He grins happily and you head off.
You head on into the main mite tribes chamber. As well as the mites there are 2 more spiders. Knowing you have come from the king they leave you alone.
Eventually you come to a set of stairs heading down. It leads to a dark hallway which is choked with spiderwebs to the south. To the west they seem to thin out.
GM note map to follow later.
"Hmm, this also serves as a bit of a scouting mission. We definitely have a better idea of how many occupants this place has." She seems struck by an idea. "Perhaps this king fellow can tell us why the mites were trying to break down that one wall?"
"The king there only knows a few words of Varisian. I think I'm starting to get the hang of the rest, but it's not quite there in the old noggin.", he says, tapping himself on the head.
"Glad to see you are figuring it out. All I am getting is a bunch of gibberish." Devlin gestures at the continuing hallway. "Shall we see what awaits us?"
"Aye and aye."
You arrive in B38 to both the south and the west you can hear a skittering sound.
"Time to sneak."
Oster sneaks west, rapier in hand.
Three long cell block corridors extend out from a central guardroom, each hall featuring numerous iron cell doors. There are 4 spiders here, although they have not noticed you Oster.
Oster quietly returns to the others.
"One central guard-room, three lengthy cellblocks, though I saw no prisoners. And four spiders. I'm happy to sneak in again, if you are all not so far behind me.", he finishes with a wink.
"I can handle a few more spiders," Memnosyne says.
"Right. Lets get this done." Devlin follows Oster at a distance sufficient so as to not draw attention to Oster.
Ok you can sneak in, so you get a surprise round- 1 action each and then we go to initiative.
Memnosyne tosses a dagger at the nearest spider
but it sails past it's body, clattering to the floor.
"Well, that was embarrassing."
Oster slides the rapier point at a spider's hide.
Oster your blow is slightly deflected by the spider's exoskeleton for no damage.
Anyone else before initiative?
Xango will study the leftmost spider.
Ok that is fine
That just leaves Devlin
"Freeze!" Devlin points at the nearest spider and a ray of icy particles flows forth.
The spider fails to dodge out of the way of the cold.
Now combat starts
Initiative order
Oster 10
Spiders 9
Devlin 8
Xango 5
Memnosyne 2
Undeterred by his less than effective surprise blow, Oster circles and strikes at the same spider.
Oster you hit the spider, your rapier striking it a mighty blow.
The spiders move to attack
On Oster Bite (1d20 = 17+2) = 19 Damage (1d4 = 3 damage) - Fort save please
On Xango Bite (1d20 = 6 +2) = 8 which is a miss.
On Memnosyne (1d20 = 9 +2) = 11 which is a miss.
Devlin your action.
Since a spider has stepped into melee range, Mem stabs at it with a dagger... you know, like she does.
Xango uses his bulk to attack the spider attacking him.
Memno you strike the spider in front of you.
Xango, with your two attacks you pulverise the spider in front of you.
Oster staggers for a moment, feeling the numbness in his bitten arm.
"Get away from us." Devlin points at the spider again and the ice blasts forth once more.
Oster the poison courses through your veins, lose 2 points of Strength.
Devlin, your spell fails to penetrate the spider's natural armour.
Oster it is back to you.
Oster winces, swearing in gutter slang under his breath. But he keeps circling the spider, trying to put it between him and Xango.
And then he stabs.
Oster you can get into a flanking position. you hit and the spider squeals and curls into a ball as you stab it between the eyes.
Spider on Devlin
bite (1d20 = 19 +2) = 21 Damage (1d4 = 3) Fort save
Spider on Memnosyne
Bite (1d20 = 15 +2) = 17 Damage (1d4 =4) Fort save please
Devlin your action.
"Back!" Devlin steps back from the spider that just bit him and tries to blast it with icy particles once more.
The spell hits the spider, the cold blast striking it. It squeals but is still there.
Xango, back to you.
Moving towards the next Xango shows why the shoanti are feared for thunder of fang.
With a mighty blow, Xango pulverises the spider in front of Memnosyne.
Memno, your action.
Memnosyne feels a little woozy after the spider bite. "I just got over the damned ant poison!" she shrieks, lunging at the remaining spider.
Memno you lose 2 points of Strength.
You hit the spider with the dagger and it goes limp and then dies.
It all goes quiet.
What next?
"We should check those cells. Who knows? Maybe we'll find some of the missing people from the city." She picks up her thrown dagger and wipes some of the spider goo off her other blade.
Before she does too much more though, she takes a moment to see if she can help with the spider poison.
Maybe she'll have more luck treating Oster.
Memno you manage to heal Oster and restore the Strength damage he lost.
The cellblocks are centuries old, even the bones of the inhabitants have crumbled to dust.
Where do you want to head next?
After helping Memnosyne investigate the long forgotten cells he points down the corridor and indicates that it makes a turn up ahead. Whispering he says "We should see wear it leads but as we have learned we need to stay quiet lest we wind up as food for the various inhabitants."
Stairs descend into the room from the north, a heavy stone door blocks passage to the west, and an eastern corridor exits between cells blocked by doors of rusty iron bars. Scattered about the room are a number of instruments of torture from bygone days, now mostly gone to rot and ruin. The northern cell is occupied by a strange deformed creature. It flails against the bars but it cant get to you.
Oster and Xango you recognise it as a sinspawn but you don't recall anything else about it.
"Cheers Mem!"
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"Sin spawn, stuck in that cage. I say we line up then hit it at range all at once."
Xango shrugs and shifts the grip on his hammer.
"I have a solution to the problem."
"Range means a bit less risk to our persons, but if you want to take a swing, by all means, be my guest."
Oster has learned to respect Xango's sheer power in a fight, there is no sarcasm in his voice.
"I was going to suggest Devlin just blast it with his frost ray until it's dead, but if you want to beat it to death..."
Studying the sinspawn for a moment Xango nods towards Oster.
"I am ready. Maybe make a tripwire, to make sure it can´t hurt us too badly!"
There isn't anything in the room you could use to make a tripwire but you do have rope and you could unwind one of the second storey harnesses at a push.
Oster will assemble a makeshift trip trap with rope and the spare harness.
You try your best Oster but the trap doesn't come together, can you make a reflex save please.