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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jeffwik" data-source="post: 612498" data-attributes="member: 9739">The campaign continuesEvent One: Kriggle’s Big Adventure    Kriggle, kobold paladin and champion of his tribe, returns from a routine patrol with his scout assistants Plikt and Krup.  The tribe is (sorry, was) a couple of hundred kobolds, plus a handful of domesticated giant lizards, et al, and dwelled in a small complex on the outer edges of a Hellmouth.  Its membership never needed to give the tribe a clever name (like “the Red Feather Tribe” or something) since it was the only kobold tribe in the area and people who weren’t kobolds in the tribe had no reason to refer to it.    Like most humanoid tribes, it was ruled by a cleric… one able to cast Stone Shape.  The walls of stone (from Stone Shape as opposed to walls of stone from Wall of Stone), coupled with the small size of the passages and the ability of kobolds to squeeze through things, formed the nucleus of the tribe’s defense plans.    Which plans failed utterly, sad to say.  Kriggle and his two assistants came home to find everyone else dead.  Day-old kobold corpses littered the tunnels, bearing clear bite and sword wounds.  The wall-of-stone defenses had been erected, but judging from the debris patterns, someone had burst out of them, not in.  Under one of the beds in a dormitory, Kriggle finds a four-year-old kobold girl, Karana, dead of a stab wound.    Kriggle counts the bodies (which is tough, because he keeps losing count and has to start over, plus his two assistants are too busy weeping and rending their garments to provide much help) and finds that out of the 200 kobolds in the tribe, 195 are dead and present.  Kurt, Krepple, Karl, Karen, and Keith are missing… Krup tells Kriggle that those five were another patrol, and may still be alive somewhere.    Kriggle swears vengeance to Kurtlemak, and exhorts Plikt and Krup to join him as they set out to find the fiends who killed the village.  Plikt and Krup are creeped out by Kriggle’s lack of concern for his tribe’s violent deaths.  Kriggle explains that he was an only child and an orphan, so he had no family among the dozens and dozens of dead kinsmen.  Plikt and Krup wonder if Kriggle is a sociopath.</blockquote>

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