Bowen charges into the room rushing for the first kobold he sees.
Rall, from a distance, impales one of the kobolds and it falls with a startled squawk off of its stone seat.
Bowen likewise quickly dispatches one of the little warriors with his glowing axe. It does not even get to utter a cry as Bowen's axe cleaves into its chest and propels it to the ground.
Will Save: (1d20+5=20)
Chloe's spell does not seem to work.
Kobolds in the Penance Chamber - round 1
Chloe: Initiative - 17
Bowen: Initiative - 14
Kobolds: Initiative - 9
Rall: Initiative - 8
Arla: Initiative - 5
The kobolds all start shouting loudly in fear and costernation, their high pitched voices sounding almost dog-like.
The kobolds all start shouting loudly in fear and costernation, their high pitched voices sounding almost dog-like.
Chloe moves in to accompany Bowen and press the advantage while they have it. Arcane energy crackles along the length of her scimitar blade as she swings it at another kobold. And grim determination frames her features as she seeks to punish those who once held her prisoner.
Chloe moves in and dispatches a third kobold. This leaves two more of the small warriors getting out of their seats and the robed kobold who is also the furthest away from the party.
The room is forty feet by thirty feet and the robed kobold is near the top of the room in the center and it is certainly possible to go around the room and thus flank him. I wasn't expecting the kobolds to last long enough to bother with a map so assume the kobolds can be surrounded, the benches block some movement (the robed kobold cannot be charged) but they can be gone around.
Bowen steps towards the next kobold between himself and the robed one and swings once again with his new found axe.
Rall's intention is to get close enough to the robed one to miss terribly. 1d20+3=6, 1d8+2=5
A fourth kobold is cut down. The remaining kobold warrior leaps to his feet and throws his javelin towards Bowen, some ten feet away from him.
The small spear flies true, though fortunately for Bowen, there is not much strength behind it.
The kobold warrior then immediatelly begins to move towards the northern door.
The robed kobold snaps angrily at the cowardice of his companion and makes a strange gesture in the air. With the utterance of a word of divine power he unleashes a ripple of energy through the air at the one closest to him, Bowen.
Rall then rushes into the room, moving around the benches towards the robed kobold. Rall's energetic attack, though futile, does move the kobold's attention to him.
1d20+3=21
A moment of terror takes a hold of the giant Shoanti but letting go a visceral growl Bowen overcomes it and screams back expletives in Draconic.
Ash brings down the fleeing kobold even as Arla closes with the spellcaster.
"Weak pale skins," snarls the remaining kobold, anger temporarily clouding his judgment.
Kimi moves tentatively into the chamber, overwhelmed with the sudden violence and unsure of how to help.
Kobolds in the Penance Chamber - round 2
Chloe: Initiative - 17
Bowen: Initiative - 14
Kobolds: Initiative - 9
Rall: Initiative - 8
Arla (and Ash): Initiative - 5
Chloe follows after Arla when she sees the dog wrestle the other kobold to the ground. She circles around the remaining leader to cut off his escape, too, and hopefully provide Rall an opening. Once again, arcane magic ripples across the blade of the scimitar she borrowed from Bowen. And she lashes out at the kobold...
Rall shouts in draconic:1d20+7=10:
"Where keep the pink skin eggs? ... no ... ummm ... the human hatchlings?"
He is still prepared to kill the kobold on his turn though.
Bowen moves up to the remaining Kobold,
The kobold's response is the beginning of a spell...
The kobold's response is the beginning of a spell...
Arla doesn't understand what Bowen says to the kobold, but she does recognise the beginnings of a spell being cast. She thrusts her spear at the kobold, hoping to stop it in its tracks.
Chloe takes Arla's lead and follows suit.
The spell dies on the kobold's tongue as he is cut down.
All six of the kobolds are in the process of dying, a couple of them may have already reached their last breath.
"Did we need to kill him? A punch in the mouth wouldn't have sufficed?"
Rall tries to find one that is not yet dead and keep him alive.
"Did we need to kill him? A punch in the mouth wouldn't have sufficed?"
Chloe sweeps a stray lock of hair from her face as she catches her breath. "I'd just as soon kill every last one of these horrid beasts," she replies with a hint of anger, but more directed at the kobolds than Rall, "You would too if you spent some time in their holding pens and watched how they handle children."
She wipes the blood from the scimitar and sheathes it, before squatting down to search the kobold leader for anything that might aid them. The sorceress looks over her shoulder at Bowen. "Can you tell where they came from?" she asks, "And is there any chance more of them might be coming if they heard this fight?"
Pointing towards the robed one, "He wouldn't help even if we brought him back. That and I don't trust his magic, better a combatant who is fearful of death then a god talker."
Looking around Bowen sees if a trail is readily available while the others tend to the kobolds.
Rall attempts to save one of the warriors.
One of the warriors, less hurt than the others has already stabilized and though he does not gain consciousness Rall manages to bind his wounds and make sure he is not going to die right away.
"I don't want to wait for him to become conscious," says Rall. "We need to find those kids."
"I don't want to wait for him to become conscious," says Rall. "We need to find those kids."
"None of us are wounded," Chloe answers, "And I'd rather not waste Desna's healing on one such as this...not after what they did to us."
She looks at the chamber's exit and thinks for a moment.
"Look," she finally tells the sheriff's deputy, "We have a pretty good idea where one of the missing children are. It's not far from here. And the monster that dragged him off will certainly take a lot of effort for us to defeat and free the child. So, why don't we quickly take care of that, bind the kobold you wish to interrogate and leave him here for now...and then, if we survive this next fight, we'll come back and heal ourselves along with him so we can ask him some questions. Sound fair?"
The party came in to the room from the west. There is another set of double doors on the north wall of the room. The fleeing kobold was heading towards these. All the tracks that Bowen can find, though they are hard to read (especially after the party walked and stomped all over them) seem to go to and from the northern doors.
"It looks to be that they mainly come from these doors here," Bowen points to the north doors.
"It looks to be that they mainly come from these doors here," Bowen points to the north doors.
"Then what do you say, lawman?" Chloe asks, "Care to save a child from a demon?"
"It looks to be that they mainly come from these doors here," Bowen points to the north doors."Then what do you say, lawman?" Chloe asks, "Care to save a child from a demon?"
Rall glances at Chloe somewhat resentfully, certain he's being mocked.
He uses his manacles to attach the kobold to one of the dead kobold and removes all sharp objects. "I doubt he can chew the other one's leg off. Let's go."
Glancing to the doors that Bowen indicates, Arla gives Ash a scratch behind the ears. She murmurs a quiet "Good boy" to the dog - he had done well in the quick skirmish with the kobolds.
"I guess we're as ready as we'll ever be," she replies, before heading over to the doors.
As the doors are opened, kobold voices suddenly sound in anger.
Your lights reveal a fifteen foot hallway, and then a chamber which is dominated by a ten foot wide pit. Directly over the pit a long chain feeds through a complex pulley system before dissapearing into the depths.
There are five kobolds on the other side of the pit armed with javelins. The kobold in the center of the group looks better armored than his four companions and it is he that seems to be barking out the orders.
There are five kobolds on the other side of the pit armed with javelins. The kobold in the center of the group looks better armored than his four companions and it is he that seems to be barking out the orders.
"Uh-oh," Chloe manages to breathe the words as the kobolds come into view. Realizing she has little in the way of weapons she can use at range, the sorceress hesitates to see what strategy her newfound friends have in mind.
Bowen looks to the others and slowly stalks ten feet into the hallway holding both his klar and axe at a ready position.
'Well, I was not expecting that!' thinks Rall. 1d20+2=3
Rall prepares to draw his sword and close for melee on his turn.
Realising that there is a pit between them and the kobolds, Arla draws her sling.
Realising that there is a pit between them and the kobolds, Arla draws her sling.
The pit dominates the room, being ten feet wide, but the room is longer, being about twenty-five feet wide.
Seeing Arla prepare to trade slingstones against javelins and Bowen moving to hold the line, Chloe decides to try a more drastic strategy. The sorcererss quickly moves around the pit to close on the kobolds, an arcane spell on her lips. Once she gets within range, she flings her hand outward to generate a dazzling arc of color.
Initiative: (1d20+1=7, 1d20+7=20)
Kobolds are the Pits - Round 1
Kobold Leader: Initiative - 20
Arla: Initiative - 15
Chloe: Initiative - 11
Bowen: Initiative - 10
Kobolds: Initiative - 7
Rall: Initiative - 3
The Kobold Leader acts almost as soon as the party enters through the doors, throwing his javelin towards them. Fortunately for those in front, his aim is not very good and the javelin flies wide.
Arla draws forth her sling as the others move forward.
Bowen moves right around the pit and attacks the first kobold that comes within reach of his axe willing the light to brighten to its max as he does so.