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After taking a moment to process Gnasher's explanation, he quickly hustles to follow the gnoll, keeping his eyes peeled.
Yrdex stares, slack-jawed, at Gnasher's hulking form. "You get even bigger."
Yrdex scampers to Gnasher and brings his hammer up to strike. He pauses mid swing, however, deciding he isn't coordinated enough to hit the stirge and not the gnoll.
Yrdex has readied an action. Once a stirge gets close enough, he'll smack it.
Yrdex draws his hammer and looks warily up at the stirges.
Rolls for that:
"I betcha they're tasty." The kobold muses as he licks his lips.
Yrdex looks about the room with wonder and no small degree of indecision. Part of him wants to follow Kona's lead and take it all in, but he turns to Gnasher instead. He's here on a mission, Aspu would have him see it through.
Yrdex's eyes grow wide as he takes in the sight before him. Having lived in caves beneath a desert his whole life, this may well be the highest concentration of plant life he's ever witnessed. "It's - Beautiful."
Yrdex joins the growing group around the new-found door. "I don't like this. How about I check it out before we start getting too ahead of ourselves."
"Well, I don't feel them around. I suppose if we keep a watch overnight, we'd avoid being ambushed thanks to their - creepyness."
"I like your thinking, Gnasher. Now that those annoying pugwawas or whatever are gone, we can really search these ruins."
Yrdex mutters a prayer to Aspu under his breath and steps to the middle of the temple. He speaks to the Pugwampi in common. "I think we've started off on the wrong foot here. Is this your home? Do you know what happened to the humans here?"
Best of the two I've got
Hello, level two. Not much has changed. I picked up a new orison and dropped a point in diplomacy to help the talk-y side of things. I can also understand Gnoll now. (Technically I can speak it as well, but I'm deaf, so I couldn't realistically learn to speak a new language, only read lips)
Yrdex prefers his chances on the ground. He attempts to take another creature down with a sling bullet.
Yrdex retrieves his sling and spins it over his head. He locates a pugwampi in the rafters and takes aim.
Yrdex will cast bless and take a step into the temple after Poresh's action.
I'll admit I have a hard time finding the line between steamrolling the party and stagnating the story because my posts don't actually contain anything of substance. PbP is an art :b
Yrdex peers into the dark interior from just outside the temple where he and Gurrr are waiting.
Yrdex returns to the rest of the party after having made a full loop of the temple. "I didn't see anything out there, but I could feel one of those pug things' aura." He casts a wary glance across the surrounding desert. "Would you like us to scout the inside or should we enter as a 'tribe'?" The kobold winks at Gnasher.
Sorry, Gnasher. My thought process was that Gurrr and I are well equipped to sneak around and I didn't want to tell you to just wait for us.
Yrdew rests a claw on Gurrr's shoulder. "Do you feel that? Another one of those pug-whatsits.." His thin lips curl into a frown. "I don't see anything else, though. Think we should head back to the big folks?
As Poresh enters the temple, Yrdex turns to Gnasher. "You big folk take Kona and head inside." He shifts his attention to Gurrr. "Let's snoop around."
Gnasher's question regarding light catches the kobold by surprise. "Oh, I didn't think about the fact that some of our members may not be accustomed to the dark. I'm afraid I have no means of producing light - not even a torch." Yrdex shrugs apologetically.
"Excellent. I say we head out now when we don't have to deal with the oppressive heat. Objections?"
The small reptilian creature nods thoughtfully as Almah lays out the plan. "Understood." This will be a good opportunity to demonstrate Aspu's power.
"Your actions were understandable, Poresh." Yrdex eyes Dashki warily. "'Friend' is awfully strong word."
Yrdex looks at the crushed skull of the pugwampi. "That was awfully - eh, violent. It didn't even have a chance to see us before Poresh blasted it."
Does that mean we're in combat now? If so, does my casting bless count as my action for round 1?
Haha you posted, I posted, then I edited, then you edited :b
"I feel better not being in the obvious trap to be honest. Yrdex calls out with a measure of cowardice. He isn't even looking at the cacti anymore, just the bloody spine fresh from Gnasher's shoulder as it rests in a puddle of the gnoll's blood.
"Gnash!" the small reptilian shouts, "I have a bad feeling about this!"
Yrdex winces as the cacti puncture his companions. "You alright in there?"
Yrdex follows Gnasher closely, curiously watching how he tracks the goat. Upon reaching the cactus, however, he refrains from entering. He wears too much armor to try and maneuver the cactus patch.
Yrdex's diplomacy is only +3, but he can try :b 66% of our party is composed of monsters..
Sure, but I don't have to like him ;)
Yrdex looks to Kona then to Gnasher. "I trust the gnoll." He glares at Dashki. "He smells better, too."
Yrdex catches his breath and looks to Gnasher. "Yes, let's find this, er, Pug-whatsit."
Noticing all his companions have moved on, Yrdex shuffles across the sand to join them. By the time he stops he is well out of breath.
Yrdex sighs and speaks with a condescending tone. "This relationship business muddies things up too much and too often. We Kobold only engage in physical intimacy for procreation and only during the mating season. We experience none of this jealousy nonsense." He notices the offended glances of at least few guards and clears his throat to relieve the tension. "I, uh, I mean, D-Dashki's has an eye for, um, Almah?" If Kobolds could sweat, Yrdex would be drenched.
"Candles, that's it. One of those falls over and you've got a wagon fire on your hands." Yrdex folds his arms in triumph at his perceived solution to the case.
I've got a couple pugs so they're easy to pick up.
Have fun at the beach and I hope your puppy does alright.
Yrdex approaches Garavel with a sour look on his face. He's trying - and failing - to clean the clods of mud already hardening on his feet as he walks. With a sigh of exasperation he addresses the caravan leader. "My name is Yrdex. I am an emissary of Aspu, the true god of dragons. What happened here?" His inquiry is accentuated by a sweeping motion toward the charred remains of the wagon behind him.
Yrdex walks past the panicking men without acknowledging them and approaches the fire. Once he comes within a few yards of the burning wagon, a torrent of water suddenly appears above the fire. Yrdex continues to drown the flames until they are extinguished.
Yrdex spies the smoke cloud as well, peering out from under the wide brimmed hat he wears during the heat of the day to shield his eyes from the sun.
"I don't know, gnoll friend. Let's take a closer look"
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