Friday's game day was supposed to see our lower-level Dark City campaign characters' wrap up Paizo's Crown of the Kobold King module and then return to our home city of Obsidian Bay for some much needed down time.

And then ... Total Party Kill.

It was our own fault. We went up against a dozen or so kobolds, and while we were able to defeat them, they depleted all of our magical resources, and greatly weakened all of the characters save my swordsage, Zilanderan (Zil having the unique Book of Nine Swords ability to heal damage whenever he recovers maneuvers). Immediatey after that fight, we found the kobold king, his bodyguards, and a kobold sorcerer. Instead of falling back to rest and recover (and knowing that a young child might be sacrificed to the kobold's god if we didn't act) we charged in.