Rain heads to the door. She glances over her shoulder to see every ally of hers is waaaay back from her and her heart sinks. She looks hesitant but puts on a determined (if nervous) expression on.

Just as she opens the door, a kobold rushes over to swing at her, but Rain deflect the blow at the last second! In return, she slashes the kobold!

2 shots 2 kills.  Archer reaches for more arrows.

Another kobold arrives and charges Rain, but meets only her shield.

  Kyle finally failrolls, though at least he can still buff the tank.

More hissing commands can be heard from deeper inside and no more kobolds appear.

Conner rushes over to Rain's side and slashes down a kobold. "One." Conner comments. Viper simply follows behind him.

The other kobold in front of Rain yet again fails to hit her. Also like last time, Rain slashes him good and in the process, gives Conner that brittle-ice armor!

Rain calls back, "They aren't moving! They're staying in the room!"

Archer takes on a skirmishing stance, zips up the hall, and fires a pair of arrows that downs the only kobold in sight.

  Kyle steps up by the melee types, and prepares to fire on the off chance Rain's comments about common sense in the enemy end up disproved.

  "I suppose it is easy to guess why that is."

Rain charges into the room and gets attacked immediately. She blocks it and strikes down the kobold who attacked her.

Then Conner rushes in with Viper and also gets attacked! The kobold smashes the brittle ice armor and... doesn't hurt Conner.

Rain calls back, "It's a baby dragon! Small as me!" and she's like... 5'2 standing on hind legs.

Archer rushes in between the enemies and misses his attack against the kobold.

  Kyle summons the clockwork eye of so dissapointed it hurts.  He of course, proceeds to miss spectacularly with his crossbow despite the extra view of the target.

  While not as safe as he thought he was in a few moments, at least the wall flavor wise provided the artificer with cover, whooo!

Furious that the heroes didn't conveniently line themselves up for her, the dragon rips a huge gash into Archer and gets slashed by Rain for its effort. Clearly, though, it hurt Archer far more than Rain hurt the dragon.

The dragon then rushes over to the side and spews ice at the group, freezing Viper solid and breaking past the admixture Kyle put on Rain (though it is obvious it helped reduce the sting a LOT). Luckily, both Kyle and Conner managed to dodge.

Conner yells, "Viper! No!"

Rain howls and her fur takes on a more rigid, rocky appearance before she heads over to be behind both kobolds and their dragon master. One kobold swings at her and his sword literally bounces off her fur with a CLANG like he hit stone. "EEP!"

Rain's eyes are glowing yellow as she slashes down on the dragon and causes the entire room to shake! The dragon gets smashed prone while the other enemies oof as if punched by an invisible force!

Kyle's disappointed eye gives the dragon a look, making its shame enhanced.

A kobold hops and skips around to be behind Rain and attacks her backside. But his sword gets smacked aside by her stoney tail!

Rain doesn't growl. She looks cold. Like some kind of golem.

Conner gets a serious expression, so angry he doesn't even notice Rain has turned stone-golem. He grabs Viper, holds her close to him and slashes violently at the dragon, tearing a chunk of flesh from it and causing it to bleed out!

But even as he is holding Viper close, the snake thaws and seems to be magically feeling better!

Also, if it was possible, Kyle's mechanical eye manages to look even MORE disappointed at the dragon. How does a machine eyeball manage to muster so much crushing disappointment anyway?

The kobold in front of Conner turns and slashes at Rain. Much as it WANTS to hurt Conner, he can't resist the flanking his buddy gave him! ...for all the good it did. He hits only shield.

(Hunter's bear trap, AP, Second wind on snake)
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Archer rushes over to the back of the room then fires an arrow at base of the dragon's neck.  His second arrow is lit on fire by the eye, splits the first arrow, and explodes the dragon's head clean off.  He knocks another pair and hits with just one against a kobold.  We'll blame the bit of dragon skull that hit him in the face.

  With all the carnage going on, Kyle adds to it by finally landing a hit directly this fight (guess the dice were mad over all those 20s earlier).

  The kobold flanking Rain to the south looks rather surprised.  Well, as surprised as they can be with only a skull remaining attached to their shoulders.

  The Artificer heals up Viper a bit more, as insurance against Murphy.  "I wouldn't bet a copper on this last one surrendering."

Rain swings and misses the only remaining kobold, but keeps it knowing she has her glowing eyes on him.

Conner hops to the side and Viper slithers to flank! Conner slashes the kobold while Viper strikes the kobold's back with the tip of her tail as if "punching" him!

"EEP! I surrender! Leave me alone!" and the kobold hops back from Conner and Rain and nearly bumps into Kyle before fleeing at incredible speeds! "YIIIIPEyipeyipeyipe!" Kyle manages to smack it on its way out, but it is clearly still alive and running.

Archer chases the kobold and begins catching up.

  Hanging further back suddenly was an advantage, as Kyle runs and catches up to the Kobold, and says "You do know surrendering means not running away? Don't make us shoot you in the back." They might miss <.<  >.>

The kobold is in panic mode and doesn't listen. With deft footwork, he makes the whole team work hard to catch up to him, but once out of the pit, Archer successfully shoots the fleeing kobold. The range on that weapon is rediculous and soon the kobold is taken down.

Rain's eyes stop glowing and her fur returns to normal. Conner is kissing Viper all over and hugging her while she entwines around him.

"Glad we all survived that.  I am honored you trusted us enough to open that door, Rain."

  Kyle is again reminded of how yes, snakes can be adorable.

  He also doesn't draw attention to the fact he managed to avoid getting hit so much as once, and only HIT once (well okay twice, but he's not counting that wussy AoO punch).

  "Now that our own survival has been attended to, we should check on the surviving Dwarves."  Preemptive 'Haha can heal NPCs even if they have no surges', even if that hasn't come up the other times through this.

Rain squeaks upon Archer acknowledging her trust from earlier and glances over to him. "You three rescued me. I felt guilty that I was having a hard time trusting you..."

Conner says, "Ha! Look what I found!" he holds aloft the crystal!

Kyle is easily able to heal the dwarves, who are showing gratitude, if looking downhearted and embarrassed.

Conner looks at Rain. "Hey Rain? For what it's worth, I know exactly how you feel. One of my allies attacked me in the middle of a dungeon. I would have died, but another ally who felt it unfair, downed the guy and healed me up. It was hard to trust people for a long time. Still is, in fact!"

He then looks at Kyle. "And by the way... thanks for healing Viper."

Archer eye-twitches that someone calling themselves an adventurer would try to murder a child but makes no comment.

"Being guarded is a healthy state of mind.  Good work on finding it, Connor."

He'll let the non-elves deal with dwarf diplomacy.

  Well, it would really depend on if the kid attacked first?  But he somehow doubts that in this case.

  "You have just met us less than an hour ago, even with such cirtumstances these things can take time."  Especially depending on how people act.  Kyle, YELLING at people to not die is still yelling.

  He nods to Conner "It is clear Viper is not simply some trained beast.  Even without the fashion accessories."

  OOC: Reports have come in that a maniac has gone on a shooting spree that has resulted in a death toll of thirty five flower sellers, and one lemonade stand caught in a crossfire.  Police refuse to comment on the heavy weapons arsenal found concealed in each flower basket, or the hidden tunnel leading to killbot factory underneath the lemonade stand.

Rain starts talking with the dwarves and soon, her humble approach is winning them over. The dwarves are soon laughing and chatting jovially. They even share some of their wealth with the heroes.

Conner finishes the looting and division of loot and gives his team mates a bright smile. He pulls out a snack and says, "For such good teamwork and solid loyalty and friendship, I would like to share this with you: It's a snack a druid taught me how to make. Made from a rainbow and blessed by nature's bounty, he called it skittles."

Rain's eyes widen when she tastes them. "So... fruity."