I vote we dig a small, 10cm hole.
Then, build a well over the top.
Instead of a ladder, we tie a kobold to the rope, and dangle it down.
If the rope goes taught, and unintelligable utterances issue before sudden silence, we seal the breach and never speak of it again.
Everyone turns to Corai............BYE!
A wagon has been stolen!
A yak bull has been stolen! x2
That's the slowest, most inefficient method of escape I've ever heard of.
Imagine two kobolds sitting in a room full of "rope reed" (hemp), smoking some of it. One of them happens to look out the window. "Oh, gods, it's the cops!" "No, no, no!" says the other. "We like, totally gotta get outta here, man!" "Yeah, dude! Quick, get on the wagon!" Both kobolds jump on the wagon and yell at the yaks to get them moving, and they slowly plod away.... so slowly.
If the kobolds are dumb enough to try to urge them onwards with the whip, they won't be going anywhere at all. They might get *yak roast* out of it, though.
Personally, I don't want to die
That's a vote against the caverns, then... Who else?
Another edit:
Which members of the populace must be stricken about the face and body to facilitate a more accurate count of our supplies? Clearly there is an unacceptable amount of tomfoolery and alleged kobold buggery, the remedy is then for the book keeper to take more specific counts so that we can be aware of the bones which are not yet devoid of flesh and which bones are in deficit thereby causing the foolery of toms and the buggery of kobolds. Once the bones which prevent the buggery and foolery respectively are discovered I shall turn them into hats which shall be worn to prevent further bug-foolery.
Once we have reached a state in which the fools are no longer buggered we can send a small expeditionary force into the caverns consisting of corai and several of the cats which are most prone to mewing. Corai shall translate the discoveries of the cats into a language we can't understand and we shall ultimately be forced to throw caution to the win and behave incredibly irresponsibly.
I lol'd.