Meepo was training under the Ninja-wannabe in our group, but met a terrible end when he failed a balance check trying to scale the ceiling, and fell into a pit trap to his death. Poor Meepo. In another campain with the Sunless Citidel, he survived the whole adventure, but when the party released him back into the citidel, he set off the first trap, which killed him instantly. Poor Meepo.
Yes, my players wound up staring at little Kobold-cicles as well. And then they sliced the dragon in half (1d12+6, x3 Crit from a Dwarven Waraxe tends to do bad things to wyrmlings...)
I ran the Sunless Citadel for one session although the group never got together again to go to the lower level. The group's ranger, whose favored enemy was goblinoids, was going to take Meepo on as an apprentice. Of course, I did my own version of the "barking" speech of the kobolds that made Meepo very cute.
My group killed all the kobolds in the throne room, but spared Meepo and all the combatants. Later they came back to find that Meepo was the new King of the Sunless Citadel, and was quite enjoying having all the females to himself.
My group decided they weren't dealing with scum kobolds and attacked the queen in mid speech. For some reason, the first one the dwarf cut down was poor little Meepo.
When I played the sc, my dm decided to give meepo a barbarian level to start with, so when the group adopted him as our mascot, it was kind of funny to watch him rage and start whacking rats. It was a defining moment, and despite meepo's many deaths, he was an integral npc in our campaign the entire way through.