The three spiders that were after Narnel chase him down the tree and bite at him again!
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Narnel is much more ready this time, easily evading them all!
The spider from whose web Holly had just escaped lowers itself down a bit and bites at the halfling!
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Just missed!
The three spiders that had started to haul Crax upward lower themselves down a bit and retaliate against the strange new spider-rival!
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Two of the bites pierce his exoskeleton and inject him with venom!
Spider-Pavel sways and staggers, clearly suffering!
Corson, surveying the battlefield, calls out, "Hang on, Pavel-spider, I'm coming!"
He moves toward the bigger spider and swings to hit one of the spiders off Pavel!
Can't cast 2 proper spells in a round, soo... ray of frost.
Roaring with anger at the spiders as they inject their foul poison, spoiling his pure dragon blood!
Howling a torrent of flame issues from his mouth, casting dancing shadows around the forest as he lights the spider aflame.
"Woah! Pavel's a SPIDER! Hey Crax, glad you got out of there. Did you see that Pavel's a spider?" As Holly's shield of faith deflects the attack of one of the spiders, she batters at it with her nunchaku and follows that up with a kick in its bulbous abdomen.
Crax breathes fire across the spiders that are attacking the spider that rescued him from the spiders!
Corson rushes into the fray and swings a bit sloppily, but his charred target fails to get out of the way and is squished!
Meanwhile, Cedany mildly inconveniences a spider with a chilly draft.
Holly is busy with her own spider, missing with her weapon but giving it a solid kick!
Narnel attacks one of the three spiders on him, and if he kills it with his staff, spreads his martial attacks to another.
He then spends some of his energy to attack the second spider again with an additional smashing kick.
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Disadvantage on these from the poison
He heads towards the one on Holly, and chitters at the spiders, trying to convince them to go away.
On the off chance that you'll let me try a handle animal check on them
In the more likely case that I have to reluctantly attack them he'll go and attack the one on Holly.
Narnel gives one of his eight-legged assailants two solid thumps, but misses with the finishing blow!
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Pavel changes targets, and is bitten hard(ish) by one of his original opponents as he moves to assist Holly.
Spider-Pavel hisses and rears at the recently-kicked spider engaged with Holly, trying to scare it away!
Holly's opponent shrinks back a bit, hissing weakly in protest, then withdraws up its anchor-strand toward the treetops!
Narnel's trio keeps biting at him!
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The other two spiders focus their attention on Corson The Squisher!
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Corson is bitten twice!
Corson reels and throws the spiders off him! Staggering, he brings his hammer down at one of the spiders before him!
Narnel again attacks the spider on him that he damaged, and if he kills it with his staff, spreads his martial attacks to another.
"Whew! Thanks Pavel. What's it like being a spider? Oh...that can wait until later."
Holly looks at the bite wound, "That looks like a nasty bite, friend. These spiders have poisoned you." She gently touches the wound and closes her eyes briefly. The poison coursing through her companion's body is neutralized by her supernatural power of healing.
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Despite the poison, Corson clobbers his target, nearly dropping it!
Narnel sends his injured opponent flying, then starts in on another!
Holly cures Pavel's poison!
Threatened by the snakes, Crax’ll step back before firing off a bolt of flame from his hand toward one of the injured Spiders.
Growling out a retort,
"We've nearly got them, keep fightin'!"
Cedany tries to blast the one Narnel wounded with another icy blast.
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To Holly
"Chitter (soft). Chitter chitter (firm)"
Pavel will then come in and attack one of the spiders on Crax (an injured one by preference)
So, that is a 15 to hit for
"!!!!!Chitter!!!!!
Crax retreats a bit, drawing opportunistic bites from his two foes:
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Even while poisoned, Crax manages to finish off a spider with a blast of fire!
Cedany shoots one of Narnel's targets, nearly dropping it!
Pavel skitters over to the last spider by Corson and bites it!
Pavel's potent venom nearly kills the spider!
With only three spiders remaining and two of them at death's door, they retreat!
Cedany looks up at the fleeing spiders. "I don't know about the rest of you - but I see no reason to pursue, perhaps we should mark the area as spider territory though - make sure that no-one less capable than we are strays into it."
I agree, but should we try to see if others in cocoons can be saved?
I agree, but should we try to see if others in cocoons can be saved?
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"Chitter? Chitter chitter chitter? CHITTER!!"
Pavel waits impatiently :-) :-)
When people look at him askance, Narnel adds,
I saw other cocoons higher up. If Pavel will join me, we can attempt to cut them loose.
Narnel prepares to climb up, assuming Pavel follows and assists.
Corson, resting a bit, hears the comment of people in cocoons and pulls himself to his feet, "When you free them, pass them down here."
"Chitter"
Pavel the Spider heads up towards the cocoons and detaches the cocoons from the silk so that Narnel can lower them gently to the floor.
Looking around and then looking into the trees for cocoons, "what's this about cocoons?"
Holly moves over to stand under the trees next to Corson, ready to receive any cocoons. "What a day, eh Crax?"
She then notices Corson's wounds. "Ooh, those bites look painful. Here, this will help." The halfling casts a healing spell on the man.
Cedany watches the cocoons being lowered, mentally preparing to cast feather fall should any of them fall.
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Nodding, arms crossed, "aye, what a day its been so far, I can feel newfound power surging in my blood, like its about to burst forth at any moment,"
Narnel and Spider-Pavel spend the next several minutes climbing up and down trees to examine the woven pouches of webbing. Most of them are of no interest to you: a dead deer, a dead rabbit, a dead baloth, and so forth. One bundle seems to have a humanoid shape, but when you lower it down and open it, it becomes clear that the person has been killed and sucked dry at least a few days ago. From what's left of the clothing, you'd say it was either a traveler or a bandit (fortunately, not anybody from Wood Creek, it seems). The corpse has with it a shortsword and a healer's kit, though much of the kit's contents has spoiled.
About 15 minutes have passed when something startling happens: Narnel and Spider-Pavel are up in the webbed branches again, and suddenly you hear hurried footsteps nearby and a female voice calls out:
"HOLD ON BROTHER WE'LL SAVE YOU!"
You look, and see a squad of elves, all armed, about 50ft away. They are all looking up toward Narnel and Pavel, and reaching for their bows.
Holly and Pavel are the first to react!
I am in no danger, this spider is a transformed druid friend!
"Ho friends!" Holly calls out to the elves. "We are in no danger here." She smiles warmly at them and stifles a small giggle. "Those both are our companions," she explains pointing at the elf and spider in the tree. "We are checking the cocoons for survivors. Wanna help?"
"Sorry, Pavel. They don't look convinced."
Extending one harm, palm open, putting himself between the party and the party of Elves, ”Wait, we have just suffered a vicious attack by the spiders in this grove, that spider up there is a friend to us, he is merely a wild shaped druid, we scared the spiders off where we could rather than kill them,”
Looking back forth between the groups, he’ll hope his words can calm the situation down.
Corson thanks Holly for the healing with a warm smile.
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Corson looks at the elven warband, trying to look non-threatening, but ready to spring into action at first provocation, "Yes, we have chased off the spiders and the remaining one is our druid friend, Pavel, who chose that form to help us bring down the cocoons and traverse the web."
It is so interesting to see the world this way. Everything in mutiples. The smells. The way that walls are the same as floors. Ah, the scents.
Wait. What is that? Something is coming. My spidey senses are tingling.
Pavel will duck behind the tree, hoping that his friends convince the elves to not attack.
Holly and Pavel are the first to react!
Holly tries to quickly explain the situation, but the elves only give her a confused glance, seeming to not understand to whom she's referring.
Spider-Pavel then rushes for cover!
The elf leader start loosing arrows while she adjusts her position for a better shot!
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The arrow hits a branch!
Crax then rattles off a slightly more detailed explanation, and something seems to "click" in the eyes of the elves.
The leader holds up a hand to halt her subordinates before any more arrows are fired. All four of the elves look quizzically in the direction of Pavel, then to the very unthreatened-looking Narnel, then to the group, and then back and forth a few times.
"Okay," says the leader. "Let's start from the beginning. Exactly what is going on with you lot and that spider?"
"You see, we are looking for trees to build a wall. There is this noble, Elegant Son-of-Something, he sounds very nice. He's giving us money to build a palisade. Some of us wanted to explore the keep, but others wanted to build the wall. We couldn't decide so Elder Yana decided for us that we should come out here..." Holly begins to explain, helpfully.
Watching Holly ramble on with the Elves, Crax'll speak up as well, "that spider is the noble druid, Pavel, he has the extraordinary ability to transform into creatures of all shapes and sizes," Looking around at the grove they are in, "As Holly said, we are here looking for the perfect wood to build a wall around our village, we hope to protect the future generations of our village by building defenses,"
Finally, making eye contact with each of the elves before continuing, "We'd welcome the aid of your people in the defense of our village, let me be the first to extend a peaceful hand of friendship to the Elves of the Northern Woods"
Narnel climbs down, and addresses the others,
Allow me to speak with my brethern.
He then turns back to the elves and speaks in their native tongue.
Pavel descends the tree, visible to the Elves but clearly not threatening them. He then transforms back into a human
"As my friends have said, I am a druid and not a spider. I took this form in an attempt to scare the spiders off without killing them. They really are fascinating creatures.
One thing that we should make clear is that we wish to make certain that building a wall around the village will NOT harm the forest. We will use rocks wherever possible and will only take those trees that can be safely harvested from the forest."
Corson stands back to watch the scene unfold, having had run-ins with elves before. He tries to seem non-threatening, while staying aware of his surroundings.
The entourage remains impassive and on-guard while the leader listens to each of you, her eyes narrowed in suspicion. At least, until suddenly the spider is a human; then she seems a little more convinced.
"Okay," says the leader, "That solves the elf-in-distress situation I thought we'd happened across. However, a new matter is now raised. You plan to lead loggers into our forest? You are not the first to promise that no harm would be done. Those who harm this forest are not easily forgiven, and more than one settlement has fallen since our ancestors first took up the task of protecting this forest. Do you really expect me to trust you?"
Holly smiles at the elves, "Hi, I'm Holly Berrythwaite of the Wood Creek Berrythwaites. We promise we won't harm the forest. We rely on the bounty of these woods as well. It won't be more than one small group of loggers, and we only need a few hundred trees or so. If you cannot believe me — a paladin — nor our druid, Pavel, that we will tread lightly, perhaps you will believe our own elf?"
Now that I say that out loud, it seem like an awful lot of trees.
Corson speaks up, "Your people, who know more about this forest than any, are welcome to help us find the trees that are proper for construction, and ensure that they are harvested responsibly as your people might do for your own construction needs..."
"Indeed with your help, we can ensure that we do the least amount of harm to the forest,"