The Crucible of Freya (Inactive)

Game Master Grimmy

Round 6 - Spider

The spider takes another nibble at Damien,

Bite: 1d20 + 1 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 2 + 2 = 8

Round 7 Go!!

Round 7

Prescience roll 1d20 ⇒ 8, 3/4 left

Jerrid reels at the sudden pressure swelling in his veins but he continues helping Damien. This is it! Our lives depend on this! Come on

"Die you webloving horror!"

Then the attack, the gnome slices again at the ankle. Upwards and inside, trying to catch a vital artery.

+1 sickle 1d20 + 4 + 1 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 4 + 1 + 2 = 8, oh no.

The arachnoid stamps on his wrist hard. And Jerrid barely holds onto his weapon.

Round 7

Drawing on the savvy of a veteran that Jerrid's warcry is edged with the desperation of the forlorn hope, Vhillish sighs;

Buggerations! The creepy spiderchap needs to go down, he's cutting my lads to ribbons! Need to be sure...

The gnome shoulders his arbalest (Move Action), then thunders toward his gnomekin's battlecry, drawing his rapier as he goes (Move Action)

"Tally Bloody Ho!"

Round 7

Janna's spell arsenal is slowly but surely being depleted. but she is not out yet.
Janna points her finger at the spider biting and Damien as an arc of electricity strikes at it but instead flashes to the ground at its side.

ranged touch: 1d20 + 3 - 4 ⇒ (6) + 3 - 4 = 5

Jolt spell ranged touch for 1d3+1 electrical damage

Crap, forgot my poison roll last round. Was in a bit of a hurry.

Fort vs Spider Venom: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (20) + 2 = 22 Nice!

Astor should have been stabilized after Leo's channel, right? So he's not bleeding out?

Round 7

Desperation starts to sink into Damien as he sees Jerrid nearly dropped by the ettercap's assault. Not again! I'll be damned if I'm going to lose anymore!

"Good, hem him in! Kev, get your ass in here, we need the help! Leo, Astor could use another of those!"

Dropping his hands low in the handle, Damien brings heavy, crushing attacks down on the savage creature, punctuating each with a grunt, "Will. You. Just. Damnwell. Die!"

Free Action : Maintain Inspire Courage
Swift Action : Arcane Strike
Standard Action : Attack Mr.B

Lucern Hammer: 1d20 + 5 + 1 - 1 - 2 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 5 + 1 - 1 - 2 + 2 = 22
Miss Chance: 1d100 ⇒ 21 Omg, way too close!
Damage: 1d12 + 4 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (12) + 4 + 1 + 1 = 18

Buffs: Inspire Courage : +1 Atk/Dam, +1 vs fear
Arcane Strike : +1 Dam, magic

I wonder if it has damage reduction?

Don't think so, DMG would have mentioned it and there's a damage counter on the left. He's soaked up just under a hundred at this point. Hopefully pushing it to 115 will be enough.

Round 7

Kevezyat regains her feet and with a quick nod of thank to Lannet, advances on the spider creature. Stepping around Astor's suspended body, she brings her sword down upon the seeminly impervious adversary.

5' Step, Power Attack

Attack 1d20 + 6 + 1 - 1 - 1 ⇒ (17) + 6 + 1 - 1 - 1 = 22
Damage 2d6 + 3 + 1 - 1 + 3 ⇒ (6, 3) + 3 + 1 - 1 + 3 = 15

Inspire Courage +1 att/dam, Painful bit -1 att/dam

Astor should have been stabilized after Leo's channel, right? So he's not bleeding out?

Yes, definitely! Thank you, I owe Astor one hp.

I will wait to see if that thing is still alive

As Kevezyat hews into her adversary with righteous might, she realizes that it's life was gone before it could taste her sword... Damien's hammer had already delivered the finishing blow.

As the ettercap falls, its sack of webbing slung around it's waste bursts open, spilling out an assortment of odd gems (and a couple rings).

Last words of Mr. B....

"Death... to all stirge..."

why do I have the feeling we killed the wrong guy?

ROund 7
escape artist: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Bojangles pet spider scuttles away with no apparent concern for his fallen master.

Unless you guys want to pursue the pet spider we can go off initiative.

Jerrid ignores the fleeing beast and heads for Astor. He helps get the body down and then starts looking for wounds and healing.

"Can anyone help with the poisons? Leoven? Kevezyat? Janna?"

Dex damage 1d2 ⇒ 1, Round 8 Prescience roll 1d20 ⇒ 18, Round 8 Fort save 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10, Save, Round 9 Prescience Roll 1d20 ⇒ 17, Round 9 Fort save 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5 Saved, So no more Dex damage.

"I can try a tisane with the gnoll herbs, but its a bit hit and miss."

Jerrid sets the pot bubbling and grunts in pain as his clumsy movements from the throbs of acid inside. His head bangs and eyes swim but he tries to finish something for Astor.

Prescience roll 1d20 ⇒ 2, 0/4 left, Craft (alchemy) 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16

Vhillish stands over the down arachnoid and prods it with his boot;

"Downed... but its dying words suggest that it was predating on the stirges whot?"

The gnome looks wistfully at the dead creature;

"Quite the conundrum eh?"

Astor takes the full brunt of the monster fury. Before he knows it he slips into a dark chasm of consciousness, dreaming of when he was younger. That first memory of seeing true warriors in their glory. Watching the blurry images of the battles Astor has participated in, as if he was seeing them for the first time. Slipping in and out, he sees his friend Jerrid furiously working on something, but is this a dream too? It's becoming hard to distinguish between what's real and what's... beyond.

Not sure what I can roll at this point or am I at the mercy of the team?

Astor is stable and unconscious I believe. How many HP are you at Astor? I remember you said you don't like to record your HP total in the mini-stat line, but I forget where you said you do record them.

Once everthing is calmed down and the fight is over, janna looks over her companions, pulling out a small package, wrapped in leather. untying the string there is a greenish looking powder inside.

she spits onto it getting it moist and mixing it into a paste.

going to Damien, she tries to get him to sit down and she begins to rub the paste over the spider bite. This will burn a little, but it will help

1d4 ⇒ 1 -- acts as lesser restoration for your Dex damage

of course it probably works better with cleric spit -- healed 1 point of dex damage

Damien grimaces as begins rubbing the paste into the spider bite, "Bloody things. When we get back someone should tell them to call this place the f&+#ing Spiderwood..."

Shrugging off her ministrations, he offers Janna a nod of thanks before moving to join Jerrid at Astor's side, "You'll have to ask Leo about the poison but I can probably get his eyes open. Hold on..."

Rubbing his hands together he mutters a few strange words and slides a hand over the worst of Astor's wounds, "On your feet soldier, this is no time to desert."

Cure Light Wounds: 1d8 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

I've actually been trying to keep track of it in my mini stat because you said you preferred it. I should be up to 1 from the CLW from Damien. I've lost track of the DEX though.

Astor coughs and hacks as the healing from Damien's hands courses through his veins. "Watch... out.. for the .. traps." He lays his head back down, alive but feeling a weight holding his body down, some poison must still flow in his veins.

Jerrid relaxes a little now that his friend is talking again. "Is there more of that paste for others?"

Jerrid himself is carrying one. Leoven has one as well.

Astor, your dex damage is 6, and the poison is over.

why do I have the feeling we killed the wrong guy?

Don't feel too bad, Leo can confirm that his eagles were smiting so Mr. B was definitely evil.

Damien shrugs, "I think Leo's got another bundle. Our boy seems stable for the time being..."

Getting up, Damien goes to check on the corpse of Mr.B, creating a small sphere of light near the ground (Cast Dancing Light) to help him search for the items that fell out of his webbing satchel, "Someone want to give me an extra pair of eyes? I'm working on a hunch."

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13

Spilled out on the earth next to Mr. B, in the tatters of his burst web satchel, are an assortment of gems and a pair of rings.

In addition to 4 mundane looking cut bloodstones and a pair of sapphires, there is a dusty rose colored uncut stone, a prismatic stone that refracts the light from Damiens spell, and a pair of frail looking crystal shells. Of the last two, one is broken. It is light brown and filled with earthy residue. Still intact is a translucent gem of the same size and shape and brittle crystalline texture.

The two rings are simple bands, one iron, the other seemingly an intensely hardened leather thong.

Sam eventually slips out of his noose and gets to the ground. He tears up and hugs Lannet. Overcome by emotion, he silently takes off the elven cloak and helps Lannet put it back on. He carefully adjusts it to make sure it fits correctly and adjusts it to make sure it is back in place to work as effectively as it can. He squints his eyes and looks at the cloak from many angles before nodding with a look of approval.

"Thanks for coming for me first." is all that he says. He figures Lannet isn't much for big speeches. "It wasn't right to grab the cloak like the others grabbed the soaps."

To avoid the burden of an emotional scene--Sam points to the pile of treasure. "Look treasure Lannet. Maybe we can have some??"
He leads Lannet to the treasure trove.

After seeing to Damien's wounds. she looks to Jerrid, I'm afraid that was my only one, I'm sorry

Janna then goes to Damien as he searches, Janna picks out the contents easily with her darkvision.

helping him gather the things. she notices the prisim. as well as some other interesting objects.

those arounf the area where the items are feel a gentle breeze and janna's eyes glow.

detect magic on the contents

The dusty rose quartz strong varied, the prism illusion, the two crystals (one broken) conjuration, and the two rings faint abjuration, faint transmutation all have magic auras.

Janna separates out the magical items from the non-magical. and examines them.

spellcraft - quartz: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20
spellcraft - prisim: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
spellcraft - crystals: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
spellcraft - iron ring: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
spellcraft - leather ring: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11

yeah, I remember now, that class on magic item identification, Janna skipped cause she was out with some boy behind the familiar pens.

Some of these have pretty high spellcraft DC's.

Lannet points at the prism.

"There's that refractor I stole from the merchant!"

Thanks for the reminder DMG. 1d4 ⇒ 2

Jerrid offers up the poultice he kept to the group. "Who needs this most? It can reinvigorate someone."

Then he helps Damien to fish through the pile of gems and rings. Little remembered conversations about this sort of thing do not help much, but Jerrid tries hard to remember anything. He casts a minor cantrip to help with any clues about their magical properties.

Perception check 1d20 + 14 ⇒ (13) + 14 = 27, spellcraft quartz 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25, spellcraft prism 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19, spellcraft crystals/conjuration 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (16) + 5 = 21, spellcraft ring/abjuration 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24, spellcraft ring/transmutation 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (12) + 5 = 17

looks like somebody paid attention in class...

Magic = treasure = happy rogue!

Leoven feels uneasy with the sitaution, this is not their fight after all - What are we going to do now? Perhaps we should get outside the forest and go to a waystation.

Not sure between channel energy or cure light wounds. How many of you are injured?

Janna is pretty much fine, (only 2 damage)

Leo is right, we need to regroup and decide from the safety of a way-station.

Ok, it's a dusty rose prism ioun stone, elemental gem (air), ring of protection, ring of climbing, and the merchant's prism shoots color spray.

I'm still at 1hp, 4 dex damage. Also, not gonna lie, I'm not sure how to cure/recover from the dex damage. I've tried looking it up and I must be searching the wrong way...

Astor still feels weak though it appears the poison has done all the damage it's going to do. "I don't know about how far I can travel just yet. That thing got me good! I hope that it left us a little something to remember it by."

lesser restoration works also rest 1/night

Damien nods to Jerrid and Janna as they delve the secrets of the ettercap's treasure. Nice to know they have a few brains between them, I'd hate to have to rely on my talents...

He gestures to the prism, "I thought this one might have picked it up, seemed the ugly prick had the run of this place. So that's one problem solved I guess."

"Whatever he was doing here, it sounds like it was some sort of plan to at least thin the stirge population. There are certainly enough of them here. The problem is we don't know how long whatever he used to draw them in will last. If we can suss it out quick enough we might be able to make our lives a hell of a lot easier on the way out."

Leaving the items alone, Damien heads back to look over the body of Mr.Bojangles more closely for anything else the creature may have had on him.

Perception: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (12) + 7 = 19

Yeah, barring spells, you can recover 1 ability damage by resting.

CLW to astor: 2d8 + 6 ⇒ (4, 6) + 6 = 16

Kevezyat stands nearby and watches the forest as the others examine the ettercap's treasure.

Perception 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (9) + 3 = 12

At Damien's statement she comments "I would also like to discover what this creature was attempting with the stirges....I can invoke Freya's grace a number of times, should any have the need."

Lay on Hands, heal 1d6, eliminate fatigue

Vhillish scrutinizes the interplay between Lannet and Sam with a steely gaze.

Bleeding 'alflings... getting all sentimental over a cloak

The serjeant allows himself a twitch of his 'tache, before standing ready next to Damien;

"Mistress Faen and you have the measure of it sah! My concern is if the arachnoid fella's enchantments dissipate, then we'll be dealing with flocks o' the flockers! Sah!"

"If I was trying to kill stirges en masse, I would use boar blood filled with spider poison. Make them sluggish and easier to slot."

4 AM
Hex 0817
Near the stirge convention...

Time rested before fight:
Janna, Damien, Kev, Sam - 5 hours
Jerrid, Astor - 6 hours
Vhillish, Leo - 8 hours

So was there anything else of interest on Mr.B?

Damien nods, "Wouldn't be the worst plan. We should head back to the clearing once we're patched up. I'd wager Jerrid's right and we'll find those pigs practically swimming in venom."

Nope, he's nekkid.

Wait, do you mean the clearing with the mosquito convention or another clearing that is much more comfortable and no big bugs. Did i mention I really hate spiders