Luckily, Lorelei is able to get the attention of the robed kobold after a couple of rather distinct pointing gestures and he looks to his tail.  After catching hold of it in his mouth, an effort which takes three and a half spins, he has it more under control.<br/><br/>The leader of the kobolds looks at Sydney and turns his head a bit to the side, clearly confused by this suggestion, "Shatter-bang not for warnings uses.  For warnings the deep ones."<br/><br/>The two other kobolds echo him in a whimpering, dire voice, "Deeep onessss."<br/><br/>Even the leader shudders at this, adjusting his poorly fitting armor and rolling his shoulders a bit.  "If adventurerses no can pay us, we drops the Shatter-bang and it clang, bong, crash and Deep Ones knows."<br/><br/>Again, the echo, "Deeeep Onessss knoooowsss."<br/><br/>The leader gives a shrug and adds, "And if Deep Ones knows, adventurerses never comes back out."  His foreridge furrows just slightly and he adds, "Mostly adventurerses no come out anyways."<br/><br/>He then pulls himself up to a puffed up height and asks, "So, we be Honor Guard until you pays us?  City has all collapseded it did, you go..." he counts on his claws, getting up to about thirty, "Tens steps that way, grounds collapses.  Tens and tens steps that way, walking on roofs."  A brief scout ahead would show this same information, the city has apparently sunk down into the ground, cracking stone and pavement are abundant and perhaps fourty feet in, the ground seems to slope down until entire buildings are below the current ground level.<br/><br/>"Underneaths the city is where stuffs is," says the kobold in a conspiratorial tone, "But also, dangersss."