He swore at the report, but he had put a kobold with unusually good sneaking skills and ears for listening for the group, and that was all he would do. Sit in a small cubby, and run for help if he heard something coming up the tunnel.<br/><br/>He gathered all the fighting troops, and kept the kobolds out of the fight again, though he suspected soon he would be throwing them in as well to keep them all from being overrun. Still, as he waited in the room near the door, with his ioun torch lit, his troops in the other room, only the orc with him. The hobgoblins and Jerrick would hit them from behind, while he and the orc dealt with the drow as they rushed him.