Kobolds of the Crowned King (Inactive)

Game Master Doug Hahn

Diplomacy to Aid: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11 haha

And we'll be back right away to see you again! Zyphlryx exclaims, oblivious to exactly how unpersuasive this idea is to the Queen.

Vras the necrope hisses at the suggestion, but the queen considers it, toying with her marble eye in her palm.

Fine. Tombzaad is pretty annoying anyway, he keeps smashing up everything I ask him to bring me. Terrible minion, almost as bad as you Imperius. Vras has made Tombzaad unkillable, which maybe is good for something other then smooshing up my dinner and throwing cutlery around. Then again maybe if you die it would make my life better.

Tomb shambles forth. He seems… larger… tougher… bloated.

R-R-R-R.

'There she goes again. Teasing me, pretending I am not her favorite nephew! Just because I am her only nephew doesn't make it less true!'

"Thank you, Auntie. We'll bring great fortune to the tribe! Kill all the pink-skins and take their stuff! You'll see!"

Go to the glowing mushrooms by Zaadragrank’s workshop. There you will find a secret tunnel that we've cunningly dug into the Pinkskins' fort — right under their stupid noses! It will let you out, so I'm old, under some barrels inside their walls.

Go forth… wreak havoc! Drive away the pinkskin lumber workers and make sure they never return!

Maps updated. Note the secret tunnel on the warrens map. Note the layout on the fort map. I added a Tombzaad token for you.

Let's make this a group effort, and see how you perform as a party. Your goal is to drive away the pinkskins… either by scaring them, burning their stuff down, annoying them, etc. Whatever havoc you wish to inflict upon them. Some ideas might be perform to pretend to be a haunting (or actually haunt them with intimidate), stealth, crafting to make traps, survival to plant traps, stealth to plant explosives… deception to deploy Tombzaad outside. Pretty open to ideas here!

Pepin brings some supplies from Galt, carefully sealed and wrapped, as we depart.

When we arrive, he places the stinkiest cheese anyone could imagine in strategic places around the fort. It is enough to make the eyes water and turn the stomach of anyone not from Galt.

Cooking Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Hero Point?

Cooking Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18

Zyphlryx works feverishly to make some volatile explosives to bring along. We can make the pinkskin building go BOOM! he says with uncharacteristic glee.

Kadosh happily settles down to making traps -- a kobold's truest art, what sets them apart from the mighty dragons they sprang from -- and setting them out there Tombzad can lure the pinkskins into.

Crafting (trained): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

Imperius decide to try and see if his companions were right... he attempts to annoy the pink skins by rushing around, acting like a haunt... and he also hides the shrunken head of the mandrake root pretending to be his great uncle near their camp so that he/it/whatever can continue to annoy them. "I promise to retrieve you after we kill the pink skins. Your tribe needs you! Annoy them like you annoy my Auntie the Queen!"

Diplomacy: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

I am assuming this will count as my check

Broomzad's Intimidation (T): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11

I think this is wrong but it will likely fail

You set traps and put Toombzad on a path through the forest, while Galvan cheeses cleared in strategic locations along the walls affect the archers and make their eyes watery. You go back and listen in the tunnels for the fireworks to go off…

Oi more target practice!

It's a monster! It's unkillable!

You hear the gates open…

Wait! Some of us need to stay here and guard. All the workers are sleeping in the main barracks, and all the equipment's stored in the yard, after all.

… unfortunately, it seems like your plan didn't quite succeed the way you want.

You push the barrel aside hoping the pink skins are at least SOMEWHAT distracted. You find yourselves inside the wall, below the catwalk above, surrounded by crates and barrels stored inside the tower’s base.

Otherwise, the fort seems quiet… tough you can hear someone stomping around above. The stairs on the map go UP to the second level of the catwalk from the yard; there's an unmarked exit below them into the yard that you could use to go that way.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22

Look! Zyphlryx hisses, pointing at a scurrying bug.
A guano roach!

Perception; darkvision: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

"Yes! We should find more of them, but only after we take care of the foul pink skins!"

Perception (expert), darkvision: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

"Yes, big roaches first, then the guano roaches," Kadosh hisses, hoping Imperius might get the idea that they should be QUIET! He's too focused on the problem to notice the bug, but hopefully Zyphlryx isn't wrong.

"There are still more of them in here," he notes, sure they're not sneaky and cunning enough to have lied to set a trap for them (that's what he would have done). "Into the fort and we'll clear this methodically!"

He gestures to the north.

Imperius makes sure that the crossbow dart that is loaded into his hand crossbow is envenomed with giant centipede venom.

You move down the hall. There is a door going out to a yard. You peek out, and in so doing lean a bit more about the Pinkskins' operations here.

There is a central barracks where most of the pinkskins are probably sleeping, as it's late at night. In the corner to your left is a pile of fresh-cut wood, the result of all your beautiful trees getting chopped down! Across that is haphazard pile of crosscut log saws, azes, hamnmers, and other tools. There's another a set of workbenches in the third corner.

In the last corner to your right is a horrifically complicated and dangerous-looking machine. it has a with a conveyor belt and giant circular saw blades that gleam wickedly in the moonlight. Likely some kind of mill used to convert the tree trunks into planks.

Noted on map

Above you, you can hear the sentry pacing. Likely she is looking out over the walls and not inside the yard, but too much ruckus might draw her attention.

Kadosh whispers for her fellow kobolds to stay still -- and quiet! -- while he does his work. Then he creeps out toward the barracks, setting up a snare

Stealth to the barracks door, then will set a previously prepped poison barbs snare on the square in front of it, before Sneaking back to the rest of the gang.

Broomzad waits quietly, hoping he can scare a pinkskin at some point.

Kadosh almost steps on a sharp splinter of wood, but avoids it! Hero Point used; snare added to map at door.

He sets is snare without incident and heads back. Where to? Up the steps to take out the guard, or further along this hallway?

Hero Point removed from my sheet!

"Be sneaky!" Kadosh hisses, gesturing toward the hallway. He wants to explore as much as possible before they do something that could raise an alarm. Like kill an awake pinkskin.

Broomzad floats after Kadosh, eager to see more.

Stealth +10

Down the hall to the right is a 10' high chamber that contains a mechanism mace of gears with a chain running into the ceiling.

Zyphlryx, who's investigating, notices pieces of rotten meat that seem to have been flung onto the floor some time ago.

Imperius holds up a hand when he notices the four dark dark blue mollusk-like creatures clinging to the ceiling! art on slide 2

Arcana: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (18) + 5 = 23

”Careful! They are darkmantles. Very scary for surface folks, not as much to us, since we can see through darkness. But, they are going to try to kill us either way, so…”

Imperius casts his cantrip, infectious enthusiasm, selecting attack rolls. He will shoot the nearest one if he has the chance.

Kadosh glances at the mechanism and wondering whether it could provide a hiding place, before deciding it might be too dangerous. Standing near Imperius, he mutters a word of magic, feeling his fangwire take on new weight, and prepares his weapon should one of the creatures come near!

Cast gravity weapon, ready an action to Strike if one of the darkmantles comes within range.

I don't think you can ready a strike out of combat, and casting 1-rnd spells before combat is messy so infections enthusiasm can get cast on round 1 of combat if you want

The creatures see you preparing spells and attacks and decide you don;t have snacks for them like the pinkskins. They move to attack!

★★★
Flying Mollusks! Round 1

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Darkmantle 1 (-0 HP)
Kadosh (16/16 HP)
Zyphlryx (14/14 HP)
Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP)
Pepin le Beouf (13/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-0 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

"But we were sneaking!" Broomzad wails.

He draws a ghostly symbol in the air and sends shards of junk flying at Darkmantle 2.

Telekinetic projectile: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (6) + 5 = 11
Piercing: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Broomzad then takes cover by ducking behind the broken saw.

The Darkmantle flies down to Imperiuys's feet and attacks him with tentacles!

Tentacles: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
Tentacles: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 4 = 9

They slip off his regal scales.

★★★
Flying Mollusks! Round 1

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Darkmantle 1 (-0 HP)
➤ Kadosh (16/16 HP)
➤ Zyphlryx (14/14 HP)
➤ Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP)
Pepin le Beouf (13/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-0 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

No worries on readying. I apparently misread and assumed we were already in combat!

"Quiet!" Kadosh hisses at Broomzad.

He empowers his weapon and slashes at the nearest foe with his fangwire before glancing up at the nearest darkmantle, sizing it up for its inevitable attempt to kill him.

Free action: complain about his companions; cast gravity weapon, Strike vs. no. 1, Hunt Prey (no. 2, not the one I'm attacking)
Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
Damage (slashing, gravity weapon): 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Kadosh rips his fang wire across the mollusk's torso!

★★★
Flying Mollusks! Round 1

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Darkmantle 1 (-2 HP)
Kadosh (16/16 HP)
➤ Zyphlryx (14/14 HP)
➤ Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh
Pepin le Beouf (13/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-0 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

Why are they attacking us and not the pinkskins...? Zyphlryx says, confused.

But not so confused that he doesn't understand hungry beasts trying to eat them.

DaS: 1d20 ⇒ 5
Looking over the situation, he doesn't see an easy opening, so instead he moves to help Imperius out (against his better judgment), and conjures up a disk of force. Cast shield. Will use it against any crit hit.

Devise a Stratagem, Stride, verbal component to Cast a Spell.

Imperius does indeed cast his spell, and then shoots his crossbow at #1, which is far too close for comfort!

hand crossbow +6 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 1 = 15
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 Plus poison save
giant centipede toxin

fort: 1d20 ⇒ 16 Success

Darkmantle 2 moves back and sprays an inky cloud of darkness down on its prey! Sadly the kobolds can all see just fine.

★★★
Flying Mollusks! Round 1

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Darkmantle 1 (-5 HP)
Kadosh (16/16 HP)
Zyphlryx (14/14 HP)
Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh
➤ Pepin le Beouf (13/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-0 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

"Try not to ruin the meat! These are a delicacy in Galt!"

Pepin targets 1 and 3 with an electric arc.

Microwave on High (Electric Arc) Reflex DC18: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

He then tosses fire at whichever one looks the most hurt.

Hot Sauce Toss (Elemental Toss): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24 
Fire Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

2d20 ⇒ (6, 9) = 15 fail. fail

Pepin's radiation and spice overheat and blast apart Darkmantle 3 like an overcooked hot pocket, whatever that is.

Darkmantle 3 doesn't like being called a delicacy and flies over your heads and lands next to the Chef.

Tentacle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Tentacle: 1d20 + 7 - 4 ⇒ (15) + 7 - 4 = 18
B: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

The darklands calamari strikes back!

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Meanwhile its companions slides down and tries to slap Zyphlryx!

Tentacle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
B: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Then it wraps the appendage around his throat! Grabbed, scape DC listed in init block

★★★
Every Bite is a Different Temperature Round 2

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (16/16 HP)
➤ Zyphlryx (7/14 HP) │ Grabbed (Escape DC 17)
➤ Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh
Pepin le Beouf (10/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-8 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP) │ Grabbing Zyphlryx

Ah! Ah! It's sucking my will to live!

He tries to find an opening in the enemy, while determining what he knows at the same time. Known Weakness triggers a Recall Knowledge as part of the Devise a Stratagem action.
DaS: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Seeing that the avenue presented is unreliable, he tries to wriggle free!

Escape (Acrobatics) DC 17: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (16) + 6 = 22

Free! He scampers behind Kadosh. I don't like these things!

Devise a Stratagem, Escape, Stride.

Zyphlryx cannot remember much about these creatures, but regardless he knows that being grabbed by a tentacled monstrosity is probably not a fun or good thing. So he slips away from the grasping suckers and scuttles back!

Failed on RK, sorry

★★★
Every Bite is a Different Temperature Round 2

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (16/16 HP)
Zyphlryx (7/14 HP)
➤ Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-1 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh
Pepin le Beouf (10/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-8 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

That reminds me...

Imperius loads his hand crossbow, and then tries to exploit a vulnerability, since he knows everything has one (except he himself, of course!).

esoteric lore: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26

He realizes that these things are definitely weak to his specific kind of darts, so grins mightily as he shoots at #3!

hand crossbow +6 (range increment 60 feet, reload 1): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 22
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 Plus weakness 3

And, no, we cannot roll more than a 1 on damage!

Imperius believes this crearture is weak to his darts so strongly, it must be true! They are not weak to anything, which you now know, so personal antithesis

Kadosh steps forward and strikes his hunted prey…

Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18
Damage (slashing, backstabber?, gravity weapon?): 1d4 ⇒ 3 +1

Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple), iterative vs. hunted prey: 1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (5) + 8 - 2 = 11
Damage (slashing, backstabber?, gravity weapon?): 1d4 ⇒ 2

… striking once with a fangwire flurry!

The ghost is up!

★★★
Every Bite is a Different Temperature Round 2

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (16/16 HP)
Zyphlryx (7/14 HP)
Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-4 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh
Pepin le Beouf (10/13 HP)
Darkmantle 3 (-14 HP) │ Personal Anthisis (3)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

Broomzad draws his ectoplasmic short sword and strikes at Darkmantle 3!

”Foul creatures!”

Shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
Negative Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Shortsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Negative Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8

Broomzad will use his Nimble Dodge reaction should be targeted by an attack.

Boo!: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

Broomzad kills his target. He tries to scare the closes Darkmantle but it looks like he needs more practice being a ghost.

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Darkmantle 2 tries to eat the hunter once again:

Tentacle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
B: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6 and Grab

Its suckers latch on, and squeeze!

Constrict, Basic DC 17 Fort: 1d8 ⇒ 2

★★★
Every Bite is a Different Temperature Round 2

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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Kadosh: DC 17 basic fort vs 2 constrict

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Broomzad (26/26 HP) │ Nimble Dodge 1st Attack
Kadosh (16/16 HP) │ Grabbed
Zyphlryx (7/14 HP)
Imperius (14/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-4 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh, Grabbing Kadosh
➤ Pepin le Beouf (10/13 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-0 HP)

Microwave on High (Electric Arc) Reflex DC18: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Pepin fries the last two and steps back

2d20 ⇒ (3, 15) = 18

One of the Darkmantles avoids the worst of the blast while the other takes it across a tentacle. Fail. success

Darkmantle 4 flies at Imperius!

Tentacle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
B: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

— and it grabs on!
★★★
Every Bite is a Different Temperature Round 3

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BEFORE YOUR TURN:
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Kadosh: DC 17 basic fort vs 2 constrict

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➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP) │ Nimble Dodge 1st Attack
➤ Kadosh (16/16 HP) │ Grabbed
➤ Zyphlryx (7/14 HP)
➤ Imperius (11/14 HP)
Darkmantle 2 (-4 HP) │ Hunted by Kadosh, Grabbing Kadosh
Pepin le Beouf (1/13 HP)
Darkmantle 4 (-3 HP) │ Grabbing IMperius

"Oh, for dragon's sake!" yells out Imperius as there are tentacles grabbing everywhere.

He drops his crossbow, and attempts to draw his rapier. "I am sure they are vulnerable to my rapier's prick, as well!"

DC5: 1d20 ⇒ 14

He then stabs at #4, triggering the potency crystal on the blade!

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 7 + 1 = 15
piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (6, 3) + 2 = 11 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 2
+ weakness 3

He stabs again Assuming he didn't need to take an action for exploit vulnerability
rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 + 1 - 5 ⇒ (15) + 7 + 1 - 5 = 18
piercing: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (1, 3) + 2 = 6 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 3
+ weakness 3

Broomzad moves and attacks Dark Mantle 4 with his ghostly glade.

Shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (18) + 7 = 25
Negative Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Shortsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Negative Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10

Imperius and Broomzad destroy the remaining Darkmantles with ectoplasm and sword.

Out of combat!

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While you heal Kadosh, trained in Engineering Lore, realizes that this delicate mechanism can open, close, and lock the front gates of the fort. Right now most of the guards are outside hunting Toimbzaad.

Pepin looks at the food on the ground and realizes the Pinkskis were feeding the Darkmantles. How odd for humans to have a symbiotic relationship with such creatures, but it probably kept unwanted guests from messing with their precious gate controls.

Pepin sets to work with his cleaver, saving the best bits of the dark mantles for the Queen.

"Let's lock these maudite pinkskins out of their own fort! And kill any that are left and rob them blind!"

You can jam them with an engineering or thievery check!

Great idea! I can do it!

Thievery: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (11) + 6 = 17

"I can definitely help!

Thievery to Aid DC20: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14

"Don't you want to twiggle that little thing? No, the thing next to it..."

"Shhhh!" Kadosh hisses, so stunned and irritated at Imperius' earlier yelling that he forgot to say anything. "Let me do it!"

"Clearly, you need to jam it!"

Lore (engineering) (trained): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16

"Stand aside! I got lots of practice on the spice cupboard at Monsieur Garcon's kitchen. Should be able to manage this!"

Thievery (T): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18