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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6170705" data-attributes="member: 5868">I think part of your problem was the thread title; it wasn't sufficiently "grabby" to catch my attention among the other threads at initial glance.  I don't personally use the category labels to sort threads.Thoughts:1. What are the Kobolds and the Demon negotiating about, and why did the Kobolds come to this place?The Kobolds originally ran the entire dungeon as servants to the Dragon who owned the place, but were forced into the second level by the incursion of Harpies that occurred after a band of adventurers slew the Dragon (and the Dragon's soul is now the "spirit" of the dungeon).  They want to drive away the Bullywugs and Harpies to restore their proper place as masters, and are negotiating with the Demon to accomplish that -- the Demon claims he can bring another Dragon to aid them.2. How did the Kobolds get past the Stirges, Harpies, and Giant Spiders, in order to get to this point?The Kobolds were there first.3. If the PCs try to negotiate with the Kobolds, what could the Kobolds and/or the Demon want of them?The Kobolds will be suspicious of the adventurers, and will ask for a demonstration of trust first by eliminating the Harpies on level 1.  After that they'll try and use the PCs against the Bullywugs.  The Demon wants to breed demonic half-dragon kobolds and would be happy to expand his influence beyond the Kobold tribe by becoming a "patron" who could corrupt the PCs.4. What is the Demon, it's relationship to the dungeon, and what is the mysterious small golden trident they carry, if anything?See #3; the Demons are in fact draconic cambion offspring of the dragon who used to inhabit the dungeon.  They seek to reestablish an empire by gaining control over and corrupting the kobold tribe, then expand its influence beyond.  It's not wedded to the Kobolds, though -- it will happily switch its favor to a more powerful ally that achieves its end.  The trident is a random bit of treasure that can be traced to the adventuring party that originally slew the dragon -- the holy symbol of the party's cleric that was lost when the cleric died fighting the dragon.</blockquote>

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