Tannakin grins at the kobolds.
"You're not a dragon, you're just a drag."
...perhaps not her finest work. But then her tone shifts. Her eyes grow fiery. Her voice gets louder. She waves her sword around and roars:
"Like, I'm gonna drag your bodies out of here!"
Tan says to Airi, "I recommend going for their soft underbelly, m'dear. Dragons, ya know."
"You call that diplomacy?"
Thank you Nyswyn for healing me. I really do appreciate it.
Glad to have you here with us Jubril. This has been a lot of fun so far.
Sansaárë looks into the room at the Kobold. ◆She moves 25ft while pulling out her shortsword.
She moves like she is going to jump right over the Kobold.
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◆Sansaárë then tries to stab Kobold 1.
Round 1 Kobold Warren Animal House!
Tannakin begins to shoot her mouth off at one of the kobolds, but it falls flat.
The swashbuckler ever confident shouts a taunt at the other kobold along the far wall!
Laughing (but staying outside the chamber), Tannakin then shouts encouragement to Sansaárë.
Leo watches the further shenanigans of the sisters with a smile....
Sansaárë also smiles at the shouts and threats from the Mighty Dragons!. The rogue strides into the room, shakes and bakes the Frightened Kobold and strikes!
The Frightened kobold bleeds its own blood onto the table!
The kobolds looks ready to reciprocate!
EDIT!
As the rogue's blade exits the body of the Frightened kobold, it falls to the floor. He is no longer frightened, because well, Pharasma frowns on torturing. She lets Zon kuthon deal with that portion of the afterlife!
That takes care of that one. Whose next for us? Tann, Nyswyn?
Round 1 Kobold Warren Animal House!
Leo walks confidently into the chamber, as he smiles at Sansaárë's courage!
The Witch then decides to turn this party into a rave!
Kobold #2 looks stunned!
Kobold #3 looks stunned!
There seems to be another trio of kobolds in the warrens across the room. They seem to be coming out to meet you with spears held eagerly!
Both kobolds seem to be drooling and just standing there enjoying the light show!
Her eyes scanned the warren/chamber.
"There're three more kobolds coming from the sleeping chambers!" she warned her friends.
Raising her shield before her to afford her some protection from their spears, Ness retrieved the staff from her back and then moved back 10 ft (◆) to better assess the situation/threat.
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Round 1/2 Kobold Warren Animal House!
Ness and Leo watch the snarling, spitting draconian approaching from the side caverns!
The two kobolds that just watched their card buddy get stabbed by the blonde elf can only watch the next moments from their stunned positions! Actually, they can't even do that because they are also blind from the trippy light show from our fun fey!
Round 2!
Their snarling and spitting from the right of both Leo and Ness, a trio of kobolds come rushing out. Shaking their spears high (well not so high because they are actually small) and growling with violence!
All three kobolds (◆) Stride into Flanking positions against these interlopers!
Kobold#4 and kobold#5 (◆)Stride twice, so only have enough gas to swing those nasty looking spears once!
Kobold#6 having a straight route to these dinner menu options, decides to strike at each of them!
The display put on by these fearsome dragons seems to be a bit lacking....
Julril draws his longsword (◆) moves in front of Tann (◆) and strikes the kobold in the doorway (◆).
Tannakin's jaw drops as Julril barges past her. "Rude."
She puts her free hand on his shoulder, tucks her foot into his belt, and...
...launches herself in an aerial somersault over both him and the kobold. And Leo. She lands on top of the next kobold, sword pointing down...
"Ladies first, Juli!"
"Airi, can you take out the rest of these lizards before this big slow holy man gets in my way again?"
She cackles.
The audience of family of mice applaud, spit out popcorn and shout enthusiacally at the Daring of our swashbuckler!
Julril stands mouth agape as Tann flips herself over him and a few others, coming down hard on a kobold. He asks the kobold in the doorway, incredulously, "Why, where did she ever learn to do that?"
Ness stepped back away (5 ft) ◆ from the two spear menacing kobolds, raising her shield in her left hand ◆ and drawing her staff (manipulate: retrieve ◆) with her true hand.
Sansaárë ◆strides 10' over to where Nyswyn is standing. The rogue raises her shortsword, staring at the Kobold.
You look like your the lucky one. Wanna dance?
Well, I happen to have it on good authority that you are dead!!!
The family of mice seem absolutely riveted by these sudden turn of events!
Round 2 Kobold Warren Animal House!
Julril stabs out with his longsword, but the cleric goes a bit wide.
The cleric raises his shield and watches Tannakin with a bit of awe.
Tannakin does some acrobatics--Dick Grayson kind of s#!* and totally downs the kobold that formerly was standing there!
The swashbuckler then offers some friendly advice to Sansaárë.
Nyswyn raises her trusty shield, steps back into a better position and retrieves her staff.
Sansaárë does some impressive feinting and strikes dead the kobold next to the druid!
Leo being a wizard at tossing the everburning torch, decides that when you're hot, you're hot!
The remaining two kobolds aren't even looking a bit afraid by these fatal happenings. Most likely because both are Blind, so couldn't see the carnage!
Kobold#3 shakes the dust out of his eyes enough to see Tannakin standing on top of his buddy's head!
Youses bees 'bouts ta gits deads by un mighty dragons!
Kobold#3 yells at the blind kobold.
Kobold#3 then ◆Tumbles Through Tannakin's legs to appear into a Flanking position, as Blind Kobold#2 Strides forward, spear haphazardly striking at Tannakin.
So what actually happened was two kobolds--one blind--are easily way over there heads in this particular combat. Both struggle to be successful in any of their endeavors.
Nothing actually happened that affects our Heroes in any negative (although perhaps amusing) way. The DM is even beginning to think that you guys are not fearful of these mighty dragons!
"Well, it looks like my old friends have the situation under hand afterall..."
Julril steps into the room and shouts, after a quick prayer to the inheritor, hoping the kobolds can understand him well enough, "Villains! We have you bested. Lay down your arms and surrender, or else the less compassionate of my fellows will send you off to meet Tiamat in the sky!"
"...worth a shot."
Tannakin chuckles as the pesky mini-dragon scoots between her legs. She calls yet more advice to Airi:
"Mop 'em up, my roguish lass! Poor things, really, best end it quick"
Maybe it works, maybe it is useless advice.
She then the not-blind Kobold for damage, earning an extra bit if that's a critical hit .
She shakes off the blood and looks at the blind one and wonders what to do. Julril might have had the right idea.
"Maybe if I yell at it? I know draconic."
She gets tongue-tied and yawns instead.
Raising her shield once again (◆), as she didn't trust the kobolds and their sharp spears, Ness began to cast, using her powerful words and gestures (◆◆). She pointed toward the blind kobold and the blasted an icy ray at it.
x2 = 10
The blinded kobold never seen it coming! Nyswyn's ray of frost totally turns the blinded kobold to an orange popsicle.!
Round 3
Jubril bravely steps into the room. The cleric raises his sword threateningly at the lone kobold, commanding it to halt its actions!
Tannakin talks more smack, stabs more kobold, and snarls at the lone kobold!
The lone kobold seems to be bleeding now too!
Leo turns his witch's eye around at the lone kobold.
The lone kobold pees his pants at the evil eye stare of our cursed fey!
The lone kobold looks distressed, and a bit concerned as to what may happen next!
Kobold Surrender
When only one kobold remains, he immediately drops his weapons and surrenders to the heroes, begging and groveling for his life with a raspy, high-pitched voice. If the heroes spare the kobold, the creature promises to leave and never return, but he also quietly adds that he’s willing to share secrets in exchange for gold.
Mees bees willings ta helps youses. Just bees letting mees gits. Mees nevers comes backs ta here. Gots any ov da golds fer mees trips?
The lone kobold looks desperate and contrite.
Mees gives ups!
The lone kobold raises his hands above his head. He even kicks his spear further away from him. He misses. His foot smacks the floor. Water begins to form in his eyes....
“Boss Zolgran is the big leader of the mighty kobolds, and she has powerful magics to roast you alive! She’s very angry all the time and demands much from her servants. Especially now that we have a powerful new friend!”
“The friend is a dragon and a blessing from the gods, a sign that kobolds are destined to return to the surface and conquer the pathetic human town. As soon as the hatchling is all grown, we’ll rise up to take what is ours!”
He grins....
Sansaárë walks over to the kobold.
What can you tell us about your boss? It depends on what you tell us on what we give you.
Sansaárë walks over to look around to see what she can find.
Hey guys. Look at what I found. It holds a bolt of fine silk cloth worth 5 gp, a painting of an adventurer on a horse worth 2 gp, a sack filled with 20 sp, a crystal decanter filled with old, sour wine (the decanter is worth 1 gp), 3 jars of oil (minus any the kobolds threw during the fight), a ladder feather token, and a healing potion.
There was a rustling inside Ness' coat pocket and then Verdi appeared and climbed up to sit atop the druidess' shoulder. The druidess eyed the last of the kobold fighters and then considering the creature's words, made her manner more approachable. She ahd heard Airi's words and she followed her lead.
"We're willing to be merciful and reasonable, if you speak the truth."
Ness ran a hand over her forehead, scratching it absently. Looking to her friends, she added, "So this kobold caster leader Zolgran has allied herself with a young dragon to eventually rise and attack the town...We must warn the town - speak with Captain Lardus Longsaddle of the Otari Guard and Mayor Oseph Menhemen. Of course, we need to tell Mistress Tamily what we've discovered in her fishery since that was our purpose for investigatin' the place."
Looking over the items found, Ness smiled and nodded toward Airi. She began to cast - allowing her words to resound in the chamber as her hands made the gesture of the ancient spirits. She wished to determine if any magic surrounded them.
"We should leave the fishery and head back to town this night. We've much to do and best we don't linger here longer than we have to. What say you?"
Ok, Let's get ready to go back up and let everyone know what's going on. While we are there, we will split the loot and reload. Should we tie him up so he doesn't try to run?
Sansaárë looks at the Kobold and smiles.
Seeing the puddle under the lone Kobold, Leo almost feels bad for scaring the little lizard. Almost. Raising an eyebrow as the Lizard tries to bargain, Leo looks to the others, not really sure how humans, elves and dwarves do things. "Tis it common for prisoners of big folk to makest demands?"
Realizing that he'd have little effect speaking with the kobold, leo begins to follow Sansaárë towards the chest. But hearing a slurping behind him he realizes Ambrose is drinking water from the fountain. Shaking his head he walks towards the corgi. "မသောက်ပါနဲ့၊ ဒီမှာ ဘယ်လောက်ကြာကြာနေလဲ မသိပါဘူး။" Picking up the little Corgi, he nods his head back the way they came. "Perchance we should'st retire for the evening. We could'st bring yon prisoner with us and turnest them over to the city watch."
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Julril agrees to return upside and report in, as well as turn over the surrendered kobold. Knowing the state of the crowd outside, he keeps his shield up to hide and protect the prisoner until they can make safe passage and hand him over.
"There's more of these creatures inside, I'm afraid," he tells Tam, "and it seems they've themselves a pet dragon, although a mere hatchling by the sound of it. We can return at dawn and finish the job."
The Heroes of Otari decide to lead their captive out to the authorities for processing, booking, and, possibly to get more delicious sandwiches.
Emerging from the dark, damp cellar of the Fishery, our Heroes are met by the still milling about town's folk. Captain Lardus Longsaddle, Mayor Oseph Menhemes, Vandy Banderdash, Yanyismera, and Tamily Tanderveil are seen talking together. Seeing the emergence of our Heroes, the town's most influential citizens quickly motion for the Heroes to follow them to a secluded area behind the Fishery.
Tamily pushes another picnic basket, filled with sandwiches at them.
What news from the cellars?
At the sight of the kobold prisoner, the elders of town each look warily at them....
When Julril mentions an army of vicious kobolds, being led by a monstrous dragon, the elders each begin to babble excessively mostly about the insurance implications that this news carries....
The gathering surprised her, yet they didn't need to go far to warn the elders.
Ness cleared her throat as the town leaders began to fret and babble. "If I might interrupt, this kobold did say once the hatchling's grown, the kobolds would rise up and take what they say is theirs. I'd say our best bet is to find this hatchling and kill it before it gets bigger, hungrier and stronger. Although, as you know, I'm not one for killing creatures as a first recourse. However, it might be a lesser evil. The kobold leader, Zolgran, she has magic, so we have to find and kill her as well." She looked side long at the kobold prisoner. "The prisoner gave them up and wants gold and his freedom in return. I'll leave that to your discretion," looking to the Captain and Mayor.
"I'm in need to urgent supplies before we go back down, again," looking around at her companions.
We fought some dire rats and fought them. Then we fought quite a few Kobolds and this one surrendered to us. There is also a dragon somewhere below with more Kobolds that want to take over everything.
Captain Lardus Longsaddle, Mayor Oseph Menhemes, Vandy Banderdash, Yanyismera, and Tamily Tanderveil each look at the Heroes then at each other. Their silence carries long until Tamily clears here throat.
So, I made you supper. Why not come over for rest and dinner while we decide what further to do about this dragon....
She says the word dragons a bit quietly and with much doubt....
Captain Lardus Longsaddle takes charge of the captured kobold.
Julril nods respectfully then turns towards his friends, "I'll meet you back here in the morning." He then departs and makes his way home to see his parents.
Tannakin fluffs up as big as she can and struts around the townsfolk. "Nothing to worry about here, people. Everything is in our capable hands. Dragons ain't nothin' to us folks of Otari."
Later, after bragging and accepting a clandestine drink or three from the fiascos of the crowd, her thoughts turn to the hatchling dragon. Poor little thing. Not much different than Ol' Twitchy Eye the dire rat. She reaches down and gives OTE a pat... and jerks her hand out of her jaws just before they snap shut, and thinks how happy OTE will be in the woods when she's set free. She also hauls on the rat's leash, hard, to send a message. "Calm down, Twitch!"
When she can, whether that night or the next day, she suggests to Ness, "If we captured the dragon baby, do you think we could raise it to be a nice dragon? How could we capture it without killing it? Like, we could knock it down into unconsciousness, truss it up, and then pour a healing potion down its throat, and then explain that it should be a good dragon after the fire dies down? Something like that, maybe? Like what we did with Ol' Twitch?"
Eventually, she sees one of her many siblings in the crowd and sends word home that she's had nine hells of an adventure, but she'll be having dinner with Tamily's family tonight, so no need to wait up.
Ol' Twitchy Eye (or he goes by his rapper name OTE), merely waits for the most opportune moment.
OH, I'm a git'n dat arm.