of the room we came down into. I suggest we continue our search in that direction."
Nodding in agreement, "And a fine suggestion it is, Oryn Goldenstalk!" he exclaims, grinning. "Let us be off."
You stoop to enter the cramped, low passageway in the east wall.
The cramped passageways open to a large cavern filled with rocky overhangs and jutting boulders. The sound of mining reaches your ears before you enter the cave; however, the origin of the sound is beyond the scope of your dark vision (or is around a corner).
"Ok, let's follow it." Oryn says as he starts heading in that direction.
Moving carefully through the dark towards the light, you poke your heads around the corner. Here, an unusually buff kobold stands guard over a gaggle or slaves mining the cavern wall. Currently, they seem to be hacking up a not inconsiderable vein of iron ore, but given the disdain with which they toss the valuable metal into a pile of trash, they must be after something else. The slaves hold the metal up to the light of their single torch, but aren’t finding what they’re looking for.
The slave master is really quite comical to look at. He clearly works out, but equally as clearly has skipped every leg day: his chest, shoulders, and arms are massive (for a kobold) but they totter precariously over the tiniest little chicken legs you could imagine.
Oryn will move to get a clear line of sight to the beefy slaver and send a blast of air its way.
Kylan moved to an open doorway to what might be an equipment shed and glanced around for enemies.
Marioc steps out into the chamber, clearly acting as bait to draw out the kobold miners and their beefcake slave driver (red guy). This plan clearly works, as the driver roars in rage at the intruders and orders his miners to attack, which they, currently being more afraid of him than you, oblige.
Everybody except Edgrin is up first. Oryn already posted that he steps out and blasts Beefcake with some air, which hits and seems to mildly annoy the bruiser, leaving Rao, Batu, Marioc, and Kylan to go.
Kylan advanced 25' East, then he raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft a discarded miner's pick at mister Red.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Batu brings the stones and chunks them like daggers toward the oversized kobold.
Ice and fire play over Lord Beefcake's chest as he snatches the flying miner's pick out of the air, though they show no signs of slowing him down. The kobolds swarm forwards.
Beefcake waddles forwards, his own heavy pick and the caught light pick already twirling in his hands. The tip of the twirling pick catches Marioc on the arm, drawing blood.
Edgrin begins to sing, inspiring courage in the party.
Round 2
Everybody is up.
Batu takes a step back and brings forth another blast of loose stone toward Beefcake 'Bold.
Kylan backed up 5' East, settled into a defensive stance, then he raised a hand and, with mister Red hidden by the swirl of combatants, caused currents of aether to loft a discarded ore bucket at mister Orange.
for a possible kinetic damage.
Batu does some damage to Beefyboy, but this guy looks pretty thick.
Orange kobold, meanwhile, has been reduced to a bucket of chunky salsa.
Oryn sends a blast of air at the purple kobold slave.
Rao's flame washes over the beefmeister, and though it doesn't do much on its own, the kobold himself catches fire. The flames sizzle from Marioc's ice ray but continue to burn.
Meanwhile, Oryn reduces another kobold slave to goo.
Sgt. Whopper continues to burn. Enraged, he steps up to the one who set him on fire, swinging with both picks.
Rao takes a small gash from the light pick.
Neither slave is able to attack very effectively.
Edgrin stops his singing, though the effects linger. He steps up and stabs at Dark Blue slave, but misses.
Everybody is up.
Kylan raised a hand and caused currents of aether to loft a discarded shovel at Big Red.
for a possible kinetic damage.
The air begins to swirl around Oryn and a loud whisting from its movement encircles him. It revolves into a blade that Oryn swings at the kobold in front of him.