As Johnny entered the room, he noticed a treasure chest with the symbol of a key on it. Behind the chest was a lever of some sort. Christmas walked in and immediately pulled the lever. While they saw some gears moving they didn’t notice anything different. They then opened the chest and took the treasures that laid within, the most important one being an everburning torch.
They noticed some holes in the wall, and looking through to the other side were able to see two kobolds. Corvix wanted to try diplomacy. Johnny and Christmas agreed. Shadow on the other hand thought killing them was the better option. Corvix told him he could do as he wished. Shadow opened the door and saw another 2 kobolds, one more on the lower level and a more decorated one at the top of a few short steps. When he saw this Shadow noped right out.
Corvix was angered as Shadow ran, and decided to strike him as he passed by. Unfortunately, the kobolds noticed and gave chase, one of them activated a trap and was shocked as spears came out of the wall, but missed hitting him. 3 of the kobolds grouped around the entrance. They tried waiting for others to come through the doors. The 4th one at the top of the stairs stayed there while doing something.
As our heroes began fighting, it seemed that Johnny had done something to upset the powers that be, as every hit against him seemed to find a vital point. Eventually our heroes managed to take 3 of the kobolds down. As Corvix approached the 4th one, he stepped on a trap it had laid and was knocked out, dying. Christmas hid behind a pillar and started shooting at the kobold, as Shadow stabilized Corvix. Johnny then healed himself a bit. The kobold then ran and hid in a stairwell going down. As the heroes regrouped and Johnny started to heal Corvix the kobold came back swinging, knocking Johnny out. Corvix and Christmas started repositioning themselves to flank the bastard, but fell for the kobold’s ruse as Christmas, overconfident in his ability to survive, stepped on another of the kobold’s traps and then went down. Shadow stabilized. Finally the kobold went after Shadow, with Corvix following and falling to the last trap. Shadow decided to get serious, and summon a broom and his dragon claws but too little too late, as they were both taken down. Dave just barely noticed all this and ran out.
Luckily, Mirari had requested some more help ahead of time, and they just arrived late. First was Johnny’s brother, a fighter named Donny. Next was a small goblin sorcerer named fang. A human alchemist named Xavier. Finally, another man claiming to be Eddy Christmas. While they looked a bit different, their skill sets and attitude were the same. These new four people came in and killed the last kobold.
They then retreated their path to a barricade that had been put up earlier. They tore it down and on the other side were met with undead. 4 skeletons and a zombie. Donny went in first but no one seemed to follow him, and just like his brother the gods did not favour him, as Donny soon joined his brother in the afterlife. Still, they managed to finish off the undead, as a third brother, also a cleric, joined the group.