"Take your time, Voyla. If we make enough noise, maybe some monsters will even notice us!" Zinli said excitedly.
The door opens this time, creaking ominously.
You see another long corridor, nearly fourty feet long, with two doors, one right in front of you, towards the south, and another, at mid-distance on the east wall.
"Well, at the least the choice of which way to go first seems easy enough this time," Joza whispers as she peers over the others' shoulders into the corridor.
Warren moves down the corridor to the first door, "Shall we try this one first?"
"You lead, pretty boy, we follow."
Warren laughs, "Pretty boy?! I don't think I've ever been called that before and I'd appreciate you not lying like that, but thank you for the compliment." He then smiles at her with his mouth full of pointy teeth.
He then turns to our resident locksmith and asks "Would you care to do the honors."
Voyla smiles mischievously.
"Of course."
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Dav assists in searching for clues and traps.
Voyla finds no traps, and the door doesnt seem locked either.
But she notices that the doors leading into this room is ajar, held open
by jagged chunks of masonry placed as doorstops.
She signals the chunks of masonry to the others, silently.
"So something other than the undead had to have put those there, to keep the door open," Joza whispers when the makeshift doorstops are pointed out. "Maybe it was those spider-things, but somehow I doubt it..."
Rahiv looked at the makeshift doorstop and scratched his head. He wasn't sure at all why someone would do it. He shrugged when the others started asking questions.
Voyla moves to one of the other doors, and peeks beyond it, not opening except what is needed for her to see.
(+4 if hidden)
Dav used his elven senses to aid Voyla.
Voyla doesn't see much, as she peeks thought the slightly opened door.
Only webs...
Many webs.
"More spiders! Ug! Where to now?"
"Through the door," Joza responds, giving Voyla a slightly puzzled look. "Or maybe through that other one at the end of the hallway," she adds, nodding at the southern door. "But we'll have to go through one of them if we want to keep moving, won't we?"
Warren moves the masonry and closes the door. "That one looks like more spiders, why don't we try this on here since it isn't locked?"
Voyla nods, and enters carefully.
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Voyla finds not traps or tricks on the door, and enters a small corridor.
There is another door right in front of her, and the corridor turn on her left, after 15 feet or so.
of course, she is quick to notice the trap right in the middle of the corridor. It seems to be another of these pit traps...
She signals the others to stop, while proceeding to disarm the trap.
After which she will continue forward.
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"Voyla's very good at what she does, isn't she?" Joza whispers to the others, looking impressed. "I wonder if she's able to set traps as well as undo them?"
Voyla is indeed very good at what she does.
She works on the trap, and put back her tools, before moving on.
But the trap opens under her feet, suddenly
Voyla manages to jump before the trap closes on her, showing she has sharp reflexes and a quick wit.
"Wow, those are some quick reflexes Voyla!" Joza calls out as the rogue nimbly avoids the pit trap that suddenly opens underneath her. "Of course I guess after that cage trap it makes sense to be on your guard..." she muses.
Voyla smiles.
"I got lucky, I need to be more careful."
Suddenly, from under the trap, a kind of mist arises
"Back!"
Voyla retreats!
Warren starts "Way to be on your toes....Whoa! Yes everyone get back behind me." He then readies to attack anything approaching the door.
"Eep!" Joza squeaks as she grabs both Dav and Zinli by the collar, pulling them away from the mist.
Rahiv looked up alarmed when the trap fell and when the mist began to come out he pulled an arm up over his mouth and backed up a few steps. He wasn't sure of any traps that offered beneficial waters.
"What? Something's coming? I don't see anything!" Zinli exclaimed, waving her gun around and waiting for a target to appear.
I hope that stuff isn't flammable.
The fog, or mist, or whatever it is, soon coalesce into another big spider!
Dav quickly hurled a magical missile at the spider!
Voyla, from the back, draws and fires from the back to the spider.
Both Voyla's arrow and Dav' spell hit their mark.
The spider seems unsure of what to do, as far as you can tell, and wasn't ready for such opposition.
Crawling on the wall near the trap door, she sends some sticky web on the nearest target who hasn't acted yet: Warren
Will Warren be entangled in the webs?
Spider HP 12/22 AC 14/12/12 Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +3
Melee bite +4 (1d6+1 plus poison)
Special Attacks poison, web (+11 ranged touch, DC 19, 10 hp,
DR 5/slashing)
Poison (Ex) Bite—injury; save Fort DC 15; frequency 1/round for
5 rounds; effect 1d3 Str; cure 1 save.
Warren sees the webbing coming and turns to his side so it misses him but he is a tad too slow and ends up covered in spider webbing.
"Burn it off me!" he grumbles.
"Don't come closer, spider!"
Hoping to keep up the pressure Joza quickly moves past the others and into the hallway, putting her back to the wall as she stands just behind and to the side of Voyla. She raises her bow and fires...
Rahiv joins the barrage of missile from Joza and Zinli, adding a bolt to the arrow and bullet that hit the spider.
The spider falls from the wall, on its back, its legs twitching a little.. then no more move.
Warren sighs and then says "Once again I prove real useful in here. Would you help me out of this webbing please?"
Voyla drops her bow, and moves to Warren while drawing her dagger.
"I will get you free!"
"Don't worry so much," Joza says as she moves to assist Voyla with cutting Warren free. "These spiders and their webbing would pose a threat to any of us! I am just glad no one was hurt this time."
Rahiv dipped low over the corpse and began to examine it. Vermin were always a mystery to him, mindless creatures yet some of the most adaptable.
While Joza and Voyla free Warren from the webs easily now that the spider isn't a threat anymore, Rahiv inspect the dead insect.
This kind of spider must be specific to the Spire, as the shaman has never seen anything like this.
You have two doors near you, one to the north, the other to the south.
And, of course, the door you came through first.
Warren seems subdued as he says, "Thank you ladies. Why don't we try that door over there." and he points his scimitar to the door to the north.
Voyla nods and examines it.
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If safe (or she thinks so), she looks at the others, wait for them to be ready, and opens it.
If not, she tries to disarm whatever trap there is, or open a lock off.