Beady eyes watched from crags and crevices as the woman began her climb.  The stores of potions Keldourn had collected proved quite useful.  A horde of invisible mind linked spies gave the mountain hundreds of eyes and ears.  The Kobolds recognized the glint of plate and shield.  One word echoed through the minds of the creatures as the message went up the line, Paladin! A cruel smile spread across Keldourn's face as he received the news.<br/><br/>He rushed to oversee the positions of the traps in the Paladin entrance.  Each entrance to the underground warren had been designed to combat a certain type of adventurer.  Their were anti-magic traps for the various spell-casters, who thought they could fly right through the defenses of the Kobolds.  Falling boulders and rust monsters for the slow moving fighters.  His favorite of all though was the paladin entrance.  Of all the adventurers that slaughtered his kind, the "good hearted" paladins were the worse.  Self serving hypocrites, they were.  They judged his kind as evil, as they murdered women and children.<br/><br/>Everything in the cave seemed to be in order.  The pitfalls were covered nicely.  Countless evil objects from near every dark cult in the land littered cubbyholes in the walls.<strong>"You want to detect evil, you got it you little wench."</strong>Finally he set up his favorite trap.  Animated Skeletons lining the other edge of a pitfall, and at the bottom of the pit, a hungry rust monster.  He snickered as he walked to his waiting place deeper in the cave.<strong>"Lets see how well you fare without your shiny little armor." </strong>He signaled for the attack to begin.  Outside, two Kobolds flung small spears at the paladin from her right flank, causing their invisibility to dissipate.  They quickly turned tail and ran in the direction of the paladin entrance.