Initiative:
Low Light Vision but not Darkvision
"Not that the loss of light wasn't bad enough already, but I have this terrible feeling that spiders might be nearby."
"What? No I'm not about to joke about spiders at Marduzi’s expense, once you've seen a wolf spider the size of a bull kill and suck dry a man in less than a minute you stop thinking fear of spiders is humorous."
Let's light this place up!
Anon taram!!!
#%€£$!!!
It's pitch dark. A faint scuttling sound competes with the sound of your own breathing and the surge of blood in your ears.
In the darkness, things move. Iralynash, you feel the faintest brush of something soft and silken, with a faint tingle but no real harm. Malcolm and Ruhk, strong silken strands wrap round you from out of the darkness. You are snared, and the strands burn with an evil icy chill.
What happened?
"I can't see SH*&"
Jordan delays.
"What's going on?"
Note to self: light cantrip
Once in a blue moon, you gotta keep your trap shut, Kelistra thinks as she tries to locate the source of the ominous sounds.
On Halvor's turn, spoilering since I go pretty far back
"There are three strange spiders back there
Marduzi moves forward toward where he thinks he hears the rasp of a very large spider leg across the floor swinging his sword blindly in the dark.
"Damn, trapped! Well, I'm no fly, nor am I going to be someone’s lunch!
...is it lunchtime by the way?"
"Agh, still stuck, try to keep them off me til I get lose."
Kelistra approaches the spot where Ruhk is struggling to free himself and waits for the spider sound to approach him. When she thinks she has a fix on the thing skittering towards its prey, she thrusts her glowing rapier blade to where she thinks its body should be.
Strength Check:
Pereception:
Malcolm easily shrugs off the webbing, and he draws a sunrod from his pack.
We need the light of Abadar!
Malcolm will also use his at will ability to Detect Evil. If they are evil, then he should be able to pinpoint their location, no?
Per
Disoriented, Jordan waits for the sunrod and advances casting.
Fire erupts from his fingers at the spiders.
Jordan tries to spray as many as he can.
Perception:
"Right now I'd be grateful for ANY light, Abadar or not you know.
Damn, these nets are cold...unatural."
Iralynash awaits for a light source to toss one of his bombs.
Didn't mean to hold things up.
Azmythe readies his crossbow and delays.
Malcolm rips his way out of the webbing with ease. Before he can raise a light, Halvor's muttered invocation causes a wave of blinding daylight to spill out from a small coin. The illumination is stark and bright, throwing shadows across the cavern. Three giant spiders rear back, shielding their multiple eyes from the violent beams of light.
Marduzi and Kelistra both miss, despite the sudden bright light.
Rommin's arrow buries itself into a spider, leaving it oozing ichor.
Jordan's fire catches just one spider - the same that Rommin targeted.
Ruhk remains caught in the spiders' flung webbing.
Making use of the sudden light Iralynash attacks the spiders.
Iralynash 's bomb finishes the spider that Rommin and Jordan had already hurt.
Azmythe is delaying.
The remaining two spiders scuttle forward maybe ten or fifteen feet, closing to melee range. One attacks Marduzi, the other attacks Jordan. Their attacks seem hesitant in the unfamiliar brightness.
Jordan is pierced with cruel mandibles.
The webbing wrapped around Ruhk continues to numb his flesh with a burning chill.
Azmythe will move up to Jordan and use his Healing Hex
"Come on Ruhk, stop messing around!" Kelistra will help Ruhk get out of the webs.
Malcolm will step up and attack the spider on Jordan.
BS ATT:
BS DAM:
Halvor will cast bless for the party
"Believe me, I'm trying. Almost as hard as when I was trying to escape the ropes a lusty ogress once trapped me in."
"There we go, I thought that image might lend me some strength."
Ruhk shakes himself free and steps up to join Marduzi, leaving the other spider for Malcolm.
"You're slipping Marduzi, I gave you several moments to finish this off without me."
"We'll see what's left for you Ruhk." quips Marduzi as he swings his greatsword down attempting to slice the spider in two.
Iralynash charges Jordan's attacker but misses.
Marduzi and Malcolm each leave gaping wounds in their chosen targets. The spiders hiss and chitter in verminous rage as they writhe around the cruel steel blades. Rommin's arrow, guided by Halvor's blessing, plunges into a spider's abdomen. Both spiders are clearly critically wounded, but their tiny insectoid minds have no room for fear or flight.
Iralynash misses with what would have been a killing blow from his hammer.
Jordan feels poison winding through his veins from the deep spider bites. Azmythe's healing restores his wounded body, but he still feels unnaturally weak.
Ruhk bursts free from the deathly webbing before Kelistra reaches him.
Kellistra sees Ruhk freeing himself and pushes forward to stab one of the spiders.
He manages to fire off a force bolt
at the most wounded spider.
Jordan readies another bolt.
And Kelistra and Jordan between them dispatch the last two spiders. The blackly twitching corpses start to scorch and dissolve in the bright light from Halvor's coin. Within seconds there is nothing but discolored patches of stone showing where the unnatural spiders died.
Jordan continues to feel the after-effects of the spider's poison.
The cavern narrows ahead, leaving only one obvious way to continue.
Jordan still fights the poison in his system.
Jordan gasps under his small load as his weakened state makes carrying the slightest load difficult.
"Malcolm, my pouches are too heavy. Even my spellbook is heavy."
Jordan tries to hand off his water, rations, and a spellbook.
Poison that saps the strength of a body, icy nets that burn with unnatural cold, and finally they dissolve upon death.
Whatever those things were, they were NOT natural...I'm afraid my knowledge is useless for telling what they were."
"They're dead, now," Kelistra says. "Though it would be good to know what they've done to Jordan."
"That would be the poison I think, can someone see if it is still in his system? We don't want Jordan to suffer more of it's effects."