Caves of the Kobold Slave Masters

Dealuri plops down onto the floor and starts rummaging through her backpack. She pulls out two flasks. This here says Healing and this one says Fire Resistance. I Think I will take the Healing one. Vakas, do you think the Fire Resistance potion would work for you? I hope it is not too spicy. 

"Potions!" Sara cries out suddenly. "I have potions as well, I stole them when I escaped."

She puts aside her crossbow and rummages through the broken furniture until she finds a small leather satchel with contains. 3 potions of healing, 1 potion of invisibility, 1 potion of speed and a vial of pink liquid that you do not recognise.

What will you all do next? Try to sneak past the battling kobolds to either enter the door to the west or the main courtyard beyond? Or will you try to sneak in the way Sara got out, through the gap in the northern wall? Or something else entirely??

Skritch psychotelepaths, "Please wait here I'll just be gone for moment, see, er, see what awaits us through that crack. Oh, and while I'm gone, you who need healing should partake of those potions. I lack many more spell slots..."

He shapes into a Spider, scuttles out and goes to look what's though the crack, presumably unnoticed (?) by those in the courtyard. He'll go far enough in to get the lay of the land.

Then he'll scuttle back to let the others know what he's seen (OoC: extra map detail, one asks, hopefully, please and thank you?).

Dealuri drinks her own potion (+7hp) and looks around. Could you please remind me where we are at and where the bad guys are? (OOC - I second Godster's request for a smaller-scale map. Thanks!)

"Spicy sounds good to me, actually."  He takes the potion and sets it down beside him, resting for a moment.  He stares at the demon bodies wondering what in the bloody hells he has gotten himself into.  "That crack in the wall.  How big is it?  Could we shimmy through it?  Those of us who can't turn ourselves into small creatures?"  He nods when the potions are offered, putting the potion of healing into his pack.  ((Added the others to party inventory.))

"Maybe we should wait here until you return, Skritch.  Then we can figure out which would be the safest route.  I don't fancy trying to jog past the kobolds, so it would be great if the crack in the wall was big enough.."

Skritch you scuttle through the hole in the stone walls, it is easily big enough for the others to crawl through. You find yourself in what may have once been a beautiful flower garden, lit by glowing lamps suspended above that now sit dark and dormant. The plants here are worm-eaten and withered. The heavy stink of death draws your attention to the western corner, where a pile of human corpses is being swarmed by large maggots. It seems that this is where the kobolds dump their victims.

Moving away from the bodies you see a small alley that leads along the back of the outer keep towards a room that has been crushed by a fallen tower. You can see a gap where you could all climb through to the keep interior through the tower (see the green line) It will be a difficult climb through but possible.

Skritch will scuttle back to the others, still in spider form, climb up onto Sunhill's head (to whom he mindspeaks so that Sunhill is comfortable with an arachnid as a hat!), then use telepathy to report on everything he's seen. 

When he's done he'll add, "Now, might be our best chance of crossing from this room through the, er, the crack into the dead garden, and from there into the keep proper. What say you all?" 

(his plan is that, presuming they're all heading through the wall crack, to dismiss Sunhill to his pocket dimension then he'll scuttle back as an inconspicuous arachnid - but, tbh, the whole plan hinges, really, on what his comrades can do by way of escaping the notice of the battling devils and kobolds).

(OoC: Thanks, @DM, for the map. Helps a lot!)

Does my chain mail make me look fat? It certainly makes me noisier than I would like, asks Dealuri, feeling self-conscious while trying to look at her figure by twisting this way and that. If you think I can fit, then I am happy to try. I hope those maggots don't bother us. My commander told me of crawlers that would swarm a battleground after the most intense fighting had completed in order to devour the bodies of any combatant left behind. But bugs are better than demons.