Kobolds of the Crowned King (Inactive)

Game Master Doug Hahn

"If the rest of you stay just at the end of their reach and distract them with your delicious brains, I can sneak in there and untie this thing.

Thievery (T): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10

Ha! A clever idea, but don't think you can trick me that way, Kadosh thinks as he rushes to get the book while Pepin provides an excellent distraction.

Thievery (trained): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

”Oh my dragon! Stand aside!”

Thievery: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (10) + 7 = 17

You fools! Stand aside!

Thievery: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (2) + 6 = 8
LMAO

You each come away with scrapes and cuts, but it's nothing you can't handle. Unfortunately there is now rips and blood spilled on the book!

However, you can make out part of the note that was attached to the clipboard:

… … … … cult below … past Greypelt's den… …

dros……crag …

… it matters little. With this sliver of necromantic energy below, it is exceptionally cost-effective to re-animate common laborers to work endlessly, cut wood, saw planks… forever. They need no food, no pay, no latrines… they don't talk back or cry when you beat them. They dn;t get sick or have families. The ideal workforce! My consortium masters will be pleased.

Sadly, I cannot murder all the worthless scum in my camp. I need another source of fodder… there's a kobold tribe neaby, the ones Graypelt hates. I've turned my men against them with horror stories. They can kill each other. More cheap labor! If I can exterminate the whole tribe, I'll have more than enough free labor to cut down every tree in this whole valley!

A later entry:

… … going down into dros…crag, … crucible … down past Graypelt, to learn what I can. I will take my best men. They may help, if we run into trouble with the …………… below …

"I knew it!" Kadosh exclaims, despite having known nothing of the sort. He did at least suspect someone was out to exterminate them, though that was more just a general sense than any actual knowledge of this specific plot.

Any checks to know about this Graypelt?

"And it looks like they are indeed followers of the demon dwarf Droskrag. Even if they spelled his name wrong. Idiots!"

You think Graypelt might be one and the same ss Greywolf — it's too much of a coincidence!

Imperius just shakes his head at Kadosh, not even trying to correct him, this time.

"Maybe that's how Broomzad came back as a ghost? This necromantic sliver?

"So, first, we need to eliminate all of his 'worthless scum', as well as eliminating Greywolf. Then, find out about this sliver of necromantic energy. Maybe we can turn it against them!"

Where to next? Explore the rest of this level?

Zyphlryx looks deep in thought, then suddenly brightens. Hey! I'll bet The Kobold Formerly Known as Broomzad has something to do with this necromantic sliver! He appears quite pleased with himself, as though he just solved the tribe's greatest mystery. And we should do something about both Graypelt and Greywolf, whoever they are. They've both demonstrated threats to the Truly Truescales!

Casting my vote for clearing out the rest of this level.

Lets patch ourselves up a bit and then finish this level.

You leave there are zombies and move back around to the top-right of the fort. Here is another storeroom. It's full of lumber milling tools, as well as picks and hammers.

perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12

Imperius doesn’t notice anything unusual, probably because his nose is up in the air.

Perception (expert), darkvision: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Always alert for hidden dangers -- those are the most dangerous dangers! -- Kadosh spots a dagger and shiny coins. Snatching them up, he shows the others, being sure to point the blade toward them so it doesn't look like a hidden danger.

Religion (trained): 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

"Droskrag's symbol!"

You move on. Dagger + PP added to loot sheet!

The last room is full of gnawed bones on the floor, and tufts of gray fur lie scattered here and there. Debros partially covers stone stairs going deeper underground.

Two wolves growl ar you approach… and behind them is muscular, 300-pound wolf with a gray pelt and evil yellow eyes. He has one ear. This should be familiar to yu based on a gather info check from earlier in the game

He leaps atop the column when he sees you coming. His chuckle is deep and full of hatred. Art on slide 2

Heh heh heh. Oh look. It's the Brokenscales… somehow I knew it was wretched, foolish little kobolds making all that racket. Are you here to provide me with me a nice dinner… or do you recklessly seek that which your people so pathetically lost long ago, down in the deeps below?

He sniffs the air. I shall let you leave with your skin… and your ears… for now. But you must pay me and my pack a tithe. Give me that one. He gestures with a meaty paw at Imperius. Yes, he looks spoiled. Juicy. He'll make a tasty snack.

Kadosh ponders the offer. He looks at Imperius. Then back at the warg.

"Are you going to even be able to hear our answer?" he asks.

"Wolves can talk?"

"No. Absolutely not.

[b]"Why would they surrender me, a powerful dragon in his prime, to such an old, wragged, downright chonky wolf such as yourself. I mean, I would expect that you'd have to hire at least a pair of she-wolves just to chew enough food for you to gum down!"

Diplomacy for Bon Mot: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12
if permitted
Gotta HP THAT result, if permitted

Diplomacy for Bon Mot: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

Yes you can bon mot and I will also do something before combat fair is fair.

Intimidation: 1d20 + 6 - 2 ⇒ (19) + 6 - 2 = 23

Graypelt seems a little… hurt… by Imperuis's bon mot but roars at him back. You [Imperius] are frightened 1 Delicious little kobolds! TIME TO EAT!

★★★
Old Graypelt Round 1

Battlemap

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➤ Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (26/26 HP)
Graypelt (-0 HP) │ Bon Mot (-2)
Imperius (22/22 HP) │ Frightened 1
Wolf 2 (-0 HP)
Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)
Wolf 1 (-0 HP)

Zyphlryx thinks about the wolfs deal a moment — it would solve a number of different problems, I suppose, wouldn't it? — but then thinks better of it, rationalizing that the wolf would then want the rest, one by one. He looks for an opening on #1...

DaS: 1d20 ⇒ 15

...and thinks he sees one. He pulls out his bow and looses an arrow!
15 + 6 = 21
pew: 1d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + (2) = 5

Devise a Stratagem, Interact to Draw, Strike.

"My, what big paws you have," Kadosh murmurs to himself as he quickly deploys his deadweight snare in the space immediately in front of him.

Three actions: Quick set snare!

Broomzad moves in and strikes at wolf 2 with his ghostly short sword.

Shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

Zyphlryx sinks an arrow into wolf 1, while Kadosh plants a cunning trap!

Broomzad moves in and cuts himself a good piece of wolf! Crit!

We can indeed, ghost… all the better to discuss how LOVELY juicy little KOBOLDS taste! Graypelt spends an action making himself feel better and then pounces.

Swallow whole: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25
B: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4

His eyes gleam with hunver as he opens his slavering jaws wide … wider … and swallows Imperius in one gulp!

Mmmph. You may now go, if you wish. Tell your tribe this one tastes delicious!

★★★
Yum! Round 1

Battlemap

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Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (26/26 HP)
Graypelt (-0 HP)
➤ Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Frightened 1, Swallow Whole, escape DC 18, Rupture 9
Wolf 2 (-14 HP)
Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)
Wolf 1 (-5 HP)

Imperius draws his rapier, and stabs

dc5 flat: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (13) + 0 = 13

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 1 = 25
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 6

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 1 - 5 ⇒ (10) + 7 - 1 - 5 = 11
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 5

Imperius ight back like a sour soup, giving the worg some pains but not enough to be regurgitated!

Wolf 2 growls at Broomzad, and then being a pack animal follows the Alpha! Badly hurt and not as intelligent as Greypelt it steps into the Deadweight snare.

Ref: 1d20 ⇒ 8

Tangled in magnets, it snaps and snarls at Kadosh!

Jaws, snared: 1d20 + 9 - 2 ⇒ (16) + 9 - 2 = 23
P: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5

As its teeth sink in it drags the trapmaster off his feet! Knockdown

Graypelt chuckles. The pack… feeds!

★★★
Yum! Round 1

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (21/26 HP) │ Prone
Graypelt (-0 HP)
Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Swallowed Whole, escape DC 18, Rupture 9
Wolf 2 (-14 HP) │ Deadweight Snared
➤ Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)
Wolf 1 (-5 HP)

Imperius crits his exploit vulnerability check 19+_8! He knows worgs don't have any weaknesses but devises a personal antithesis. Maybe some mustard or charcoal to induce vomiting?

Perhaps the chef can advise. Pepin is up.

★★★
Yum! Round 1

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (21/26 HP) │ Prone
Graypelt (-0 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Grabbed, Escape DC 18
Wolf 2 (-14 HP) │ Deadweight Snared
➤ Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)
Wolf 1 (-5 HP)

Pepin recalls knowledge to think of what might work to induce vomiting. Cooking Lore +6

He then cooks the two wolves that are NOT full of kobold.

Microwave on High (Electric Arc) Reflex DC18: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7

2d20 ⇒ (1, 14) = 15 CF, S

Wolf one is left mostly hairless while its companion leaps out of the way, only getting its tail singed.

The pack animal moves in and attacks the prone trapper!

1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14
1d20 + 9 - 5 ⇒ (15) + 9 - 5 = 19
P, Pack attack: 1d6 + 2 + 1d4 ⇒ (6) + 2 + (2) = 10

Greypelt and the worg bolster it, helping their packmate hunt. It does extra damage.

★★★
Yum… Soon! Round 2

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (11/26 HP) │ Prone
Graypelt (-0 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Grabbed, Escape DC 18
Wolf 2 (-17 HP) │ Deadweight Snared
Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)
Wolf 1 (-19 HP)

"Gaah! Get off of me!" Kadosh yells, slashing at the nearest wolk as he stands up, grabs his fangwire and whips it at the snared wolf. He draws a thin trickle of blood.

Stand from prone, Interact to pick up weapon, Strike!
Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24
Damage (slashing): 1d4 ⇒ 1

Broomzad moves into a flank with Kadosh and slashes at wolf 2.

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

Shortsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Sneak Attack: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Kadosh stands and cuts at the wolf with his fangwire.

Broomzad drops his target! He swings at 1 and drops it as well!

A ghostly killing machine… he doesn't;t even say boo!

★★★
Yum… Soon! Round 2

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (11/26 HP)
Graypelt (-0 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Grabbed, Escape DC 18
Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)

"Boo!"

Of course he doesn't say "Boo", he's a friendly ghost!

Zyphlryx wonders how long they can wait to defeat the big wolf...long enough for him to swallow Imperius, maybe? Is that wrong?

Shaking off such pleasant thoughts, Z plots out a plan...

DaS: 1d20 ⇒ 4

...and sees no real opening for it. Instead, he moves forward and hurks up a gout of electricity! Use kobold breath ◈◈, 30-foot line that misses everyone else, DC 17 basic Refl.

electricity: 1d4 ⇒ 4

reset: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Stride, kobold breath ◈◈.

Meant to edit iperius just grabbed.

Ref: 1d20 ⇒ 17

Graypelt dances out of the way, only his paw getting singed.

Swallow whole: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19
B: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

GULP! Graypely swallows up your regal friend!

Delicions. Now you'll pay for killing my packmates! Graypelt steps back but misses the ghostly adversary badly! Some lesser cover there too, from the post that protrudes into the hallway.

Bite: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9

★★★
Yum! Round 2-3

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (11/26 HP)
Graypelt (-0 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
➤ Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Swallowed Whole, Escape DC 18
➤ Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)

Swallowed, Imperius has second thoughts about saying anything. Far to vile in here. So, he just stabs.

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (1) + 2 + 3 = 6 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 5

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 5 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 5 = 8
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (5) + 2 + 3 = 10 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 8

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 - 10 ⇒ (19) + 7 - 10 = 16
piercing: 1d6 + 2 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 3 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 3

Kadosh quickly studies his foe, and then lashes out with his fangwire.

Hunt Prey, Strike x2
Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Damage (slashing, backstabber?, gravity weapon?): 1d4 ⇒ 3

Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple), iterative vs. hunted prey: 1d20 + 8 - 2 ⇒ (8) + 8 - 2 = 14
Damage (slashing, backstabber?, gravity weapon?): 1d4 ⇒ 4

Pepin tries to recall what would make a wolf puke… is there anything in the cauldron that would help? Success. What this item is is uo to you… We'll say +2 to escape next round for Imperius if you can Ineract and then use Cooking Lore to shove something into the words nostrils or mouth, or auto vomit on a crit!

Hey, let him go! Not too quickly, though...

Zyphlryx takes stock of the situation...

DaS: 1d20 ⇒ 1

...and decides that's a hopeless option, so he hocks another electric loogie up onto GreyWolfPeltThing.

electricity: 1d4 ⇒ 4 30-foot line that misses everyone else, DC 17 basic Refl.

reset: 1d4 ⇒ 1

Devise a Stratagem, kobold breath ◈◈.

Imperius feels… squished. Choking.

So he stabs! Somehow it's difficult to get the rapier into position, and he scraps against Graypelt's throat once, but not enough to escape.

Kadosh moves in but the fangwire only gives the one-eared word a trim!

Zyphlryx calmly assess the situation. Perhaps a little too calmly. Nonetheless he calls upon his OWN draconic powers to help his fellow Truly True Truescale!

ref: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

However Graypelt slips away from the worst of it.

★★★
Yum! Round 2-3

Battlemap

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Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
Kadosh (11/26 HP)
Graypelt (-8 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Swallowed Whole, Escape DC 18, Rupture 9
➤ Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)

Time for things to get spicy!

Hot Sauce Toss (Elemental Toss): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23
Fire Damage: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Pepin then moves in and takes some half digested foul smelling goop from the cauldron and shoves it in the wolfs nostrils.

Cooking Lore: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25

Broomzad unleashes on Graypelt, the moves away in case the wolf should try to retaliate.

Shortsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (16) + 7 = 23
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Shortsword: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Damage: 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

He'll use his Uncanny Dodge reaction if it's triggered.

Blurp… The warg looks revolted at whatever Pepin offers him. You can see the wheels turning… if this is what kobolds eat, and I'm eating a kobold…

Inside things are worse. Imperius gets a up-close-and-personal whiff of that the cauldron's been cooking, because it gets smeared up his nose… and it motivates him to get out FAST!

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Whatever thoughts are short-lived as the warg is burnt and then tenderized by a ghost! two hits

Graypelt moves back and leaps atop the crate, looking a little bloated with Imperius as he does so. The he snaps his jaws at Broomzad. I've never had ghost!

1d20 ⇒ 3

— catching only air.

At the end of Imperius's turn he will take B: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3 unless he escapes or cuts his way out.

★★★
It's what's for dinner. Round 3-4

Battlemap

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BOLD IS UP!:
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➤ Zyphlryx (22/22 HP)
➤ Broomzad (26/26 HP)
➤ Kadosh (11/26 HP)
Graypelt (-24 HP) │ Vulnerability Exploited!
➤ Imperius (18/22 HP) │ Swallowed Whole, Escape DC 18, Rupture 9, +2 to escape
➤ Pepin le Beouf (20/20 HP)

Kadosh lets out his own wolven snarl as he follows the warg, muttering a word that adds weight to his fangwire before unleashing it.

Cast gravity weapon, Stride, Strike
Fangwire (agile, finesse, grapple): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27
Damage (slashing, gravity weapon?): 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Crit (deadly d8)?: 1d8 ⇒ 6

Imperius continues trying to cut is his way out of a very bad situation.

rapier(disarm, deadly d8, finesse): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
piercing: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 7 | deadly: 1d8 ⇒ 3
Personal Antithesis 3, total damage 17 + 3 = 20

With this stab, Imperius cuts his way out.

He then stands up, and spits at the warg.

Graypelt's eyes widen as he realizes these pathetic little Kobolds might actually end him. The old one-eared warg stumbles as Kadosh viciously cuts his throat.

Thuldrin… and the cult… will… consume… every… last… of… you… BROKENscales…!

Graypelt coups blog as Imperius cuts his way out of the corpse, finishing the job!

The stairs beckon down into the dark.

But first! You hear shouting and banging at the gates: HEY! LET US IN!

Broomzad hurries to the back gates, and calls out in his best Common.

"No thank you! Everything's fine in here! We don't need any more pi...ple! Have a nice day!"

Deception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

"It's time to finish this," Kadosh murmurs as he thinks furiously. "We use Broomzad! Let them know they've lost control of the undead here and that there's nothing but doom for them if they don't leave!

"Then we go deal with Thuldrin ... and then Droskrag!" he finishes.

What!? Where's Thuldrin? Why's there no one on the parapet? Let us in!

Don't forget all their stuff in in here too, there is a sawmill, lumber, and tolls all over the yard.

Before going to the door, Imperius casts infectious enthusiasm , choosing charisma skills.

”Mmmmm. Brains! Thuldrin brain goooood. Need more braaaaaains. Kill allll…. Eat alll…..”

Deception: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 9 + 1 = 11?

anyone else could take the bonus, especially if they wanted to help out to aid another.

What!? Where's Thuldrin? Why's there no one on the parapet? Let us in!

Not by the hairs on our chinny-chin-chin!

I endorse the undead approach, despite our dice.

Deception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (4) + 5 = 9
Er, um, I mean...ooh, we are scary ghosts!