Emerald is unsure about eating another sentient life. "I'll keep that in mind, thanks."

She sings during the rest, causing everyone to feel pleasant. Then once the rest is over, Emerald leads the way to the double-doors.

(Position yourselves in the red square and roll initiative)

"Dragons are people," Cherub says, "People shouldn't eat people."

"But cooking them is totally ok," Imp interjects.

"The thought of sizzling steaks is making my mouth water," Mits says, taking a small bite from her rations, "But don't fight on a full stomach or something."

She listens at the door.

"I hear a kinda cute growling voice barking commands.  Sounds like this: 'Grrawrgo kargle mo slithern!  Okla gooka!'  Doesn't sound kobold.  Might be our dragon."
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Chekin finds the luxury of being picky about who and what you eat in these lands a novelty.

"Somehow, I suspect people are less choosey when it comes to using parts of a dead dragon in their arcane workings than they are eating them."  Well DUH, you aren't going to make a +7 Dragonblood greatsword if you eat the spell components.

Flarewing shrugs a bit, "Maybe it's a phoenix thing.  Cultures and rivalries and what not.  Ah well.  We can cross that bridge when we get to it."   She chirps softly and readies herself for the next wave of burnables to begin.

When the doors are opened, Checkin is immediately assaulted by kobolds! ...and every one of them hits only his armor, not getting through his defenses before backing away.

"Just a reminder that I'm fireproof," Cherub says, flying into the room to hover over the kobold's heads.

"You should know by now that the rest of your forces couldn't stop us.  You should consider parlay."

Mits fires a big, heavy-looking arrow at one of the kobolds, but misses.  When it hits the far wall it bounces wildly.  Mits slouches, looking very disappointed.

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As a conjuration, Cherub cannot be targeted by area powers and is immune to them.  Can only be damaged by ranged or melee powers.  Any enemy adjacent to her that moves without shifting is subject to an immediate attack.

A kobold charges at Checkin, knee-slides to avoid Cherub attacking him, and hops up to slash Checkin's leg, followed by Emerald's arm!

Flarewing doesn't like the fact that all the kobolds are trying to stab her bug-friend.  That's just plain rude!  She flappity-flaps and makes her way around the rude kobolds.  "Hey lizard lips!  Over here!"   Once shouted, she takes in a deep breath and lets out a stream of firey flames at the kobolds.  Certainly at least one of them is going to be deep fried by this, right?

A kobold comes up and swings at Flarewing, who dodges easily.

Emerald sings, "I'm sorry for your blunder, it really makes me wonder, how you get along..."

The slyblade trips and stumbles over into Checkin's weapon, almost getting dead.

Another kobold runs over to Flare and stabs at her. Another easy dodge for the phoenix.

  Chekin's graceful stab is alas, followed up by the quite frequently of late rolling of a 1.  Still, a free crit and a miss beats nothing and a miss.

A kobold charges up to Flare, hops to her side and gets slashed by Flarewing for getting into position. But he stabs her in return, both blades running through Flarewing's side! But since he stays where he is, light explodes and harms him more!

The dragon comes into view and breathes ice on everyone! Only Mittens and one of the kobolds gets hit, but it hurts Mittens a lot and kills the kobold! "Fools! You dare disturb the chamber of a DRAGON?!"

Right after that, a kobold rushes in, charges Checkin, and then backs up. Another kobold goes to charge Checkin and Cherub hacks him down for it!

Mits' teeth are too busy chattering for her to give a whitty come-back.  But she at least manages to down one of her two intended targets with her shaky hand.  Imp flutters over Chekin's head, trying to find a way to be helpful.

Cherub blink-blinks at the dragon and gets a helpless look in her eyes.  "W...  Aaaawww?!  It's so cuuute!"

She takes that annoying tone adults do when talking to a puppy.  "Who's a cute dragon?!  You are!  Let's be friends!"
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Flarewing will have to deal with the dragon later.  For now it's time to play the stabbing game with a certain kobold that decided it was a good idea to stand in front of her.

Emerald sings to Flarewing and the bird can feel her health restored!

Then Emerald swings at the kobold Flarewing near-gutted and hits only armor.

Another kobold hops up to Emerald and slashes at her before hopping back to where he was.
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  Chekin steps over to the tiny horde of lizards around Flarewing.  The weakling gets a karate chop to the neck, the healthy one gets a backhand across the face, and the kobold who had the nerve to impale Flarewing gets-

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAA"  His face ripped right off.

  AAAAghgggrkffrk! and said face shoved down their screaming throat, choking to death on his own face.

  Hmm, maybe Chekin likes Flarewing?  Or maybe he's just a violent bug maniac.  Either way, he follows up on all this by reaching across the room with his malformed lower arm (FIVE FINGERS!?), dragging the baby dragon over by the throat so it is easier to stab them with his tratnyr.  It is probably not a smart idea to hold a breath recharged dragon at point blank range, but totally worth it.

The dragon responds, "FOOL!" and spews ice at Checkin, Emerald and Flarewing! While flarewing manages to dodge, Checkin and Emerald are hurt badly!

Then a kobold dances about Checking, flanking him with the dragon. And manages to hit only Checkin's chitinous armor. But the near-dead kobold pops from around the corner and stabs Checkin with a flesh wound. But hey... as hurt as Checkin is, every HP counts. XD

Mits snickers at the face-eat fatality but misses her two shots.

"Sooo many puns to make about that," Imp says, flying over Checkin's head.

Cherub is still on the "cute dragon" kick and glomps the dragon's tail to cuddle it.

"I'm gunna love him, and pet him, and call him George."

Flarewing noted she would have to deal with the dragon, and so she shall!  Besides, she can't let the buggy have all the fun, or worse take the brunt of a ticked off dragon temper tantrum.   She manuvers herself close to the dragon and flares out her plumage into a firey aura and blasts it at the dragon like some kind of kaelidescope of firey laserness and wastes no time in following through with stabbing the dragon with more fire, just to be safe.

Emerald is shivering and coughing blood. But sees poor Checkin is surrounded.
She swings feebly at the kobold behind Checkin, but can't seem to find purchase in his armor.

So she sings to Checkin, "Be well, my friend, be well... and overcome this taste of hell... I give you of myself... before I rest a spell..."

Checkin's wounds close!

  Chekin takes advantage of his health improvement to make a health notprovement (that's a real word, totally) to the near dead kobold.  Driving his tratnyr through it's skull until it's halfway down the shaft.

  The bad news is this bit of overkill makes it a little too awkward to draw it out and hit the still standing enemy as well.

The slyblade behind Checkin swings at Emmy ANYWAY, but ducks under Checkin's swing and hops past Emerald.

Emerald swings and misses again (big surprise)! But backs away. She is coughing too much to sing at this point.

  Chekin steps up, and while his intended attack connects solidly enough, his spur of the moment ones fall short of penetrating the Kobold's sensible choice of armor.

  At least it's not running off anywhere for the moment.

The kobold stabs Mittens, downing her out of spite!

After Flarewing misses, Emerald makes up for her last couple misses by flinging a wand and zapping the kobold dead! Then rushes over to Mittens and kneels next to her, hoping to help.