Kobold Plot

[steals_yo_stuff]

In the dark of the night, some creatures were stirring...

The forest is a flurry of activity tonight. Creatures great and small scurry about in the dark depths. Hissing and squealing and short, sharp barks flood the space between the trees, creating a deafening cacophony of noise. Pungent odors of damp dog and stagnant water permeate the forest.

Monsters await, lurking there in the dark. Monsters with glowing red eyes and a yipping, high-pitched language. They guard their den fiercely, hoarding treasures.

Traps line the trees, looking to catch the unwary. The kobolds are expert trap-layers and ambushers, and have put all their skills to use in protecting their lair.

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Pairing up

[steals_yo_stuff]

The kobolds await those souls brave enough to venture into the forest to find their lair.

Pair up here, and good luck!

Re: Pairing up

[vyvyan]

Vyvyan really needs his stuff back.

He's not sure whether anyone will want to pair up with him, but if not, he'll go in alone.

Re: Pairing up

[ostro_goth]

Teja comes marching up with his axe, looking extremely determined. Count the grey cat is sitting on his shoulder, chattering excitedly as if he had spotted prey.

Re: Pairing up

[vyvyan]

"Oi! Teja!"

Vyvyan sidles up. "Want a hand?"

Re: Pairing up

[ostro_goth]

"Have you one to spare, seeing that you easily grow new ones?" Teja says.

Yes, indeed, that is a joke, even though Teja delivers it with his usual grim countenance.

"How long since you last needed to regenerate?"

Re: Pairing up

[archmagetrust]

Khadgar eyes the forest with some concern. Some of his small magical trinkets have gone missing and he has a bad feeling about where they've gone. Any mischief they cause will be his fault and he intends to correct that.

Hopefully before anyone gets hurt.

Re: Pairing up

[quick_clean_pure]

Fuck this. Fuck all this.

Graverobber is tromping around the woods in a sour, pissy mood. He's not exactly used to the great outdoors, and he's not exactly thrilled with this being his first encounter with it. Navigating through trees is definitely not the same as navigating paved cityscape, especially not by the light of a dinky flashlight he got from the bar.

Still, he needs his zydrate gun back, and replacing it isn't an option on the table. He ain't a rich dude. Zydrate guns have to get made or bought, and he doesn't have the cash to do either right now.

So, fuck it. All that leaves is tromping all over and trying to find his shit and get out of there.

Re: Pairing up

[archmagetrust]

The end of Khadgar's staff is alight and illuminating a great deal of his surroundings. Attracted by the small glow, he calls out.

"Ho, there! Are you searching for these miscreants as well?"

Re: Pairing up

[quick_clean_pure]

Graverobber turns towards the voice, squinting slightly at the much stronger light illuminating the woods.

"Hey there," he says. "If you mean the little bastards stealing everyone's shit, then yes I am. They take something of yours, too?"

Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

Traps, meticulously crafted over a week's time, have been set all over the forest, the realm the kobolds have claimed as theirs. Are you brave enough to venture in?

Re: Traps

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

When it comes to Sahaal, bravery is perhaps the wrong word. More fuelled by pure, cold anger.

He can hear the beasts in the darkness. He knows that they'll have set traps, because he's a Night Lord. It's what he would have done. He doesn't care.

He strides into the forest, fully clad in his warplate and jump pack, and armed to the teeth. Claws, bolter, grenades, det-packs. Enough ordinance to ensure a Balrog wouldn't get back up.

Perhaps he's being overconfident. Perhaps.

Re: Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

The ground shifts below his feet.

That's all the warning he has before a gaping maw, fifteen-feet deep, opens up beneath him. If he doesn't jump clear, the landing will be a hard one.

Re: Traps

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

A moment after the ground stops being there, Sahaal stops being there. He falls a couple of feet straight down before he can activate his jump pack. The twinned thrusters on his back do the leaping for him, sending him up and out of the pit on trails of smoke and fire.

As he grabs hold of a tree branch, he grins behind his helm.

Re: Traps

[ostro_goth]

Teja strides into the forest, cat on his shoulder and axe in hand.

He doesn't turn around to see if Vyvyan is following; he can hear him.

Re: Traps

[vyvyan]

Probably smell him, too.

He's apparently paying more attention than it would be thought possible for him.

Re: Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

The ground shifts below their feet.

That's all the warning they have before a gaping maw, fifteen-feet deep, opens up beneath them. If they don't jump clear, the landing will be a hard one.

Re: Traps

[configuration_birdwatcher]

(Previously.)

Bastion steps into the kobolds' fortifications from the opposite end of their gauntlet of deathtraps, with Ganymede behind and above them in flight. They're trying to avoid the kobolds themselves if there's a way to get around them, but likely don't have much choice about running into the pack of treasure-hunting amphibians, especially since they aren't exactly built to be nimble and quiet.

Re: Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

It's a good thing Bastion isn't organic, as the shrieker mushrooms would have alerted the frantic, angry kobolds to their presence.

That being said, they get a few steps out of the den before the ground shifts beneath their feet.

That's all the warning they have before a sinkhole opens up beneath them. If they don't jump clear, they'll land in a twenty-foot deep hole with about five feet of water at the bottom.

Re: Traps

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion leaps for the other side, with an alarmed squeak. They land heavily, but on solid ground, not in the sinkhole. Ganymede has no difficulty following them over, being a bird.

Re: Traps

[spaceman_xephos]

Xephos isn't really sure what's been going on. But that's true just as often as not, honestly.

What he does know is that there is something potentially interesting and entertaining going on out here, and he wants to see what it is.

Re: Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

He doesn't get very far into the forest before there's a muffled hissing echoing amongst the trees. The ground shifts below his feet.

That's all the warning he has before a gaping maw, fifteen-feet deep, opens up beneath him. If he doesn't jump clear, the landing won't be hard, but it won't be pleasant, either: The pit is filled with demon bunnies, who shoot off gouts of flame at the person invading their space.

Re: Traps

[spaceman_xephos]

Xephos does jump. In the wrong direction, which means he falls into the pit anyway.

"Augh! No! What!"

He grabs his sword from his back and starts swinging wildly at the creatures, trying to jump out of the way. He might have sprained his ankle during the fall, but it's hard to tell with everything else attacking him right now.

Re: Traps

[quick_clean_pure]

Graverobber feels a little more confident after he's paired up with Khadgar. For starters, Khadgar seems to actually know something about what the fuck he's doing. So that's already a thousand steps ahead of where Graverobber's at.

Still, he tries his best to keep a watchful eye out, especially as they move closer towards the noises of the kobolds. Honestly, Graverobber just wants to get in and out with his shit and move on with life. If these little lizard guys could ideally not fuck with him too badly, that'd be great.

Re: Traps

[archmagetrust]

Khadgar keeps his lit staff held high, illuminating their surroundings. He's not very worried about going up against kobolds. Azerothean ones tend to simple to overcome as long as they don't all gang up on you at once. But Azerothean ones can't see in the dark, nor do they lay traps. Both of which he's blissfully unaware of.

"I'm going to cast a spell to help us notice things better," Khadgar tells his companion as his free hand lights up with arcane rings of energy. "I'd hate to miss a trail just because it's dark out."

It won't let them see in the dark, just makes picking things out a little easier. It's a simple spell he's been using since he was an apprentice, usually to find things he wasn't meant to.

Re: Traps

[steals_yo_stuff]

The spell probably illuminates a couple of trip wires strung between trees. Spiked wooden stakes are buried amongst the leaves, looking to stab anyone who doesn't step carefully.

The ground shifts below their feet.

That's all the warning they have before a gaping maw, fifteen-feet deep, opens up beneath them. If they don't jump clear, the landing won't be hard, but it won't be pleasant, either: The pit is filled with demon bunnies, who shoot off gouts of flame at the people invading their space.