Chessintra was hoping that she could calm things down before they get out of hand. Raising her hands in a friendly manner.  She hoped that they would understand the language that she spoke.
In Hobgoblin first then Orc
"We don't wish to fight.  We just had battle ourselves with tilting her head back to the worm's location.

 "Oh, not on my watch..." Briliance spits when she sees the kobolds leaping and bounding towards the adventurers.

Sleep at the kobolds.  Attempting to hit as many as possible while affecting none of the party.
Gonna leave the sleeping HD up to the Dungeon Master...

 She hears the elf attempt to parley... well, hopefully between her own spell and the elf's words things won't get too out of hand, but, well, the judges will decide!

Devin isn't sure what's going on as these were usually peaceful creatures.  He stood his ground with the dwarf, however, and would strike any that approached menacingly.

OOC: Devin Harper rolled 2,3 using d20,d6.  Hammer time! Thaco 19.

The bloodthirsty kobolds rushed at Derry and Eadwynn. Their spears stabbed and poked ineffectively against their armour. Before Derry and Eadwynn could think of retaliating there was a murmur of eldritch words as Brilliance cast an enchantment of sleep upon the small humanoids canines. All of the kobolds fell to sleep.

Wyndham quickly dispatches the kobolds, looting as he goes.
"Nicely done, Brilliance."
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 Brilliance lets out a sigh of relief as she watches the kobolds slump forward.  As her companions practice their anatomy, she continues to keep her watch.  "That's all for now... only got so much for reserves." She examines her reflection in the blade of her silver dagger, and brushes her hair back.

Valerian again retrieves his blade, giving a side-eye to the sleeping kobolds.

All business, Derry cuts the throats of the sleeping octet, ushering in the big sleep for each of them and leaving the rifling to Wyndham. Derry then adds two rat tails to his collection.

It should be easy enough to follow the trail of kobold hunting party with two fresh kills. He endeavors to do so.
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Chess was feeling left out with not knowing this powerful spell that most are casting.  She will surely take the time to learn it when the time ever comes.

Giving a nod of the head to Brilliance for her wonderful display of magic

 Brilliance notices Lady Chessintra in the reflection of the blade.  "You interested in trading spells sooner or later, Chess?  Betcha you'd be able to make somebody sleepwalk, or... or do more than just some human with the spell." She sucks her teeth, lowers her dagger but still keeps it in her hand, and looks at one of the kobolds.  "Wonder how receptive they'd be to learning it."

 After all, an elf probably thought that when they saw the first humans to learn magic...

"We didn't have to kill them," Devin said unhappily after realizing what had happened while he was putting away his shield and hammer.  "They haven't generally been hostile and if we're almost done searching this basement, we could have left them safely behind."

He was feeling that it did not reflect well on Auril for deeds like this to be perpetrated in his presence.  Killing without necessity would someday lead to needless repercussions.

"Is true that we could have done that," Derry answers, his sword still dripping with kobold blood.

"It is also true that they might have awoken and attacked us at the wrong time," he finishes, wiping the blood from his slick sword. Then we would have recognized the need to kill them too late.

Wyndham shrugs.
"We've had plenty of meetups that went just fine. No anger, no blood, good cheer all around. This wasn't one of them."

Little appeased by their simplifications, Devin shook his head and followed them in the direction the hunting party had come from.

 Brilliance, despite her former self and perhaps honest to her true self, only grunts softly in response to Devin's protests.

Besides the two freshly killed rats Wyndham found that each of the kobolds carried a small pouch of coins. In total he looted ninety-two copper pieces from the corpses.

Further along the corridor Derry found signs of the hunt in the last room. The dirt and dust in the large thirty foot by forty foot room was recently disturbed. Twenty empty casks lined the walls.

Wyndham leaves behind the copper pieced. He searches around the casks for any sign of secret doors.

Derry joins the search, leaving his hireling to keep watch by the door. He removes the casks one by one from the walls, examining the walls afterward for any oddities of stonework.
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"It doesn't look any different than when we were here the last time," Devin said aloud, recalling their previous time searching the empty kegs.

"Does this mean we've searched everywhere down here?"  He was looking forward to heading back into Stonehell.

 Brilliance keeps watch near to the entrance... but not before picking up those copper Pieces!  As she watches, she does some math in her head on how best to divide it between, oh, gods, how many people?

In good humor, Derry responds to Devin.

"Do each of your prayers reach your god's ears? Are you not forced to utter them again and again? Anyhow, I think we only searched the kegs themselves -- not the walls behind them."

"And answer me this, any of you: why is Modnar's lift in the next room? Why the ready supply of ale? Why here in this part of the basement?"

Devin had no reply for the dwarf.  He wasn't a builder or seen any wizard towers before this.  Even now, he'd only seen rubble of the tower above them.  He expected the tower would have been a proper living area adorned with comfort and light.

Together Wyndham and Derry searched the walls behind the old, empty casks but found no signs of any secret or concealed doors.

OOC Day 35. Time: 11:10am. Weather: Rain. Vision: Cloudy. Movement: 20’

Light
Wyndham torch 6 turns
Eadwynn torch 6 turns
Derry torch 6 turns

Chessintra spoke up “Has anyone researched the history of these lands?  That could explain something or he is trying to find a treasure himself

In reply to Lady Chessintra (msg # 138):

Wyndham shrugs.
Not sure about the history. I'm fairly new here myself. Derry or Devin might have heard more. "