Crown of the Kobold King

[Corpseflower]

A handful of large black ravens roosting atop the tower note your approach and begin cawing and ruffling their greasy feathers, but they appear to be your only reception. The old path that leads up to the ruins ends about 50 feet from the monastery. Before entering the yard, the path passes between a pair of old stone statues. While one of them is little more than rubble, the other is relatively intact. The 6-foot tall statue is incredibly worn but it can still be made out as a hobgoblin holding aloft a great stone hammer. Moss and creeper vines cover most of its surface. The remains of a set of ancient darkwood doors are nearly entirely buried under layers of soil and moss.

I'm not entirely clear on your approach. Are you dividing into 2 groups or remaining as one?

 

[OnlytheStrong]

[sblock=Approach]From what I understand from the picture, the wall of the monastery has a huge hole in it. Azog and I were going to attempt to hold onto the smaller door, while the main group went in through the hole in the wall. It's more to prevent getting flanked without at least some knowledge of it. [/sblock]

Black ravens. Death has been or is coming here.

 

[Corpseflower]

Okay- So you and Azog in front, Fang, Turn, Dimlez, Luger, Ordin, and Jeva through the side. Sounds fine. Probably a few hours before I post again. Going to the movies.

 

[WarShrike]

[SBLOCK=OOC]Fang stays with me.[/SBLOCK]

"Death is certainly comming here if there are kobolds around" says Azog. "Lots n lots of death if i have my way."

 

[okuth0r]

Luger if you would stand by my side, dimlez, turndar if you would folow. Lass please stay here. Let us see if there is anything in there worth fighting.


OOC [sblock]armour up front, lets do this. (its what ordin enjoys the most...)[/sblock]

 

[Creamsteak]

"Right right. Throw the warforged up front, just like back in Darguun."

 

[OnlytheStrong]

Azog, I just realized we don't have a melee fighter! Adian says with a laugh. Shall I stand in the front then? I am trained in the ways of war, and would rather not have my cleric friend injured.

 

[Corpseflower]

Once everyone is aligned and ready to go, it is apparent that you can see each other from your two points of entry and otherwise it appears that tall grasses and chunks of stone debris have all but overtaken this small yard. Off to one side, a wooden stable has collapsed into a mound of rotting timbers and moldy straw. The outer wall on the east side has collapsed, leaving the ragged hole Luger and Ordin are standing in. A stone well is barely visible through the brush in the northwest corner. Three doors exit into this yard— a pair of double doors to the west, a single door to the north, and a lone door leading into the squat tower in the southeast corner.

ooc: OTS> I kept meaning to answer your question about spell renewal, but forgetting it when I would post. You need 8 hours of 'downtime' before you can prepare. It doesn't have to all be sleep, but movement, skill checks, even conversation breaks the 'rest' status. For every time it is broken you need to tack another hour on to the end of the 8. Then the prepping takes an additional 15 minutes for a spontaneous caster. Also you can't regain any spell that you have cast in the previous 8 hours. So right now it isn't an option. If at some point you want to hole up and make that happen, that's how it works. For Dimlez it will be the same, but will require 1 hour to prep.

Divine caster's don't require the rest period, but they have a set time of day when their empty slots refresh. They don't have to prepare all spells then, but they only renew expended slots at that time. Azog should note when that will be for him. (Dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight are most common) At that time he needs to spend an hour to honor his gods and such to regain slots.

 

[WarShrike]

[SBLOCK=OOC]How about dawn for Cleric spells, and midnight for Druid?[/SBLOCK]

"Actually, i am a melee fighter" says Azog. "I just expect to see our first foes at a distance. I will try to drop one with a quarrel, then switch to sword and shield. There seem to be none in the courtyard, shall we check the doors?"

 

[OnlytheStrong]

Let us rejoin our friends, then we may check the rest of this place.