From the end of the hallway comes the torchlight and a din of high-pitched yells. Apparently, there are a few more kobolds in here. kobolds: Yeeeaah! Skree-ka! torch-bearing kobold: (running ahead of them all) Alenniel: (nocks an arrow) Ozzy: Gimme a break.... (he reaches for his darts) Eagle: (grabs another hand axe) Rimli: (looks at his crossbow momentarily, but then picks up his discarded hand axe) Ajax: (seeing that there's no time for something as complex as his bow or sling, he prepares to throw the dagger which he's already holding) Tasencia: (watches, waiting to help the injured) Greythur: (really appreciating fighters now) Ozzy: (skillfully hurls three deadly war darts at the charging kobolds) torch-bearing kobold: Yaaa-- urk! (a dart hits him in the face and practically rips a hole through the back of his head [read: critical hit, max damage]; he falls in mid-stride, extremely dead) kobold#2: Ack! (a dart hits him in the gut and he and his shortsword drop to the cold floor) kobold#3: Skree! (hit in the chest with one of Ozzy's darts, he joins his two companions in the netherworld) Eagle: Bah! That's nothing! (he throws his axe, but it misses them all) Er.... Ajax: (flips a dagger at kobold#4 and hits him in the eye [read: critical hit]) kobold#4: Grblg.... (dies) Alenniel: (lets fly a volley of missiles at the two remaining kobolds; fortunately, they are well-lit by the light of their torch, whose bearer has only just fallen) kobold#5: (hit in the chest by an arrow, he trips over his own dying feet and falls) Urg.... Rimli: (throws his own hand axe, but it misses the lone humanoid) Grr.... kobold#6: (another of Alenniel's arrows takes him in the ribcage and he goes down in a heap, dead; within seconds of their charge, all six kobolds have been killed) Ozzy: (looks a little proud of his dart-throwing) Rimli: Hmph. (frustrated by his rather poor showing, he is mollified by thinking of his melee with the orcs) Ahh... ur.... (he begins to feel the effects of his injuries) Greythur: (sees that Rimli is suffering from a few wounds) Let me help you, friend warrior. (he lays a hand on Rimli while holding his holy symbol of Fharlanghn with the other, speaks a few words, and Rimli's wounds begin to close somewhat) Rimli: (feeling a little better now) Ah, my thanks to ye. ^To the horses | Archers -----> | | | were here | | | |-------. (appx.) | | | | | .---------------' '---------' | | | k kk % u [ a | N | k kk @& [ | W + E | -----------====----------. | | S | | | | | | |-------' v To the entrance/gate/'crawler lair &@%=dead orcs k=dead kobold u=you guys a=kobold quarters (first room you investigated) ==== =door