>>5309872Your party is better-rested once more, though it was not so long a rest as for anyone to sleep. You feel you have another couple spells left in you, and another fight if it comes down to it… And, by your vision, a fight is what you’re in for, more likely than not. A longer rest seems possible, but not if you wish to the beat these devils to the egg-clutch. After that, you sense that they will rise towards the surface, looting your race’s relics from the rest of the compound—the ‘traditional route’ which the Cartographer suggested excavating and exploring on your return journey, based on his admittedly-old maps. You could head them off there… But who knows what twill become of the eggs, in the meantime, and what valuables or knowledge might be destroyed or removed before you catch them?
What will you do?
>Press on immediately, advancing quickly to reach the egg-chamber in advance of these damned scavengers, to secure the eggs>Rest a while longer, and attempt to head the barbed devils off in the ruins of your people, at full fighting strength>Send an advance force [specify who] to meet the devils, while the others rest and then trace the ruins-route to meet up with and reinforce the others>Hold back, laying traps and sending a runner to call for reinforcements from the kobold settlement and the rest of your retinue>Retreat—you’re ill-prepared for such a battle>Write-in 