Pratavh's spell smashes into the desiccated creature, knocking it flat!
The thing crawls forward and projectile vomits a hail of thumb-sized biting spiders! These repulsive biting things scurry all over their victims, in the hair, under armor, etc and bite to release their venom. It's a small consolation that each time they bite the spider dies. Within moments Alwyn and Lilly are feeling distinctly unwell, the venom sapping the strength from their limbs.
--> Half Damage
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--> Poisoned
--> Fine
--> Lucky!
The two huge spiders chitter weirdly and with a flick of their massive abdomens, they send a volley of barbed hairs to where Shikyo lies hidden. The barbed hairs are incredibly itchy and the poison quickly threatens to nauseate the average foe, but Shikyo is no ordinary foe. He ducks and tumbles and avoids the worst of the cloud of poisonous hairs.
--> Hit
--> Hit
--> OK
--> Wow Lucky
Master Bvar swears eloquently in Vudrani and he and his long suffering man servant labor to shift the Ballista around.
Lightning being
Pratavh
Shikyomaru
Mohktar
Desiccated fighter
Giant spiders
Master Bvar
Lilly <--- We are here
Alwyn
Lilly and Alwyn are up.
Lilly 5ft steps SE, then takes total defense.
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"UGGGHHH!" Alwyn yelps as he is suddenly covered in spiders and a queasy feeling not altogether coming from the poison spreads through him. With revulsion he cast grease at the mummy hoping to keep him floor bound.
Raising his voice in a trembling baritone, fighting the nausea, his voice begins to even out reminding the companions of the fights won against previous foes strengthening their resolve, and steadying their aim.
inspire courage round 4 of 23
Lilly takes a defensive stance as she wracks her brain over the desiccated figure, something about it seems familiar but she can't quite place it...
Pratavh, Shikyomaru and Mohktar are up!
Pratavh begins chanting, his hands and fingers making strange, wiggling, gestures. When he finishes from the ground sprout a large number of strange black tentacles that begin grabbing at everything in the area.
Pratavh's spell seems to have little effect on the giant spiders, but the desiccated fighter is grappled firmly! The many hands and feet pound on him but their blows bounce off. Shikyo simply dances aside from the grasping hands.
Shikyomaru and Mohktar are up.
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Mohktar downs one of his elixirs, the magics held within going from inert to active. His bone and muscle and sinew expand as he leaps forward, Mohktar's body and weapon double in size as he lands within 10 ft of the now grappled and desiccated being. He raises his treble sword aloft and plunges it downward into prone form.
Waiting on Shikyo.
The northern most spider takes full advantage of it's freakishly long legs by lurching forwards to bite the monk on his descending strike! Mohktar fortunately is preternaturally agile, and manages to avoid the bite at the same time as powering into the desiccated fighter scoring a faint line along it's thigh.
--> MISS
Shikyo is loath to get into those tentacles....he's seen too many movies
So instead of darting forward as was his plan, he instead backs up and hurls Shuriken at the giant tarantulas
The desiccated fighter rips himself free from the grasp of the many hands and tentacles and laboriously lifts himself up off the ground. It hisses menacingly at you, dribbling several spiders from it's maw.
This causes both giant spiders to twitch their abdomens repulsively sending a shower of poisonous barbed hairs towards Mohktar, but the monk is one step ahead and the hairs land preciously where he isn't.
With much swearing and hard graft, Master Bvar manages to bring the Ballista to bear on the southern most spider. It not his most artful shot, but he can hardly miss at this distance, and the bolt strikes the spider solidly on one of it's legs.
Pratavh
Shikyomaru
Mohktar
Desiccated fighter
Giant spiders
Master Bvar
Lilly <--- WE ARE HERE
Alwyn
Lilly, not wanting to come too close, switches to her composite longbow.
She takes aim and shoots at the southern spider.
She then takes a 5ft step back West.
Lilly's arrow strikes deep in the thorax, and the spider chitters with pain and rears up. The desiccated figure barks what you guess is a command and the spider returns to it's place!
Pratavh
Shikyomaru
Mohktar
Desiccated fighter
Giant spiders
Master Bvar
Lilly
Alwyn <--- WE ARE HERE
Alwyn, Shikyomaru & Mohktar are up.
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"Beware,the spiders are enthralled by the monster and acting as guards." Mohktar takes advantage of his extended reach, focusing his Ki to push his striking potential beyond its normal limits. He attacks the northern spider to keep it engaged. "Focus on him, bring him down."
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Shiko hurls more shuriken at the larger and more wounded spider
What is the plan! he shouts
With the realization that the spiders are possibly the bigger threat, Pratavh sends a volley of missiles into the most injured of the two as the tentacles flail around and try to grab at those within their reach.
Alwyn's magic infuses you all with magical haste! Mohktar turns into a whirling dervish, hitting the northern most spider time after time. The thing shrieks in pain, and freaks out with Mohktar's last thunderous hit.
--> HIT
Shikyo throws a trio of shuriken at the southern most spider, but the battering it takes from the force missiles makes him miss all but one strike.
The desiccated fighter gets grappled again, but the spiders are simply too agile to be caught. He tries to worm his way out of the deadly embrace, but is stuck fast. A dry rasping laugh leaks from his maw and at a guttural command the spiders leap forwards!
--> FAIL
The northern most spider bites deeply into Mohktar's leg, but the monk twists free before the thing can inject it's venom.
--> HIT
--> PASS
Lilly is not so lucky, the southern spider clamps down furiously on her arm and she feels the strength drain out of her as it's venom fills here with a sickly lassitude.
--> HIT
--> FAIL
With an alacrity rarely seen, Master Bvar works the windlass like a demon! Well into his rhythm now, he fires an uncannily accurate bolt that stoves in most of the southern spider's belly, leaving pulsating entrails sprayed over the floor. He sends another bolt careening into it which lops off a leg. The thing writhes in pain, thrashing about. You're amazed it's still alive.
Pratavh
Shikyomaru
Mohktar
Desiccated fighter
Giant spiders
Master Bvar
Lilly <--- WE ARE HERE
Alwyn
Lilly can't use the bow with her strength sapped.
Lilly 5ft steps NW.
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What's the current DC of that spell?
Edit: You just made me realize I forgot to roll an AOO for the Haste spell. Too much has happened to unwind that now :/
If i am able to use the bow...
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Alwyn joins Mohktar in assaulting the northern Spider. A whispered prayer to his bow and 4 arrows streak towards the foe.
Lingering performance round 2 of 2 (Inspire courage +2)
"Leave my friends alone" Alwyn says through gritted teeth.
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Mohktar seeks to finish off the northern spider, feeling Alwyn's magics spur him to further action.
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Shikyo continues hurling Shuriken at whichever spider is alive
Pratavh sends another volley of missiles into the spider as the tentacles continues to grab and constrict those in their area.
Lilly steps back and even though she finds the bow's draw very very heavy, she managed to send a arrow deep into the southern spider's eye, finally killing it. She then sends two more arrows after the northern most spider, but they bounce off it's carapace.
Alywn sends a flurry of arrows after Lilly's. Most of these too bounce off the creatures tough hide, but one buries itself up to the fletchings in a leg joint near it's abdomen. The spider hisses piteously.
Pratavh sends another volley of missiles slamming into the northern spider. Miniature explosions rake it's abdomen sending gore flying. They creature screeches in pain!
Mohktar misses with his first strike against the northern most spider, but the second hit stoves it's skull in. He smoothly transfers his weight onto his right foot and hits the undead warrior twice in succession raising a cloud of choking dust.
The undead responds by vomiting another swarm of scurrying, crawling and biting spiders! This disgusting spray covers Mohktar and Alwyn
---> FAIL
---> PASS, half damage
---> PASS
---> FAIL
Apart from raising terrible welts, the spiders have little effect on Mohktar but Alwyn feels himself growing weaker...
Master Bvar continues cranking the Balista windless and sends two bolts stright through the undead, leaving gaping holes that would have killed any ordinary man.
Pratavh
Shikyomaru
Mohktar
Desiccated fighter
Giant spiders
Master Bvar
Lilly <--- WE ARE HERE
Alwyn
"HAH, EAT ARROWS!", as she puts the spider down.
Lilly then turns her sights on the zombie knight.
Lilly's last two arrows strike the dessicated corpse in the mouth and it falls over and disintegrates into a disgusting slurry of dust and spider corpses.
COMBAT OVER
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Alwyn turns away from the disgusting mess for a moment to gather himself then brings the balls of light back into existence while he investigates the undead creature. [b]"Stay away from the spiders, smaller versions of them have been known to cause severe irritation."[/b?]
Alwyn also will offer healing to those injured in the fight.
With the zombie fighter falling down, Lilly looks surprised, but content.
"First time i've seen an enemy fall apart like that, disgusting.
But i'm not complaining, WE WON ^^."
Shiko shakes his head at Lilly's definition of "winning" his would involve a warm bed somewhere...not a cave.
We should make sure this place holds no more surprises. Shiko says, and then he searches the cave making sure there are no more hidden enemies.
A thorougher investigation of the cave reveals carvings dedicated to Xithateltalasa. Under the many layers of webs you find half a dozen desiccated corpses. They originally had rich dressings but all have disintegrated over time. Among the detritus you find a smattering of ancient electrum coins, worth perhaps 50g today and a single emerald clutched in the hands of a corpse worth at least 1500gp. There where a number of scrolls but they're too damaged by time and the elements to be readable.
What are you doing next? The storm rages on outside.
Looking at Mohktar and Alwyn, Lilly points out the fact the three of them are hurt.
"Not to make you needlessly worried, but us three should get healed up.
Another of these surprises might do the final number on us, though you were into it back there Mohktar, nice going."
With the things dead Pratavh dismisses the tentacles back to wherever it is such things come from then takes a seat on a convenient rock while the wounded are tended to. When he sees Shikyomaru he says, "My apologies for that rather poor placement of tentacles, I thought hampering their movements as much as possible in here was the best thing I could do. Of course you also did a fine job of disappearing too."
The party spends a long, uncomfortable night in the cave, kept for hours by the incessant thunder and the howling winds. Eventually the storm front passes you and you're left with the (mostly) soothing sounds of rainfall. Still it's hard to get comfortable enough to sleep in the creepy cave but eventually you do. When you finally do sleep it's filled with half remembered nightmares, fitful glimpses of spiders, venom and doom.
Eventually morning comes, and not feeling terribly rested you find it hard to get up, but you must. Nobody wants to spend more time in this miserable god forsaken cave. You step out to find a world transformed. Where there was once a vast forest, there are now the tops of trees poking out from a vast lake. The wet season is most definitely here.
Bala looking worse for wear groggily climbs out of the cave and surveys the now waterloged forest. He sighs, "Hama sabhī taraha sē dham̐sā jaṅgala bhara mēṁ yahāṁ sē ēka viśāla cāpa mēṁ cārōṁ ōra calā jātā hai ki ucca jamīna kā ēka rija, vahām̐ jā rahā hō jānā cāhi'ē. Yaha śāyada dō saptāha Lechmugee kō pānē kē li'ē ēka lambī saira kē hōnē jā rahā hai."
Shiko shrugs They are dead, and I am not. It is enough for me.
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"I am blessed by my Master who gives me the power to survive." He responds to Lilly. "But healing would be welcomed."
Having fixed everybody's wounds, Lilly tucks in for the night.
"See you guys in the morning.
Of course Hirati as well."
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In the morning when everyone has woken up....
"I woke up and i got the strong feeling of being watched...again.
Maybe something's following us?"
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Alwyn : 5(swarm)(-1 str) + 4(swarm)(-2 Str) = 9
Mohktar: 5(swarm) + 29(bite) = 34
Lilly: 33(bite)(-3 Str) + 4(swarm) = 37
After the fight Alwyn takes a moment to heal Mohktar and Lilly who sustained the brunt of the attack; healing wand in hand....
"Your right Lilly, relax just a moment...
casting CLW on himself from his pool
During the night Alwyn feels more than ever that someone is watching them, and catches a fleeting glimpse of something or was it just the shadows playing tricks on his eyes......
In response to Bala's proposed route..
"Māsṭara bālā, śāyada yaha lambē samaya sē rāta aura guphā kē bhītara prāṇiyōṁ kē sātha laṛā'ī hai, lēkina mujhē lagatā hai ki vahām̐ ēka aura tarīkā hai viśvāsa karatē haiṁ. Hama ravānā hōnē sē pahalē śahara mēṁ ēka chōṭē sē samaya thā jaba nakśē sē maiṁ adhyayana kiyā; apanē mārga sahī hai lēkina anumānita samaya bahuta āśāvādī hai. Mārśa pichalē ēka adhika pratyakṣa mārga kē dvārā hōtā hai ki ēka aura rāstā nahīṁ hai? Hama suniścita karanē kē li'ē sāvadhāna rahanē kī jarūrata hai, lēkina khatarā apanē rājasī hāthiyōṁ kō dūra nahīṁ kara sakatā hai kucha nahīṁ hōgā???"