The crab like creature tries to pull in it's sticky rope.
This brings Tauriell 5ft. closer to the creature.
Tauriell starts her battle dance and tries again to pull that thing closer.
So far, Tauriell comes out first in this tug war. She pulls it 5ft. back again.
Now the crab is close enough to be in reach as Gwenhwyfar positions herself behind Abomentolor. Using the wand she casts Ill Omen on the beast.
Abomentolor walks a few feet closer into range of his ray and shoots at the beast. "If you thought tying yourself to Tauriell was a good idea let me tell you. You are screwed!"
The cave fisher doesn't like where this is going, but is also not willing to let go of its prey.
But with its bad luck there is no chance it could move her. It even slips and is dragged another 5ft.
It seems as if Tauriell is going to win this tug war, but no matter how far she drags that thing, she will finally end up in front of it's claws. So she changes her tactics. She runs towards the crab and past and around it surrounding it with it's own sticky filament.
The crab snaps at Tauriell with it's claw. But nonetheless is it entangled in it's own trap afterwards.
"Haha. Told you so!" Abomentolor laughs and shoots another ray of fire.
The cave fisher is hindered, but not that much. The ray misses.
"Drat."
Jimmy charges the large crab and attempts to run it through with his spear.
Gwenhwyfar casts another Ill Omen onto the crab.
Crab on a spit is really unhappy but in it's death fight it claws at Tauriell.
Tauriell draws her short sword and jumps at the cave fisher pushing the blade in with all her might.
The creatures exoskeleton cracks a second time and it ceases to breathe.
The dead creature is a rather strong specimen of a cave fisher. The glue on the filament will dissolve in several minutes and leave a fine silken rope. The glands of the vermin can be used as material component for sovereign glue.
"Dibs on the rope!" Tauriell calls out. She then puts her foot on the cave fisher's face and pulls the 5ft. filament the cave fisher pulled in while dragging her out again. As the end of the filament is reached there is suddenly no resistance any more and Tauriell falls on her back onto the rope and the rope on her. "No worries. I'm fine. I'm just going to lie here until the glue dissolves in a few minutes."
"Shall I heal you, while you take a break there on the floor?" Gwenhwyfar asks.
"That would be nice." Tauriell replies checking herself for injuries.
"I know you do potions, but are you doing alchemists stuff too?"
"I guess I have the knowledge, but I don't have the equipment. Why do you ask?" Gwenhwyfar replies while healing Tauriell.
"I could cut out the glue glands of this cave fisher and you could create sovereign glue from them." Tauriell explains.
Now that the fight is over a look around reveals a damp natural grotto that opens up in the earth here, its stone ceiling rising forty feet above. Fat columns of brick support the northern end of the room, and the floor of the southern end has been carved into a low dais upon which stands the moldslick statue of a beautiful woman wielding a ranseur.
"I hope you're not in a hurry. For this will take some more time." Tauriell says with a smile on her face watching the ceiling.
"Could we eat this thing? It looks like an oversized crab and these are rather tasty." Abomentolor asks imagining the cave fisher roasted on a spit.
"I don't know, but as it seems to feed on everything that comes along I guess it won't taste well." Gwenhwyfar replies.
A small leather pouch is tied tightly to one of the cave fisher’s legs. Within are a dozen polished rocks, 23 tiny teeth, and a bracer — the mate to the one worn by the mite king.
"Do you want to see the room? I could pull you around." Niamh suggests.
"Look what I found here. It's the other bracer to the one you took from that mite."
"Would someone please help me to put it on?" Gwenhwyfar asks while fumbling around with the bracer and it's fastener.
"Thank you, I'm fine." Tauriell replies to Niamh. "I'm sure the room will be here for me to look at once the glue stops working."
Niamh walks to Gwenhwyfar and holds the bracer so Gwenwhyfar can close the thing.
"Thank you. That is great. With this bracers I can sell this stuffy padded armor that only crumples my dress." Gwenhwyfar says being really happy.
A secret door in the southern wall hangs askew in a broken frame.
As the glue finally wears off Tauriell gets up and collects the rope into a tidy coil she binds at her backpack. She then extracts the glue glands from the cave fisher and wraps it in a cloth, before she stuffs it in her backpack. "I'm ready again." Tauriell exclaims.
"Oh, look there is a door. Are we going to go this way?"
"Why not? Let's crawl into another small tunnel to see what is on the other side. Do you want to go in first?" Abomentolor suggests to Niamh holding the door open for her.
"If you don't want the precedence..." Niamh says and crawls into the tunnel. As she can't see anything she lets some lights levitate a few meter in front of her.
After walking through this tunnel for some 250ft it ends at a door.
Niamh opens the door for a gap and unsheathes her head to look what is behind the door.
Six skeletons turn around and storm towards the door to push it open. This secret tunnel ends in the storage room Niamh watched in from the other side earlier.
Niamh runs back as fast as she can. As she reached the end of the tunnel she jumps out. "Everyone, ready yourself! This tunnel leads to the skeleton room!"
"So you let them out? Or why are you in such a hurry?" Tauriell asks. Not waiting for the answer she walks towards the door taking out her mace. "I think I'll take iron no.5."
She places herself at the wall adjacent to the door with her back to the wall trying to surprise the first one coming out. She drops her tiara.
The first skeleton comes out of the tunnel. Tauriell swings at it as it walks past her but misses. But her second try smashes in it's skull and ribcage sending it shattered to the ground.
The next skeleton recognizes that and stops to claw at Tauriell
Niamh walks behind everyone and starts playing the violin.
As she sees how easily Tauriell finished the skeleton Gwenhwyfar becomes encouraged and charges the undead.
"How about you take a flanking position to make it harder for those walking dead to avoid your blows." Tauriell suggests while smashing in another head.
The next skeleton steps out and claws at Tauriell and Gwenhwyfar
At Tauriell
At Gwenhwyfar
"Ow!" Gwenhwyfar exclaims. She then takes up the flanking position and flails at the skeleton.
The skeleton crumbles under Gwenhwyfar's smashing.
Another skeleton walks up from the tunnel and claws at Gwenhwyfar
The next one to come out get's smashed again by Tauriell
Another skeleton walks up from the tunnel and claws at Gwenhwyfar