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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1132785" data-attributes="member: 11574">After the party gets into the East corridor fully, the smell seems to lesson. Once they get ten feet into the corridor, the smell dissipates. Tharhack leads them up to a very small door, about half the size of all the other doors thus far. He asks Alriand to come up and listen at this door, specifically for sounds of conversation. Alriand places her ear against the door, and hears a faint crunching sound, maybe even a wet crunching sound. She turns to Tharhack, shrugs her shoulders, and tells him she has no idea what the sound could be, but it's not a conversation. Tharhack asks Bimbar and Rebrey if they think the kobold might have come this way. Bimbar says no, he thinks it didn't come this way. Rebrey tells Tharhack that the only way to find out is to open the door and deliver the bad news to whatever is in the room, that it's time to die. Tharhack agrees and pushes open the door, to the biggest room they've seen thus far. About 25 x 25 circular, with the floor littered with small round rocks. Some of the rocks have been cracked open, and appear hollow inside. Tharhack has to get on his hands and knees to get into the room, crawling through the doorway he comes upon the first rock. It looks smooth, he reaches out and touches it, and something inside the rock shudders and shakes. He realizes what the rocks are just as a pair of small red eyes rise up over the edge of the rock and peer into Tharhack's eyes. Tharhack starts to say a word, but never gets it out as mouth attached to the face of the red eyes screams. That scream is followed by dozens of screams from all over the chamber. Tharhack pushes himself up onto his knees and prepares for the onslaught.Alriand saw hundreds of small heat signatures, most of them not moving. Dozens were moving, however. This was an egg chamber. She then heard the first scream, followed by a cacophony of high pierced wailing that clawed at the inside of her skull. She too screamed out in fear as she saw dozens of small kobolds rise up from in-between eggs and make a mad dash for Tharhack who had pushed himself up onto his knees. Alriand tried to back away, thought about running out and back down the corridor. She felt the presence of Rebrey behind her, giving way to him, she bent down and pivoted behind him as they switched positions. Now she only had to make it past Bimbar, and she was sure he'd be moving up in no time. Bimbar didn't need the screams to tell him they were in trouble, he could smell it. When the door was opened and a heavy sweet smell whiffed from the room, Bimbar remembered that smell, it smelled like snakes, newborn snakes, and when he saw the floor of the room covered with eggs he knew they were in the wrong place. The screams only solidified what his nose and eyes were telling him. He saw Rebrey move up and Alriand switch positions with him. With Tharhack and Rebrey already in the room, and the doorway so small, Bimbar knew he wasn't going to be getting into the room any time soon. He decides to watch the party's back in case of an ambush, so he backs down the corridor ten feet, just shy of the room with the terrible odor.</blockquote>

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