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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1794167" data-attributes="member: 11574">The party, minus the giants, works their way further into the kobold burrow. Benat leads and comes to a four-way, to the south is a pile of refuse, to the north a dark passage, and to the east is a door with kobold voices apparently arguing clearly heard from Benat's vantage point. Maermon moves up o search the refuse pile in the south passage."Disgusting, smells like feces and rotting feces piled upon rotten feces. Can someone give me a hand with this?" Maermon asks"I do not wish to get my hands dirty, cleanliness is next to godliness. No?" Paquito responds"If my wolf won't go near it, then I see no reason why I should." Nameroc answers"I'm scouting and I'm up wind, so no, I'm not going to assist you in your toilet fetish." Benat replies, leaving Maermon knee deep in kobold waste.Benat moves around to the east passage and looks back to the northern passage, she sees that something is rooting around in the trash near the end of that passage. She waves Paquito and Nameroc forward and shows them where to watch the northern passage at. Benat then casts comprehend languages and goes to the eastern door to listen in on the kobolds."It's mine, I found it first, give it back" "Too bad I've got it now.""No, give to me!" Benat returns to the group, "It appears the kobolds are arguing over something." "Well I could've told you that." Nameroc answers "I speak kobold." He says proudly with a smile."Then why did I waste a spell to understand them, if you already could?!" Benat says agitated"You never asked me if I knew what they were saying." Nameroc replies as Maermon rejoins the group"Ugh! you smell worse than the minotaur. You go first, open that door down there." Benat tells him "And you," Benat points out Nameroc "For further reference, if you understand what someone is saying let the group know ok?!" "Sure thing your beautifulness." Nameroc says with a bowMaermon goes up to the door, and opens it. A group of kobold children are fighting over a dirty and abused doll, they appear to be oblivious to the infiltrating party. Benat notches an arrow, and kills the nearest kobold, causing panic within the room. Maermon rushes into the room and slices down the kobold closest to the only other exit. The kobold children all rush past Maermon, trying to escape down the tunnel. Maermon cuts one of them down as they race past him. Nameroc sends his animal after the throat of another one, ending it's retreat. Benat shoots through another one, as Maermon runs ahead of the fleeing kobolds and cuts down to furthest one, then another one as it runs past him leaving just one left. Nameroc takes aim and ends it's life as well. "You elves are brave and tactically sound when you are fighting children. No?" Paquito says sarcastically"What are you talking for? You didn't even help." Nameroc saysPaquito walks over to the body of a kobold and pointing out it's two halves that Maermon cleaved. "My help was definitely needed. No?"Benat hushes the men and orders them down the east tunnel to another 4-way with a door to the east. Benat looks over the recent tracks in the room and determines that most of them travel from the south to the door to the east and then back south again. She leads the group south, they hear sounds of a kitchen (banging pots, boiling water, a crackling fire). The party inches up to where they can see the handful of kobold women and then open fire. Nameroc's wolf leaps at the cook and gets a pot of boiling acid dumped on it for it's troubles. The party cuts down all the female kobolds in short order, and notes the only exit to the south. Heading down the southern tunnel, the party encounters another door. Listening, Benat hears loud snoring, to which Maermon just kicks it in, emboldened by the ease with which the party is mowing down the kobolds without the aid of the giants. The party finds a chamber that has a naturally occurring optical illusion, making the room appear smaller than it actually is, and offering good hiding spots if someone wanted to ambush in this room. Benat locates the source of the snoring, as a huddled mass on the floor near the center of the room laying next to a small campfire. Benat notches an arrow and lets it fly into the sleeping body. "Ow! Tat hurt, you pay for tat!" came a gravely kobold voice.Maermon took aim and buried another arrow into the kobold, followed by another arrow from Benat which sends the kobold, who had yet to stand, into the afterlife. "Now, it appears you can handle the juveniles, the women, and the infirm. I applaud your valiant efforts. No?" Paquito announces sarcasticallyBenat points out that if they hadn't killed every kobold they've come across, then there would've been an ambush waiting for them in this room. Paquito waves off Benat's explanation and walks around the circumference of the room. The elves go to investigate the body, while Paquito finds a hastily dug area near the north wall. Digging, he uncovers an iron pot with some copper and an amulet in it. Paquito quickly places the amulet in a pouch."Hey, guys! I found something of interest. No?" Paquito shouts "Appears to be an iron pot with some copper." "Well grab it all, I'll add it to the copper we've already found." Maermon replies. Benat notices that the ceiling in this room appears to be twenty feet high, also that the exit tunnel to the south is also just as high. "You guys wait here, I'm going back to get the giants." Benat tells the men90 minuets later, the giants have wiggled their way into the room. "Gronar likes this much better. But sad that pointy ears not leave any kobold squishing for Gronar." Gronar complains"I wonder why this chamber is so much bigger than the rest of the complex, it makes no sense. I am confounded. No?" Paquito asks aloud to no one in particular"Who cares, they're kobolds, not titans." Benat repliesThe party heads south and come to another door, opening this one, the party is confronted by seven kobolds, one of which is the kobold that put a hurting on Korg yesterday. A lizardman and a brown bear round out the room which is also twenty feet high. Benat lets an arrow fly, killing the kobold nearest the door. However the kobold* in the back of the room sends a large mudball into Gronar who is in the doorway, the force of the mud causes Gronar's head to whip back, blinding him as he tries to wipe the mud out of his eyes. Benat then casts sound burst on the back of the room, but fails to stun anyone. Maermon and Korg enter the room, and both cut down two of three remaining koblods up front. The mighty kobold charges Korg and slams his war mace into the hill giant. Nameroc send his wolf into the room to try and chomp down on kobold meat, then he enters the room moving off to the upper right corner. The kobold shaman shakes his staff at the party and encourages bravery in his clan. Paquito enters the room and fires a bolt at the shaman, it flies true but about halfway it turns and flies back at Paquito, landing into his neck and nearly dropping the minotaur. "The shaman is using some kind of odd magic, I can't tell if it's arcane or divine." Benat announcesGronar clears his eyes, and enters the room. He spies the mighty kobold, and slices him down to putty. Upon seeing this, the lizardman retreats through a secret door on the south wall, the grizzly moves up and chomps down on Nameroc, it then wrenches his body and tosses it aside like a used rag.Paquito fleas back down the tunnel they entered from. "Help I am losing blood, I will die from blood loss. No?" Korg skewers the two remaining warrior kobolds in the room, as the kobold shaman points his staff at Korg, sending a violet beam of energy at the giant. Korg's hair begins to fall out, as pustules form and erupt all over his body. Benat fires an arrow into the hide of the bear. Gronar turns and charges the kobold shaman, expending a hero point to strike a killing blow on the shaman. Entrails are splattered all across the room, as the staff falls to the floor and the beam turns off. Maermon charges the bear, and just as quickly is knocked unconscious by the massive paws of the grizzly. Nameroc's wolf also attacks and is flung away from the bear, landing motionless next to Maermon. "Paquito, get your cowardly butt out here and fight dammit!" Benat shouts Paquito sticks his head out of the tunnel, pointing at the bleeding wound on his neck."I'll heal you once this creature is down, get out here an help!" Benat shouts backPaquito shoots off two magic missiles at the bear, then gives Benat a thumbs up and a smile.Korg heals himself as best he can, as Gronar charges the back of the grizzly, but swings wildly and misses his mark. The bear turns on Gronar but only lands a paw swipe on Gronar's left leg. Korg then moves in behind the bear to give himself and Gronar flanking positions, and Korg cuts the bear deep. Another arrow from Benat, and two more magic missiles from Paquito has the bear reeling, Gronar takes a step back and puts all his might behind his next blow which ends the grizzly threat.* this kobold is a magister from Arcana Unearthed   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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