It gets skunked, but dodges the worst of the fireball with unnatural agility.
’Do we run or fight?’ turning to face the spider, Einar is unable to dodge it’s bite. ”Blast!” It’s poison seeping through his system, he begins to rage. Calling on his demonic heritage; his body tranforms becoming larger. His ankles and feet shift becoming more animal like, his hands also grow larger with talons, now appearing as claws, his maw extended and his eyes grow red, his small black horns became more prominent. Causing his Cambion ancestry to become very prominent. Stepping forward he attacks the spider tooth and claw. Telling the team, ’Slowly move back down the hall, lets draw it into the tunnel where it can’t move as well!”
All but the last claw hit, and with sheer brute strength Einar manages to deal quite a sufficient bit of damage to it. It strikes back at Einar, but it seems that it seems desperate now, with both of its claws raking harmlessly across Einar's armor.
The skunk looks badly scorched, but its still up.
'well the skunk is still standing, maybe the spider will like the way it tastes more.' Einar attacks the spider again, with tooth and claw, then he moves back hoping the team is retreating slowly behind him.
The bite and the claw bounce off its exoskeleton, but the last two claws land, sending out yellow ichor spurting out everywhere. It looks badly wounded now.
Seeing that fire does appear effective against the creature, Mr. Whiskers casts scorching ray at it.
He then backs up as Einar had requested.
The rays and Crummock's fireball hit the bebilith and it finally collapses.
Seeing how the poison is still burning through him, Mr. Whiskers shouts "Quick, put the gold amulet from Rokum on him! Give him any blessing you have!"
Looking to Einar, he says "Continue raging, to help burn it off!"
Seeing that Einar is close to death, Crummock exhorts him to remember his own consumables.
"Einar ye daft idjit - now ain't the time to rhino-hide; drink ye damn potions!"
Mr. Whiskers searches through Einars belongings and finds his potions of lesser restoration. "Here, Einar! These will help you! Better than that bilge water called winteryew moonshine you drank!"
Inspection of the cocoons reveals the corpses of andrazku demons. Hirah searches the chamber and the bebilith but finds no phat lewt, just that door with a naked pregnant woman on it.
The bebilith is too toxic to be eaten.
"We can't stay here. Everything in this complex has tried to kill us and this thing" gestures at the bebilith remains "nearly succeeded! Perhaps we can find a reasonable place to camp and recover outside." ...if we can make it without someone picking another fight that is.
Crummock nods.
"Aye, We should head up to the surface, and rest for the night."
As you pass by Gurra Gurra, the right head asks, while suspiciously eyeing the party "Have you dealt with Caigeal yet?"
"Aye, that we have. She did mention that 'Silyzil and Grishelmuk' will avenge her; who are they?"
Blast the fire killed the creature.' Seeing his friends kill the spider, Einar still raging, turns, not feeling well, still raging he smiles at Mister Whiskers and accepts the potions, "After biting the undead cats, anything would taste good." HE then downs the potions. "Those don't taste very good, but I feel better."
"See, I told you they'd do it. You owe me a drink and them a meal, Gurra."The left head pipes up smugly.
"Oh fine," the right head grumbles. "Remember YOU were responsible for THEM getting in in the first place," The right head gives the left head a dirty look.
"But Gurra is right." The right head clears her throat,"Since you did us a favour, we owe you a meal. We can talk about Artosa politics over the meal." The right head offers.
"You can also join us for the night!"The left head says, "We dont get that many people to talk to!" To which, the right head sighs, "That's Gurra for you. I swear she would talk to rocks if they'd listen."
Following along behind the others, Einar, Still looking a little blue, asks, "Gurra, No offence, but what are you cooking and do you have any alcohol that tastes better than piss?"
Realizing that they had not answered Crummocks question, "Oh and who did you say 'Silyzil and Grishelmuk' were?"
"Yeah, we're cooking wild boar ramen and we have some rice-wine Jadrenka brought back after her last trip in Vurnin!" The left head answers while the right hand pulls out a bottle of sake from some crates.
"Over dinner...its a long story." The right head answers.
As they head out of the spider area, Einar discreetly casts infernal healing on himself.
Mr Whiskers casts detect magic and finds no magical auras on Gurra-Gurra, much to the raised eyebrow of both heads of the ettin.
The ramen is sumptous, with its chewy noodles and thick soup bursting with flavor. The wild boar has a strong shoyu flavour and is quite tender. The rice sake tastes of rice, with a slight sakura aftertaste, and is quite smooth and soothing, numbing the pain of Einar's wounds. Over the dinner, Gurra-gurra tells the party that Grishelmuk is a green hag and it is strange that Caigeal spoke about Silyzil, as Jadrenka had killed her sometime back after the Coven, headed by Caigeal had tried to overthrow Jadrenka. Gurra, the left head, admits that she shouldn't have let Caigeal in, but was afraid that the centaur warchief Vsevolod, and his band of Frost Giants,who came along with Caigeal would kill them.
Greta turna back into human foem, wearing a brown tunic and breeches with an owl feather braided in her hair. "Now, that's what I call a meal!" She compliments Gurra-gurra's cooking. "I mean I've been having dried rations for a freaking week!"
"Einar, you look bluer then usual. Are those bites still hurting you? Why don't you just leave the night watch to the rest of us?"Greta says, after looking Einar up and down.
"Wasn't he blue to begin with? How can he get more blue?"The right heas, Gurra, asks.
Gurra-Gurra regretfully tells the party that she doesn't really get out much, since Jadrenka told her not to wander around, since the place is dangerous and holds multiple guardians.
Generally though, Artosa can be divided into 3 sections, Maiden, Mother and Crone, with all 3 sections linked to each other by teleportation arches. The only entrance and exit to Artosa can be found in different sections, depending on the moon phase.
Waxing moon= Maiden
Full Moon= Mother
Waning Moon = Crone.
'Curious, I understand where the boar came from, but I bet rice wine is hard to come by, let alone noodles.' Einar enjoys the boar and ramen dish, quickly eating several bowls full. Especially appreciative of the sake, he drinks several servings asking Gurra, his voice slurred, "Have you ever had the sake warmed?"
Enjoying the warm sensation from the sake, Einar nods at Greta, smiling a toothy smile. "Yes the wounds still hurt. But not as much as that blasted spider hurts. Well I mean how much it would hurt if it weren't dead. They roasted it like a ...." Einar stopped speaking for a moment, his eyes focusing and un-focusing, clearly the poison that weakened his system had affected his ability to hold his alcohol. "They roasted it like a spider caught on fire." Lifting the small glass of sake he continues. "Sleeping all night would be good, but not too soon. Me and Gurra, or is it Gurra's?" Pointing over to the two headed giant. "Me and my new best friends Gurra have a lot more drinking to do." His empty glass still aloft, he attempts to stand, falling out of his chair, landing half under the table.
Soon thereafter he begins to snore.
"I want to try the Sake warm! I've never had it!" The left head pipes up.
"No! Sake is fine cold!" The right head argues.
And continue arguing until Einar starts toasting with them.
To Einar's toast, both heads happily drink a toast to him. Then their respective eyes pop out in shock when Einar passes out after his last toast.
"Hey. Does this happen often? I mean maybe we shouldn't have offered him the sake, it wasn't really that strong. Is it fine to move him? Else if he sleeps up curled up like that he'll get a backache tomorrow." Both heads ask Crummock.