Dominating the room ahead is a long trench filled with a glowing green substance. Beyond the trench, a small, reptilian humanoid stands in a shadowy chamber, gaping at you. It carries a sling, and quickly reaches into a pouch at its belt for a stone. It hisses and shouts, “Intrudersss! Intrudersss!”

Hazel rushes forward, looking ready to leap over the pit, but gets pummeled from the side by a jar of glue that immediately sticks him to the location! He lets out a yelp!

Gnara heads forward and throws a shadow at the kobold before yoinking him into the pit and cackling. "AAAAhahahahaha!"

The kobold eeps! "The hells! They have gnoll with shadow magic!"

  When Hazel takes a glue blob to the face, Rhagar has a moment bordering on humor in being thankful he has no fur to end up sticking out everywhere from such things.

  This gets sidetracked as Rhagar rolls a 2 in his first round of combat for the nth time.

Two more kobolds appear from behind the wall and rush Hazel! One hits him, but the other misses! More puppy squealing. Puppy no look good...

Nathan flies over the pit and lands next to one of the kobolds.

"I am your opponent!" he challenges!

Another kobold rushes out and stabs Nathan with his spear!

Hazel growls and becomes feral, then turns his rune circle counter-clockwise and his wounds start to heal... and everyone feels stronger. Anyone looking at the kobold next to Nathan and Hazel feels even stronger still.

The slinger in the pit struggles and breaks free of the sludge! ...but fails to climb out and gets stuck again. He curses in draconic.

Gnara laughs darkly as she vanishes and suddenly appears behind all the skirmishers. She stabs the one in front of Nathan and cackles before the kobold's own shadow envelopes Gnara and she disappears again! The kobold looks like he is barely standing.

  Rhagar flaps over the pit after Nathanial, and as he lands pulls his dagger back out from a kobold's skull.

  "...Wait, when did he stab meeeeeeeeeeeee."  The confused kobold's peforated brain will never work out the answer to that question, as they keel over.

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Move: Fly over pit wheee.
Standard: Clever vs near dead skirmisher.  Dagger Sneak Crit: "only" 20 damage.

Skirmisher A : DEAD

A kobold is faced with staying and stabbing the feral dog with a spiked chain who can heal himself or go face the two melee guys who haven't even been all that hurt yet, one of whom just brainsplotioned his buddy.

Between the dog being more hurt and the fact that going to the other two means he could get flanked, he attacks Hazel. Not knowing Gnara is flanking him. All that and he misses anyway.

"Maybe this will catch your attention."

Nathan steps forward, hacks off a kobald's tail, and flicks it at another.

"Surrender!"

The slinger beyond the portcullis tosses another deadly pot of glue at Hazel, causing him to puppy-yelp again!

The skirmisher next to Nathan and Rhagar yells, "Surrender, I die! No surrender, I die! So me fight! Not die coward!" and swings at Nathan, but his swing clangs off Nathan's armor.

Hazel's wounds seem to be closing on their own, but he does the thing with his runes again, causing the wounds to close faster. Hazel then swings his chain at the kobold before him and it rips the kobold's jugular open. Along with many other parts of the guy's flesh.

The kobold in the pit hurls a pot at Nathan, gluing him in place. "You no take candle!" he yells as a battle-cry.

Gnara then lassos the one beyond the portcullis and yanks him closer before teleporting behind him! "AAahahahaha!" the kobold looks very hurt.

  Rhagar considers breaking off to deal with the slinger still taking shots out of spite at Nathan, but instead opts to put the remaining skirmisher at an even worse position than before, making a shallow slice across it's leg before much less gracefully punting his enemy.

  Unfortunately, this merely sends it sprawling to the ground instead of falling into the pit.  Tark would be having a conniption about safety standards if he were here.

Skirmisher HP: 27-5=22/27 Skirmisher prone.
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"Fine.  Die."

Nathan makes a holy hand gesture at the kobold who glows for a moment.  His sword lights up with white fire, and slices the kobold's throat!  Amazingly, the kobold is alive still.  If just barely.  Nathan then breaks free from the glue.

The slinger to the north backs up from Gnara and gluepots her, making her puppy-yelp! Yeah, totally going to describe that every time one of the doggies gets hit. XD ....OK, so Gnara instantly growls afterwords.

The skirmisher slashes Nathaniel in the neck in the same way Nathaniel slashed the kobold! He can't make a retort because his throat is slit.

Hazel then smacks down the skirmisher with his spiked chain, knocking it unconscious. Or dead. We don't know which.

Gnara lassos the slinger and strangles him to death even as he gets pulled to her. Gnara giggles, cheered up so easily.

The remaining slinger just slouches. "...I give up."
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  "I suggest you stay down there until we finish then."  At least he didn't tell the kobold to stick around.

  He sees that while Nathan is rather banged up, that the Angel will clearly live so is not overly concerned, and heads over to the portcullis "Is there a method of opening this on your side, Gnara?"

Nathan puts pressure on his neck wound and digs through his bag for something to use as a bandage.

"Times like this when I want to kick destiny in the groin."

Ooh!  Better than a bandage.  A flask!  Glug glug glug.

Gnara stares at her team with a grin as her hand reaches to the wall to her right and pulls a lever. Even as the portcullis starts to pull up, Gnara giggles, holding onto the lever.

Hazel breaks free from still more glue. "Are you guys gonna be alright?" He heads to Nathaniel first to check on him and starts helping patch up the angel. Hazel seems to know what he's doing (haha trained in heal)

After patching up Nathaniel, Hazel checks Rhagar and Gnara before going to find a spot to sit without sitting on broken pottery.

  "I suppose you may know how to locate where the deity supposedly in charge of such things to do so, Nathaniel."  The angel probably meant that figuratively, Rhagar.... Probably.

  Rharar is fairly well off compared to the rest, having taken only one mild hit.  He feels silly spending a heal surge over 5 HP until he remembers this is level 1, so his surge value is only 6 anyways, and that 5 HP is 1/5 his max HP.

  "Thank you Gnara, it would have been inconvenient to deal with that otherwise."
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"I'll live.  Just very painful."

Glug.

"Ready when y'all are."

A cursory search of the room shows no real loot besides what was on the kobolds.

Speaking of, the kobold in the pit is soon snatched and bound up by Hazel. Then tossed back into the pit for good measure. "We'll be back for you."

Gnara giggles and eventually breaks free of the glue she got stuck with.

Once the team is ready to move on, Hazel is willing to let Nathaniel take lead, though somewhat hesitant.

A flight of stairs leads down into a room that has four stone coffins, all of which show
signs of vandalism and abuse. To the left is a series of six niches, set apart into two groups of three. Two more niches along the walls each hold a suit of armor. On the opposite end of the room is a raised section of floor with a makeshift altar to Tiamat set atop it. Three kobolds carrying spears stand in front of the altar.

  "Less traps than expected, but the standing coffins in the wall are rigged with crossbows that fire at what we would consider shoulder height."  He gives the map data explanation for trigger points.

  "It is fortunate most mundane traps do not account for flight or teleportation."

"We should do something to trigger or disable them before we move on.  Just in case we need to retreat."

Hazel says, "Unless you have some way of quickly disabling the traps while fighting, or some kind of mage hand spell, I really don't see how you're going to manage that before having to fight those kobolds."

Gnara giggles as she holds up a pot. "We could throw glue pots at them in order to seal them and mung up their workings..."

  "Much better than never using them I suppose, Gnara."  Item hoarding.  Does it happen to you?  You know it does.  "The one farther in is the most problematic, the closer one can be ignored unless something so foolish I can not bring it to mind occurs."

  Even though he will probably roll a 2 in the first turn of combat again, Rhagar at least needs to make a token effort at trying to get that 'have CA vs those that have not acted yet' ranged sneak dice rather than throwing pots at things.

GM says kobolds haven't heard or seen the group yet.  So plenty of time to talk strategy.

"I'd rather not fight those kobolds on their terms.  It would be nice to lure them into a trap rather than barge into their trap-filled room.  Gnara proved earlier she can imitate sounds perfectly.  Maybe imitate one of the kobolds we fought and say, 'Hey guys!  We killed an adventurer and he's got more booze than we can drink!  Come and get it!'  Then we jump 'em in the room with the pit."

Gnara giggles. "Good thing we know a guy who knows draconic..." she grins over at Rhagar. "You can coach me how to say it in their language to make it more believable... you know... since they prefer their language over common."

Hazel huhs and says, "That's a good idea, Nathan. And a good catch, Gnara."

The rogue coaching the assassin on language so that the paladin's idea to lure the enemy into a trap will be more believable. Who said teamwork can't happen outside of combat?

  "There is merit to this plan, I had not considered it because the three of them lack any ranged weaponry so would be forced to cross the entire room as..." he pauses, then says "I am not used to being the only one with a weapon that can reach beyond ten feet.  Letting them reach stabbing distance before we attack seems a regrettable necessity."

  That said, he gives Gnara pointers on the fine art of insulting dead adventurers in Draconic.

"I'm thinking as they approach you say, 'You spilled some!  I'm drinking as much as I can before the others arrive!'  Hoping that'll make them toss caution to the wind."

He takes position and takes another swig then wipes his mouth.

"What?  Gotta make sure the smell is in the air."

Once the plan is enacted, the kobolds seem to be fooled as they yell in draconic, "HEY! No fair!" and run in that direction!

Gnara is perfectly frozen, her grin becoming creepy and she somehow keeps from giggling.

Hazel is holding his breath. His wounds from last fight are fresh in his mind... as is the sight of Nathan getting hurt so bad. He is hoping he can let Nathan tank this time and maybe health will be more manageable as a result.

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Kobolds turns: They RUN toward us.
Gnara puts a shroud on one of the kobolds and readies Leaping Shade for when a kobold gets into melee range.
Hazel can not take his turn yet.

  Rhagar only has one worry. Rolling terrible in the first turn of combat again.  Of course this is because he isn't considering Murphy hard enough, instead expecting that logically three skirmishers with no traps would be an easier fight than their previous one.

  Readied blah blahs.

FIVE SECONDS LATER!  Rhagar throws a shuriken right into the first approaching kobold's neck. ow.

OOC: 18 DMG
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Kershlink-kershling!  With a flash of blades, the kobold collapses in a heap!  Was it the sword or shirukin that struck the first blow?  Hard to tell, they were so fast!  Nathan flicks his sword tip to keep the blood from wetting his grip.

"No one but me's drinking my booze!"

How heroic.

The other kobolds can be heard eeping in shock and running away. <Draconic>"Fall back!"</Draconic>

Nathan rushes down the hall and swings at the kobold still in reach.

"Your traps won't help.  Your only option for survival is surrender."

Gnara heads over to Nathaniel and giggles, vanishing and reappearing behind the kobold. "Heehee... nowhere to run, little one... surrender and live...."

Hazel trots to catch up with Nathaniel.

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Gnara moves to Nathaniel. then teleports behind kobold. So double-move.
Hazel moves and readies a heal in case Nathaniel gets hurt.

  Rhagar moves up behind his currently favorite doggy, and throws a shuriken that buries itself in the wall next to the Kobold.  That was totally a deliberate thing and in no way a terrible miss, really.

  "All of those statements are true, I suppose."

MOST monsters will fight to death. But for kobolds, that is the exception. They just die easy is all. "OKOK! I surrender!" and drops his weapon! Kobolds are usually not so brave. They also usually don't have gold hair.

The other kobold can be heard yelling, but his yelling quickly fades from sheer distance.
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Nathan ties up the prisoner.

"Smart move.  So past all these traps, what else is there."

  Gnara continues to be quite useful in the sort of job you would expect from a Tank rather than a striker.  Of course from what grasp he has in social interaction, he does not compliment the girl on being able to block an entire passageway with her body.

  People tend to look like they weight more on a grid map anyway.

The kobold says, "Skull-skull."

Gnara says, "Skull-skull? Nice! Can I play?"

Hazel asks, "What? What is skull-skull?"

The kobold answers, "Fun game! Swing sticky rock from rope at skull! Try to stick skull to rock! Grab skull, get points! Wheee!"

Gnara nodnodnodnodnods, looking equally excited.

Hazel stares at Gnara and the kobold with a look of confusion.

Nathan is trying to picture the game.

"Informative.  So...  How many players we talkin?  Any more traps or pitfalls?"

He tries triggering a trap from a distance by throwing a kobold on it.

"This game is called Trap Trap."

Swig.

  "Are these skulls still attached to people at the time, or prepared skulls?"  Skull Skull sounds like what some Kobolds left home alone came up with.

  Then corpse tossing ensues "Nathaniel, we already told you they are not heavy enough to trigger those."

"Two players..."

A body is thrown and the trap does not go off.

"....the skulls are not attached to anyone. You could not get a skull to come back to you if it was attached to a body."

Gnara giggles and says, "Who cares if it doesn't set off the trap? Throwing bodies is fun! I like this Trap Trap game! Heeheehee..."

Hazel says, "Two bodies might set it off?"

Nathan tries tossing another body on top.  Nothing.  Third?  The trap triggers!

"Third time's the charm.  This is going to be time consuming.  Maybe we just mark the trigger spots and move on?  Or is it worth it to fuss with to lul the kobolds in the next room into a false sense of security.  Thinking that maybe we got bored and left or whatever."

  "That would be preferable to deliberately triggering them to shoot you in the face, Nathaniel."

  When it they stop throwing more bodies on the triggers, Rhagar uses the out of combat downtime to just disarm the pair of traps.

  "I suspect they will not fall for such things a second time, if only because by now the remaining skirmisher will have warned the next room."

The traps are disarmed. This doesn't stop Gnara from picking up bodies, throwing them and giggling about it.

Gnara giggles, "But they fell for it one more time than they would have if we didn't do it. So definitely a win for us!"

Hazel says, "I'd say worth a try to see if they are that stupid, but we don't want to give them any clues we are coming."
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"So next one we charge 'em?  Tower shield would be nice for something like that."

He eyes the bodies for potential as meat shields...  Muuch too small.

  "This does seem to be what we are left with, though if things get too risky falling back would be a good idea."  Even if we handwaved 'Rhagar stealth peeked around the corner' into having already happened, all he'd have seen were a pair of slingers on ledges and a closed door.

  He would be advising way more caution if he knew there were DRAKES

When the group gets to the north end of the room, they can see stairs leading down.

Gnara giggles and says in a dark tone, "Let me scout ahead..."

Hazel is about to say something when Gnara just starts down the stairs and seems to fade out of existence.

Shortly, she reappears, fading back into existence and giggling. "Hmm... how to describe this. There is another sludge pit like in that first room; same size even. But the room is much bigger and more open. Surrounding the pit are four coffins. The coffins have skull piles on them for the skull skull game. On the opposite end of the room is a pair of double doors. To either side of the double doors are two ten-foot high platforms, a kobold standing on each one. One kobold had the stone that was tied to a rope that is attached to the ceiling."

From the description, Nathan has no idea the game rock could be used as an effective weapon.  So he considers what he does know.

"Ledges flanking a double door.  Wild guess that they lead to stairs or ladders that lead to the ledges.  What a bizarre design for a mausoleum!  In any case, they likely barricaded the door, and 10 foot walls aren't easy to climb in heavy armor.  Might be best if we just plink at 'em from across the room till they flee or charge."

  "Well, Even with your armor you could fly that high, though it would also give them a chance to take a swing at you.  The smaller left side they could not surround you, but I could not help you on it unless you cleared off space either"

  HE looks to Gnara "Of course, there is always pulling them down to us as well if need be."

Gnara suspects Murphy will just have the kobold catch himself before he falls off the ledge.

Hazel says, "I don't have any weapons that reach farther than my chain, and it only reaches ten feet."

Gnara giggles, "I can't reach far enough to hit them from our side of the room either. But I could teleport up to them if one of you was at the wall..."

"So I fly up and try to push a guy down?  Then move to the other side while guy one gets a beat-down?  Could always loot the slings off the previous kobolds and pelt 'em with rocks."

  "Attempting to use the slings would only be worthwhile for Gnara and I, the rest of you would be better off THROWING the rocks, or their spears." Which is true, from a numbers standpoint.

  "Unless they have more worrisome reinforcements than skirmishers behind that gate, it would be faster for you and I to fly up to one side and start stabbing, when not trying to kick them over the edge."

"Come to think of it.  Where's the kobold that fled there?  Did they lower a ladder for him?  Or maybe the door's not barricaded after all."

Hazel says, "The time we took to disable traps and rest was plenty of time for the runner to have had the doors opened for him and then barricaded."

Gnara shrugs. "I wonder if they gave up on us being a thing. The were playing skull skull when I checked, though, heehee."

Hazel says, "Well I'm ready when you guys are."

---

The kobolds are ready for us. So there is no surprise for either side. Initiative starts once we decide it is time to go in.

"Fly up and throw down it is.  Let's focus on the nearest one first."

Nathan gets ready to charge in.

Gnara giggles and becomes transparent and ghostly as her eyes become glowing green beady eyes and her body whisps a bit like a shadow. She rushes into the room and the kobolds immediately throw things at her, but miss. She just laughs!

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Shade Form, Double move, Assassin's Shroud on slinger
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  Rhagar's instinct is to move to the next piece of cover, but as he comes out from hiding he realizes that leaves him just remaining safe for a moment longer personally is not so practical, and hurls a sling stone across the room and across the throat of the most convenient target.

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Move: duh.
Standard: Sly Flourish with sneak, hits. 20 DMG.

Slinger A HP: 24-20 = 4

Nathan moves out and flies up to the ledge, killing an unexpected kobold behind the one Rhagar hit.

"There's more up here than just the one."

Two kobolds swing at Nathaniel and one of them dies in the process from sudden angelic charge. A drake scurries up the stairs to charge Nathaniel, but nips at air. All three are still out of Rhagar's sight.

Hazel rushes forward, but stops short, ready to heal anyone on the team.

The kobold on the other ledge grins as he catches the skullskull stone.

Gnara materializes behind the slinger, flanking it with Nathaniel. Then stabs him, killing the kobold! "Heeheehee..." She remains insubstantial.

The kobold earlier? The one grinning? Yeah, he throws the stone at Hazel, knocking the doggy back 10 feet and hurting him!

Another drake starts going up the stairs and Gnara slices it with her sword!

The drake SAVAGES Gnara and it doesn't seem to hurt her near as much as it should have...

The kobold in the corner tries and fails to stab Nathaniel. The drake near Nathaniel also fails to nip at him.

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HAHAHAHAHA Insubstantial! Drake rolls low on its d10+9 dmg (11 total) and insubstantial means Gnara only took 5 dmg. XD
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  Rhagar's streak of rolling a 2 on what should be a 'sure thing' continues, as he crosses the room and comes to a stop atop the ledge, missing his stab at the Kobold as he is unprofessionally distracted

  "Why the *Draconic expletive* didn't you mention there were drakes when you got up here?!"  Oh look, Rhagar CAN raise his voice.
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Nathan sees an opening and finishes off Rhagar's kobold.

"I said 'more' didn't I?"

He holy-signs the drake.  Not like it would understand it as a rude gesture or otherwise, but a divine mark is placed on it.

"Drakes can't fly.  We should kill the kobold on the other side then maybe lure the Drakes to the pit and push 'em in."

Hazel scrambles to the wall and rushes up it with ease. Guy must do his pull-ups a lot.

"Never figured you for one to lose your cool, Rhagar." He comments as he places himself between Rhagar and the drake.

A couple kobolds position themselve, ready to charge.

Gnara giggles as she stabs the drake near Nathaniel in a vital spot! "I just love it when my allies gang up like this! More blood! HEEHEEHEE!" is she drooling?

The other drake, though, savages Gnara again. This time, doing a decent amount of harm to her.

Nathaniel continues to luck out as the drake near him nips at him weakly... maybe it's that nasty wound Gnara dealt it?

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17 dmg / 2 = 8. Gnara NOT QUITE bloodied! Hate it when that happens. XD Gnara could have gotten even more nasty if bloodied.

  Rhagar says "They are Drakes, Hazel" as if that is all the explanation that is required.

  He flies off of the platform away from the battle, what a cowardly excuse for a-oh he's coming right back between Hazel and Gnara.  He outdoes Gnara's drooling problem with a spray of freezing liquid across the faces of the Drakes, and drives his rapier through the shattering scales and skull of the already wounded beast.

  Even with half it's skull missing and a sword driven through it's brain, it still moves to lunge at the Draconian before slumping to the ground halfway through.

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Move: Fly around to avoid AoO.
Minor: Dragonbreath vs drakes, hits both, 5 DMG.
Standard: Clever strike vs Drake A, hits. Exactly enough to kill it.

Drake B HP:  42-5= 37
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"Nice work, everyone.  Maybe we just muscle through and nevermind fancy tactics."

He steps down the stairs a bit and takes an intimidating pose and glows a bit.

"Stop gnawing on Gnara!"

Slash!  A deep gash is cut in the drake's hide!

Hazel dials his runes counterclockwise and Gnara's wounds heal up while everyone feels stronger. "I'm game." he says before whipping the drake with his chain past his allies and rips some flesh off the drake. "So why is Rhagar getting worked up about these things when they aren't any more dangerous than kobolds?"

Gnara stabs the drake and laughs. "No more dangerous than kobolds! HAhahahaha!" the drake proves her point by somehow still standing after all this abuse.

But it is too hurt and nips at Nathaniel weakly. Maybe Nathaniel has some angelic anti-drake aura that causes drakes to not hit him?

  Before Rhagar can answer, the surviving Drake catches one of Rhagar's daggers in it's teeth, bites the blade off, and starts chewing.

  "..."

Nathan finishes off the drake.

"We can go over the zooligy lesson once we're sure we're no longer in danger.  Hey kobolds!  Your pets are dead!  Surrender yet?"

No apparent answer. Gnara giggles. "Looks like they are just standing there, waiting for us to come to them..."

  Rhagar quietly flaps around to the opposite ledge, and barely sees the kobold standing near the bottom of the stairs.

  This time around, it is far easier to kill a minion with a difficult angle than one right in front of him.

Gnara vanishes from Nathan and Hazel's sight and appears next to Rhagar, giggling darkly before rushing down the stairs and pressing up against the wall, ready to attack.

Hazel waits for Nathaniel. This whole "let the tank defend" thing really is working out nicely.

Nathan rounds the corner to three kobolds.

"Shoulda stayed behind cover."

Sure enough, ouch!  Lots of pain from kobold attacks!  He retaliates by gashing the skirmisher's forehead, some of the blood trickling down to interfere with his vision!

Hazel hops down the stairs and does the rune thing again. Nathan's wounds heal some and everyone feels stronger again! He then charges the kobold, twirling his chain and slamming it down on him!

The two kobolds attack again and both miss. The one in front of Nathan misses so bad, he doesn't even swing at Nathan due to blood in the eyes.
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  Rhagar flaps down the stairs, and flicks a dagger through the eye of the barely standing skirmisher.

  "So far, there has been one kobold who actually surrenders in each fight.  So far, those are the only ones still alive."

Gnara tosses that shadow noose at the remaining kobold, but misses. However, she teleports to be next to him and giggles at him.

The remaining slinger says, "I surrender! I surrender!"

"Good.  'cause you wouldn't have lasted six seconds."

He ties up the surrenderer.

"Now tell us about the next room.  EVERYTHING we can expect."

  Rhagar retrieves his previously thrown sharp objects.  He looks over to Nathaniel, but the paladin looks much better now that Hazel has done his thing.

  "I expect, something more troublesome than the last few minutes.  Although, I am sure anyone could tell that much."

The kobold says, "You see that boulder over there? You see the ditches in the room? The boulder will be pushed towards the ditches and will roll around that central area until the others decide to stop it. Which they won't until you're dead. The central area has a room inside it with no roof, so you could potentially climb up the wall and get inside."

Hazel asks, "How do you stop the boulder?"

The kobold answers, "I don't know."

Gnara says, "So charge in again?"

"Must be magical if it keeps rolling around without anything pushing it," Nathan concludes, "So it'll be on a timer or you have to say a magic word to stop it.  Who makes a room that you have to climb a wall to get into?  Is there no other way into the center room?"

  "I would assume there is a door on another side, if locked.  Though yes, an open top does make this easier for us."  Man, this mini dungeon really was built to prolong traditional melee combat PC's from being able to do anything as long as possible, wasn't it?

  Maybe the place had been built by a wizard?

  "Nathanial or I can land on the ledge, and Gnara can teleport up to us... I am open to suggestions for Hazel beyond waiting for the boulder to not be heading for where he needs to go to move."

Yes. This dungeon WAS built by a wizard. The one the group is about to fight.

"Oh right... yeah, it has a door. To the east side. But it's barred from the inside. It would be easier for tall folk like you to climb walls than to smash in the doors. Also, our boss is in this room often. So you can expect to fight a powerful wizard!"

Hazel shrugs. "I've been doing well enough to keep us alive while Nathan keeps me alive."

Gnara giggles. "Indeed..."

"Barred from the inside means one of us three can open it for Hazel.  So yeah.  Let's do this."

Nathan prepares to charge in.

Nathan flies up to the ledge / wall and an energy orb flies past him.

"Wizard is on a platform across the room," he says, "Two slingers in here."

He then disappears over the edge and a yelp can be heard coming from one of the two slingers.

"They have ladders!"

Hazel heads into the room, goes to the corner of the central area, and waits for his chance to jet into the room.

Readies move into room for when door is open.

The kobold NOT next to Nathan climbs the ladder near himself and then slings a pot at Nathan, missing him!

The kobold next to Nathan expertly hops away from him and then climbs the ladder, then slings a pot at Nathan, but nearly hits himself with it. "Eek! You no take candle!"

Gnara becomes insubstantial again, teleports up to the slinger, giggles, and stabs him through the gut!

  The oddities of level 1 combat as well as +4 Prof bonus thanks to class features mean a roll of 4 is still all that is needed to introduce a dagger into the brain of a Slinger.

  That over with, he Rhagar silently flaps up beside Gnara, at which point he sees another drake so quickly hurls a gluepot, smashing against the Drake's skull and sticking it to the ground.

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Standard: Sly flourish, amazingly still hits Slinger, Dead.
Move: Fly sneaky.
ACTION POINT: ranged basic gluepot vs drake. hits, 13 DMG (sneak) and immoblized.

Drake HP: 16/29
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The drake struggles and then breaks free!

The kobold wyrmpriest curses in draconic and then mutters some magic words. Every kobold in the room and the drake all get a white aura about them and they all shift with excitement! He then fires an energy orb at Rhagar, grazing the draconian!

Nathan opens the door for Hazel.

"Might be good to come down here where they can't target us," he suggests to the other two.

Javelin to the slinger!

"So far only one kobold out of each encounter had the brains to surrender.  Are you that kobold?"

Hazel hurls his chain up at the slinger, and rips some of the guy's leg off. Even as he does, he turns the dial counter-clockwise.

The slinger says, "I SURRENDER! CATCH ME!" and jumps at Hazel. Hazel catches the kobold and says, "Good choice. I'll heal you up later." and sets the slinger down.

Gnara giggles and rather than teleport, she runs around the wall tops and then snatches the wyrmpriest with her shadow-noose and yanks! The wyrmpriest is visibly injured, but goes prone to keep from falling into the floor below. "EEP!"

Gnara grins wide and chuckles.

  Rhagar silently drops down from the wall, and stalks around to the corner in order to flick a shuriken at the Spiretop drake, landing it in the back of the beast's open mouth.

  Uh, wait we need a one liner.  Um... Looks like... It couldn't stomach that? No? damnit this is hard.

The wyrmpriest looks furious as his pet dies. He glares at Gnara, the only enemy visible to him, and fires an energy orb at her! ....and it goes right through her, making her giggle. "That tickles..."

The things he says in draconic are things even Rhagar's tactlessness find rather tactless. And vulgar.

Nathan flies up to the ledge and glows with angelic radiance.

"Surrender!"

The two dragonshields begin quaking in their boots.  He then javelins the mage.

Hazel heads out of the room and slams the priest with his spiked chain!

Gnara tries to lasso him again and misses, but barely. Looks like the wyrmpriest knew it was coming this time.

The wyrmpriest screams at the top of his lungs, "YOU KILLED WING-DING! I KILL YOOOOOU!!!!"

  Rhagar does not find this revelation worth even an eyeroll, as he pops up at another section of ledge from out of sight and shuts up the Priest's yelling with a rock to the skull.

  Though as a change of pace, this one merely knocks Rhagar's target out.  Priest likely knows the most out of anyone here after all, can always stab their brain later.

  "I have been out of sight for a good portion of this scuffle.  Have the armored kobolds even done anything yet?"

The fear tactic worked! ....the dragonshields flee!

Hazel says, "That went... better than expected."

Gnara giggles. "Interrogation! We get an interrogation!"

"All this killing and STILL no crystal.  I'm beginning to believe we're in the wrong place."

If not for the dead give-away of the secret exit that the two fleeing kobolds just used.

  "We have no particular rush, so if desired we can likely wait out the remaining enemies instead of going to them." Silly Rhagar, the Boss doesn't spawn until you pass the trigger point!

Gnara giggles and points at the exit stage left. "They fled that way instead of the way we came... and I don't know about the rest of you, but I have not seen a treasure room or even a stockpile room... these are kobolds who have been looting..."

Hazel shrugs and goes to tie up and heal the one who surrendered, then tie up and wake up the wyrmpriest.

When interrogated, the wyrmpriest still has wild eyes of hatred and curses the adventurers vehemently, spitting on them. Nothing sways him. A high intimidate roll, while it would cause the priest to quiet down and freeze up in fear a bit, will still yield no useful answers.

So Nathan just knocks him out again and interrogates the other guy.

"Everything we can expect in the next room."

  "One would hope they had such storage, otherwise we have been working our way through them for nothing." Oh, sooooory dead Kobolds, we thought there was a plot gem here, our bad.

The kobold decides to give the team the answer they have been hinting SO strongly that they WANT to hear, "Yes! Treasure in other room! Two dragonshields who ran from you will be there. Big puddle of ice! But you no go there! Our god Szartharrax in there. He destroy you and eat you!"

Hazel says, "....I've never heard of Szartharrax and I'm pretty sure I know the names of all the gods in every language and culture."

Gnara giggles. "Probably means a dragon... kobolds worship dragons. And eat littler people like us! Heehee..."

"Ice dragon no doubt.  How big is Szartharrax?  Is she this tall at the shoulders?"

Nathan measures up to his waist level.

"Or bigger?"

  Rhagar suspects it will be roughly horse sized, and ironically more dangerous than a 5th ed baby's first dragon in design, even accounting for wussy 5th ed PC statistics.

  "What exactly, does Szartharrax provide for you? What do you get out of worshiping them"

To Nathan, the kobold says, "Szartharrax HUGE! His shoulders taller than you! Also, Szartharrax not female. He is male."

Hazel glances at Nathaniel and Rhagar. "So much for the idea of wooing the dragon with your good looks, eh guys?"

Gnara laughs. "Who knows? Maybe he's a gay dragon!"

Hazel pauses and looks worried at that comment.

The kobold answers Rhagar, "Same as any god. Answers to prayer. Food, shelter, power. Prosperity. Difference is, our god real. Can be seen and talked to. You silly people talk to air and think someone listening."

Hazel rolls his eyes and says, "I saw the statue of Tiamat in the other room. I know you worship one of the "invisible" gods."

The kobold answers, "Not me. I worship Szartharrax only."

Hazel shrugs. "I stand corrected."
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Nathan sighs.

"Gnara.  Think you're sneaky enough to elude a huge dragon's senses long enough to get a look at what we're up against?  I'm not keen on suiciding...

"Kobold.  If it's so big, how did it get in there?  There another exit?"

  "If it is as big as he says, then it could slowly make it's way through the more narrow hallways.  As for seducing our target, I doubt I am up to it's standards either way."

  Rhagar can see some of the appeal for a more mundane form of worship with benefits.  Not everybody is granted divine laser beams for their trouble.

The kobold answers, "Hole in ceiling lead to exit."

"So much for trapping it here while we get reinforcements."

He waits for Gnara's answer.

Gnara returns having sneaked so well Nathan didn't notice she had snuck off that quick. "Heeheehee... size of a horse with wings! Lurking in the shadows."

  "About as expected, then.  I would suggest making demands first, but it would certainly ignore us.  It may be slightly more open to such things after wounding it severely, but I suspect it would be too stubborn even then.  Best get this over with as quickly as possible"

"Any of you experts on dragons?  How likely are we to distract it long enough to get away with the crystal?"

Hazel says, "If you don't mind the others in the team dying while you get away with the crystal, it's doable. Remote chance, but doable."

Gnara giggles. "Don't forget we can all teleport to the original crystal. So the only real challenge is getting to the crystal. However, we would have to know where it is and I didn't locate it..."

  "No expertise on dragons is needed, the crystals are so large it is not possible to retrieve it in a timely manner."  Nevermind the crystals are large and the hallway is medium.  GM already gave a ceiling opening plothole fix.

  "A good concept at least, if our target were appropriately sized."

Nathan takes a swig of his canteen.

"Welp.  Let's go home.  I did say I'm not keen on suicide."

He hefts up the wizard kobold over his shoulder.

"I'll take this one and one other."

He starts moving toward the hall the group entered by.

Hazel raises a finger, thinks about it, and nods. "We'll report about the dragon."

Gnara giggles and follows her new pack. <3