You take random turns for nearly five minutes before you hear a skittering noise coming from down the corridor you were about to proceed into, as if untold numbers of tiny legs brush the floor...
Balamar kept an ear on what was ahead and an eye behind the party.
You advance, into a PLETHORA of creepy crawly enemies.
At first, you think your lights and darkvision have failed you. The room you go into is an impenetrable pitch black.
A moment later the truth becomes apparent: There's nothing wrong with your eyes. Every square centimeter of this room is covered in spiders, in uncountable numbers.
And they're headed your way.
Due to your surprise, the spiders get the drop on you, surging forward like a horrifying black tidal wave. Those of you not blinded by terror note there is some sort of stone box in the center of the room, now mostly uncovered. The keen eyed also note a scarlet band flashing on the underbelly of these spiders, visible on some now that they're moving.
The spiders cover all of you, biting every exposed inch of skin they can get to. The bites are excruciatingly painful, each one feeling like someone has jammed a hot poker into you and twisted it around.
As the spider's swarm over El Beasto he shouts out, "OH, NO! NOT THE SPIDERS! NOT THE SPIDERS! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH! AUAGHAGHABGHA"
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Psykoblade sweeps away as many spiders as he could but it seemed far too many of them.
There were too many of them and his weaponry nor spells could affect such a swarm. " I am useless here like so many parts of my life. I leave this in your hands. "
He says as he leaves the area completely.
I try to cast burning hand if I can cast the spell without targeting anyone from the group
Vindicator shrugs off the effects.
"I can't hurt them with my sword!"
Blackjack notices his torch is flaring slightly the closer it gets to the room, as if there's some kind of fuel to make it burn hotter ahead.
Jasper gains the appearance of wearing a swarmsuit. Unfortunately, the spiders are too dumb to fall for this ruse.
Siege grunted as the little monsters crawled into her armour, although they were more of an annoyance than a danger thanks to the fact most of Siege's body was machine nowadays. Pulling a vial of Alchemist's Fire from a belt pouch, she hurled it at the largest concentration of Spider that didn't have a hysterically screaming hero in it...or any other kind, for that matter.
"I don't like spiders." Blackjack states calmly, as he burns away the swarm around him.
Thomas pulls out of the swarm as well, and retrieves a torch from his pack and lights it.
"Something's making my torch burn brighter. Some kind of fuel source in the air ahead. Be careful with any fire you're carrying."
Scarrow starts really, really not feeling good. She beats a hasty retreat, wishing she had made some alchemist's fire this morning.
Steel Sentinel draws a vial of Alchemist Fire and lobs it into the spiders.
Due to Ice Strike's fire burning white hot, a full 1/4 of the spiders are destroyed, clearing a path for anyone who wants to flee. The rest of the attempts to hurt them are...less effective.
The spiders surge forward again, engulfing everyone but Psykoblade.
Still fighting off the creature's strange abilities, Siege hurled another vial of fire as she fell back with the others. They weren't as effective as the Dwarf had hoped, but it was better than nothing.
DO I need to concentrate to cast the spell? if so
Unless all the spider die Ice and Shade start moving back as fast as they can.
Steel Sentinel growls in frustration and lobs another Alchemist Fire into the swarm.
Scarrow continues to G the FO. She valiantly succeeds in not barfing all over herself as she does so.
Vindicator Lays Hands on Deepsight.
Psykoblade watches the shifting wave of black and red dwindle slightly from his comrades efforts but curses his inability to assist.
"...Oh, f%$~ it."
Blackjack throws his torch as hard as he can, aiming for the stone box.
"We may want to get the hell out of here."
Blackjack does so.
There is an immediate burst of flame which shoots through the tunnel.
Another large chunk of the swarm is incinerated, leaving only a few stragglers, mopped up by Ice Strike's flame spell.
"Ahghaghh, FIRE! Aghhhh!" El Beasto quickly stops, drops and rolls.
Blackjack has just enough time to look away before the explosion happens, maintaining his status as a cool guy.
"Okay, that was a little bigger than I anticipated."
" That was... more than I expected. What did you do? "
"Ugh...must've been a gas pocket or something."
"Exactly that. I noticed it when my torch started burning hotter, and decided to use it to our advantage. Though I admit, I underestimated the size of the explosion."
" Makes sense, though conversely, any semblance of stealth that we may have had is completely gone much like the fuel in that room. "
Brushing the soot off her armour, Siege shrugged. It had worked, and they were only lightly scorched, so it had been worth it to not be eaten by a horrible swarm. The bulky Dwarf gestured to continue down the passage once everyone was ready.