Hanethes also lowers himself into the water, deciding that a significant amount of soap would be in order once he returned to his native plane. His ioun torch lights the way.
He keeps an eye open for potential dangers in the water, despite the sting of alien chemicals.
+2 to detect traps. (-5 due to poor vision?)
"A daemon giving obeisance to the Great Devourer, and a wasteland laid waste even further; it gives one pause--hey! Where did everyone go?" Kanthuun checks the Wayfinder, then frantically ensures that all of his scrolls are secure in watertight leathern cylinders, and trudges through the muck to the opening.
"They're all mad...mad, and I a Sorcerer of Chaos...Arasmes? Arasmes? Just some jackalweres for a change...Oh, hells and protean dung, fetchlings and black blades, I'll see you at the bottom."
Kanthuun casts Light on his hand and slides on in after Hanethes.
"Never thought we'd miss them, did we?"
The inquisitor gave a dry chuckle and took the rear, giving Kanthuun but a short head start after making certain the party wasn't followed.
Within less than a minute, the girls were followed by Hanethes, Kanthuun, and Arasmes, the first of whom had a very intense expression on his face as he scanned for traps and pitfalls.
Talon will get to work on clearing the cobwebs with Stark while Hanethes is busy looking intense.
...and looking intensely.
Perfception:
Drovya moves up to the left side of the stairs, ready to assist with any particularly heavy pieces of rubble that need to be moved.
Rohini is eager to get out of the muck, so she goes at least as far up the stairs as necessary to clear the muck. But she'll allow the others to go in front down the hallway. She looks down the hallway as well as around the muck filled chamber.
Perception:
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Talon made decent headway into the cobwebs with the aid of Stark's keen edge, clearing away ten feet's depth before he becomes distracted by a discovery that Rohini and Drovya laid eyes on at the same time.
Tiny skeletons began to appear in the deeper webbing, and Drovya and Talon recognized the anatomy immediately, the reason for the isolation of the chamber behind them becoming painfully obvious. They were cacodaemon bones, some of which still contained soulgems and various other objects. Their minds barely had time to register this, however, before the sort of trouble that only a slaying could negate reared its ugly head.
For those in the surprise round, and for the rounds following
Animals in the lower planes are always affected by the environment, making them fiendish. In the case of something as large as the spider bearing down on the fighter, this will undoubtably mean it has a damage resistance against everything but good-aligned weapons, and a nifty elemental resistance to cold and fire, and a chance for spells to not work on them. It's also a pretty safe bet to think something like a spider on this plane would be poisonous.
This spider, though obviously stronger than its Golarion counterpart, bears some resemblance to a black widow, the venom of which is both lethal and apt to stagger its victims. It also has a nasty tendency to eject entangling webs that are strong enough to be used as ropes.
The creature is immune to mind-affecting spells, you'd wager, and can sense the presence of others by vibrations.
Knowledge planes:
Knowledge nature:
How far away is Rohini? I thinkshe's at the edge of the murk, behind Drovya, unless some of the others came out of the murk too...]
Hanethes draws his pistol and attempts to tumble past the spi-ieder, hoping to flank the creature from behind.
As soon as he is out of the creature's field of vision (assumed field of vision, anyway), he turns and releases a bullet.
(touch) for
damage and stealth damage if move successful. The spi-ieder also gains Bleed 3 if the stealth attack is successful.
(touch)
Talon was caught by surprise as a sudden shot erupted from his comrade's firearm at something above him in the darkness. The spider itself took a substantial hit from the action, immediately shifting its attention to the rogue.
"Best you put Stark to work above you, friend!" Arasmes called out, pulling out his composite longbow to attempt some coverfire.
"Looks like Starsprings already hurt it rather badly, but-,"
However, due to the slick nature of the effluvium he stood in, the bow slipped out of the inquisitor's fingers.
The spider had its many eyes now focused only on Hanethes, and they belied some intelligence, though it was obviously still too stupid to know the strength of the adventurers it had made enemies of.
All the same, the monstrosity managed to sink fangs into Hanethes' flesh, moving forward to do so.
The pain was nearly unthinkable as the arachnid's venom entered the rogue's body. It would seem the half-elf just could not catch a break where poisons were concerned. The blood vessels around the wound took on a bruised coloration.
Hanethes's eyes glaze over as the spider's venom courses through his body, and he begins foaming at the mouth and convulsing uncontrollably for a few seconds.
And the convulsing continues.
Hanethes's eyes glaze over as the spider's venom courses through his body, and he begins foaming at the mouth and convulsing uncontrollably for a few seconds.
1d20+2And the convulsing continues.
"Hanethes! If you can withdraw safely, make your way back to me and I can help you. This seems to be a fiendish black widow. And, everyone, be careful -- she can eject strong entangling webs!"
"Spells, cold, fire, and evil weapons---" Kanthuun glances at Drovya--"will be of less use against her."
Petrova whips out her sling, and lets fly with a shot before the spider can close with her friends.
Attack:
Damage:
A pathetic amount of damage compared with the rogue's gun shot.
The shot from Petrova's sling bounced off the side of the spider's head ineffectually, but it did gain the monster's rapt attention, as the beast had yet to discover Talon's strength, and assumed instinctively that the bitten one would die within a matter of seconds.
On that note, the bruised discoloration on Hanethes' skin crept up his neck as the poison wracked his body further.
Kanthuun whips up a blob of protoplasm from nowhere and lobs it at the beast. "Let's see how you enjoy getting stuck, ettercap."
Drovya rushes forward with Black Ivan in hand, infusing the blade with his own magical essence as he closes to strike at the fiend.
Hanethes pushes to his feet, finally lucid for a moment and scrambles away from the spider.
Despite the blinding agony overwhelming his senses, the rogue made his way back to Rohini, at which point Kanthuun let loose his protoplasmic attack and debilitated the beast by hampering its movement. Indeed, the spider was so distracted that Drovya's following attack from Hanethes' previous position cut directly into the monster's brain.
The fiendish arachnid went limp, but didn't fall on the front lines immediately due to the glue-like protoplasm holding it to the wall.
Arasmes approached Rohini and Hanethes with all haste, ready to help however he could.
"Good work. I didn't even notice it."
Drovya cleans off Black Ivan with a softly murmured prestidigitation then shakes his head to try to clear the ringing from his ears after the pistol shot.
Gods above, that thing is loud. Effective, he notes the smoking crater in the spider's thorax where Hanethes shot landed, but loud.
My apologies, Hanethes is able to spit out through gritted teeth. I would have warned you had I not thought we were in more than imminent danger.
No need to apologize my friend. Just rest easy and we'll see if we can get you patched up. Drovya crouches down next to Hanethes and offers him some water. I have a vial of antitoxin with me if you want it.
Edit: If you all want to do this another way, (an easier, more streamlined method that I'm not thinking of at the moment), we'll redo it that way. :)
Arasmes steadied the rogue shortly after Rohini used her Bit of Luck ability on the poor man in order to treat the poison manually, calm as ever.
Drovya gifted the antitoxin to Hanethes, which was compounded by another boon of luck via Rohini.
After what seemed like a small eternity, the poison stopped its progression, leaving Hanethes with his consciousness intact.
Whew! Having finally stopped the progress of the poison, Rohini uses the wand of lesser restoration on Hanethes.
Wand:
again:
"How do you feel now?"
Kanthuun eyes the soul gems, attempting to determine what's held in what. "Shall we take these with us?" he inquires of the group.