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"Maybe some sort of swing contraption?" Spizz says curiously. If left untested, he will keep spinning the rings, mesmerized by the motion.
Spizz pulls out a ragged, dog-eared book from a pouch. He flips through it intently. He squints carefully at the text. Then he looks at the axe that came from the ceiling. Finally, he starts to laugh. "Spizz understands! Axe and ask sound like same word! Very funny! Kobold have joke like that too, but probably less funny for soft-skin." He puts his book, which a quick glance shows to be a dictionary in common back into his pack.
Spizz watches Djack curiously. After the human dive-rolls out of the way, he says,"Spizz is thinking maybe in future, you let Spizz open doors?" To punctuate this, he floats a piece of debris into the air with the lift spell. "Less painful for Djack-Horsefriend, no?"
"Spizz thought he seemed nice." A mischeivious smile creeps up the kobold's face. "And Spizz was being serious about wanting to ride big-soft skin as battle-steed."
"Yorg have many friends?" Spizz asks innocently, peeking from around Elias's leg. "Spizz likes having new friends. Maybe Yorg also be friends with Spizz?" The inkling of an idea comes to the kobold. "Spizz small, but Spizz can shoot fire from his hands! And Yorg very big. Spizz could ride on Yorg shoulder and shoot fire at bad guys with stick throwers or nasty birds, while Yorg protect Spizz from metal sticks and stones! Smash and burn together!" He makes some crashing and fwooshing noises to really sell his point. "Best friends!"
"Spizz is Spizz, who is youse?" the kobold pipes up cheerily.
Spizz squawks comically and makes a big show from running away from the tongs for a little while before his laughter gets the better of him and he collapses on the floor. After a little bit longer he stands again, wiping his eyes, and brushing any dust off his meticulously cleaned golden scales. "Much more fun here than in Spizz old home. Big spider gave Spizz a shock, but Spizz feel much better now. Thank you newfriend Quince."
Enamored by the shinies, Spizz rushes forth, ignoring any potential danger to grab the biggest, most, cumbersome, non-kobold-friendly, axe he can find.
== "Look at Spizz! Grrr! Spizz mighty Bar-Barian! Eat a whole sheep, slaughter a whole dungeon, and then do it all over again!" He swings the axe and nearly topples over. [b]"Take that evil monster! Spizz the Bar-Barian wears no armor, for it would conceal Spizz's large, oiled muscles!"[/ooc]
It's not great character work, and his squeaky voice grates irritatingly as he tries to emulate a gruff barbarian, but it's still somewhat endearing.
"Friend Djack seems to be in poor shape. Spizz only has few potent fires left today. Perhaps use the rest of them in a fight, and then rest?"
Spizz spends a few rounds hyperventilating, he did not enjoy that spider encounter at all. After he calms down, he says, "Very dangerous for Kobolds. Nasty poison. Sometimes will move into caves we lived in. Then it was a big fight, or we move somewhere else."
Spizz, still in a somewhat hysterical state, shoots another blast that doesn't even come close to hitting anything that he wanted to.
Spizz lets out a yipe. "Bad! Bad! Eat Kobold!" His skill with common, already tenuous seems to degrade as he shakes with fear, obviously having some memory, either ancestral or not about such a creature. He fires a blast of fire from his hands, unwilling to get closer to it.
Spizz happily skips along beyond the others.
"In Spizz experiance, kobolds only get one mistake. Then they are eaten by bigger things. Or sometimes just bigger kobolds. But maybe that is what make soft-skins so special? They make many mistakes, but they forgive too, and help each other learn." Spizz begins counting on his fingers. "In Spizz cave, most kobolds die before second cold season. Those that live to be grown usually die before 15th cold season. Violently."
Spizz yelps, and 5ft steps away from the bad guys. He then unleashes a gout of flame in a 10ft radius burst this time, hitting all 4 of the baddies while still excluding Yoltzin from the spell's effect.
Spizz 5ft steps back and to the left one square, and shoots a targeted flame jet at the top rightmost one. "Spizz guess it fire time again! Thank you Yoltzin-Bybirth for saving Spizz!"
"Spizz is feeling a little woozy from bloodloss. Sitting down for a minute." He leans against a wall.
"Spizz set half of them on fire. You think now they listen to Spizz?" the little dragon asks incredulously. Then he shrugs. "Cat creatures! We do not have to be your enemies! Maybe we make friends?" As a sign of good faith, he tries to stabilize the cat next to him. Spizz seems just as surprised as anyone else that it actually worked. "Friends?" he asks again, holding out his hands.
"Thank you friends!" Spizz shouts, "Your bravery saved Spizz for sure!" He fires off a less potent gout of flame, targeting the two cat creatures in the back with a 10ft radius flame jet. "Spizz will be more careful in future! Thank you to friend eagle too, for saving Spizz."
"Spizz is realizing perhaps Spizz has made a terrible mistake!" Spizz total defenses to bring his AC up to 17 for this turn.
Spizz runs into the room with the bad guys, and north one square from the door. Then he drops a 10ft radius burning flash spell that hits the top left guy, and the two closest to him.
"Spizz magic is powerful! Although a little short in range. Please to be standing in front of Spizz now..." the kobold reflects on his lack of foresight.
"Spizz feels at home! Spizz's tribe lived in cave. Less nice than this place."
Absentmindedly, Spizz grabs a hunk of raw meat from the carcass, and puts it in his mouth. "Yoltzin-ByBirth is famous!" he says, between bites, pointing at the elf. "At least Elias says so. And one day, Spizz will be famous too!" Spark crackle around his hands as he pantomimes shooting fire. "Woosh! Crash! Fapow! Oh Spizz, you are so cool, and you saved the day! And the other kobold were so stupid to step on your head every day, and so mean to try and break off your horns and paint you red!" The last part is in a falsetto which is high pitched to the point of being inaudible.
Spizz does a happy little dance! "Spizz killed bad bug! Spizz stopped bad bug! Spizz and friends best bug hunters in the business!" Spizz stops and looks at Djack. "Spizz named Spizz," says the gold Kobold practically bouncing up and down as he talks, "We(?) are heroes! Spizz help the misfortunate!"
Noting that his friends seem to be doing an excellent job, Spizz decides that a large blast of fire is unneeded. He moves up to within 30ft of the creature, and fires at it.
"Which thing is the bad thing?" Spizz asks curiously, "Softskin, bug, or hooved one?"
Spizz pops up, no longer moping about Pious's departure. Now he seems excited once more, although it's a little unclear if it has to do with meeting new people, or the prospect of another breakfast. "Spizz is Spizz!" His shiny gold scales glitter in the sunlight. "Master Scorcherer!" He looks to Ellas, and then back to Yoltzin, "Yoltzin ByBirth is a famous softskin? Tell me (Spizz) what makes you(?) softskin famous!" There is no malice in that question, only an overeager curiosity.
Spizz is quite sad to see Pious go. After all, he was one of the first people he had met who hadn't immediately tried to kill him, or drive him off. "Friend-Pious not want to be around Spizz anymore?" he asks Rocko. For a second, the little kobold looks very sad, but then shoves it back down. "Spizz and Rocko go to fortress? We are hero(s?), we do more good things for softskins?" He seems to be mostly oblivious to, or ignoring Elias, and cannot really tell the difference between elves and humans. Or men and women. In fact, most non-kobold races were a mystery to Spizz, but one that he was eager to learn more about.
Well I'm a blaster caster, so a buffer/debuffer wouldn't be amiss. A ranged character wouldn't be amiss either, considering that we have 2 melee characters already, but you can never have too much melee. In terms of optimization, I'm relatively optimized to have big numbers fire damage, but not to the point of being dual blooded, and probably to the detriment of being able to do anything else. Spizz can do face skills pretty well, but can't sense motives for the life of him. Pious can on the other hand though. I've always been partial to bards, they help round out a lot of parties quite well. A freebooter ranger could also synergize quite well, but it's really up to you guys! Hope that helps, feel free to PM me as well if I can help any more!
"Spizz would be happy to go on another adventure! And if Pious or Rocko need more coins to buy safer gear, I(?) would be happy to give my share!" Spizz gets up to demonstrate his next point. "Armor-things get in the way of poor Spizz's magic-motion," he says, demonstrating how much maneuverability he needs to make magic signs in the air.
Spizz considers this. "In my tribe, speak occasionally to me(?) about Kobolds with wings like a dragon. I(?) think they are called wyvarans. Not bug people though. No orb either." Spizz continues to think. "Tribe a bit stupid though," he says decisively.
Spizz, who had been studying both second person pronouns and pluralization in the few days that they had been studying nods emphatically. "Yes! Spizz likes good foods!"
"Back in Kobold cave, cow too dangerous to hunt!" Spizz says through mouthfuls of food. His eyes widen, as he scrambles to his feet, a thought seemingly just now occurring to him, as he points at himself. "Hero?" he asks of the gathered crowd.
"Not normal then?"
Standing back up, Spizz cheers. "FriendPious beat large sphere all on own!" Turning towards anyone who will answer him, he inquires, "Floaty orb normal building for soft-skin?"
Spizz continues to duck for cover, but readies an action to blast any bugs that come within his (now very limited) line of sight.
Spizz yipes, and ducks for cover, only having 3 HP left after the blast.
I am, but I'm afraid it isn't my turn
Spizz nods emphatically, moving as quietly as he can.
It's not really that quiet.
"On! On to great adventure! Good and Glory await!"
Spizz will scowl at not having received enough praise, but is far too excited to actually be put out for very long. He's ready to go monster hunting again!
"Spizz fight big bug with magic fire! Spizz-Friend protect cow-creature, and left over bug run away! When Spizz has more magic in morning, Spizz and Spizz-Friend will go look for bad bug for you."
[ooc]Spizz has no ranks in heal. He will absolutely take advantage of sleeping inside a building though.
"Pay attention to Spizz! Give Spizz praise!"
Spizz, being awed by buildings, and having spent the majority of his life in a cave, does not have any ideas on where these bugs could have come from. In fact, he seems unimpressed by the zap sticks, which in his mind pale in comparison to the technological disparity in the culinary arts between his cave people, and a small town. "Spizz need small rest to get big fire back! You all see the big fire Spizz make? Most fwoosh of any Kobold back at Spizz-home!" Turning to FriendPious, Spizz states, "Thank Pious for standing in front of poor Spizz! Metal make make magic hard." He points at Pious's armor, and demonstrates the full range of movement that somatic components require. |