The mayor start off laughing at what R'lyeh was saying, retorting with "Well, you certainly don't know the meaning of the word 'stronghold'. There's more than one dragon there, in fact, it's their version of a village. I'd wager that no human would be brave or foolish enough to try to kill an entire village of dragons," but then he got to the last part, where he said something about this being unnecessary, particularly due to the average lifespan of a kobold. "Excuse me? If I recall, we kobolds had a much longer natural lifespan than you fishfolk before the humans started killing us off. Think before you speak, fishy," I didn't hear that conversation too well, as I was already heading into the armory for my single piece of free equipment. Initially, I thought it was going to be all sorts of different armor and weapons, but... well, the mayor was right, there really wasn't much left. There were a few pieces of armor, all of which looked somewhat dirty, bloodstained, or otherwise old, as if they just took the armor off of a dead kobold, and tried to resell it. Normally, I'd feel a little ripped-off, but thanks to this note, I was going to get it for free anyways. I finally decided on some leather armor... as in, leather armor that actually looks, or rather, is tough enough to protect me from some form of attack, unlike my current armor, which is so old and worn out it might as well be a shirt. I hand the brown-scaled kobold the note, and point at the leather armor, and the kobold hands me the armor, showing me to another room to try it on afterwards. Once in the other room, I change into the new armor, and notice a hole in it. It was as if someone put a dagger through it at some point, but unfortunately, it didn't come with a dagger, as well. I then head out of the armory and head back to where the mayor was. That was just about when I overheard our new... er... friend? Teammate? Ally? None of these words seemed to really fit the new green-scaled, scarred kobold who ran towards us for protection, either way, I overheard him asking why everyone was moving, and I simply and bluntly say "There's some sort of corruption effecting that cave, and it's spreading," of course, I assumed my teammates would elaborate a little bit more than I did, so I just left it at that.