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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 1136082" data-attributes="member: 11574">The party starts to head down the South exit, when Rebrey notices a flickering light coming from up ahead. Tharhack steps up and takes a peek, shushing the rest of the party he hears a banging sound followed by a kobold's voice. Tharhack can't make out any distinct sounds. Alriand tells them she'll scout ahead and let them know what she finds. Blending in with the side of the passage, Alriand makes her way to just about the threshold of the next room. She sees about a dozen kobolds scurrying around what Alriand surmises is the kitchen. With the hearth against the West wall, and a dented pot sitting in the fire. One rather rotund kobold seems to be barking out orders to the rest of the kobolds. Wearing an apron backwards and wielding a large wooden spoon, she sends kobolds scampering in all directions looking for whatever she told them to find. Alriand returns to the party and reports her findings. She tells them that the kobolds appeared extremely focused on whatever it is worthless scum do in kitchens, and that the party could easily take the kobolds by surprise. She also tells them that the passage continued on past the kitchen to the South. Bimbar suggests that they try to avoid combat here, as they all pretty beaten up except for the elf, and if they can make it past this group that would be great. "the kobolds will know from which direction we came, they know what's behind us" Rebrey states."What's your point?" Bimbar asks"Do you not think that they'll run and check on the hatchery?" Rebrey counters."good point" Tharhack chimes in "I say we wipe them out, life is for the strong, not the kobolds""There's no door to kick in Tharhack, you'll have to think of a new strategy, and we don't have a year to escape, " Alriand joins in."Go stand at the entrance to the room" Tharhack begins, "bend over just a tad, and be sure not to scream as I kick you in. I'll even put on my special boots of Elven behind" Bimbar and Rebrey begin to laugh, as Alriand stands with her mouth agape and her eyes on Tharhack, as he begins making his way down the corridor. Alriand just stammers and stutters, and finally settles on just cursing Tharhack instead. Bimbar follows Tharhack down the corridor, with Alriand next and then Rebrey. Tharhack stops and the edge of a shadow, and peers into the room. Spotting the large kobold with it's back turned to him, and only twenty feet away, he thinks about bull rushing it, but with at least four other kobolds in the way he waits for one to pass within ten feet of him. He doesn't have to wait long as a kobold carrying a dead bat runs past the corridor on it's way to the pot on the fire. Tharhack times he strike perfectly, taking a step he backhands the kobold to the floor in a bloody heap. The kobolds silence themselves as the dead kobold hits the dirt. The large kobold barks out some orders and eleven of the remaining fifteen kobolds turn to attack. Bimbar steps up and sidesteps a claw thrusting at his side. He then hammers that kobold into gruel. The large kobold move to the pot on the fire. The kobold hefts it up off the fire, and throws the boiling contents at Bimbar. Bimbar, not expecting that attack, just watches as the scalding fluid makes a nice rainbow shape as it glides through the air, heading for his face. He admires the accuracy of the kobold's toss, as his face is immersed in hot water, and bits of flesh. Screaming in agony and holding his head, Bimbar crumples to the ground flailing around in tremendous pain. Alriand whips a dagger at the large kobold, but it knocks the blade away with the wooden spoon. Rebrey then steps up to Bimbar, and straddles his body in a protective stance. Tharhack then takes another step and impales a kobold onto his spiked gauntlets, shaking the beast off, Tharhack pumps his fist in the air and shouts at the rest of the kobolds. All the kobolds expect the large one run under a makeshift shelf on the East side of the room, and cower. Bimbar lays limp, blinded and burned, he whimpers in pain. With the rest of the kobolds moving away, Rebrey steps up to the large kobold and gets a spoon to the face for his efforts. With his eyes watering from the blow, Rebrey misses his swing at the kobold. Alriand takes out a length of rope from her backpack, and tells Tharhack she'll tie up the cowering group. Tharhack tells Alriand to make the knot tight, and steps up to the large kobold, who swings but misses Tharhack's ribs. Bimbar tries to calm down, and slow his breathing down. The large kobold takes more tennis practice with Rebrey's face, this time breaking his nose. Rebrey however doesn't miss his next shot, he connects the head of his flail against the kobold's left arm, snapping it like a twig. Alriand arrives at the cowering kobolds and begins to draw out the rope. Tharhack gives the large kobold a body shot from his covered hands, knocking the wind out of the kobold, along with a couple ribs, the kobold drops to the floor with internal injuries that will take it's life soon.</blockquote>

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