"We thought about it, but decided that Eel's End has had enough of spiders." As soon as the door is pushed open and Nadya can see Chittersnap, she throws a foul look his way, hoping to limit his ability to hit everyone with his webs.
Col spots Chittersnap and the webs, "Ware the webs and Chittersnap is over in the corner trying to hide."
Col makes his way to the closest Dream spider and executes a perfect thrust.
Ayako will bless the group (+1 hit/saves vs. fear 2 minutes)
Sebastian quaffs his antitoxin along with the others as they enter Eel's End. The astringent liquid coats his throat and his mouth fills with saliva. He spits on the threshold as they cross, and he grinds the spiders with his heels as they march toward Chittersnap's lair.
Ignoring the thing's words, he allows the others to take care of the talking. As his eyes scan the room, the reflected light fills his field of vision with the nets of rainbow webbing with every tilt of the head. At Col's warning he looks for Chittersnap, but sees nothing but more webs. "I don't see him..."
Sebastian slashes at the webs with his rapier, trying to force his way into the spider's nest.
Even making a single step into the room is an effort. "We'll never be able to cut our way through all this webbing. Ladies, what magic have you to bring to bear?"
Um..I have one vial of acid. Well I can light a torch here after I am done blessign everyone
Sebastian successfully slashes away a small section of webbing and steps into the cleared area.
Nadya fails to spot Chittersnap hiding in the webs so she holds until he appears.
Ayako casts bless.
Chittersnap holds.
Col spots the webs but steps into the room anyway and promptly gets entangled in them. Luckily a dream spider is within reach and he pierces past the web into the creature's abdomen. The spider bleeds profusely but hangs onto life by a thread.
Once Col enters the web, Chittersnap springs into action and skitters over to bite him.
Now that the ettercap emerged from hiding, Nadya can take her action and she evil eyes him. Chittersnap's Will is strong and he shakes off the lingering effects.
The dream spider that Col stabbed, bites back. And the remaining spider moves up to bite at Sebastian.
Somehow, despite being caught in the web, Col dodges the dream spider's bite. Sebastian isn't as lucky and takes a vicious bite on the arm.
Figuring Chittersnap is the greater danger and that the spider's might not even succumb to her abilities, Nadya keeps concentrating on limiting the ettercap, trying to make him easier for Col to hit.
Col thrusts at the pesky spider again.
Ayako taps Col with the wand of healing
"Gah!" Groaning in pain, Sebastian punches the dog-sized spider away from him. The mage-light illuminates his blue-and-yellow target dangling in the web, and Sebastian executes a flawless thrust, skewering the thing as it swings. "Fire would be good!"
Sebastian's "flawless" thrust kills the threatening spider and it drops out of the web onto the floor. Col also dispatches the second dream spider, leaving only the ettercap remaining.
Chittersnap's poison takes hold in Col's veins, slowly draining his speed.
The cowardly ettercap bites and slashes at Col, using him as a shield from the rest of the party. The brutal attack leaves Col bleeding unconscious and hanging suspended upright in the entrapping webs.
Nadya's evil eye take full effect, slowing Chittersnap for awhile.
Hoping Ayako might be able to keep Col on his feet a little longer, Nadya shifts the focus of her evil eye again, this time willing Chittersnap to be more susceptible to her hexes and spells.
Ayako taps Col again. Get up!
Realizing he close to being done Col thinks, It can't end like this. As he make one final thrust against Chittersnap.
Sebastian cuts Col down from the webbing, hoping to pull him to safety in the outer room.
Sebastian cuts Col down from the webs and he drops to the floor. Ayako brings Col back to consciousness but he overexerts himself with a weak thrust and falls back out. Chittersnap easily avoids the attack.
Chittersnap ignores Col as no longer a threat and steps over to attack Sebastian. It scores a bite on Sebastian's shoulder injecting him with its venom.
The ettercap remains strong and resists most of Nadya's evil eye effect.
Ayako keeps poking Col with the wand!
Darkness seems to course down the wand, sending little darts and needles into Sebastion's torn body and begins to stich his veins together.
Nadya curses as she feels the ettercap throw off most of her hex, but she continues with her gambit, beginning to cast a spell.
Sebastian, alert to Chittersnap's attack, dips his shoulder at the last moment and shifts his torso to avoid the bite. He lashes out in response, punishing the spider-thing for the offense.
Maneuvering to better protect Col from further harm, Sebastian leads with his buckler extended. He stabs at his opponent to discourage further attacks on the fallen.
Col draws his dagger and tries to slash at Chittersnaps legs while he is on the ground.
Sebastian parries Chittersnap's bite and hits it with a successful retaliatory strike. He then shifts into a defensive position, waving his sword but not hitting anything.
Ayako continues to tend to Col's wounds, bringing him back to consciousness.
Col swings from the ground, successfully hitting Chittersnap in the leg but only doing a minor cut.
The poison continues to course through Col's veins. Even with the antitoxin, his body has been unable to fight off its effects yet.
Chittersnap, aghast at the wound inflicted upon it, retreats back into the webs and fires its own web at Sebastian to bind him. Despite Sebastian's attempts to fend off the ettercap's attacks, he is not ready for the sticky strand and becomes entangled.
"You dare strike at me! You are fools for rejecting my power. None of you will leave here alive!"
Nadya enters into a deep chant and begins casting sleep.
Ayako pokes Col once again
As Chittersnap steps back into the darkness, Sebastian's eyes lose track of him. Entangled and surrounded by webs that could be hiding the abomination, he begins to lose his nerve. "A torch would be nice right now!" he calls, half-whimpering.
Taking a deep breath, he probes his belt, pulling out his dagger. Urgently, he begins slicing at the sticky white strands that cover him.
"Thanks Ayako," Col spits out embarrassed. He reaches over and picks up his rapier as he stands up.
Sebastian slashes at the webs but his weapon is ineffective.
Col is looking much better after Ayako cures him again. The majority of his wounds have disappeared and he safely stands up while the ettercap is not within striking distance. Unfortunately he continues to suffer the effects of the poison.
Col needs to make another Fortitude save DC 17 or take 2 more points of Dexterity damage.
Chittersnap sees Col stand and fires a web at him as well, entangling him again. The ettercap's web is stronger than the dream spider webs that permeate the room but also aren't poisonous.
"Despair as you grow weaker with every breath! My poison paralyzes the body. Your deaths will be slow and painful. Once you can no longer move, my children will feast of your essences for days while you can do nothing but watch."
Nadya completes her sleep spell. Unfortunately Chittersnap shakes off the effect. Frustrated, she attempts to evil eye its saves again. Finally, this effect punches through its defenses and takes hold.
"I wanted to burn the place down, but no!" Sebastian scrambles toward the door as best he can, trying to get out of the room.
Col weakened from the poison, tries to muster his strength and lets out a primal yell as he struggles to break out of the webs.
Ayako spends her time getting out torch and flint&steel to light it.
Sebastian, still entangled, struggles out of the room while Ayako prepares to set the webs on fire.
Col bursts his bindings.
Chittersnap sees Ayako's lit torch and hisses and retreats into the back of the room, hiding among the webs.
Nadya's Perception is not high enough to be able to locate Chittersnap so she attempts to apply first aid to assist Col fight off the poison. Despite not having any training, she succeeds on adrenaline alone, giving Col an additional +4 on his next save vs. the poison.
Col leaves the room and surrenders to Nadya's ministrations. "Burn the filthy creature out," he cries as he removes an extract and consumes it.
Ayako steps forwards and starts burning webs.
Having managed somehow to get Col to shake off the poison, Nadya looks back into the room trying to spot Chittersnap. Still weak from her own bout with poison, she tries to activate the wand of magic missiles to strike the ettercap. Unfortunately, she doesn't quite have the knack and the wand fails to activate.
Ayako ignites the webs and the thin filaments ignite in a flash. Chittersnap, who was hiding in the webs, catches fire and begins to thrash around in a panic. The webs are replaced with a semi-transparent purple haze that clouds your minds as the poison laced on the dream spider's webs burns off. Luckily it seems to already be dissipating.
Chittersnap rolls on the ground, trying to put out the fire. He succeeds in putting out the fire but now lies prone in the room with no webs to protect him.
After drinking the extract, Col is back to full hit points. And with Nadya's help, he finally purges his body of the poison and the paralyzing effect ends. It will still take time to recover from the damage the poison already inflicted, however.
Sebastian holds until Ayako burns the webs and then double moves into the room up to Chittersnap. The webs binding him slow his movement.
Nadya aims a wand at the ettercap but it unable to activate it.
Ayako manages to fight off the effects and limps up to follow Sebastion so she can support him. She does redraw her wand of healing.
As the others take care of their terrain disadvantage, Sebastian continues thrashing about within the the web.
"Let's end this," he says to Col as he finally escapes the bonds.
"Stick close. Don't let him trap us both by separating. We should close the door to make sure he doesn't escape." Sebastian moves carefully up toward the creature with Ayako behind him.
Seeing the advantage they have Col runs forward yelling, "Kill the beast!"
He swings his sword at the prone creature.
Nadya tries to hold her breath, but times it wrong and winds up sucking in a lungful of the gas instead. She's so distracted by the cloud that her attempt to trigger the wand fails again.
The group closes in on the beast. Col stabs down at it but hits nothing but floor.
Chittersnap stands up, provoking from both Col and Sebastian, and takes a single bite at Col which he avoids.
Ayako hustles to a new position.
Col grasps his rapier in his weakened hands and hurriedly thrusts at Chittersnap.
Sebastian thrusts at the creature, instead sticking the wooden timbers of the floor as it attacks Col.
Now facing a standing opponent, Sebastian stabs his blade into Chittersnap's chitinous flank, left unprotected in his attack on Col. "Your operation is finished! Shiver will plague the people of Korvosa no longer."
As Chittersnap rises from the ground Col lashes out with his rapier.
Seeing the boys seem to have the creature nearly in hand, Nadya tries again to activate the wand. Finally successful, a little glowing ball flies across the room, striking Chittersnap without error.
Col and Sebastian mercilessly stab at the ettercap. Green blood gushes from multiple wounds. The glowing ball of force is the final blow, slamming directly into Chittersnap and dropping him dying on the floor.
With no master, any remaining spider reverts to its original nature and scurries into hiding. Silence returns to the empty ship.
Nadya looks relieved at the ettercap drops to the floor. She brushes her hair back and lets her breathing come back to normal. "Whew. We did it. That was close."
Col fall to the floor in relief and thinks,[i]That was close. As he lays there he berates himself, [i]You're smarter than that, you shouldn't be rushing into unfavorable terrain. Next time let your enemies come to you. Finally he admits, "I not doing so well lets search this place and be done with it."
Ayako wipes her face. We solved things for now, but I am sure that another will fill the void. Hopefully they will decide not to deal in shiver, especially since the spiders are dead. She starts tending to Sebastion tos ee if she can help with his poison.