This ceiling tunnel could lead to the cache they've been looking for. Or It could be full of voracious blood sucking giant spiders. Either way he was pretty sure he couldn't climb up there, so Lieaf looks expectantly at his siblings for some direction on what they want to do next.
Maybe someone could fire a crossbow bolt up there? Or we could light a bonfire and smoke out anything that's in there?
DSL
Shelquet sighs and shakes her head.
Liante looks dissapointed at her siblings abilities.
Leiaf looks pointedly at Argent...
Argent waves dismissively back at Leiaf and heads over to the wall.
I suppose if I get eaten by a spider I'll just have to haunt you lot.
Argent climbs up the shaft and reaches the silk cover. Moving the cover away he can see another cavern with webs covering everything. In the webs there seems to be something written in a language you do not understand.
Vrek tilts his head and listens for anything that sounds like a sibling screaming in agony as he dies in some horrific manner
Argent will climb into the new cavern. If nothing comes out of the web to eat him he will yell down, as much as he can yell.
Writing. Can't read. No spiders.
Argent climbs into the cavern and yells down to his siblings. As the sound echoes back, you hear movement behind you. Turning around there are two giant spiders across the way behind some webbing. They stare at you and emit some squeaking, screeching sound as if they were talking to each other.
After a minute one speaks in undercommon, "You drow? Where are the rest of you?" The other one hisses, "Be gone! We wish no traffic with the likes of you!"
Drow. Down. Argent points down to where the others are waiting. Leaving.
"Well, what's the story?" Vrek asks Argent when he returns, curious.
Argent hears some skittering as he climbs down. Without much fanfare, the silk screen flips over the hole. As Argent reaches the bottom, his siblings begin to question what happened. With some haste, Argent tells them about the webs, the writing and the spiders.
Leiaf listens to his brother's description of the spiders, then walks back to the main corridor and resumes his search for the frustratingly elusive gnome-killing cache.
Leiaf meanders down the narrow passage to his left, continuing to scan about for clues.
Liante makes motions with her hands to the others. Telling them of her idea.
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He keeps detecting magic as he follows the runt of the family.
Leif and Vrek go down into the south passage. Leif does not seem to see anything but Vrek notices a glow of magic coming from behind a wall.
"Hold on, Sib," Vrek says softly, "There's some sort of magic behind this wall..here."
perception
Leiaf and Shelquet, after fervent searching come across a small discoloration in the stone. When pressed, the wall slides away and there is an escape of old, stagnant air. Within the chamber, you see large casks containing preserved rations and stone vials. There is far more here than the six of you could carry.
Ha! Finally, Leiaf thinks as they uncover the cache. His excitement cools some as he sees the sheer volume of the stores. Well, our forces are adequately rationed, so we can skip all the foodstuffs. Where are these gnome-killing weapons then? Leiaf starts rummaging through the supplies, scanning for magical items and trying identify the contents of the stone vials.
"I admit it, siblings can be handy now and then..." He looks over the vials. "If only we had an alchemist among us...oh wait." He glances to Shelquet and smiles.
Leiaf scans the room for magic but it appears that whatever magic was in the room is fading. The 120 stone vials contain some type of elixir that is not immediately known. There are 200 days’ worth of hard mushcake and dried auroch meat (i.e. iron rations).
As you all sort through the supplies, you hear some large creatures moving from back behind you in the tunnel.
Leiath starts nervously as he hears the approach of large creatures. He signs to Argent;
Round 1: Cast frostbite, hold the charge
Round2: Brace spear to receive a charge, cross fingers
Argent will cast shield on the second round (so 9 combat rounds). If his siblings need help on the first turn he will help them otherwise he will draw his weapon and wait.
Vrek will draw his weapons
and find a good place to hide, hoping for a reverse ambush of sorts
Vrek looks around cautiously.
perception
Leiaf causes a casing of cold magic to envelope his hand while reading his spear. Argent readies his blade and incants a spell to bring a disk of force before him. Vrek draws a blade and hides along the tunnel passage. Quin brings a covering of force magic around himself. Shelquet waits patiently confident in her own abilities.
You all hear the sounds of a group of large lizards moving along the main hall. Argent and Vrek notice a small gnome peak around the tunnel entrance twenty feet away. The gnome notices most of you and waves his hand back the way he came. At the gnome's signal, the lizards go silent.