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Stepnik bludgeons the kobold with a rock! The kobold is starting to look bloodied.
Ustemir tries to show some compassion and mercy by wrestling the kobold! Kolek has to trudge around the fray to get into a good flank with Waedin. The kobold furiously hacks away at Ustemir with is hatchet, sympathetic words falling on deaf ears.
Waedin swings twice and misses just as many times. Sebastien propels a chunk of slurk brain pan at the kobold, which is truly just an awfully traumatic experience for the kobold. He weeps and screams and would be raging at this point if he had that class feature.
Ustemir lifts the slurk with one fist, then smashes into it with his other, driving it into the slime covered cavern floor with a sickening squick. The slurk shouldn't be bothering you no more. The kobold screams in anguish as its favorite companion is brained before him. he drops his crossbow and draws a hatchet, then leaps from his rocky perch to tomahawk chop the murderer of his best friend.
The kobold gets nailed by Sebastien's mentally propelled rock! Fire bombs land at the kobolds feet, but he still gets singed. Waedin moves into flank and whollops the slurk!
Ustemir adjusts his grip on the slurk to account for the fact that it is on fire. As Kolek moves into position. The kobold aims his crossbow at Stepnik crouching along the wall.
The slurk obeys its command and tries to wrest free from Ustemir's grip.
Waedin trudges through the muck to help Ustemir out with the slurk, however her footing slips and her hammer swings wide. Sebastien lets everyone know just how wonderful they are, and they feel a little bit more courageous. His mentally propelled rock, however, misses its target. Stepnik lobs a grenade and it hits ...!
Ustemir wades through the muck to reach the slurk and grabs it by its warty skin! The kobold on the rock fires one at Ustemir and then reloads.
Proceeding down the western tunnel leads to another cavernous chamber. The floor descends gradually from all sides creating a shallow bowl-like space. The floor and the walls of this chamber are coated in a sticky grey slime that makes you think of the slurk you faced when you first came down the elevator. Lo and behold, a single slurk wallows in the slimey puddle, and behind it on a rock in the center of the room stands a single green-scaled kobold, wearing black leather armor and wielding a crossbow. The kobold shouts a battle cry as you enter, as if he had been waiting here just for you. Initiatives:
The stone cavern falls silent as yet another monster is slain. The eerie firey glow persists from the crack in the cavern's ceiling, offering an escape from this level. However, you know what waits for you up there. Nothing else to be found hear other than the remains of the gargoyle's victims. Heading back out of the cavern into the mining area, you check out the nook in the northern wall to find a rickety wooden table and chair. Some crude notes are scratched onto a piece of scrap parchment on the table, and sitting on a small scale are some metallic, lustrous, pale-yellow rocks. Recall Knowledge: Nature DC 15 or Lore: Mining DC 12:
A fool may think these shiny rocks to be gold, but it is truly pyrite, a lesser semi-precious gemstone. You imagine this particular cluster to be worth about silver.
Waedin finally gets her hit in with the gargoyle, but its stoney skin absorbs half her might. Stepnik closes an eye and hones in on the gargoyle hovering just above his companions' heads, and pitches a flaming vial fastball straight at its face. His vial bursts and the gargoyle is engulfed in flames!
Kolek and Ustemir move into flanking position around the gargoyle, and as they do, the monster reacts, slashing out with its foot talons.
Sebastien tries to keep Waedin in the fight a little longer, and his wand spontaneously fires another bolt of force.
Why are there monsters everywhere?
Both Waedin and Stepnik continue to assault the monster, but to no avail. The gargoyle continues to lash out at those in front.
Ustemir reaches to grab the beast, but fails to grab hold. Kolek has no better luck scratching it. Sebastien encourages everyone to try again and do better next time!
Even as he calls out, Stepnik recognizes a gargoyle when he sees one. He knows due to their stoney nature they are immune to bleeding and resistant to physical damage. Good thing he just hits it with a blasting stone.
The gargoyle screams, but is unable to hear itself. Waedin steps forth and smashes a nearby rock with her hammer. The gargoyle steps to the edge of the boulder and slashes out with razor-like claws.
Hey y'all, apologies for the delay. I've been swamped. I should be able to get a post in tomorrow.
The bones seem to be mostly of small animals, although there are a few kobold bone littered about as well. As Ustemir moves close to pick a bone up, what at first seems to be another small boulder begins to stir. Grey, leathery, bat-like wings open to reveal a menacing horned humanoid figure who lashes out hungrily. Initiatives:
Luckily, Stepnik and Waedin are quick to respond to the perilous situation.
The east tunnel turns south suddenly before opening up into another wide cavern chamber. This one is filled with heavyset boulders along the walls. Almost immediately above you is a fissure in the rock ceiling, from which a reddish fiery glow can be seen. The crack can be reachable from a stone column that reaches from floor to ceiling. At the far end of the chamber is a large squat boulder, around which the floor is littered with animal bones.
While everyone's being patched up, Sebastien scouts ahead, following the exit of the kobolds. He finds a tunnel that curves almost immediately back around towards the south, but can't see further around the bend. A small alcove appears at the far north if the mining operation, and another tunnel leads to the west.
Waedin and Ustemir quickly take down the remaining kobold.
With the mining supervisor in a firm headlock, Ustemir exacts revenge, pounding stone fist again and again into the kobold's face, until his head explodes into gore! With their superintendent disposed of thusly, the remaining kobolds experience a loyalty cascade.
The first three squeal and flee at the sight of their bosses grisly demise. They run north then turn left towards a western tunnel. In his flight, the burning kobold douses the flames. One brave, stupid, kobold remains, and, in a fit of madness, swings wildly at Stepnik.
But, he's able to nail the leader with a bomb.
Waedin snaps her eyes open, grabs her hammer and heals Ustemir. The boss tries to break free of Ustemir's grip!
In Draconic:
"Don't just stand there! Get 'im!" Things aren't going the mining bosses way, and he continues to burn, grappled in Ustemir's arms.
Sebastine moves down the tunnel, closer to the action, and revives Waedin. Ustemir calls Kolek to his side and grabs at the kobold in charge. He catches the mining boss in his mighty stone fist. The kobold miners turn their attention on the others after Waedin falls.
The last two focus on Stepnik.
Stepnik stabs the kobold, who looks hurt, but also angry.
The mining boss ◆Barks a Command at the first miner,
In Draconic:
"Hold off that big fella!" The underling immediately takes a step, interposing themselves between Waedin and Ustemir. With a menacing grin, the boss continues to pick away at Waedin! Waedin crumples to the cavern floor, a victim yet again of another pick crit! With a proud grunt, the boss then steps over Waedin's impaled body and ◆situates himself next to Ustemir.
Waedin retaliates and strikes true, bashing the supervisor in the face! Ustemir tries to take out the first miner and punches them once.
Sebastien tries to make himself useful beyond inspiring Ustemir's fists, but just barely misses. Being free of Ustemir's grasp, the first miner strikes back!
The second kobold closes in on Waedin with one stride, then attacks!
The third miner also backs up their boss and closes on Waedin, pick in hand!
From the back of the cavern, the fourth miner sprints into the fray. Seeing as how Waedin is occupied, it picks out Stepnik for a target, but will have to wait.
Stepnik blasts one of the kobold miners with a fire grenade. The mining supervisor grunts at Waedin's approach, hops off his rocky pedestal and moves towards her. He hefts his mighty greatpick and swings!
As Waedin moves forward, she can see a little further still. There's one more kobold miner on the far back wall.
As Ustemir rushes in and grabs the kobold , he gets a better view of the cavern. Two more miners work at the far wall, while a short but muscular kobold with a greatpick stands atop a flat boulder near the cavern's center, shouting out orders to the workers. He sneers and spits as the first kobold is apprehended:
In Draconic:
"Get them! Protect the King's shiny stuff!" More Initiatives:
The first kobold miner tries to wrest free from Ustemir's grip.
As Waedin approaches the northern tunnel, she hears the sounds of labor, the *tink, tink, tink* of metal on stone, and the crumbling of dirt and rubble. Her innate dwarven intuition may tell her there's a mining operation ahead. She also hears the sounds of a kobold shouting:
In Draconic:
"Get back to work you runts! You're next on the chopping block if you don't find more shiny bits for the King's crown!" The cramped tunnel ahead opens into a large cavern filled with jutting rocky overhangs and large boulders. A single kobold miner works near a pile of rubble just at the cavern's entrance, and although you can't see much beyond that, by the sounds of it, you can assume more kobolds are working deeper within. The kobold miner startles at your approach! Initiatives:
Stepnik surmises that the issue with the elevator lies in the crank mechanism up top. The chains remain intact, and so it is operable, but if there is too much weight, the winch fails. GM Screen:
[/dice] As Ustemir patches everyone up, further shouting and noises can be heard echoing down the cavern tunnels. The kobolds are not attacking, but you may assume they are on high alert and shoring up their defenses.
Waedin decides to check out the room to the south before pushing further into kobold territory.
As you recover from the fight, you may be surprised to find no further retaliation from the kobolds, although they must assuredly be aware of your presence by now.
From here there are three exits. The fleeing kobold ran down the tunnel to the west, another tunnel leads north, and a large open door frame opens to a room to the south.
The cauldron lays tilted to one side on the broken cavern floor. The cahins are still connected and climb up to the winch above. However, the winch can only be operated from the floor above.
Waedin finally is able to bash the slurk, her warhammer shattering its skull.
The little halfling pokes his head from the cauldron and scares the oversized slimey toad! Waedin gets to her feet and continues to approach the slurk through the puddle of slick. Stepnik lobs two flaming vials at the slurk which burn against its thick slimey skin. The slurk is hurt badly, but it remains stalwart, guarding the tunnel, trained to fight to the death. It lurches its tusks against Waedin again and again.
I promise I'll update tomorrow. I think Stepnik may still act!
The slurk lets out a painful croak as two arrows pierce its slimey, leathery hide. The fleeing kobold does not reappear.
Sebastien decides to shed some further light on the situation. Waedin moves towards the crouching slurk. As she nears, she steps into the slimey puddle.
Stepnik lobs an ice grenade at the slurk, and nails it smack in the face. The slurk tries to gore Waedin with its tusks!
Step lit a torch last turn.
Ustemir returns to the safety of the cauldron. Seeing the other two kobolds fall so quickly, the remaining kobold shouts:
In Draconic:
"The intruders are here! Protect the King!" And then turns to run down the tunnels behind him. The kobold manages to not fall in the puddle of slime and disappears down the dark tunnel to the west.
Waedin snaps her shield in place to block the incoming bolt. Ustemir pummels the next kobold, who falls in a bloodied heap at his feet.
Sebastien whispers a soothing word towards Waedin and her wounds magically heal. As Waedin pops out of the cauldron, the readied kobold takes his shot.
Despite the pain, Waedin stomps after the fleeing kobold and whomps it to death. Stepnik continues to recover and shed some light on the situation. From its squatting position, the slurk constricts its back postules and squirts globs of slime in Waedin's direction.
Ustemir follows Waedin's lead and punches over the edge of the cauldron, smacking a kobold in the face, knocking out a few teeth. The crossbow wielding kobold readies his crossbow, waiting for a clear shot. The other two continues to stab away at Waedin and Ustemir.
Waedin is able to whomp one of the kobolds with her hammer from inside the cauldron. Sebastien mentally flings a rock across the room in retaliation.
Stepnik takes a sip and covers his head. Outside, in the distance, the slurk squats low to the floor and secretes a brown, viscous ooze from glands on its back. The ooze puddles on the floor around it and the crossbow kobold.
Ustemir climbs down 10ft of chain and falls the rest. Sebastien hears something big fall past him and land in the pot with a thunk.
The first kobold loads a crossbow and takes a shot at Sebastien hanging on the chain.
The other two kobolds close in on the crashed elevator, swords drawn.
Sebastien then hears a screaming Stepnik fall past him in the darkness.
After Waedin returns and makes her report, Sebastien climbs into the cauldron elevator to join her. At that moment, with his added weight, the repairs Ustemir and Stepnik made fail and the cauldron suddenly drops out at an astonishing 9.8 m/s^2.
Feeling the floor drop out from under his feet, Sebastien deftly jumps and, after some free fall, grabs on to a chain.
The heavy steel cauldron, with Waedin in it, falls 30 ft and clangs to the floor below with a resonating boom.
As Waedin shakes the ringing from her ears, she hears the shouts of kobolds as they come running into the room from their hiding places. Initiatives:
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