GM_Foxy's 2nd Carrion Crown

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

Finish that nasty thing off!

This is for the maid

Grergof swings and wacks at the thing while trying hard to avoid breathing the hairs that come up.
Heavy Flail - Power Attack + Furious Focus: 1d20 + 10 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 10 - 2 + 2 = 19
Damage + Power Attack: 1d10 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 6 = 8
Heavy Flail - Power Attack: 1d20 + 5 - 2 ⇒ (2) + 5 - 2 = 5
Damage + Power Attack: 1d10 + 1 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 1 + 6 = 11

Grergof kills the spider thoroughly but finds himself engulfed in a cloud of the barbed hairs again.
Save DC 22 or being nauseated. Also the poison lasts for 6 rounds, so five rounds still or one save DC24

Spugnoir hurries down and pulls out his healer's kit. Darius! Help me purge the poison from Varsk.

Heal: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (3) + 12 = 15 Urggh.. This is difficult!

Fort (round 2): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

Grergof sits down.

Ugg ladies above, I feel as weak as a newborn!

He closes his eyes and focuses on healing himself.
LoH + Greater Mercy: 3d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 1, 2) + (6) = 14
LoH + Greater Mercy: 3d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 5, 1) + (1) = 11
LoH + Greater Mercy: 3d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (4, 2, 2) + (6) = 14
LoH + Greater Mercy: 3d6 + 1d6 ⇒ (5, 6, 5) + (1) = 17

Graydon comes out from behind the barricade. "Thank you Sirs, for saving us from this horror."

Estovion comes down the stairs "Oh, the horror! Where is Kroitzer? Why does this beast run around here? Is anyone hurt?"

Stam will rush to the door and look to see if there is anything else like the overly large spider outside.

Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

"That is not a normal thing I would think for a spider of that size to just come from no where to attack the lodge now is it?" Stam will look back at Graydon.

There is no other monster running around on the premises as far as you can tell. But the broken door is smeared with blood and it looks like there is a trail of blood, all the way to Kroitzer's beast pens.

"Is anyone else hurt?" Darius then lights the room up with a pulse of healing light to help anyone injured still.

Channel Heal: 3d6 + 2 ⇒ (3, 4, 2) + 2 = 11

"NED NO!" Stam rushes off to the pens to check on his friend.

Ned is standing in his box calm as always munching on hay. The trail leads past the stable D4 to the beast pens D8

Your ok there, Varsk? Do you need some bleeding?

"Phew, I am glad you are safe Ned, Mother might kill me if you didn't survive. I guess we are trying to find out why this HUGE spider just attacked the lodge. You keep an eye out here." Stam pats the Ox and gives him a small salt block.

Heading back towards the Lodge Stam steps inside to see Darius and Spugnoir over the wounded Grergof who his pins poking out of him.

"The stables is fine, looks like the creature came from the beast pens."

As soon as I can get Varsk back on his feet, we'll head to the stables, maybe get our armor on.

Estovion orders some of the staff around to get Kroitzer there to remove the dead spider from the building and some others to take care of the body of the maid.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14

I think I'm ok except for the fact I feel as weak as a newborn. Those bites really took something out of me.

Sense Motive: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20

"Estovion is there a reason you are eyeing me as such? Maybe put some gusto into your step and you will get his done faster. Do you want help in clearing this all out?" Stam addresses his last question to those tasked with cleaning up.

Hmmm I am afraid that I will have to wait a day to rest to make up new extracts to heal you Varsk. I made my extracts combat related instead of healing

"No, no, noting special. I'm just worried if everyone is ok. But at least you made it out of this alive, right? One has to stay positive." Estovian replies.

"Here Grergof let me have a look at you." Darius says, sounds like a skilled physician.

Lessor restoration: 1d4 ⇒ 4

Tgank you Mr. Redgrave. Your healing is welcome as always.
He stands up wobbling a little. I may not be perfect, but so at least feel much more like myself.

Then he starts to pay attention to the conversation the others are having.

"Did you know that a giant spider was housed in the beast Pens?
Estovion" Stam approaches the man.

I prepared combat as well, I could have read this guys mind and made this easy :P

"Of course I knew. But I expected Kroitzcer to properly lock it's cage." Estovion replies uppish.

When you speak of the sun...

Kroitzcer comes running in through the side door the disbelief clearly visible on his face. "What idiot let the spider out."

Well it looks like the lock wasn't done properly.

"It is not like anyone has business in my pen. And the locks are safe against accidental opening and the spider for sure didn't let itself out." Kroitzcer replies enraged. "Was anyone hurt?" he asks.

"The young maid was killed by the spider." Graydon answers the question.

"Bisthe? Oh, no the poor girl!" Kroitzcer says aghast.

Is it possible someone let this out on purpose and this was not an accident?
If so, we should check the other locks to make sure nothing else might come out.
Maybe Mr. Spugnoir you want to look to see if you can find any clues about how the cage got open while we check the other locks?

I can make the attempt Spugnoir gets out his alchemy kit and bits of paper for labeling things.

Spugnoir starts investigating the clues.

1) The door was obviously smeared with blood. Like with a bloody cloth or something else

2) There is a trail of blood drops leading to the beast pen.

3) The lock and the door is opened, but no signs of destruction at the cage.

Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (7) + 12 = 19

Hmm.... Spugnoir bags the rat and puts up string to mark the blood trail.

Hmm.. Stam! He says if Stam is around. Maybe Ned saw something, he is your familiar so you could ask.

"Ned is not my familiar we are just familiar with each other since my Family has had him since he was a wee calf. That and I already checked on him, the Beast pens are to the north."

Why kill a rat and drip blood from it? It just makes it obvious it wasnt an accident.

"What was the purpose of the attack though? To eliminate someone or... a distraction?!" Darius says as if a light bulb went on in his head.

"A rat? Then it must have been Paucy, that dim witted grounds-keeper. I'll go and interrogate him." Estovion hurries to the maintenance shed D5, enters and closes the door behind him.

After a short time he comes out again and locks the door. Coming back he explains "Paucy admitted that he released the monster. He said he wanted the Markiza for himself. Don't ask me about the logic in this."

"It is my fault. I should have taken better care of him and the lodge. And I should have demanded that the beasts are safely locked away." Estovion adds with a glare at Kroitzcer. "Paucy is under arrest until I can ensure that something like this is no longer possible for him."

"I'm sorry, that I can't help with Bisthe. But if you were hurt, or something was damaged I will make up for your damage." He looks around if someone wants to make a claim immediately.

"I would like to talk with Paucy as well, he might know more than he is letting on." Stam will leave the main lodge and head towards where Estovion went

"If there is noting else for now, I'll retreat to my office and start planning repairs."

"Mr. Kroitzcer, remove the spider from the room." With that he turns around and retreats upstairs.

As Stam reaches the Shed he finds it locked.

How about we split up and look for clues?

"Going alone might be treacherous. Best to have some backup. Spugs, I'll go with you, Grergof with Stam. Meet back in an hour yes?"

Sounds good to me.

Grergof joins Stam.
Then he whispers to Stam:
Are you worried that Estovion is not telling us everything about this Paucy?

Kroitzcer joins Grergof and Stam. "Excuse me. Would you be so kind to help me get the spider out? Maybe your ox could pull it?"

Just wondering, Why do you keep things like this in the Lodge?

"It's a side business. If someone wants to hunt something a little more exciting than a deer I can provide such a hunt. For some it's a bear, or a large wolf. And maybe someday someone would have been daring enough to hunt that spider. I didn't think it would become that big though when I caught it in a trap a year ago." Kroitzcer answers.

Stam looks at the dead spider then at Kroitzcer, "Yes we can ask Ned to assist us in the removal of the corpse. What you do you plan to do with the corpse?"

Stam will hitch Ned up and lead him out, helping with attaching the spider and having Ned pull it out. Once that is complete, Stam will take Ned back and feed him.

to Kroitzcer

"How big was the spider when you found it? Also do you believe this Paucy let the spider out? and Survived getting away from it before it killed him?" Stam will put on his investigating face.

"Dump it in the woods. And when it is only an empty shell after a few weeks, I'll burn the rest." Kroitzcer replies. "I'll fix a rope at the corpse and wait for you to come with Ned."

What about the second question Sir?