Where there's a whip, there's a way. Igatho finishes the dragonshield!

The kobolds behind the statue gasp in surprise at the overpowering might of the giant.

A kobold in the back moves up a bit, but doesn't charge.

Holy holds a fist forward and then suddenly stretches out his fingers! A ball of fire appears amidst the kobolds and explodes! The skirmisher dodges, but the dragonshields get hurt.

The caster kobold in the far back spreads his arms and all three kobolds become more muscle-bound! He then heads over to the east and flings a ball of energy at Kitau, hitting her hard! It feels like she got punched by Igatho or something. "Fooooolssss! I am mighty and you are not!"

  Grimly steps over the rocks and recently slain idiot, draws his longbow, and fires an arrow across the room into the chest of the Wyrmpriest.

  "Sometimes, simple works."

Igatho hears Kitau say, "Igatho; squish" and obeys! She rushes forward and pushes the statue! It crashes down on one of the kobolds, but misses the other.

The kobold squirms and squirms, managing to break free.

Kitau spits to the side and looks almost all better all of the sudden.

"Good girl, Igatho!

"One good shot deserves another, Grimly."

After Grimly adds another quill to the caster's new porcupine look, she strolls over to stand beside Iga.
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The skirmisher charges Kitau and misses!

Holy does the palm-up thing again and spikes shoot up from the ground, severly wounding the prone kobold and almost downing the caster!

A dragonshield hurries around the downed statue and charges Igatho! ...to no avail.

"FOOOOOLSSSSS!" The caster rushes forward and spews cold all over the heroes. Kitau, Holy, and even the dragonshield are all hit and hurt badly, shivering wildly. Igatho is unaffected. Aside from starting to get mad.

  Grimly is thankful he was somewhat out of reach for that particular attack, as he steps forward and demonstrates a close blast power of his own.  The dice rolls may be smaller, but it is enough to get the job done as the Priest's eyes swell with blood until they pop.

  The dragonshield suffers a more mundane open slash across the chest.

  "He couldn't see how outmatched he was... Well, actually I guess he could because he had eyes up until just now."

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Dragonshield: 10 HP left, 6 Ongoing DMG (save ends).
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Igatho SMASHES the kobold next to Grimly. Yes. Smashes. Not slice this time, she flattened the kobold with the flat of her axe. "MOMMY! DADDY!" Turns on her heal and charges the kobold next to Kitau! The kobold manages to dodge.

The other kobold hops to his feet and charges Grimly, missing badly.

"Ouchie!"

Kitau puckers her lower lip, playing up the hurt so baby gets infuriated.

"Bad kobold!"

She flicks her whip at the skirmisher.  SLASH!  He loses an arm.

"Still alive, hon."

SLASH!  He's dead.

"Good girl!  Now Mommy kiss Daddy to make him better."

And she steps over to kiss Holy's cheek.

Holy stands up straight and stiff, his ears wiggling. "Hoooooly moley!"

He rolls his face to peck Kitau on her cheek and all her wounds literally fall off of her as if they were just makeup. As if this was a cartoon.

He fires two fireballs at the remaining kobold! One with his staff the other with his free hand! The kobold goes down!

  Grimly is still adjusting to the fact that Nerull cultists do not make the strangest parents.

  "This really is a terrible day to be a kobold."

Kitau blushes and smiles at the reaction she got.  She gives a smirk and thumbs-ups at Grimly's comment.  Then she mommys on Igatho to help calm her down.

Somewhere else, May is smiling and in kombat with a bunch of enemies. "Today is a GREAT day to be a kobold!" as she shifts twice and flanks someone...

But back to present company!

Igatho calms down, sniffles, and says, "...all done?"

Holy says, "Not yet. I'm positive a crystal is here, based on the reports. Let's see..."

He peeks around the corner. "Yup. There's another room."

  Our thinly veiled narrative bait worked, hooray!

  "Sorry Igatho, there is more smashing ahead of us."  Well, okay so the baby might find this to be a good thing rather than a bad thing.

Igatho says, "Yaaaay! More smashing!"

Kitau smiles proudly at her (not so) little girl's enthusiasm and nods.

"Yaay!"

She holds hands with the baby, pretends to shush her, then sneaks to the next room.

Holy just chuckles from Igatho's proclamation and giggles from Kitau yaying along.

He follows Kit and Iga to the doors. "Well I guess we open the door and be ready for attack?"

The chamber is decorated with a dwarven motif: carvings, paintings, and tapestries depict scenes of dwarven triumph and domesticity. Many of these once-fine works have been vandalized. At the south end of the room, a set of iron doors blocks further passage into the keep.

Several kobolds wielding short swords mill about. Set back into an alcove and resting on a raised stone is a large chair carved from oak—not quite a throne, but not far off either. Curled atop the chair on a pile of coins is a white dragon. She hisses commands to the kobolds. You can't see this yet, but you do hear the sounds of draconic being spoken from around the corner.
This message was last edited by the player at 03:57, Tue 28 Apr 2015.

  The critical mass of minions is the meta reason Grimly is here instead of Rhagar again.

  "I suppose under other circumstances, someone would find the wyrmling sitting on the throne cute."  If this is a Dwarven place, why is the throne sized for a giant?

Kitau opens the door.

As soon as Kitau opens the door, kobolds yell, "They here!" even as they attack! Two come and hack at Kitau and Igatho, but Kitau manages to warn Igatho enough for the baby to dodge, but Kitau gets hurt in the process!

Another kobold positions himself, looking ready to attack, but does not go into melee yet.

  Grimly manages to evade the attacks from minions, but fancy movement doesn't prevent the closest slyblade from hitting him (weakly) anyways.  The monk's bipolar dice in turn, make him-
A: noddle armed strike the slyblade.
B: miss literally half of his targets.
C: Proceed to bring the Slyblade to near death, with an additional case of more blood on the floor than inside his tiny kobold body.

OOC: two minions dead. Closest slyblade (A? B?) down to 16 HP, with 6 Ongoing DMG.
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"Bad kobold!"

Kitau snaps her whip at the kobold that attacked her baby and Iga takes it out.  She then hurries over to help Grimly hold the front line.

The slyblade Grimly missed hops around Kitau to flank her, but misses horribly.

Another kobold charges Kitau and nearly trips over himself, missing so bad he almost hurt himself!

The kobolds are hissing loudly in draconic. Too bad nobody in the team understands them.... does that make them emo?

Holy does the palm-up thing again and spikes shoot up from under the slyblades (who dodge it) and the minion near Grimly (who doesn't). The one kobold collapses dead.

Holy looks at his hand with an unimpressed frown.

Igatho heads over to flank one of the slyblades with Kitau. "Momma!" she says as if to say "look what I can do", but Murphy laughs and causes her to miss as horribly as the kobolds have been.

Three kobolds charge Igatho, all of them missing. Then the dragon comes up and shoots frost at the group. Once again, Igatho seems uneffected, but she kills one of her minions, downs Holy, and almost downs Kit and Grimly.

The slyblade stabs at Kitau and misses.
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  Grimly throws one last punch out of spite into the slyblades face, before shifting back.   Shame it isn't QUITE enough to finish the job, after the Dot the kobold will still have twice as many HP as Grimply does right now.

  Well, unless something else splatters him.
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Kitau inhales sharply through her teeth, suppressing a scream from the pain.

"Up!" she hollers at Holy through her chattering teeth.

She snaps her whip at the flanked kobold.

"Iga smash!"

With that one out of the way, she steps over to shield her hubby.

"Iga!  Here!"

She points then snaps her whip at the slyblade. "This one!"

"We need to get back in the hall," she suggests to her allies.