Almost immediately Pylia put her hand to your mouth to keep your quiet. "You saw [i]nothing[/i]! Okay!? Nothing! Let's go!" Pylia's face was bright pink in embarassment as she quickly turned to leave. Shortfang however wasn't about to let her off the hook so easily. "Hey hey! You wanna be teacher for Sewer Dragons? You speak good draconic! You do great! Babies like you and we pay you lots shinies!" Pylia tried to cooly put her armor on but she was getting exasperated by you and Shortfang talking about what you saw. "All I was doing was making some potions, and those brats were distracting me! I couldn't get any work done! Shuddap, let's just go okay!" A bit of humor before the big battle. While it helped put some smiles on the faces of those who saw it, the mood would quickly change once the party set out towards the kobold army. 

The mood was somber to say the least. Many of the warriors seem scared, reassured only by chanting something in groups. Some sort of prayer or hymn. Between each group were the huge crocodiles who seemed to be dressed and painted for war, with wooden armor placed in strategic locations to give them extra protection. Longstrider rode on Green Eyes, who was near the front of the pack. Shor and his team was also there. Upon seeing you, they simply nodded, looking very serious for what was about to happen.

Soon the group would arrive to a large corridor. This place looked far too big to belong in a sewers and in the distance, you could hear the sound of waves crashing against the rocks. Shortfang helpfully provided you information about this place. "This Gransys dock. Long ago, Gransys have war boats. This where they come, safe from enemies, fix, get warriors. But after Calamity Dragon come, destroy all boats, duke can't pay for war boats. So he abandon docks, and Kobold use to live here. Underhaven where kobold live, but here, we call [i]Darasthesek[/i], or 'Dragon's Watch'. Cuz this where kobold see Calamity dragon fight war boats." Soon Longstrider herself came up to you on top of Greeneyes to give you the rest of the tale. "The one who betrayed our tribe was the one who protected Dragon's Watch. He said that he saw the dragon's coming, and took everyone at Dragon's Watch to join him. Everyone... Who didn't flee, when the troglodytes arrived. It did not take them very long to take over our other home." There was a hint of bitterness in her voice, but mostly sadness. Regret, almost.

But there was no time to talk about that. About 1000 feet away was the walls of the fortress. They were at least ten feet tall, and on the top of them were giant crossbows, large iron vats with hot coals underneath them, and even troglodytes carrying large stones or barrels. There were at least fifty or so on the walls, but none outside of it. Shor approached to assets the situation. "The strengths of the troglodytes lies in their numbers and their ferocity. But with so few warriors on the defensive, they will fall easily. However we can't underestimate them just yet. They still have those siege weapons, which can do serious damage not only to the kobolds but the crocodiles too. So obviously, charging right at them is not an option. Fortunately that also works in our benefit because they're going to need to rely on their defenses to survive, thus they can't attack us while we're out of their reach. That's going to allow us time to set up our own fortifications."

As he said this, Longstrider looked towards her kobolds. Though scared and honestly not that intimidating as warriors, this is where their true strength revealed themselves. A little over fifty kobolds where wood, stone, and tools quickly got to work. In about ten minutes the kobolds manage to create their own fortification wall, standing five feet tall and fifty feet long, with stone to protect them against weapons and wood to give the kobolds a place to stand and hide behind. They even made a large barrier big enough for the giant crocodiles to hide behind. Shor couldn't help but chuckle. "Hah! Look at that. If you'd gotten fifty men from the surface to make something like this, it'll take the whole afternoon. And we didn't even train em to do that." Longstrider smugly reclined on her seat. "We kobolds are the best builders. As soon as we find a good spot, it'll be our home in no time. But now... Now it is time to take our home back."

Shor nodded in agreement. "Right. Now that we have a fort of our own, we can safely rest here in between skirmishes. Sylvia," Shor and Longstrider turned towards you. "This is where you'll come in. A frontal assault will be too risky. However, our scouts report that there is an opening between the fortresses. A small passage that leads pass the enemy walls. I need you and your team to reach that passage, get to the other side of that wall, and do two things for us: open the gate for our troops to get in, and cause as much chaos for the trogs as possible. In order to make sure they don't know you're coming, we'll send our warriors out as a distraction. They aren't going to attack the walls but those trog's won't know that and focus their attacks on us and the crocs, allowing you to reach that passage unnoticed. Act as fast as you can though, I want to get our warriors over there as soon as possible, so we can help you fight the trogs and clear a path to their leader."

Yorik came over with a small table while Aisha turned a lantern on. Kor took out a map which he placed onto the table under the lantern light while Cera was pouring drinks. Shor showed you where the passage should be, and it was roughly 100 feet away from the troglodyte defensive wall. It was [i]extremely[/i] close. "We need you to do this for us Sylvia. So far you've shown us nothing but honor, valor, and strength. And we're going to need all of that if we want to be victorious. Think you can do that? Can you get us victory?"

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Shortfang (28/28) | Syfr (1/1)
Buddy (31/31)
Pylia (24/24)
Sylvia (15/21)

Buddy's Short Rest healing = [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/16329]18[/url]

Pylia's Short Rest Healing = [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/rolls/16330]14[/url]

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