Raddunth moves 30' west. (That should get him in eyesight of the northern swo-bold, but probably not the spell caster.)

"Your friend tried to give me this, but you should have it instead." He throws one of the spears, that he found when looting the east platform. (He also tosses the 4 copper coins at the kobold, for no damage.)

Attack: 20 Damage: 7

Thistle grimaces as the spear thrust pokes her, but keeps her focus on the robed kobold, trying to knock it upside the head again with the flat of her saber.

Action: A non-lethal attack on the spellbold with her saber, 21 to hit, for 19 non-lethal slashing dmg.

Yokini leans out  with her cocked crossbow. She aims at the non-robed kobold unless it is down — the robed one otherwise — and fires another glowing bolt before leaning back behind the wall again.

Infused crossbow attack: 18; damage: 4 magical piercing damage

Lem levels his arm once again at the swolbold, narrows his eyes, and fires off another fire bolt, hoping this ends it...

Attack:  7 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

Thistle attacks once again with the flat of her saber, attempting to injure the kobold without killing him. Her aim is true, and she connects with the magical kobold for 19 damage.

Zashier, annoyed that his attacks are not connecting, steadies his footing, and strikes out once more…but to no avail as his yklwa connect with air instead of kobold yet again.

Yokini and Lem both attack at the same time, his firebolt and her magical arrow both connecting with the swolebold.

Raddunth runs across the room until the swolebold is in his field of view. He sees the firebolt explode, and the magical arrow hit the kobold and disappear. He raises a kobold spear and heaves it at the swolebold.

It strikes true, and since Raddunth is so much stronger than a kobold, I will say that the spear actually does an additional 3 damage as it pierces all the way through the swolebold and hits the wall behind him, shattering into several shards that also splinter and embed in the swolebold’s back.

He slumps to the ground, falling backwards against the wall, his body beaten and broken. In his final moments of life, he looks to the robed kobold with a mixture of strength and fear as he is about to go into the afterlife. The robed kobold looks at him, and nods in a gesture of gratitude for his protection and friendship and whispers words in draconic to ease his passage and suffering. The swolebold bows his head, and slumps over in a pool of blood that seems to grow and mingle with the blood of his brother next to him.

The robed kobold, seeing his friends and family fall all around him, cowers, raises his hands in a posture of surrender.

Catching her breath, Thistle immediately demands, “Tell us about the necklace you wear! Who gave it to you? What does it stand for?”

"Where are the gnomes?" Lem repeats, in Common and Draconic. He's hanging back, hand raised, flames dancing and ready to fire off at the hooded kobold should it make any sort of hostile move. "We were here looking for something a friend of ours lost on the road. That you stole. Then we found out you kidnapped a very good person's family. Tell us why. Or this is going to get difficult. Also don't lie about this stormy boss of yours."

The whole display between the kobolds near the end leaves Zashier shaking his head and making a face as having just chewed on something bad. Finally, the man has enough, and after seeing at least Raddunth climb up to play muscle for the group, the elephantine man makes his way down, shaking his head, and figuring he'd check out the alcove the smaller kobold had rushed out of to at least pretend keeping busy for a while. Anything was better than having to think about anything for a while.

Yokini scrambles to her feet and marches toward the last kobold. "Where is my mama?!" she screeches. She waves her crossbow threateningly at the creature.

“Wait!” Thistle shouts above the din. “The necklace it’s wearing is the same as the ones in town. We’ll find your family, but this is even bigger than we know.” She turns back to the kobold. “Tell us about the necklace, now!”

Raddunth will help Zashier check out that middle alcove.

Also, be wary of any more traps or tricks that the kobolds might have set up in the area.

Zashier and Raddunth move out to check the middle alcove, but there is nothing of value there. Based on Zashier's mental state at the moment, perhaps he even leans up against the wall out of sight of everyone else once in the alcove...not really looking for anything, just trying to shut out the world....holding his head in his hands

Thistle wants to know about the necklace, Lem wants to know about the dragon hide, and Yokini wants to know about her mother...all of you asking questions at once...

...but as Yokini moves towards the kobold, hatred fills his eyes. He doesnt make any sudden moves, seeing Lem's fire in his hands.

He looks between the three of you, his common speech less broken than the others (obvious he has spent more time with humanoids than the other kobolds) "My necklace? why do you want to know about my necklace? and you, dwarf. We have taken many things and many people. we have survived this way for many years, though only in the last few months here in this wonderful manor....and you...gnome (here he spits at Yokini's face) I have killed many gnomes, and I regret nothing. Your mother? If she is still alive, she is with the human...I wanted her dead, but he said he needed...subjects for his experiments and ceremonies. If she is not dead, I hope she is suffering (and he laughs a soft, yet maniacal, laugh - as if he has just made a very good joke)

Thistle will step between Yokini and the kobold (but not Lem, his fire is a useful deterrent). "Yours is not to question why I want to know about the necklace. Who gave it to you and what does it mean? Was it the human?"

Lem's fire in his hand darts swiftly at the wall right above the kobold's head when he spits at Yokini and another reappears. He snarls, waiting for an answer to the necklace question.

 The fireball explodes near his head, and he does cower a bit...he looks between you all...Yes, the human gave me the robe and the necklace, welcomed my family in, but only I was special enough to earn an audience with the human, to earn an audience with the great Froststorm (which he says reverently)

Lem uses [spell[mage hand[/spell] to try to grab the necklace from the kobold, knowing it probably won't work, but grumpy enough to try it anyway. 

He looks over to Yokini and places his metal hand awkwardly on her shoulder in an "I'm here" gesture.

"Where is the human?" Yokini asks in a low, slow growl.

Lem reaches out for the necklace with mage hand, but is unable to grab the necklace off of his neck.

He stares daggers at Yokini after she asks him a question, as if it is beneath him to speak to a gnome, but he finally answers..."If I tell you, will you let me go, alive?"

"Were you going to let your caged prisoners go, alive?" Thistle asks coldly. She grabs the necklace and yanks it off the kobold's neck.

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"Where is the human?" Yokini asks in a low, slow growl.

From the middle area away from the conversation, Raddunth looks startled, then realizes Yokini meant the human talked about by the kobold.