Before they do, they decide to figure out what the ritual is. It turns out that they are trying to summon their snake deity, Ouroboros... And that gives the wizard a GREAT idea. He is going to cast a Silent image of their deity in order to fool them into thinking their ritual worked. All five of the kobolds stop to look at the deity... and three of them (including the really big one who was in the center of the alter) drop to their knees and start worshiping the image. And they worship it HARD. The other two are still heading toward the little girl who fell.
So the team charges in.
(Sadly, I'm a little fuzzy on how all this worked out.)
I can tell you that at some point the two kobolds grab the girl and start running for a door on the right side of the room. The are slow going since they have to carry a kicking screaming girl. Qila rushes over to help, ends up beating someone up along the way. Ornak goes to work on the kobold Priest who was STILL worshiping the fake deity WHILE being poked repeatedly with javelins. Vaylan (His name is spelled with a "Y". I was informed last night...) takes out another kobold and then goes toe to... I don't know what to put here... not toe... snakes don't have toes... toe to underbelly? toe to fang? I don't know... He starts fighting the snake that was with the priest on his own. Lastly Gram does something to sneak around and kill another kobold that had run for the other door, but somehow got knocked out.
So, before the priest snaps out of it, Ornak skewers him nice and pretty (which is sad... dude didn't even get to use any of his awesome spells to try and kill any of them.) Qila chases the other kobolds (the ones carrying the girl) to the other door. Those kobolds knock out Gram AGAIN after he was revived. Vaylan is still fighting the snake, which keeps dodging his attacks, so it's not dead yet.
That is when the preist finally breaks from the spell and turns to attack, only to be killed instantly. (Sadly don'y recall who actually did the killing but I'm 90% sure it was Ornak).
That's when the snake STOPPED attacking. Weird right? It just says "Nah man... I'm cool for now. I'm just gonna do snake things and slither on over to the alter and take a nap, aight?" (Disclaimer: snake doesn't actually say this.)
Vaylan a a little befuddled but hey, it's just a snake. They're weird dudes. So he rushes over to help Qila save the little girl. And completely obliterates one of the Kobolds carting her towards the door. But the other one just keeps on trucking, dragging the girl along, and makes it through the door. Now all the adventurers are after them.
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| This is what the group did |
They chase the last kobold into the hall and see him still dragging the little girl along. He is also moving surprisingly quick for someone who is dragging a kicking and screaming little girl down a hallway. He makes it to the end of the hall and turns left through a door, Vaylan right behind him.
When he enters the door the kobold just rushed through he sees something that is... well a tad disturbing.
It's not the blood thirsty Kobold holding a dagger to the girls throat. It's not the desperate and terrified look in the girls eyes.
It IS the fact that there is a huge mound of rotting, half eaten corpses on the other side of the room. Bodies stolen from the battle field (4 Winds is in the middle of a huge battle right now, remember) and used as the Kobold's food source.
The Kobold, feeling cornered, and also being about as smart as the knife he's holding, decides his best chance is to charge the giant bear-thing holding the giant sword. Excellent!
He dies.
And the girl is saved!!! WAAAAAAAAA! (that is the sound of excitement and victory)
Now comes the BIG question:
What are they gonna do about the girl? She did cause them a lot of trouble today. She stole the totem, the lead them into the sewer WHERE the half-ork got filth fever, the halfling projectile vomited and got her leg stuck, the wizard got knocked out a LOT, and I'm sure the werebear was mildly uncomfortable too.
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| Awwwwwwwwww |
But I doubt it, he's a good guy. And besides, right at that moment the girl runs up to all of them to give them hugs for saving her.
So she's fine.
Now the group doesn't want to go back the way they came so they decide to take a door to the left. When they enter, it is OBVIOUS that this damp, musty room is the nesting room for the kobold's. They start searching around cause hey, there might be some cook stuff amongst the matted straw and gnawed on bones.
They do find some cool stuff. One of which is a scroll that says "Zodiac" on it, but they can't translate it anymore than that.
They also find two more dire rats!!!!!!One is normal size and one is BIG (bigger than the halfling big), but these ones are chained to the wall as guard... rats? Yea. Guard rats. (Background: the idea was these rats were going to break out of their chains when the adventurers weren't paying attention and attack.)
But that was BEFORE Vaylan decided to make them his pets... He walks over, unchains them, and they are INSTANTLY best friends. And then, LIGHT BULB MOMENT! Give the big one to halfing to ride around so she can keep up because she has tiny legs.
So now the halfing has a steed... named Big Eddy (the little one is called Little Eddy.)
Now the group notices that there isn't anywhere else to go from that room, meaning they will have to go through the ritual chamber in order to make it back to the main sewer in order to get out.
:)
When they enter the ritual chamber, they know pretty quick that something is wrong. Namely, a large purple pillar of light shooting upward from the alter, with the snake from earlier slowly growing in size. (Yea, that epic snake deicded "Know what? I'm gonna complete the ritual by MY SELF! I don't need no kobold! I am a strong independant reptile, and I'll do what I want!" *head wobble*)
So now... there is a giant snake in the center of the room, and the only way to get out is through it.
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