Kobold Hall: Session 3

While Thorfinn was berating the drake over the loss of his shin, Jia took the opportunity to scamper up the table that Doomgrad had conveniently placed. Darting forwards she stabbed at a kobold stood behind the drakes. It was only when Jia's vicious strike slid past his ear and sliced the end off his hand rolled cigarette that he realised she was there. Dropping his fag end to the floor, he turned to face her.

In the main room, the remaining slinger began firing a barrage of stones at Kaza. After receiving a couple of nasty blows, including one to the head, she suddenly began talking in the third person, “Kaza is firing a Magic Missile! Kaza hits! Kaza is stunned that she got a spell to work!”

Eilonwy ran forwards to throw healing magics at the two party members facing the drakes, but her magical prowess was not enough to keep Thorfinn concious as the drakes took more bites from his body. Swearing as he passed out, the warlord slumped to the floor. Doomgrad ran forwards to aid Gilee, only to receive serious wounds himself. However, the blows from the warrior and the paladin were beginning to tell on the drakes.

Jia finally managed to stab the kobold on the stairs behind the drakes, and moved into a flanking position where she could make best use of her short sword. With additional healing magics and the staunch fighting abilities of Doomgrad and Gilee, the kobolds and their drakes were soon no more.

Once more the party took a few minutes to bandage their wounds before pressing on. Searching the two alcoves, they soon found a small stash of coins and gems, apparently the kobolds' betting funds.

Jia stealthed forwards once more. The next chamber she came to was a large one, with two raised areas and, strangely, a wide wall in the middle of the room on which two kobold slingers kept watch. Arranged against the party were the two slingers, and on the far side of the room stood two kobold guardsmen, and the leader of the kobolds, wearing his distinctive bone mask. A small flying drake swooped around the room.

A sudden barrage of crossbow bolts and magical energies killed one of the slingers and badly injured the other. Shouting commands, the kobold leader, a Wyrmpriest of Tiamat, pushed forwards to the lip of the alcove he stood on. His guards pushed forwards to either side of the room to take up flanking positions.

The party moved into the room, and were shocked to see a large spherical stone drop from the second raised alcove, and proceed to roll around the room. Thorfinn and Doomgrad, having swiftly defeated one of the Wyrmpriest's guards, ducked out of the way of the rapidly rolling stone into a handy narrow corridor.

On the far side of the room, Gilee engaged the other kobold guard. The small flying drake harried the magic users and the rogue, sweeping past them and making swift biting attacks. Kaza blasted away at the small drake, “Kaza fires magic missile! She misses! She fires again!”. Jia fired crossbow bolts at the drake, unable to swipe at it with her short sword as it flew by.

A final magical blast defeated the remaining slinger, and as the stone rolled past their hiding place, Thorfinn and Doomgrad rushed the Wyrmpriest. Unfortunately, Thorfinn made it to the Wyrmpriest first, inadvertantly blocking Doomgrad's path.

The stone rolled round to the far side of the room, with the party dodging out of its path. Gilee hacked apart the remaining guard with a series of vicious strikes, and then turned her attention to the flying drake. Between them, Gilee, Jia, Kaza and Eilonwy soon defeated it.

The Wyrmpriest launched a blast of freezing energy at Doomgrad and Thorfinn, but this was not enough to save him. Thorfinn struck him a vicious blow, which in combination with the spells cast by Kaza and Eilonwy, soon had him bleeding his life blood over the rough stone floor.

As the clamour of battle faded, the party looked around for further foes, and realise that they had defeated the kobolds, forever ridding the town of Fallcrest of this particular threat. Congratulating themselves on a job well done, they searched for any valuable items and started collecting Kobold ears.

Kaza took a look at the staff that the Wyrmpriest had been using, and realised that it was a magical Warstaff. Grasping it in her hands, she felt the magical power imbued in the staff flowing through her. “Kaza has found a magic staff!” she announced to the others, and continued searching for other magical adjuncts. She was unsuccessful, but did find a small silver key, and a map of the room, showing the location of a secret door.

The party examined the area where the door was supposed to be, and soon discovered a small concealed keyhole. With a swift twist of the silver key the secret door opened before them, revealing a narrow, rough-hewn passageway, leading down into the darkness. Their time in Kobold Hall was not over yet!