"Werewolf? That is something to be avoided if possible. Thanks for the warning. Ok guys lets get going and find some fangberries."
The group finishs mapping this square with little trouble, making hte location of Bokken's hut for future reference.
A little less than a day south of Bokken's hut the group comes across a copse of woods heavily laden with spider webs. They can see a place in the woods that the vines and web opens up on a small dark path.
Lynore looks wearily at the webs. "I hate spiders, but lets do this." Lynore leads them into the path.
The group moves along the path which after 20 or 30 feet opens into a large clearing. The trees are strew with tight webbing and from here to the other side of the clearing (100 ft) you see numerous corpses. You see corpses of all sorts of animals, bears, horses, humans, and goblins to name a few.
DC 12 perception
"It is strange the bodies are not cocooned in webbing? Has anyone ever seen anything like that?"
knowledge nature
Stanton explains to the group that there is a spider who likes to lurk for it's pray beneath trap doors. It can spin thread but doesn't use it capture or snare prey.
"Ahh, do you see anything like that around here?"
percep
Dram scans the clearing.
percep
Lynore and Dram pass by the concealed spider without detecting him. But Cotton and Stanton both whip around pulling their weapons at what appears to be a clearing. Just as they do a giant spider the size of a man springs from a flap in the earth. Lynore and Dram are surprised. Surprise Round
DM rolls
Cotton
Stanton
Spider int
init
init
init
init
The spider springs out of the concealment and tries to bite Stanton who is able to block the spider's fangs with his greatsword.
Spider 21
Cotton 21
Stanton 18
Dram 17
Lynore 15
Cotton tries to stab the spider with his spear
Stanton flourishs his greatsword trying to confuse the spider before sweeping it low.
Cotton misses but is able to manuever the spider right into Cotton's sweeping blow which cleaves the spider cleanly in two ending the menance.
"Yuck. Lets search some of these bodies there may be something useful to either help identify them or give us clues for things around."
The bodies in the immediate vicinity don't have anything of use, however looking in the spiders hole you can see some additional bodies towards the bottom. The hole is about 5 feet across and about 25 feet down. With all of the webbing on the sides of the hole you think it would be a fairly easy climb.
Lynore climbs down to search the bodies.