The Kobold Warrens

The group decides to rest for a short while before moving on through the roughly dug kobold tunnels. As some of the group retreat into the safety of Eda's rope trick spell. While inside some of the group notice a hole being dug into one of the tunnel walls, as a kobold's nose pokes out from the newly dug hole. The kobold peers cautiously around before retreating back into the small tunnel. When the group is ready to move on Sylvannas fires off an arcane imbued arrow down the small tunnel in which they saw the kobold. The arrow magically navigates the tunnel and from around the corner of a different tunnel a yip of pain can be heard. They head off in that direction.

Everyone Watch Out For Traps, Kobolds Love Traps

Turt, the tortle, moves first through the narrow tunnels, but when he hears a slight click, he quickly tucks his head and limbs into his shell, falling with a thunk upon the tunnel's dirt floor. Behind him the group watches in horror as from the ceiling, with the creaking sounds of vines, a huge beam of timber held by a series of vines swings down towards them. Turt and Messick take the brunt of the damage.

After recovering, the group presses on until they see the opposite end of the newly dug kobold tunnel from which the kobolds were trying to spy upon the group from. The group moves cautiously down the tunnels until Messick breaks through a thin crust of earth and falls into a dug pit with poisonous spikes at its bottom.

Sylvannas, decides that she can easily avoid the trap by jumping over it, only to find a second identical trap is placed just on the far side of the first pit.

Messick commands his dog, Justice to dig a while and tunnel his way towards his master in the pit and thne continue on towards the next pit. After coming to Sylvannas they have Justice continue his tunnel under the already existing tunnels, guided by Eda's cat familiar, who walks the tunnels above.

Kobold Hatchery

They come to a large cavern covered in mushrooms and eggs held in place by mud nests.
A lone kobold with globs of glowing green dotting his body. He moves from egg to egg applying some sort of green ooze to the eggs.

He looks up at the group entering the cavern and he warns them to get out. They don't listen. They move further in only to have several of the mushrooms begin to make a horrible screeching sound, which in turn triggers other such mushrooms to take part in the shrieking. It continues until the cavern is filled with the brain-grating sound.

They kill off the kobold and in the process destroy several of the kobold eggs. Messick picks up an egg and carries it towards the tunnel continuing further into the lair. He yells out with the help of thaumaturgy that if they let them pass no harm will come to their eggs.

A lone kobold comes with arms raised in front of him and says for the group to not harm the eggs. Messick tells the kobold to stop but the kobold continues walking forward, telling the group not to harm, holding his hands out empty. Sylvannas makes a show of threatening, then killing an egg and smashing its contents but unfortunately, the kobold at the far end of the cavern did not see this happen.

When the kobold is close enough he runs and lunges at Messick, barely missing him. As he falls near Messick, the kobold who he now sees was wearing several vials across his chest in a bandoleer style belt. When he falls to the floor, they vials shatter, causing an massive explosion.

After the explosion, they hear the growls of some sort of beast. Several of the group worry about drakes, as they are often associated with kobolds. But something calls them back.

Insane Collector

It is then that Mystora discovers a hole in the middle of the cavern floor. Below seems to be a pit strewn with various body parts. As they drop down into the hole they find themselves in a low ceilinged cave beneath the other cavern. Several pillars are scattered throughout but hiding behind one of them is a a creature, back turned to them who is looking at different items and setting them down. It mutters to itself.

"The dragon comes"
"Soon sooooon"
"...and he smiles...."
" we need more, more.  Must find more..."
"souls souls souls"

When the group call out to it, it turns around to reveal itself as a nothic. Mystora has heard of these creatures from the old ones in her clan. They used to be wizards who have dabbled in the arcane arts beyond their capabilities or experimented with magic which went horribly wrong. They don't remember much of their former lives but are obsessed with magic and magic items.

Indeed the nothic has cobbled together a few shrines to his magic items which he has collected from some of the dead tossed down here over the years. Messick approaches him and talks to him. The creature is easily distracted but keeps coming back to his desire to seek out more souls. The group makes quick and easy work of the nothic and it is soon dead.

The room is a disgusting collection of horrors but Gunter is quick to point out the fact that there seems to be a few shrines to magical items in different areas of the cave.

Magical treasure.....is there anything better.