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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9310594" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p><strong><em>Pool of Radiance </em>(Part 36): The Kobold Caves (Part 4) - Kobold Caves completed!</strong></p><p></p><p>Rested up, we pursue the kobold king into the furthest depths of the caves. Going through one of the doors at the back of the throne room, we enter his private quarters, and...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356153[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p> Good thing we rested up, or this fight might have been a real problem.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356154[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This one is a combination of kobolds, three boars, and three trolls. While we need to concentrate on the trolls and take them down quickly, all those kobolds nicely grouped up <em>do</em> make a tempting target...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356155[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356156[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>With a bunch of kobolds now helpless, Bragir completes the protection of our upper flank with a spell of his own...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356157[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Nice. That boar is soon going to be pork chops!</p><p></p><p>Now we can concentrate on the more dangerous trolls. They actually go down fairly quickly, between all the melee and ranged attacks. Within a short time, we've taken them out, and now it's just mop-up work...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356158[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356159[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And soon, the king's guard is no more.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356160[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Still no sign of the king though. I wonder where he's gotten to? Let's go through the next doorway...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356161[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That was<em> utterly</em> anticlimactic...</p><p></p><p>Well, nothing left to do other than see what treasures he may have hidden back here.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356164[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>As if we're going to pass something like that up!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356165[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356166[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Uh... no? That's a weirdly specific question though.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356167[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Uh... okay? We have a weird efreet who doesn't want to be out of his bottle unless there's a vampire around to murder. To each their own, I guess.</p><p></p><p>We'll take the bottle for now.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356168[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We continue to search around nearby. Right around the corner, we notice shiny things!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356169[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Excellent! I'm sure they have mounds of coins!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356170[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Er... that's not the mound of coins we were hoping for.</p><p></p><p>(The funny thing is that by this point, most players will just be automatically hitting the "Share" button when the treasure screen comes up without checking what the exact coins or amounts they are sharing out actually are. So, players, including myself until I caught on here, would just unsuspectingly "Share" and as a result pick up as much of that copper as the characters' encumbrance would allow, causing immediate overloading and max capacity, and then grumbling as we would have to go through all the inventories to drop all the extraneous copper).</p><p></p><p>We just pick up the gems and jewels and leave all that copper to gather dust.</p><p></p><p>The kobolds have other items in this pile of "treasure" besides the currency as well.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356171[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Obviously, we just grab the scrolls and the silver items. As for the rest?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356174[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>No. Definitely no.</p><p></p><p>Let's check out those scrolls.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356175[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356176[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Eh, nothing spectacular, other than a few spells we can scribe to fill out the magic-users' spellbooks.</p><p></p><p>Even if the pile of kobold treasure is pretty sub-par (which is something we, honestly, should have expected), it is enough to help some characters level up.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356177[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356178[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356179[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356180[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It's only in their fighter levels, but more hit points, lower THAC0s, and better saves are still nice.</p><p></p><p>With nothing much else here, we start to make our way out of the caves.</p><p></p><p>Remember when the kobold prince (well, presumably now king - of a much diminished kingdom. That's going to be a huge mess for him to deal with when he wakes up with an inevitable hangover. At least we left him with a decent treasury I guess) was disarming the traps for us? Well, now we're running into them again on the way out, without the benefit of having him around to deal with them. So, we'll have to disarm them ourselves...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356181[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356182[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>(We're exiting back through the wyvern cave since going out through the other entrance, which is located in the south-central part of the map, has a good chance of a character falling into a water trap and losing money and/or items. And we definitely don't want that!)</p><p></p><p>Finally, we reach the exit.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356183[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356184[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Um... farewell! We'll always fondly remember the 20 minutes or so we spent with you!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356185[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We head south towards the boat waiting to take us back to Phlan.</p><p></p><p>On the way, we stumble across a couple of encounters:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356186[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356187[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Since I surprised them both times, and since they are not new, exciting monsters, and since, moreover, I just want to get back to town and get the reward for completing the commission, I choose "Wait" each time, and the monsters move on without combat.</p><p></p><p>We reach the boat and head back to Phlan.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356188[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356189[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Time to visit the City Clerk!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356190[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356191[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356192[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Nice. 25 gems will likely have a good appraisal value.</p><p></p><p>She again mentions the polluted river and the lizardmen commissions, but now has a new one to replace the one we just completed:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356193[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Interesting. But that's for the future as we already have two previous commissions to complete first.</p><p></p><p>With that, we leave the City Clerk's office and head to the weapons shop.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356194[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356195[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Oh, very nice. It is a deal indeed, good sir.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356196[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Wait, the "Plate" dropped from the two envoys, and you would think it meant their armor (as no other heavy armor dropped in that fight, and they had very good ACs), but 5gp for plate armor is ludicrously low. Were they like holding actual plates, as if they were sampling some rat <em>hors d'oeuvres </em>when we burst into the throne room? Well, in any case, we sell them for that minimal price.</p><p></p><p><em>[ATTACH=full]356197[/ATTACH]</em></p><p></p><p>Meh. Other than those bracers, it's a disappointing trip to the shop all around.</p><p></p><p>Our funds after selling our extra loot:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356198[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, yet again we're close to the purchase price a new fine longbow, and definitely can sell off some gems and jewelry to make up the difference. We head off to the silver shop.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356199[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>We sell off Baroness Bella's <em>shortbow +1</em> since she'll be getting a shiny new fine longbow...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356200[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We sell off a few gems, and soon...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]356201[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356202[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And another fine longbow is ours!</p><p></p><p>So, all that's left to do is go to the inn, scribe and memorize spells, and rest up. We'll start there next time, with our next goal: to find out what is polluting the river.</p><p></p><p>The Sorcerer's Island awaits!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 9310594, member: 6801060"] [B][I]Pool of Radiance [/I](Part 36): The Kobold Caves (Part 4) - Kobold Caves completed![/B] Rested up, we pursue the kobold king into the furthest depths of the caves. Going through one of the doors at the back of the throne room, we enter his private quarters, and... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 184528.png"]356153[/ATTACH] Good thing we rested up, or this fight might have been a real problem. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 184605.png"]356154[/ATTACH] This one is a combination of kobolds, three boars, and three trolls. While we need to concentrate on the trolls and take them down quickly, all those kobolds nicely grouped up [I]do[/I] make a tempting target... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185159.png"]356155[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185210.png"]356156[/ATTACH] With a bunch of kobolds now helpless, Bragir completes the protection of our upper flank with a spell of his own... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185329.png"]356157[/ATTACH] Nice. That boar is soon going to be pork chops! Now we can concentrate on the more dangerous trolls. They actually go down fairly quickly, between all the melee and ranged attacks. Within a short time, we've taken them out, and now it's just mop-up work... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185557.png"]356158[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185747.png"]356159[/ATTACH] And soon, the king's guard is no more. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185824.png"]356160[/ATTACH] Still no sign of the king though. I wonder where he's gotten to? Let's go through the next doorway... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185919.png"]356161[/ATTACH] That was[I] utterly[/I] anticlimactic... Well, nothing left to do other than see what treasures he may have hidden back here. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 185946.png"]356164[/ATTACH] As if we're going to pass something like that up! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190059.png"]356165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190104.png"]356166[/ATTACH] Uh... no? That's a weirdly specific question though. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190206.png"]356167[/ATTACH] Uh... okay? We have a weird efreet who doesn't want to be out of his bottle unless there's a vampire around to murder. To each their own, I guess. We'll take the bottle for now. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190217.png"]356168[/ATTACH] We continue to search around nearby. Right around the corner, we notice shiny things! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190454.png"]356169[/ATTACH] Excellent! I'm sure they have mounds of coins! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190508.png"]356170[/ATTACH] Er... that's not the mound of coins we were hoping for. (The funny thing is that by this point, most players will just be automatically hitting the "Share" button when the treasure screen comes up without checking what the exact coins or amounts they are sharing out actually are. So, players, including myself until I caught on here, would just unsuspectingly "Share" and as a result pick up as much of that copper as the characters' encumbrance would allow, causing immediate overloading and max capacity, and then grumbling as we would have to go through all the inventories to drop all the extraneous copper). We just pick up the gems and jewels and leave all that copper to gather dust. The kobolds have other items in this pile of "treasure" besides the currency as well. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190543.png"]356171[/ATTACH] Obviously, we just grab the scrolls and the silver items. As for the rest? [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190624.png"]356174[/ATTACH] No. Definitely no. Let's check out those scrolls. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190716.png"]356175[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190726.png"]356176[/ATTACH] Eh, nothing spectacular, other than a few spells we can scribe to fill out the magic-users' spellbooks. Even if the pile of kobold treasure is pretty sub-par (which is something we, honestly, should have expected), it is enough to help some characters level up. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190745.png"]356177[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190752.png"]356178[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190807.png"]356179[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190817.png"]356180[/ATTACH] It's only in their fighter levels, but more hit points, lower THAC0s, and better saves are still nice. With nothing much else here, we start to make our way out of the caves. Remember when the kobold prince (well, presumably now king - of a much diminished kingdom. That's going to be a huge mess for him to deal with when he wakes up with an inevitable hangover. At least we left him with a decent treasury I guess) was disarming the traps for us? Well, now we're running into them again on the way out, without the benefit of having him around to deal with them. So, we'll have to disarm them ourselves... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190924.png"]356181[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 190950.png"]356182[/ATTACH] (We're exiting back through the wyvern cave since going out through the other entrance, which is located in the south-central part of the map, has a good chance of a character falling into a water trap and losing money and/or items. And we definitely don't want that!) Finally, we reach the exit. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191014.png"]356183[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191025.png"]356184[/ATTACH] Um... farewell! We'll always fondly remember the 20 minutes or so we spent with you! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191040.png"]356185[/ATTACH] We head south towards the boat waiting to take us back to Phlan. On the way, we stumble across a couple of encounters: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191121.png"]356186[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191142.png"]356187[/ATTACH] Since I surprised them both times, and since they are not new, exciting monsters, and since, moreover, I just want to get back to town and get the reward for completing the commission, I choose "Wait" each time, and the monsters move on without combat. We reach the boat and head back to Phlan. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191203.png"]356188[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191310.png"]356189[/ATTACH] Time to visit the City Clerk! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191340.png"]356190[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191347.png"]356191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191358.png"]356192[/ATTACH] Nice. 25 gems will likely have a good appraisal value. She again mentions the polluted river and the lizardmen commissions, but now has a new one to replace the one we just completed: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191416.png"]356193[/ATTACH] Interesting. But that's for the future as we already have two previous commissions to complete first. With that, we leave the City Clerk's office and head to the weapons shop. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 191948.png"]356194[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192010.png"]356195[/ATTACH] Oh, very nice. It is a deal indeed, good sir. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192026.png"]356196[/ATTACH] Wait, the "Plate" dropped from the two envoys, and you would think it meant their armor (as no other heavy armor dropped in that fight, and they had very good ACs), but 5gp for plate armor is ludicrously low. Were they like holding actual plates, as if they were sampling some rat [I]hors d'oeuvres [/I]when we burst into the throne room? Well, in any case, we sell them for that minimal price. [I][ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192047.png"]356197[/ATTACH][/I] Meh. Other than those bracers, it's a disappointing trip to the shop all around. Our funds after selling our extra loot: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192253.png"]356198[/ATTACH] Well, yet again we're close to the purchase price a new fine longbow, and definitely can sell off some gems and jewelry to make up the difference. We head off to the silver shop. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192313.png"]356199[/ATTACH] We sell off Baroness Bella's [I]shortbow +1[/I] since she'll be getting a shiny new fine longbow... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192336.png"]356200[/ATTACH] We sell off a few gems, and soon... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192420.png"]356201[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-04-03 192429.png"]356202[/ATTACH] And another fine longbow is ours! So, all that's left to do is go to the inn, scribe and memorize spells, and rest up. We'll start there next time, with our next goal: to find out what is polluting the river. The Sorcerer's Island awaits! [/QUOTE]
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