Gimble's Emerald Spire (Table 1) (Inactive)

Game Master Eric Sklavos

Qildar follows Nor'scrik and Sana into the hallway. He watches them start down the hall to the left. He is about to turn to search the other end of the hall when the floor drops out from under his companions and Sana disappears. "What the ... another trap. We need to be more careful in here," he thinks to himself as he moves up to the edge of the pit to see what happened to Sana.

Not sure if Nor'scrik's action re-opened the trap door or not. If it did, I'll cast Acid Splash at spider. If not, I'll ready it for when I can see it.

Acid Splash(touch): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Damage: 1d3 ⇒ 3

He reminds the group what he knows about these types of spiders.

Special Attacks: Strength draining poison from bite attacks, and it has a web attack.
Spell-Like Abilities: Obscuring Mist 3/day, Gaseous Form 1/day

Antikas moves forward and tries to use the wand again.

Use Magic Device: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

And off goes a magic missile from his want. The energy formed like a bee flying straight for the spider.

Magic Missile: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Nor'scrik, seeing the spider attempt to lock itself in with its prey, jumps on the trapdoor to release it again. He jumps gains his footing just in time to jump back. I gave a +2 on your save, since you knew it was there already. DC is 20.

Sana taps herself with the wand again, healing herself up to about three quarters of her health.

Shard comes bounding in to see what's going on as Trutzburg moves into position and attacks. As Trutzburg slashes into the spider's body, the creature takes damage from Qildar's and Antikas's spells.

The quite bloody spider then moves to the ground level, out of reach of the fighter (5'step), and a dense fog pours out of the pit. Obscuring Mist: Cretures 5' away have Concealment (25% Miss Chance), creatures 10 or more feet away have full concealment. Area is a 20' Spread; so entire pit, plus 10' outside the pit.

Initiative:
Round 2
Nor'Scrik
Qildar
Shard
Trutzburg
Antikas
End of Round

Round 3
Sana (13/17 hp)
Moon Spider

The Party is up.

As the spider moved out of reach Trutzburg sighs and asks the others.
"What now?"

Heal to full.
She then stows her wand, turning to watch into the fog, shield and morningstar at the ready.

"We hope we injured it enough that it leaves," Qildar says as he drops his longspear and draws his Elven curve blade while scanning the mist in front of him for the spider prepared to attack if it gets close.

Readied Attack (Melee-finesse): 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Damage (S): 1d10 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7

Nor'scrik decides that taking a chance with something alchemical is probably worth it. He hurls a vial of alchemicist's fire at the spot where the spider stepped to before the mist appeared.

alchemist fire attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

I'm guessing a blind throw at a space would be 50% miss chance, but looking at the preview Nor'scrik rolled a 1 anyway.

alchemist fire damage, class bonus: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 or 4 splash damage.

Underground Chemist gets Int bonus to splash weapons direct and splash damage similar to Alchemists.

While most of the party freezes and readies themselves for the spider to run by them, Nor'Scrik blindly throws an alchemst fire into the pit below. Though not a direct hit, fire splashes everyone in the pit slaying the Moon Spider.

Sana took 4 points of fire damage as well from the attack.

The mist lingers for about 5 minutes.

"Someone up there got some rope?" Sana asks as she collapses on her butt on the floor, careful to avoid the spikes

Nor'scrik checks his pack. He can be heard mumbling as he does.

"Why no pack rope? Stupid, stupid Nor'scrik."

Somewhere on Earth a human checks his Ratfolk character's sheet and face palms at forgetting to buy rope for his PC.

Qildar removes the rope from his pack. Holding one end he tosses the reat down the pit. Not seeing anyplace to tie it off, he looks to the others for some help holding it. Once ready, he signals Sana to climb up.

Climb: 1d20 ⇒ 20
"Thanks." Sana says as her head clears the pit.
"This place is a nightmare, or it just hates me..."

Holding the rope Trutzburg nods to Sana, signaling that she might climb up.

'I think this place just hates everyone yeah. I mean how crazy do we have to be to do this whole spelunking a monster infested wound in the earth." Shard says with his dry sense of humor.

"Uh huh." Antikas nods as he walks over to the rest.

After letting the mist clear Qildar throws a rope down to Sana, who easily climbs out of the pit.

You still have the door on the other side of the pit and a door to the south in the entry room.

I believe Sana is still at 13/17 hp from Nor'scrik's splash damage.

She is indeed
Wand: 1d8 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Sana sits down on the edge of the pit, pulls out her wand, again, and heals herself.

Qildar inspects the pit trap to see if he can reset it and then disable it so the party can walk across the floor safely.

Disable Device: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (14) + 9 + 1 = 24

Qildar, seeing the trap in action, is easily able to reset it and jam the triggering mechanism so it's safe to cross over.

"Based on the number of traps we have come across so far, it would seem prudent to be more careful," he says as he crosses the pit trap, stopping to inspect the hallway before the door and then the door itself for traps.

Perception (hall): 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 8 + 1 = 27
Perception (door): 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 8 + 1 = 20

"Do you think both of us should check for traps going foward?" he turns to ask Nor'scrik.

The nagaji smiles."Let us get forward."

Sana makes no motion to stand and continues to sit on the floor, generally unresponsive to the goings on around her.

Antikas walks over to Sana and kneels next to her. "Sana, are you alright? What seems to be the problem"

Shard however looks around. "So where to next? East or West people"

"These traps are very sneaky and well made. If they weren't causing us pain and annoyance i'd be impressed. I guess we're already going this way so may as well keep going." says Nor'scrik as he heads for the door and looks it over for traps.

perception, trapfinding: 1d20 + 8 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 8 + 1 = 24

If Nor'scrik thinks the door is safe and at least one more person is following him he'll open the door and look what is there.

"Take a wild guess." Sana says as she stands and starts walking towards the door at the end of the hallway

Both rogues check the door and the area around for traps, neither rogue finding any. As Nor'skrik goes to open the door he pauses for a moment as he hears a faint, intermittent clinking sound, as if two small pieces of metal are striking each other softly on the other side of the door.

Not taking any notice to the noise on the other side of the door, the rogues move open the door:

The walls and ceiling of this room are hidden behind a thick, gray-white forest of spider webs that blocks all vision beyond ten feet. Webs are everywhere, creating a maze of vertical sheets. Gray, furry dust clings to the sticky, white webs. The desiccated, shriveled corpse of a long-dead man hangs spread-eagle across one of these layers of webbing, and rusty swords, daggers, and axes hang securely from others.

As the door opens, the clinking sound stops.

Sana walks up rumaging in her pack. She pulls out her flint and steel which she uses to set the webs on fire.

Trutzburg carefully looks into the room.
Perc: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Nor'scrik takes a slight step back as the webs begin to burn, though as an amateur alchemist he does enjoy the fiery display and claps his claws together with glee.

"Pretty fire is good. I hope it clears the room. Getting web stuck your fur is no fun at all!"

Qilday pauses at the sight of the webs and nods in agreement with Sana lighting them on fire.

"We should shut the door so a spider doesn't come running out at us trying to escape," he says as he clutches his long spear in preparation for such a situation.

As Sana gets out her flint and steel, Trutzburg sees a moon spider in hiding in the corner of the room up toward the ceiling.

Where does Sana go to start the fire?

Pointing with the tip of his blade towards the spider Trutzburg adds.
"Beware of the spider!"

I thought the spider webs were all the way up to the door. So I could stand basically where Trutzburg is. To be fair I didn't look at the map before posting. I Would most likely have reached between Nor'scrik and Trutzburg.

Antikas Lays his hand on Shard and casts magical armour upon his eidolon companion then holds up his wand in a battle stance facing the doorway. Silent but waiting should there be any rushing spiders.

Shard tenses ready to pounce as a low growl escapes his lips. "Be ready"

"Another spider? No pit this time so that's good. Maybe that spider wants to be set on fire like the last one!" says Nor'scrik as he fiddles about with a vial on his bandolier.

As everyone gets ready for the spider, Sana reaches between Nor'scrik and Trutzburg and lights the web on fire. As the fire starts to burn the web, the spider screeches in anger and starts to go on the offensive.

It'll take a round for the fire to catch. The fire will do damage to the web on Sana's turn.

The orange square is where the fire is started. Once the fire does damage, I'll turn the square red. Anyone in a red square at the beginning of their turn will take fire damage. Anyone moving through a red square must make an acrobatics check to avoid taking damage.

Initiative
Round 1
Shard
Trutzburg
Sana
Moon Spider
Antikas
Qildar
Nor'Scrik
End of Round

Shard, Trutzburg, and Sana are up.

Trutzburg moves around the fire and attacks the spider.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (5) + 5 = 101d10 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

"That whole room is going to be on fire soon. You might want to get out." Sana says, "Get out so we can close the door." stepping to the door readying to close it.

Moving into and through squares with webbing requires either an acrobatics check or Reflex save. Moving at half speed gives a +5 to this check.

I need either an acrobatics check or Reflex save from Trutzburg.

Trutzburg tries to move at half speed but fails miserably.
Refl: 1d20 + 2 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 2 + 5 = 9

Trutzburg hastily rushes into the room after the spider, but runs right into the web and is now Entangled and unable to move.

I'll allow you to redirect your attack to the web instead of the creature, if you'd like.

He will attack the web then

Shard leaps across and into the room and tries to cut Trutzberg out of the webbing.

Acrobatics: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (5) + 9 = 14

Claws: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8
Damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6

"C'mon pal, that thing looks like it means business!"

Trutzburg and Shard run into the room as Sana gets ready to close the door on the burning webs. Trutzburg runs straight into the web and he and Shard slash him free from the webs.

Fire Damage to Web: 1d6 ⇒ 3

The fire starts to burn the web away.

The spider moves across the ceiling and attempts to web Trutzburg into place.

Web @ Trutzburg vs. Touch AC: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (6) + 11 = 17

As Trutzburg cuts himself free of the Web he ran into, another web hits him in the back anhoring him to the floor. Trutzburg is Entangled.

Initiative
Round 1
Antikas
Qildar
Nor'Scrik
End of Round 1

Round 2
Shard
Trutzburg Entangled
Sana
Moon Spider

The Party is up.

Sana casts guidance on Shard

Trutzburg slashes at the new net.
Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 141d10 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15

Nor'scrik tries to squeeze past the thick webbing to get to the spider that keeps webbing up his allies.

acrobatics: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (1) + 6 = 7

That looks like a failure to me!

Nor'scrik gets caught in the web so he tries to squeeze his way out before getting completely stuck.

escape artist: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

He steps back to where he started and thinks about his next plan more carefully.