>>5317002This suspicion is vindicated when the kobold below yelps and narrowly dodges an incoming arrow, sprinting almost on all fours towards the home to shelter inside.
Advancing from the forest come the half-elf you saw earlier and…
“Is that a human?” you wonder aloud.
His skin is too pale to be an orc, from what you know of said surface races. And yet… By the Gods Below, he is nearly as tall as you, and perhaps broader. He wears a helm with great horns, has a bushy beard, and he goes shirtless, wearing leather pats and a fur skirt of some sort, with a rune-bearing belt. He drags a massive maul behind him with one hand, and with his other…
“Glowie,” you hiss.
She is battered and bruised, her robes torn and tattered, and partly soaked with blood—not red vertebrate blood, but the clearish, blue-green stuff that oozed from the greatworm you slew a month-or-so prior. Her captor throws her unceremoniously to the ground before you, and he and his ally both look up to the window.
He bellows a bestial challenge, radiating rage. The elf-human hybrid alongside him notches an arrow. And their roguish friend… He is still on the roof above you.
What do you do?
>Leap down with a <Jump>, to face the berserk human directly in melee combat>Exhale a gout of flame, potentially risking Glowie to take out both the mammals below>Swing up onto the roof with a feat of athletics, to take out the rogue who would otherwise flank you>Command the kobolds to take action [specify instructions]>Assume <Improved Dragonform> and attempt to intimidate the mammals into backing down>Use a magic item [which one?]>Write-in