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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4515960" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 14 - Kobold Hall (Part 2)After finding the northern side chamber empty, Dulvarna led the companions along the eastern passage to its end where it turned right and descended stairs deeper into darkness. The stairs emerged into a chamber containing four stone coffins, all of which showed signs of vandalism and abuse. To the left were six niches along the walls, each holding a suit of armour. At the far end of the chamber, to the east, was a raised section fo floor with a makeshift altar to Tiamat the Dragon Queen set atop it. Three kobolds carrying spears stood in front of the altar.“More kobolds!” Dulvarna called back to the others who were still descending the stairs.One of the kobolds immediately darted to its left toward the far wall of the room and moved in front of one of the alcoves. Erlmoor drew his blade in response to Dulvarna’s call and pushed past the others on the stairs to enter the room. He crossed the room diagonally to intercept the advancing kobold. Thira followed the paladin but instead moved left towards the centre of the chamber. As she passed the first coffin a dart the size of a small crossbow bolt flew out from the first alcove and struck the stone of the coffin just behind her. The tiefling turned instinctively and loosed a silver bolt from her staff that struck the suit of armour from which the dart seemed to have come. Her bolt blew off one arm of the suit but left it standing leaving Thira wondering whether she had disabled the trap or not.Dulvarna drew her blade and charged along the near wall towards the kobolds at the far end of the chamber. She crossed in front of the altar and charged the nearest with her sword held before her. The kobold braced its spear against its foot and turned it to meet the warrior woman. At he last, Dulvarna twisted aside and the spear point drove painfully into her right hip. Another kobold came at Dulvarna from the right but she turned despite the pain of her wound and parried the spear thrust. From the far end of the chamber, Lavren cursed the kobold and loosed black eldritch power from his wand. The kobold ducked and it struck the far wall, searing the stone black. Kel rushed to Dulvarna’s aid moments later, coming at the second kobold from its left. The creature turned its attention to her and the battle began in earnest.The third kobold saw Erlmoor round a coffin and screeched loudly before darting back at Kel and driving its spear into her side. The drow staggered and twisted around, trying to face both her foes. Without thinking that he was aiding the drow, Erlmoor rushed forward with his blade held high but just as he passed the coffin he was passing, he heard a click under his feet and then a stinging pain as a dart drove into his shoulder blade. He staggered and reeled as dizziness assailed him. The dart had been poisoned, he realised and panic gripped him.Thira loosed her next magic missile at the kobold that had just attacked Kel and this time it struck home cleanly, searing into the kobold’s shoulder and spinning it around on the spot. Beyond Kel, Dulvarna slashed her own blade across the leg of one kobold and into the calf of another, forcing both to leap back from her. Both came back at her with spear thrust but in a blur of movement, she parried one and then the other. More black crackling energy struck the wall beyond the kobolds leaving Lavren to curse his ill luck while Kel retreated to stand beside Dulvarna. Kel swung out desperately and prayed to Lolth at the same time but her morning star struck nothing but air. Another spear drove into her right leg, this one piercing her thigh and she cursed as she gritted her teeth through the pain. Then, to Kel’s amazement, acid showered the kobolds and gave her a moment’s respite. Erlmoor was coming, she knew then, and she would be safe.As Erlmoor still reeled from the poisoned dart, Thira loosed another silver bolt towards Kel’s kobold foe, striking it in the side and driving it back from her. Dulvarna meanwhile, thrust low at the kobold to her left, driving her blade into the creature’s thigh and forcing it back from her. The kobold staggered and almost fell before limping forward gingerly. The kobold stabbed tentatively with its spear, allowing Dulvarna to swat it aside easily. Her other foe thrust its own spear at her then and she twisted and parried that just as easily.Lavren levelled his wand at Kel’s foe, determined to aid the drow this time. He uttered the arcane phrase of his spell and unleashed the deadly, black, crackling energy. The bolt seared into the kobold’s left side and burned a hole through the creature before narrowly missing its companion who faught Dulvarna behind it. The stricken kobold looked down at the gaping hole through its abdomen, turned to look at the elf and then pitched forward at the feet of its drow opponent. Kel turned her attention to the nearest of Dulvarna’s enemies but the warrior woman barely needed her aid. Erlmoor was upon the kobold a heartbeat later forcing the kobold to duck and dance to evade morning star and blade alike. Thira started forward to lend what aid she could to the battle only for her to hear another click underfoot and for a dart to drive into her right side. She had seen Erlmoor recover from the poison but that made the nausea and dizziness no less unpleasant. She reeled and staggered while Lavren rushed to aid her.Dulvarna feinted to the left to deceive the kobold to her left and then slashed her blade back across, cutting open the creature’s throat. It staggered and fell as Dulvarna’s blade bit into the shoulder of the remaining kobold. The creature staggered and thrust out with its spear but Dulvarna’s blade was already there to meet the thrust, driving the spear low into the stone floor. A bolt of black energy struck the kobold a moment later, Lavren having decided that he could do little to aid Thira. The kobold staggered and made to raise its spear but it had no strength left. Kel’s morning star crushed its skull before it knew its doom and it collapsed beside its companions.</blockquote>

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