Archer nods.  "Brave.  If we are not ambushed immediately, I'll scout while still within your sight."

He follows her down.

  Being a tank is hard.

  "We shall be right behind you, Rain." Well, also right behind Archer.  Be he doesn't look like he's about to cry.

During the rest, Conner had searched the bodies for loot, and was happy with the many javelins, pots, spears, etc. But as mentioned, he makes sure it is divided evenly. Though he gladly takes any loot the others pass up. He also makes sure each person has a pot or two.

To Kyle and Archer, Rain says, "...thanks."

Once the group is at the bottom of the pit, they can see a stairway leading down.

Rain looks at Archer and whispers, "If you still wanna scout, looks like there is a nice corner for you to peak from behind."
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Archer scouts and reports back about the enemy and the unstable statue.

"My guess is that the one with a staff is a magic user.  We should kill that one first."

  Kyle nods, "Hopefully that can be managed before it is more trouble than it is worth." No guys, I need to beat up this one dude before I deal with the ones hitting me in the back of the head for the past five turns!

  Hah, as if this will last that long unless Murphy does into turbo mode.  But that's what banked criticals are for.

  "This is going to be admittedly reckless." Kyle comments, as he snaps off a shot that grazes the statue on it's way into the closest Dragonshield hiding behind it.

  He toughens up Rain again, then steps out into the open to fire an acid dripping crossbow bolt across the room.  The dragonshield ducks!... And then the priest behind him gets a face full of sharp object and acid, whoops?  You have a strange standard for reckless in combat, Kyle.

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Standard: M weapon. rolled crit. 14 DMG. Buffs party again.
Move: duh.
ACTION POINT: Banked crit, scouring weapon vs priest. 24 Acid dmg. -2 AC until end of my next turn.
Dragonshield A HP: 16
Priest HP: 12

The skirmisher in the back screams bloody murder and charges Kyle, stabbing him!

Conner says, "Oh no you don't!" and rushes around to stab that same kobold in the back!

No sooner does he do that than a dragonshield charges Conner in the back! "OW!"

Then the wyrmpriest hurls an energy orb at Conner, barely missing him!

Rain charges over to the group, intent on protecting them! "Sorry, Archer! I'll deal with the caster later!" She hacks down, sinking her khopesh into the kobold's skull and then kicking him off her weapon! She turns to growl at the dragonshield.

Archer carefully sneaks to the bottom of the stairs and fires at the mage.  The arrow goes wide, bounces off a wall, and breaks.  But the arrowhead, as if guided by fate, ricochets over and manages to find it's way through a hole made in the mage's scales by the acid!  Archer's second arrow at least strikes truer and downs the mage with enough force to make it backflip before hitting the ground.

A dragonshield charges Archer "He killed Kenny! The bastard! Kill him!" and misses horribly.

The other dragonshield seems to be waiting for something.

  Kyle steps up beside the others, then takes a well placed shot to the back of the kobold in Archer's face, seriously wounding it.

Kyle Gives Connor a buff as well. Maybe.

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Move: duh
Standard: M weapon, ANOTHER crit. 14 DMG to dragonshield by archer.

Dragonshield HP: 7

Conner gets to one side of the kobold while Viper follow him, only for the snake to suddenly circle around and flank the kobold! Conner slashes the kobold, doing surprisingly little to it.

The kobold doesn't care about Conner and slashes at Rain, hitting!

But magically, some more magical ice armor appears on Conner. This stuff looks less brittle.

Rain hurries over to try and finish off the kobold that charged Archer, but whiffs!

Archer tries to be clever by going after the kobold behind the statue.  The arrows strike true, but his plan on tricking the one next to him into dying to Rain's blade just results in whiffs.

The dragonshield retaliates! With a whiff of his own!

Then the other dragonshield who WAS waiting, is tired of waiting and charges Rain! Trips over himself and almost falls on his face. He whiffs horribly.

  Kyle considers his choice of targets, levels his crossbow at the one between Rain and Archer... Then steps over the rubble to punch the kobold's jaw clean off with his talid (That's the leather Mad Max version of Spiked Gauntlet).

  The upshot of this over a safe crossbow attack?  MORE MAGIC WEAPON BONUSES!

Conner does that double-team again; he slashes the kobold fiercely while Viper roundhouses the kobold's backside with her body!

The kobold, barely still standing, swings and misses Conner.

Rain whiffs again, but hops over to a position to give a flanking opportunity to one of her allies.

Archer fires twice and misses twice.

On the bright side, the dragonshield next to Rain also misses. This round has been brought to you by the number three.
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  Kyle flanks with Rain, and sears the kobod's sword arm with a spark of lightning.

  Dragonshield HP: 7.  -3 DMG rolls.

Conner finishes the kobold in front of him (whiffs at first only to come back the other direction and decap), then hurries over to block off the last kobold. Viper follows and blocks in a two-prong formation.

Rain then hacks the kobold's chest cavity open and it collapses.

As methodically as before, Archer searches for survivors.  Loot distribution can be left to Connor since he seems to enjoy it.

  Kyle checks his crossbow, and offers +1 HP heals which hey at least are better than default heals.

  "Much less than expected, perhaps the majority are holed up at the end?"

Just like before, Archer finds this team is thorough about killing kobolds. Not one is left alive. Conner and Rain apparently have not put themselves on stun setting.

Rain takes Kyle up on the heal.

Conner reliably loots the corpses happily and divides the spoils while the group rests. But he does so at the corner to keep an eye out for any approaching kobolds. Just in case.

But no kobolds come.

Archer nods and scouts the corner.  He returns and reports.

"Short hall that ends in a double door."

  "I don't suppose you think whatever is waiting in there is attentive enough to notice a snake peeking in?"

Viper takes the hint and does her happy ribbon dance. Conner says, "Yes, Viper, he meant you. Go take a peek."

The snake slithers down the hall and cautiously peeks. Then slithers back and wraps around Conner before seemingly whispering in Conner's ear. Conner says, "Seven kobolds. Three dwarf prisoners. Viper also heard someone making sounds in an unfamiliar language, but they sounded demanding and were not one of the seven kobolds she saw."

Rain says, "So their boss, sounds like. You bunch ready?"

Archer nods then sets up at a measured distance from the door.