Emerald Spire - level 2; The Cellars (lvl 1-3) (Inactive)

Game Master Revvy Bitterleaf

"Luck was with us against those spiders!"

Ss'alat will follow up along behind Sera and Chaul to see what's beyond the North door (of room B11). Ready to cast spells, as usual.

You open the door to look into a L-shaped corridor, wary of your surroundings you carefully make your way through it to discover a pit trap and I'm assuming do some more carpentry work with ripping doors from hinges and making a sort of bridge to reach the other side where you notice yet another secret door.

The door on the west side is closed, the secret door seems unlocked and the one on the north-east side is slightly ajar...all 3 don't seem to be trapped

Looking through the door that's slightly ajar you can see it's held open by jagged chunks of masonry placed as doorstops.

Behind it you see;
This large room has a wide hole in the center of its floor. A heavy, welded steel ladder descends straight down from the lip of this
shaft. The extent and depth of the space below are concealed behind the many crisscrossing, whitish-gray spider webs filling the pit.

In case/After you open the door further and can get a better look of the whole room.

Which room do you want to enter now? Try to get through the closed door? Go for the secret door? or enter the webfilled room? (Or do something else?)

Perception1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

Gunnar steps forward and opens the door just a bit to get a better look but his senses begin to tingle and he notices there is some form of large predator waiting for them inside.

Stand back I sniff danger...

As Gunnar mentions sniffing danger the form he saw in the web starts to move...it's a spider the size of a large dog.Its crimson eyes glitter with malign intelligence, it's like it understood what Gunnar was saying

Anyone who enters a square of moon spider web must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 13) or become entangled. If you are already entangled when entering a(nother) square, you need to save again or become grabbed

Init Sera: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Init Novid: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Init Gunnar: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
Init S'salath: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Init Chaul: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (8) + 1 = 9
Init Moon Spiders: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (3) + 6 = 9

init
Novid, Gunnar
Spiders
Party

Novid steps into the room and readies for a spider to get near.

If one gets close this happens.

Attack: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9

Damage: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (5, 1) + 6 = 12

Perception: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Woo! Probably not much help now, though.

As soon as he can get a clear line of sight on the nearest Spider, Ss'alat will cast an Unprepared Combatant (DC 16) spell on it.

Novid steps into the room and readies for a spider to get near

init
Gunnar (+readied Novid)
Spiders
Party

Sera frowns. "Stay in the hall." she whispers. "Can anyone cast spark, or have a torch? Burn the spider's web and it spreads... We can wait out here. I guarantee they won't want to stay in the fire for long..."

What? Paladins can have legitimate battle tactics. Lawful Good does not mean Lawful Nice

Since it's been a day..NPC-ing Gunnar in to keep things moving

Gunnar seeing a spider the size a large dog move towards him goes fully on the defensive, following Sera's suggestion of staying in the hall

The spider in the corner spits out a web towards Novid
To hit touch AC Novid: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (9) + 11 = 20
hitting him and entangling him inside some sticky webs
entangled and can't move away from the green spider

The other spider moves forward and also spits a web towards Novid
To hit touch AC Novid: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (18) + 11 = 29
which also manages to hit the already stuck Novid and further slow him down
Now also counts as grappled

init
You guys
Spider

Remember it's a reflex save DC 13 if you enter a square with webs or become entangled, then if you fail a save for entering a next square with webs while already entangled..you become grappled

Sera sighs as she sees her ally getting entangled. Realizing that despite her plan, she could not leave him in there, she steps into the room and into the webbing, pulling out her glaive.

Reflex: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19

Managing to NOT get tangled, she slashes at one of the spiders (green) with a mighty stroke.

Power Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (18) + 7 - 1 = 24
Damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (9) + 9 = 18

"Redemption is open to all!" cries out Chaul in excitement.
"Help us and earn your own first footsteps."

Targets red spider with murderous command. Whether it can be affected or not I don't know, but earlier it looked like it understood what we were saying. Will DC 15

Ss'alat tries running past Novid so he can cast a spell at one of the moon spiders.
reflex: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14

Just barely avoiding getting stuck himself, he casts a Daze (DC 15) spell on the spider Sera did not attack (red) to befuddle it for his friends.

Sorry for lagging there folks...

Sera steps into the room and swings at one of the spiders, cutting of a few legs.

As far as I can tell it can be effected by your spell, it's not a vermin so not immune to mind affecting and it does understand you
Chaul casts a spell on the other one red
will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
which gets a murderous gleam in it's eyes

Barely avoiding getting stuck himself Ss'alat casts a Daze (DC 15) spell on the spider Sera did not attack (red) to befuddle it for his friends
Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6

Since it's been a day..moving things forward

Novid and Gunnar attempt to make themselves appears as unattractive targets (fully defensive)

One of the spiders just stands there dazed..the murderous gleam in it's eyes slowly dissipating

The other spiders twitches a few of it's remaining legs a bit
Concentration; cast on the defensive: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 23
and manages to change into an insubstantial, misty, and translucent grey cloud of mist and starts to drift away from you guys towards one of the doors and begins to flow through the gap between the doorway and the door.
Provokes from Sera, if she wants to attack the fog

init
Party
Spiders

Damage green/gray: 18

Ss'alat now casts a Daze (DC 15) spell on the spider trying to get away (grey) to slow down its escape.

Attack the fog? Okay!

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (16) + 7 - 1 = 22
damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (6) + 9 = 15

And she will actually take a turn to move towards the nearest spider and swing once more.

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (6) + 7 - 1 = 12
damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (2) + 9 = 11

Chaul delays his action, as there is little he can do to help at the moment.

Gunnar steps into the chamber and swings his hammer.

Attack1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 Damage 2d6 + 4 ⇒ (2, 5) + 4 = 11

Targeting red spider. Provoking AoO for movement here.

Novid attemps to break out of the webs.

This is a CMB roll right? Or is it a strength check?

CMB: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (15) + 5 = 20

Sera attacks the fog and slices through it, the wind blowing the fog apart (even with the damage reduction..that's enough to bring the spider down)

Ss'alat now having no target for his intended daze spell does something else (going for full defensive for now since it doesn't matter a lot at the moment)

sera takes a step forward and swings at the next spider, but her swings get's caught in a few webs and doesn't make it all the way to the spider (doesn't hit AC)

Chaul delays his action (since delay doesn't do anything, I'll just assume he went fully on the defensive)

Gunnar steps into the chamber and swings his hammer Not sure why'd provoke moving to that square...and since it's a choice to take an AAO I'll just don't take it
but badly misses his intended target

@Novid, I can't find a clear enough answer to that..to get out of a grapple it CMB/opposed grapple ...but since it's also still a web..you could break the web..and I assume that would stop the grapple as well

Novid breaks free from the web that was holding him

The spider takes a step back from all of you and spits some web at Sera
To hit touch AC Sera: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (14) + 11 = 25
entangling her in some sticky strands

init
You guys
Spider

Chaul hangs up his scimitar and extras his sling, firing a bullet at the retreating spider.
attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
damage: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (4) + 7 - 1 = 10
Damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10

Sera once again tries to strike, but her glaive is still entangled in the webs from her last miss.

Novid drops his sword and draws his bow and takes a shot at teh last spider.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9

Damage: 1d6 ⇒ 5

Chaul hangs up his scimitar and extras his sling, firing a bullet at the retreating spider
Unless you have quick draw or drop the scimitar, that's one more action then you have this round..but since you didn't do anything last round I'm fine with assuming you stowed your weapon last round
and misses as he has to be careful not to hit Sera or Novid in the back the head Miss due to cover

Sera once again tries to strike, but her glaive is still entangled in the webs from her last miss causing her to be unbalanced and she misses again.

Novid drops his sword and draws his bow and takes a shot at the last spider but the fired arrow stops halfway caught to some sticky webs

init
Ss'alat, Gunnar
Spider

Damage Spider: 0

Swift action grow, move action studied target standard action attack.

Gunnar apparently a bit angry at aracnoids swing his massive hammer in a high arch, clearly once his temper gets going something odd happens to the Dwarf as he again apppears gargantuan for just a moment.

Attack1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 9 Damage 3d6 + 7 ⇒ (1, 4, 3) + 7 = 15

Ss'alat will cast Unprepared Combatant (DC 16) on the remaining spider.

Already used Daze on it, so I'm hoping the -4 to Initiative and Reflexes will make a difference in the sequence of what's left of the combat

Gunnar grows to large size and almost all of his bulk is now above a very, very deep pit. The sense of vertigo from looking down is throwing of his sense of balance and he misses with his swing at the spider
Not sure you can even stand there, it's less then half a square for a normal sized individual, I think you'd be tip-toeing just to avoid falling into the hole

Ss'alat will cast Unprepared Combatant (DC 16) on the remaining spider.
Will save: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10 which seems to slow down a bit
Chancing it initiative won't do much at this point in the combat, the penalty to reflex saves might help though

init
You guys
Spider

"Saerane, bless your servant's ally" calls out Chaul as he steps forward and touches Gunnar.

As he moves he draws his scimitar once again, dropping the sling where he stood.

Casts bulls strength on Gunnar, another +2 to hit and +3 to damage should be helpful.

Novid takes another shot with his bow.

Attack: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20

Attack: 1d6 ⇒ 2

Attack: 1d20 + 7 - 1 ⇒ (14) + 7 - 1 = 20
Damage: 1d10 + 9 ⇒ (4) + 9 = 13

Sera swings once more, hoping that this is the end of the spider...

Chaul steps forward and touches Gunnar almost pushing the dwarf forward into the very deep pit as he casts bulls strength on the dwarf.

As Chaul moves he draws his scimitar once again, dropping the sling where he stood.

Novid takes another shot with his bow hitting the spider

Sera swings once more, hoping that this is the end of the spider but even though she hits with her attack and it draws a lot of blood from the creature..it's not out of the fight yet.

init
Ss'alat, Gunnar
Spider

Damage spider: 15

Ss'alat will throw one of his two daggers at the remaining moon spider.
dagger, thrown: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (5) + 2 = 71d4 ⇒ 3

Oh well, it was worth a try!

On his tippy toes Gunnar lashes out once more this time with feeling.

Attack1d20 + 4 + 2 - 1 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 4 + 2 - 1 + 1 + 1 = 21 Damage3d6 + 10 ⇒ (4, 4, 4) + 10 = 22

As Ss'alat almost throws his dagger into Gunnar thigh Gunnar swings his weapon with his increased strength and chops the remaining spiders in twain.

With some careful maneuvering and/or the addition of some open flame/cutting weapon you manage to clear your way through the webs to explore the room

The steel ladder is set securely into the floor and ceiling but can’t be used until the webs have been cleared away.

Before climbing down the ladder you decide to investigate the areas on this level you haven't been to yet and discover that behind some secret doors is a small, empty room.

And behind 3 doors you hadn't opened yet is a T-shaped intersection, which connect those 3 doors to each other.

Confident that you've explored behind every door you encountered you decide to see where the ladder leads.

The ladder’s shaft ends in a wide staircase descending into darkness. On the floor at the top of the stairs, a dead moon spider lies on its back, its legs drawn up and frozen in a curled-in position. An unpleasant rotting reek emanates from a sunken hole in its belly.

This moon spider was killed some days ago. Intruders hacked at its
underside with swords, trying to find treasure they knew the spider had swallowed, but they eventually abandoned the sticky, unpleasant
task and moved on. Three bloodstones worth 50 gp each remain in the spider’s innards for you recover.

The wide stone steps descend for 90 feet deeper into The Emerald Spire.

Congratulations, you've successfully survived another level of the Emerald Spire

"We should look inside those other moon spiders, if one had something inside it, so may the others.." suggests Chaul.

As Chaul checks the other moon spiders he doesn't find anything inside them.

"We're not the first here! It looks like a race to the bottom. Literally!"