The secret door looks clean so Xakon opens it and looks inside. Gray webbing fills this chamber. Huge cocoons of spider silk hang suspended in the webs, and the webs crawl with countless hundreds of pale little spiders. As a few moments pass, the tiny arachnids begin to become agitated, with some of them dropping on the floor. Another stone door stands near the northwest corner.
As Xakon makes his way across the room looking for traps, more and more tiny spiders continue rain down to the floor, their numbers quickly increasing enough to form a full sized swarm!
Male NG Human Ranger/Bard 2/12 - HP 112 - AC 21/T:16/FF:15 - Perception: +16 - Fort: +14, Ref: +22 Will: +12; +4 vs. bardic performance, sonic, and language-dependent effects - CMB: +14, CMD 30 - Speed 30 ft. - Init. +8
Frēodwēn steps away, drops his bow, pulls out a flask of oil and starts fiddling with it...
Flask of Oil:
You can also use a flask of oil as a splash weapon. Use the rules for alchemist's fire, except that it takes a full-round action to prepare a flask with a fuse. Once it is thrown, there is a 50% chance of the flask igniting successfully.
Mudk wanders into the room. When he sees the swarm he laughs dismissively, "Ickle spiders...what are they doing to do?" before trying to swat them away with his polearm.
Mudk's blow against the swarm smashes a few of the spiders, but does nothing to break up the mass. Swarms composed of Diminutive creatures are immune to weapon damage
Jirah moves into the room and casts Burning Hands over the swarm, killing off a number of the tiny arachnids but not enough to end the swarm threat.
BH damage:1d4 ⇒ 3
Moving to the source of the most blood, the swarm advances towards the door where Mudk and Frēodwēn stand. The two Pathfinder then find themselves covered in hungry, poisonous baby spiders. Mudk and Freod take 4 damage from the swarm. They also need to make a DC 11 Fort save vs. Distraction or be nauseated for 1 round, and a DC 11 Fort save vs. Poison. The swarm is currently over them and the two squares to the right of them, I placed the spider icon below them on the map so that the player's can see their icons.
Initiative (Rounds 1-2)
Jirah [4 Dmg] <= Up
Frēodwēn [4 Dmg] <= Up
Mudk [7 Dmg] <= Up
Xakon <= Up
Spider Swarm
Sugarsnap/Truffles <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Lol I knew about the zero damage but figured if I couldn't really do anything then Mudk should stay in character and think he could.
Mudk's eyes go a bit wide as the swarm sweeps over him. "They are every where... they are in my eyes.... this this is perfect! THEY EVEN BITE! Eaten by a million spiders! That's almost as good a death as demons. OUCH! Stop that! "
Calmly he pinches the bridge of his nose.
"My lady, heal me that I may suffer longer as befitting a true knight."
fort save distraction:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16 fort save poison:1d20 + 7 ⇒ (5) + 7 = 12 lay on hands self:1d6 ⇒ 2
Mudk, I figured you might, but I wanted to clarify why it didn't do any damage so no one would assume something else was going on. Did you want to move out of the swarm?
Excellent catch, Sugarsnap. I had missed that Xakon didn't roll a full die. To expedite things, I'll do that now.
Xakon's alchemist fire damage:1d6 ⇒ 6
Xakon tosses another alchemist fire at the swarm and the majority of the spiders are consumed by the flames. The arachnids are defeated, but Mudk and Frēodwēn received minor burns from the splash. Mudk and Frēodwēn take 1 damage from the alchemist fire.
You can keep your acid flask, Sugar.
Combat Over
A thorough check of the room (i.e. taking 20 on Perception, using Detect Magic) reveals nothing of interest or value, although there's still many more tiny spiders hiding out in the webs.
Investigating the north door reveals no traps, locks, or sounds.
Looking past the door, Xakon sees that this seems to be some sort of a hallway, with a door exiting to the northwest, another to the northeast as well as the south door the group is entering through. He also detects yet another pit trap in the middle of the floor. With everyone helping him look around, a secret door is discovered on the east wall.
I still need a Fort save DC 11 from Freod vs. the swarm's poison. If you fail the first, just make 1 more, since it only lasts 2 rounds. First failure: lose 1d2 ⇒ 1 Strength, second failure: lose 1d2 ⇒ 1 Strength.
As Xakon begins work disabling the pit trap, a moon spider climbs up the northern wall out from under the trap doors. This perhaps comes as no surprise to the party.
To be clear, the spider is currently vertical on the wall just above the pit trap door.
Xakon throws a dagger into the center of the spider's abdomen and some greenish bile oozes from the wound.
Frēodwēn then fires an arrow into the arachnids head. It twitches a few times before falling off the wall and into the pit trap.
Combat Over.
Afterwards, Xakon wedges the pit doors closed and the group continues forward. After a thorough examination of the northwest door reveals no traps, Xakon opens it to reveal a long stone hallway with a door to the north and a door to the east.
The halfing draws his rapier and opens the northern door after inspecting it for traps and pressing his ear to it listening for noises on the other side.
Taking a closer look at the northeast door, Xakon finds that it's slightly propped open with a jagged piece of masonry. He does not find any traps, nor does he hear anything in the room.
Inside he sees that this large room has a wide hole in the center of its floor. A heavy, welded steel ladder descends straight down from the lip of this shaft. The extent and depth of the space below are concealed behind the many crisscrossing, whitish-gray spider webs filling the pit. It's difficult to say for certain with all the webs, but it appears that the other two doors out of the room are propped open as well, at least far enough to allow a moon spider to slip in and out.
Due to the webs, the entire room is difficult terrain. You'll need to clear out the webs around the ladder if you wish to access it.
Xakon, I'm not so sure you can hide and hack away webs at the same time. The activity draws attention to you and I believe you are carrying a light source.
I moved Xakon's icon back towards the door as it takes some time to cut through the webs and the position he was in would lead to him falling down a well.
As Xakon works cutting through the webs, he notices, along with Jirah, movement in the northeast part of the room. The coloring is consistent with a moon spider and it appears to be creeping towards the east door.
Xakon and Jirah can take a surprise round action, or just let the spider leave, whichever. :) The thick layer of webbing will give partial cover to the spider.
As Xakon clears enough webs to provide access to the ladder, the room begins to fill with a thick gray mist that obscures vision to just 5 feet.
Since an attack is likely now that the room is full of fog, we'll move to initiative. The gray boxes indicate the areas affected. No enemies are immediately visible.
Sugar calls up Truffles to guard her, using his scent to keep vigilant watch over her.
Sugar scratches his head as he passes by muttering some words in a mix of halfling and druidic.
Sugarsnap casts Guidance on her animal companion, and the boar's behavior indicates he smells something aggressive nearby.
Mudk moves into the room, polearm ready, while Frēodwēn waits for the situation to unfold before committing himself to action.
Out of the mists crawl two moon spiders, one adjacent to Xakon, the other next to Mudk. The both try to bite the respective Pathfinders, but neither succeeds.
With visibility down to 5 feet, you'll need to be adjacent to the enemies to attack unless you have a good idea of their location. If adjacent, there's a 20% miss chance, while if you have a strong grasp of their location you can attack from a distance with a 50% miss chance.
Initiative (Rounds 1-2)
Frēodwēn [5 Dmg] <= Up
Mudk [6 Dmg] <= Up
Sugar/Truffs <= Up
2 Moon Spiders
Jirah [4 Dmg] <= Up
Sivantanpisil <= Up
Xakon <= Up
