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Aryas thanks the others for helping.
Tathene cleans his dagger and suggests the group heads upstairs.
Lido uses a wand to heal Aryas’ wounds.
Nanny explains the foul creature was a homunculus.
Hekk catches his breath from the rage, feeling a little guilty.
After a very short rest, the group heads up the stairs seeing a hallway with three doors. Checking them in order
The first door to the left is a set of rooms the first appears to be a storeroom. The shelves in this storeroom have been ripped off the wall and lie in a heap on the floor, along with their now-wrecked former contents—bloody linens, a broken broom, and other ruined household supplies. Past the storeroom is a tidy washroom that appears oddly untouched by the surrounding messy chaos.
Entering the washroom causes the mirror to fall off the wall, revealing a nasty, scrawled message written in blood in a childlike hand: “You know nothing! You ruined everything! Your friends hate you! I HATE YOU!”
Nanny having Garlmak as a homunculus realizes that this message likely represents the creator’s own deep-seated feelings toward his-self.
Continuing further down the hallway to the next door on the left. The group finds this large bedroom is full of upturned furniture and decorations knocked from the shelves and walls. Every painting has been smashed from its frame and torn to pieces. Sitting on the otherwise-undisturbed master bed is a single journal.
Examining the journal shows it belongs to Gallion's mother. Its contents are quite mundane—simply a record of the family’s life from day to day—but every page has the message “Our son is an awful disappointment” written over it in blood, in the same childlike handwriting as that on the mirror in area washroom. This was Garlmak’s doing as well.
This small room contains a simple bed, desk, and chair. Thick webs cover the west end of the room, where the bed sits and two humanoid forms appear trapped within. Sticky, purplish-black strands cling to the desk and chair on the east side of the room, except in one spot where the strange filaments have left a clear space around a small piece of metal.
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Looking into Gelion’s room, Nanny suggests Arys try the cold iron morningstar on the webs.
Entering the room Hekk bets that there are apprentices inside the cocoons in the web covered west side of the room as he sits in the chair near the demon bile covered desk behind him to the east.
Lido urgently declares it could be the parents and they may still be alive!
Aryas enters the room and hands the Cold iron morningstar to Hekk
Hekk hops up and approaches the webs when suddenly from under the bed, a rather large spider with spots of demon bile spits webs at Aryas, but it harmlessly passes over his head splatting against the upper wall.
Talthane:
Aryas:
Hakk:
Lido:
Spider
Nanny:
Tareal:
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Tathane moves into the room and fires an arrow at the fiendish spider, but misses.
Lido calls forth a blessing on the group.
Hekk smashes the spider with the morningstar
Aryas delays.
The spider returns the attack biting at Hekk, but it misses the warrior.
to hit
plus Poison
Aryas:
Nanny:
Tareal:
Talthane:
Hakk:
Lido:
Spider: +11 dam
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Aryas charges forward missing the spider.
Nanny waits for the boy’s to kill the spider for her.
Stepping back Tarhane fires another arrow wildly into the webbing missing the spider.
Lido jumps into the room and cast guidance on Hekk.
Hekk swings the morning star once more in his rage with blessing. He swing seems just about to miss when there is a slight devine nudge as if his hand was being guided causing the Morning star to hit the spider squarely killing it.
Within the two cocoons you find Gellion’s parents Altius and Beldonna. Both are suffering from numerous spider bites and are unresponsive but are alive barely. Both are in need of serious healing before they speak.
On the demon bile covered desk you see a cold iron arrowhead that sits in the center of the space free of demon’s bile.
You also uncover a small chest next to the desk that contains six flask of acid, two flasks of alchemist’s fire, two tanglefoot bags, a potion labeled remove disease, a potion labeled lesser restoration, and three potions labeled cure light wounds.
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From the labels on those vials I'm thinking it was a real good thing nobody was bitten.
"Nasty spider"
Hekk gives it another pounding just to be safe.
"Dead now"
Hekk is not much on throwing things, preferring up close and personal, but it IS fire, and you never know when a bomb will come in handy. Particularly when dealing with goblins if you can get one to eat it. So he takes an alchemist's fire flask.
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Nanny gathers the arrowheads and tucks them into her belt pouch. She'll also take 2 acid flasks and an alchemist's fire, if no one has an objection.
"Perhaps we could apply some actual magical healing to them. Our efforts at first aid have been less than successful, dear."
She pulls out her wand of cure light wounds and offers it to Lido.
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Hekk mashes the spider once more making sure it is good and squished.
Aryas does a quick check on the parents he sees black and blue lines leading away from the bites but is unable to help them.
Tathane also test his healing skill examine the many spider bites all swollen and ugly, but again their condition is beyond his ability to diagnose.
Hekk watches in silence as Aryas and Tathane attempt unsuccessful to treat the parents.
Nanny suggest using magical healing on the pair and pulls out her wand.
Lido uses the wand to cast magical healing on the parents. While their injuries seem to look better they both remain unconscious.
Tarael is ready to use her wand too.
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Hekk is not surprised that he is ignored. he's rather surprised he has anything to offer himself. It's just that he has had extensive experience with spider bites. You see, there was this witch doctor that believed that ailments could be cured by spider bites when he was young...
Anyway, he pours the fluid in the flask labelled lesser restoration down the father's throat hoping to revive him.
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Hekk is not surprised that he is ignored. he's rather surprised he has anything to offer himself. It's just that he has had extensive experience with spider bites. You see, there was this witch doctor that believed that ailments could be cured by spider bites when he was young...
Anyway, he pours the fluid in the flask labelled lesser restoration down the father's throat hoping to revive him.
"Hekk, you are absolutely right! And wonderful that you have so much experience with poison! I would first check if we can get them help through the town's senior members and would then give them the potion if we really see that it is necessary as we might need these resources too at some point and I have the feeling that this mess is going to kill more people and that we are the only ones who can prevent that!!"
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Aryas is puzzled by the unconscious parents, and begins to search the room again. He doesn't find anything new.
Hekk shows his fellow pathfinders how to help the unfortunate pair.
Tathane steps back letting Hekk take over. He collects one of the flask.
Lido takes the two tanglefoot bags, and suggest taking the pair to the mayor.
Hekk feeling sure of what he is doing pours the lesser restoration down the father’s throat. Some color starts to return to the man’s cheeks as he starts to comes to.
Aryas questions Hekk’s actions, fearing they may need that potion later.
Nanny suggest leaving the two here.
The father now conscious looks around weakly a bit startled to see Hekk’s green half-orc face leaning over him, ”What? Who are you? Never mind, thank you for saving us from that evil spider! Be careful there was a horrible little blood-stained man with it when Beldonna and I found them here in Gellion’s room after we heard a terrible racket. We need to get my wife help from the temple, but I am also worried about Gellion! Too many odd things have been happening. First Gellion has been consumed by some sort of strange alchemical experiments. Then the other day we saw him heading towards Bravoni’s warehouse with one of his friends, Morvinarr. The tavern-keeper’s apprentice appeared quite drunk, which we found quite unusual. The odd behavior is just not normal for Gellion. Please help him too!”
Used: potion lesser restoration
Remaining items: 3 acid flask, Potion remove disease, 3 potions of cure light wounds.
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Aryas takes an acid flask and a potion of CLW.
”We can completely understand that you are worried ... everybody that starts experimenting and getting nerdy risks becoming unattractive and undesirable! There was this guy I knew in school... oh ... sorry... we will check on your son! Do you know where we can find Bravoni’s warehouse?“ he asks the awakened father.
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Hekk, once the restoration is done, once gain returns to his untalkative self, willing to let the others do the whole talking thing. He does like the idea of visiting a tavern though. Unfortunately the trails seems to be leading to a boring warehouse. Then again, he's quite hopeful there will be more bugs to squash there. He wishes he could do both. Maybe get drunk and THEN squash bugs. That somehow seems more logical, at least to him.
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Aryas reassures the Gellion’s father and asks for directions to the warehouse.
Hekk steps back and lets the others do the talking while he dreams of smashing more bugs.
Tareal takes some items and suggests the group continues on.
Altius gives your group clear directions to the abandoned warehouse, Bravoni being an acquaintance of the couple.
The group makes their way to the warehouse.
The northern rusty front door (D1) of this large, dingy warehouse is slightly ajar as if someone forgot to close it entirely. Sprawled across double doors to the south and the southern side of the building are thick, disgusting, purplish-black strands that pulse with malevolence.
Hekk has 1 Alchemist’s fire.
Nanny has the arrowheads, 2 acid flasks, and 1 alchemist fire.
Tathane has 1 acid flask.
Lido has 2 Tanglefoot bags.
Aryas has 1 acid flask, 1 potion of CLW
Tareal has 2 acid flask, potion of remove disease.
Used: potion lesser restoration
Left behind items: 2 potions of cure light wounds.
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Nanny clucks her tongue, and says, as an aside, while waiting for Tathane:
"Looks like what we have here is classic meddling with occult forces. Kids these days! They think you can just get a quick hit of the Abyss and still work productively as a apprentice. Next think you know, BOOM! Demonic spider eats your parents. It's a shame, but what can you do? In my day, we knew better."
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Tathane quietly stealths up to the door and peers inside. As he eyes adjust to the unlit room he sees basic warehouse supplies, such as ropes, hammers, crowbars, and cargo nets, hang from the northern wall of this room. Several crates stand against the western wall. A door stand against the south wall. A pulsating mass of purplish-black sludge lies along the floor near the southern wall between the two doors, and long filaments anchor the substance to the walls and ceiling. A large, strange egg sac lies at the center of the slime, with tiny legs visibly scrabbling beneath its surface. Three other nearby egg sacs have already burst. He hears skittling noise from within the room, where he can’t see.
Nanny sums up the situation.
Hekk muses about orc lunches.
Aryas ponders about how awful the kids' summer break is.
Hekk has 1 Alchemist’s fire.
Nanny has the arrowheads, 2 acid flasks, and 1 alchemist fire.
Tathane has 1 acid flask.
Lido has 2 Tanglefoot bags.
Aryas has 1 acid flask, 3 potions of CLW
Tareal has 2 acid flask, potion of remove disease.
Used: potion lesser restoration