"Aha! Harro, I'm not sure you should have done that, but since you have..."
Tanic moves forward hesitantly and takes a half-hearted swing at the spider.
Tanic is still unmotivated to split the nice spider. Perhaps if it stung him he might take it seriously?
With trouble now in evidence Vinexa quickly entered the room and saw the spider that her companions are fighting. She made her way quickly to the fray and sliced with one clawed hand at the arachnid menace while saying, "I'm sorry Terra, I still love you," to her pet spider tucked inside her clothing.
Growling with suppressed fury, Harro draws a dagger and spends the rest of his action cutting himself free!
The spider moves forward and leaps at Harro, taking advantage of his entangled state to try and bite him.
Harro easily shrugs off the effects of the spider's venom however.
The spider moves forward and leaps at Harro, taking advantage of his entangled state to try and bite him.
Harro easily shrugs off the effects of the spider's venom however.
Hearing the spider crack a fang on his scarred-tough hide, and seeing it back off quickly, Harro smiles evilly at the hairy arachnid and offers it a disgusting hand sign in return for its nibble.
"You know, sometimes the roach bites back y'filthy vermin!"
He then continues to finish cutting himself free of the web so he can swing his club freely again...
Assuming Micar moved into the room after the priestess was killed, he'll move to the spider and attack. Swift action to spend an Arcane Point and make his Wakizashi a +1.
Just waiting on Talindra and Akri to make their moves this round.
The spider is starting to look very much the worse for wear.
Seeing the spider on its last legs (all eight of them), Akri quickly sent in another blast of energy.
Same initiative as before: Vinexa 24
Tanic 17
Spider 14
Harro 14
Talindra 11
Micar 7
Akri 6
So far the fight against the spider has been remarkably quiet. Vinexa, Tanic, you're up.
Tanic will move into a flank with Akri.
"We've got it surrounded now!"
"I'll distract it for you!"
Having a chance to really hurt this spider now Vinexa shifted position to get where the spider had a foe opposite her to worry about. Once there she lay into it, her claws slashing out as her face lunged forward to bite the spider.
And after putting up a mighty struggle the spider collapses under Vinexa's onslaught.
A more careful inspection of the room reveals a pair of large silver candle sticks flanking the altar. The statue of the giant spider at the head of the altar is truly a work of art, with eight 'eyes' of polished jet. Behind the altar is a heavy chest of black stained zurkwood, with a large and ornate lock visible.
In the corner of the room is a trap door leading down.
Harro finishes freeing himself from what's left of the webbing and stops raging. Sitting for a moment among the various pillows and cushions, he tries to calm himself between puffs of breath.
"Look...fur yur...dang stuff!"
Micar takes a quick glance around the room looking for anything that resembles a spellbook.
He then moves to the chest thoroughly looking for traps.
Tanic confidently, and foolishly, goes up to the spider statue and tries to pry the jet eyes out. He's rather pissed at being hauled out here and thinks it fit vengeance to maul the alter.
Moving over to the fancy chest, Akri gives is a once over and can't help the greed shining in his eyes. "So, anybody good with locks? Can't help but think of all the nice stuff they might have locked up."
@Micar Inspecting the Chest you spot that it is trapped with a poisonous needle. You'll need to make a DC 20 Disable Device to disarm the trap and DC 25 to unlock the chest.
@Tanic With a little bit of effort you are able to pry out the 'spider's eyes'. You now have four small and four slightly larger pieces of jet. You should be able to sell these for a fairly good price.
@Talindra
You know that it is fairly common for religious items in shrines to Lolth to curse any non-worshipers who possess them. Nothing seems to have happened to Tanic upon removing the eyes however.
Micar shakes his head and starts to attempt to disarm the trap, but pauses. "Did anyone check the belongings on the dead priestess? She might have keys to this chest. . . .by the way this chest is trapped."
With that, Micar looks over the priestess and searches her belongings.
The Priestess has a masterwork rapier, 4 doses of drow poison, two scrolls , and a wand ... but no key.
I'll cast read magic on the scrolls and spellcraft the wand.
The scroll is of dispel magic and the wand is a wand of cure light wounds. There are 16 charges remaining in the wand.
Micar will relay this information to whomever is listening and hand the wand off to whomever can use it.
"All right, let see about this trap."
I set it off on the second try.
"Well, the trap is disarmed. Harro, do you want to break the chest open. This is next to impossible for me to open without the proper tools."
When you start working on the lock, Tanic will pipe up.
You know I can fashion a tool as easily as a sword if you ask.
Micar looks over at Tanic and sighs. "You saw me looking over the chest, and I even said it was trapped. I even asked if anyone found any thieve's tools anywhere when we were back in the guard tower. This information would have been useful BEFORE I set off the trap." He pauses for a second and centers himself, almost sorry about his rant at Tanic. "Thanks for the heads up, I'll keep it in mind for next time. We won't waste it on opening the chest. We should be able to break it open."
Micar lets Talindra take the wand, "Thanks for the heal."
Watching as the others worked on trying to disarm traps, unlock locks, and loot the corpses, Vinexa found herself at a loss as to what to do. She decided that, for now, keeping watch was the most important thing. With that in mind she went to where she could see out and kept an eye out for any guards that might check on the noise of the fight.
Feeling useless in the chapel, Akri follows behind the succubus. "So, how did you get caught?" he asked quietly, his eyes peeled for incoming drow. Well, drow that wasn't part of their group.
Vinexa glanced over at Akri as he moved up and asked his question. She considered whether to answer or not and ultimately decided that it wouldn't hurt. "I was betrayed by drow who worshiped me as the daughter of Nocticula. They decided that I wasn't evil enough and must be an imposter even though they know for a fact that it is the truth. they feared killing me lest they were wrong so they sold me to the slave pits instead. That was only a few days ago." Her expression was dark and anger crawled across her face as she remembered the cultists, "I just hope Mother leaves enough of them for me."
"I think you're right. I'm more of a wrestler, or at least I hope to be. Perhaps if I advance to the point where I can take animal form I will be more of a scrapper, but for now I think healing is my place in this group."
Giving a small gulp and looking at the woman from the corner of his eye, Akri said, "Uh, right...sorry to hear that...?" Clearly, he wasnt sure what to make of her parentage. "So...who's Nocticula?"
After taking his breather, Harro walks over to the chest and hits the lock with his club.
And barely dents the lock.
So he starts going at it with a fury!
"I"
"Hate"
"Friggin'"
"Drow"
"And"
"Their"
"Stupid"
"STUFF!"
Tanic's eyes begins to twitch in rhythm to the blows. He wants to suggest that he just mold the metal, but once Harro get's going he decides better.
The needle on the lock shoots out and bites deep into Micar's wrist, drawing blood, but he is able to resist the effects of the poison injected into his system.
After a considerable degree of exertion Harro succeeds at knocking the lock off the chest. Opening it you are able to find:
*5 Spell Component Pouches
*Micar's Spell Book
*Talindra's Holy Symbol of Nocticula
*A small basalt statue of a frog
*An egg shell with scenes of torture and misery painted in exquisite, and disturbing, detail
*A small silver framed mirror
*A silver chain headdress set with small onyx stones
*A drawstring bag containing two potions, labelled as Potions of Healing
*A purse containing 56 gold pieces, and 30 silver pieces in assorted currencies.
*A tiny amber bead which gives of a faint evocation aura.
*A dark hooded robe with the image of a Spider traced in silver on the front and with three long silver needles protruding from the bottom of each sleeve
Breath heaving, Harro reaches into the chest and grabs the bag with the potions of healing.
He quickly looks around to see if anybody will question his take of the loot with a sweaty and squinty-eye look.
Vinexa was about to explain who Nocticula was as Talindra gushed her praise at her. This caused the half-demon to preen, pleased that someone understood. She nodded and replied, "Yes, or so I was told growing up. I've never met Mother, only heard of her. The foolish cultists seemed to think that just because my human mother was a paladin of Iomedae that I was corrupted. And when you get right down to it, not being completely evil does have it's benefits."
Vinexa turned her attention back to Akri and said, "Nocticula is the Demonlord of Darkness and Lust, a succubus who has nearly reached the level of divinity. She rules a few layers of the Abyss and has used her seductive nature as an assassin killing a number of other demonlords over the millenia. According to the cultists she is very close to ascending to the level of a true divinity. When she does she'll be only the second demonlord to accomplish such a feat."
As they began rifling through the loot Vinexa found her eyes drawn to the silver chain headdress. The thing caught her attention and, the silver making the jets stand out, and she looked to her companions as she said, "I would like that when we divide all of this up."
Micar quickly swipes his spellbook, and grabs a spell component pouch.
"Do we all have what we came for? Let's get out of here before we're noticed. We can split up the rest of the loot once we're out of this place." Micar quickly makes his way back toward the guard tower and back down to prepare to jump in the web and then into the water at area 14.
Harro will quickly check out the trap door. Is it locked or trapped?
"Can't fight cary'in a darn chest..."
Tanic grabs his spell component pouch, which should contain his DF. He will also take the frog of course. I sounds like the rest of the stuff is staying int eh chest? At this point that includes:
*An egg shell with scenes of torture and misery painted in exquisite, and disturbing, detail
*A small silver framed mirror
*A drawstring bag containing two potions, labelled as Potions of Healing
*A purse containing 56 gold pieces, and 30 silver pieces in assorted currencies.
*A tiny amber bead which gives of a faint evocation aura.
*A dark hooded robe with the image of a Spider traced in silver on the front and with three long silver needles protruding from the bottom of each sleeve
I assume we are in a rush which is why we are not having someone detect magic/spellcraft them? Though that trap door looks mighty intriguing and Harro looks to have curiosity issues as well as anger management issues!
We are assuming that the chest is light enough to carry out and strong enough to survive the waterfall. Could I get a GM opinion of this assumption?
Taking the gold as something that should help no matter where they end up, Akri glanced at Vinexa and said, "Well, at this point I'd even accept the help of a demon with delusions of grandeur, so put in a prayer for me. Now [i]let's go!"