Dolgrym yelps in pain again and seems weaker. He then attacks the smaller spider back. "Here's payback for ya!"
Glorik continues trying to escape. He tries moving around, rolling, even jumping, all to no avail.
Full-round action to try Escape Artist, still no luck.
The attacks barely miss piercing the thick hide of the spiders.
The mama bites at Tam and the littler spider bites at Dolgrym.
The gnome takes a nasty bite (7 damage) while Dolgrym takes a smaller bite (1 damage)
Tam and Dolgrym feel slighltly weaker
Round 2
ORDER
Glorik
Dolgrym
Belir
Round 3
Crom
Tam
Spiders
"Haaarhgghghghgrhrrgl!" the gnome makes a piteous and annoying noise as he falls in a shower of gore.
Glorik struggles against the webs a little more, and manages to wriggle out. He spends a few seconds pulling webbing off himself, looking disgusted.
Crom attacks the baby spider again.
Dolgrym attacks the spider again. "This thing is going to be the end of me!" he gasps.
Belir cuts deeply into the mama spider. Crom smashes the baby spider.
The large mother spider turns a mass of eyes on Belir and tries to bite him--missing badly.
Dwarves up vs one badly mauled spider
Just right click on Glorik's picture. Save as a picture. And upload it as a picture onto the current map. Shrink it to square sized and you have a token.
Dolgrym moves up next to Belir. "I"m comming laddies!"
Glorik draws his maces, and moves to assist Belir.
GM Tribute:
Awesome, thanks. I'll make a token tonight.
Crom will double move to the remaining spider.
Belir misses the spider, than dodges another spider bite as everyone closes to finish off the spider.
Dwarves up!!
The little gnome continues to bleed profusely.
Dolgrym steps forward and attacks mamma spider. "Time to go to sleep for good you overgrown ... spider."
Crom joins the spider melee.
Belir and Dolgrym finish off the mother spider. All her eyes close as she begins to bleed out.
The hopeknife, after the excitement, has an inscription: "To Brinya my Love." You have found Rodrik's true hopeknife. The other hopeknife had no reason to be at the crime scene.
Dolgrym kneels down next to the gnome and tries to stop his bleeding.
Glorik rushes over to help fight the spiders...and finds they are already defeated. He grumbles under his breath.
"Cursed webs....can't even move..."
The first aid stabilizes the gnome.
The plague house is quiet, the spiders now removed as a threat.
Crom wipes the spider gore from his axe, "Let's keep moving. I'll carry Tam."
Crom gently lifts the gnome over his shoulder and then opens the door in the hall.
"Unfortunately, I cannot heal the brave little fellow. He fought well."
X_X
In the south stairway after opening the iron doors.....
two iron doors connect this stone extension to the main building. Before a steep stairs is an iron lockbock, secure. It could be smashed open, but the contents would take a pounding.
After discovering the lockbox, the stairwell goes down into the darkness....
"I don't know that laying him with the ghosts is a good idea. I don't think we should continue on. Some of us are in desperate need of healing and we have found a major clue I think in the hopeknife."
Glorik squats down in front of the box, and pulls out his tools.
"I have quite an extensive experience with traps and machines, and in many ways, opening locks is a similar skillset. Give me a little bit of time."
"This is a tough one!"
"I'm usually much better with these cursed things. I don't want the contents to possibly get damaged, but then again...your choice, I suppose."
Crom holds back Belir, "Patience, lad. Let 'em try again."
Glorik takes his time and opens the box.
It has:
mwork hand crossbow (exotic)
case with 10 bolts, 10 cold iron bolts, 10 silver bolts
potion darkvision
scroll barkskin
scroll ghostbane dirge
Crom shrugs when he sees the box contents, "Nothing I can use. Take it if you want it."
"Let's finish clearing the first level before we go down the stairs."
He walks to the other door and opens it.
Opening the north door...
Most of this room is shambles. The western wall has collapsed in a heap and a staircase to the NE leads to a loft filled with rubble and debris.
Glorik looks about the room as he stuffs the contents of the lockbox into his bag.
Crom cautiously explores the loft and the area around the collapsed wall.
Moving into the rubble, Crom finds a mated pair of centipeds, quite large for bugs. They don't surprise him. His darkvision easily discovers their sneaky ways.
Worrying about his past wounds, Dolgrym is oblivious to the bugs.
Glorik spots the bugs, and lifts up his maces.
"Have care lads!"
Crom smacks the nearest bug with his axe.
Tam
Glorik
Dolgrym
Crom
Belir
Enemy 1
Crom catches one of the giant centipedes flatfooted, and squishes it with his axe. Their scurrying he had heard.
He is so fast, he dodges a single bite and smashes the other centipede. Climbing into the loft, you see what used to a sanctuary, but it is now burned out. Looking up, you see the most of the roof is gone. The sanctuary is covered with grime, soot and cinders including a statue covered in black of a beautiful well armed female with longsword and kite shield.
A cursory search reveals noting of interest.
You have now explored all but the basement and the hospital room with the scary spirits where people probably died in their sleep. You have found two ways into the basement, the steps down past the lockbox in the stone annex, and the difficult climb down the holes in the NW corner of the house.
"I'll scout the stairs here, boys. Give me a minute."
Glorik moves down the stairs, walking as softly as possible, his eyes peeled.