The Kobold Cave-in Conspiracy

The party was called to help with a kobold problem after a tunnel was accidentally discovered. The party speaks with the manager of the local general store, who is also a sculptor. A few of the PCs bought some of the statues (please note as such below). They then went to the indicated field and spoke with those guarding the cave in. After a brief conversation, they entered the cave, and after a long descent, came upon a group of kobolds. After losing a few weapons to the kobold's deft maneuvers, they soundly walloped the group, but only after one of them got a lucky hit and burring his pickaxe deep in Josuke. They interrogated the only kobold with the sense to surrender, but found it didn't have much sense beyond that. they called the guards in and had them drag the kobold away, before delving deeper into the cave. They found the walls turning to stone, and came upon a room with a great door and a suit of armor to match. The party imedietly notice the trap in the room, and most as quickly find the secret door as well, however, upon opening the door, they are asked for a password. Upon delivering the name of a dwarven deity, the armor become infuriated and begins to attack, joined by 3 crawling hands. The battle was short, as the armor attempted to throw josuke into the trap, but was defeated before such could come to pass. The crawling hands were immediately dispatched as well, and the party used a key from the secret room to continue. By making Crazy diamond invisible and incorporeal, they were able to scout ahead, and find a dark sermon being preached to a group of dwarves. After very sneakily killing all but one of these, they attempted to reason with the remaining dwarf. That didn't go well. They then checked one of the two doors, finding a gargantuan tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. After slamming that door, the party checked the other, found a secret door into a treasure room, and the t-rex made its own door into the room with them. They found the bones quite deflective, and the beast tried to pull them back into its den. However, Dell landed a very solid hit, shattering a vertebrae in the creature's neck, reducing it to a pile of bones. Moving on from that, the party entered the final room of the dungeon, and Dell again scored a critical, splattering the NPC that took me the longest to build because he had 9 bloody class levels in a freaking hybrid class with spell casting AND bonus feats ALL OVER THE IOMEDAE FORSAKEN WALL. After mopping up the rest of the room easily because of course they did, the party made haste for the newly discovered mouth of the cave, and in their rush, approached an ominous statue. When the statue pivoted and revealed it's smoothed face to Qenon, he likewise was turned to a faceless statue, and his spirit was released (with all new stats) from his newly petrified coil. Three other spirits also emerged, two coming from the walls, intent of hurrying off their newly incorporeal comrade to his afterlife, and a third released from the statue, rising from the base, the dust from the statue clinging to it. After a few rounds of missing the invisible incorporeal creatures, the party remembered this trivia, and attempted, and failed, to hit the creatures with the dust, and Crazy Diamond, an incorporeal creature himself, punched the ghosts to re-death. The party dragged the statue of Qenon, ghost following, to the general store manager, who was able to use a potion of stoneshape to reform Qenon's face, better than it was before (+0.5 Cha), and return him to flesh.

As for the Antipaladin the captured, she was turned over to the proper authorities, and taken for proper interrogation to see if any other cults were in the area.



Josuke Higashikata, Russell, Dell, Qenon, Hasan, and Higirorashi all receive 6,300 xp and 6,000 gp

Aditionally, Josuke, Russell, and Qenon each spend a Hero Point for wealth, granting themselves, as well as Dell, an extra 1,725 gp each.



The following loot was found along the way, and can be repurchased for half price.

[1000 gp] Cloak of resistance +1

[1155 gp] +1 Buckler (small)

[1170 gp] +1 Heavy Steel Shield

[1200 gp] +1 Dwarven Warshield

[1300 gp] +1 Chain Mail

[1350 gp] +1 Breast Plate (small)

[2000 gp] Amulet of Natural Armor +1

[2000 gp] Amulet of Natural Armor +1

[2000 gp] Amulet of Natural Armor +1

[2308 gp] +1 Jutte (small)

[2370 gp] +1 Dwarven Longhammer

[2375 gp] +1 Falchion

[2650 gp] +1 Full Plate

[5950 gp] +2 Stoneplate