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Elwyn marvels at Marisan's descent and reaches into his bag to retrieve his rope, he searches for something weighty to tie one end to and gets as far down the rope as possible to join the two in the hole (not really climbing down, more of an acrobatic jump/swing) and he draws his rapier when he gets down.
"I'll jump down, the rest of you climb when you can."
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Telurion ponders the situation - he may be needed down there, but if he arrives in a pulp, splatting down below, then taking another half hour to stand up, he will be useless. He decides to start climbing down, and see how things go.
Climb(-4 from armor, and I will use the +1 from guidance to climb)
Hang on! I am on my way!
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Cornered but uncowered, Sharan watched the multiple lidless eyes crest the pit's edge, peeking above the mandibles, above her. In her hands, her weapons were ready to defend her. In her mind, a single thought...
{Can eats you?}
"Sharan is not afraid, spider! Spider is food!", the feral hairfoot fronts.
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Combat, Round 1
Party's Turn
The druid spots a Giant Spider as she glides down.
Elwyn jumps down, and barely avoids hurting himself. Telurion and Kyle climb down the rope (falling the last few feet). Harboth jumps down but twists his ankle.
Falling Damage:
It MIGHT be edible!
Enemy's Turn
The spider looks down the small pit, seeing fresh food at the bottom. It acts to ensnare its prey first.
The halfling finds herself caught in sticky spider webs. Using the newly created webs, the spider descends upon her.
Status
PFL In Sewer Room: Rachelle, Kyle, Elwyn, Marisan, Telurion, Harboth (19/20)
In 10' Pit: Sharan, Giant Spider
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I think her touch AC was 16, +8 for Total Defense w/Blocking (if she got it turned on before the web came?), or 24.
I think her AC now is 24, and her touch is 22, since she's entangled.
Text from her profile:
AC: 18 (2 Leather +4 DEX +1 Small +1 Underfoot)
tch: 16
ff: 14
*FD: 24 (18 +5 Fighting Defensively +1 Blocking)
*TD: 26 (18 +7 Total Defense +1 Blocking)
1st-level Feat:
+ Cautious Fighter, +2 AC w/ FD(+2AC/-4TH) or TD(+4AC/no TH)
Fighter(Unarmed Fighter, loses Ftr bonus feat)
+ IUS
+ Crane Style, only -2 TH FD, +1 AC when FD or TD
+ + w/Cautious Fighter: FD: -2TH/+5AC, TD: +7AC
+ + w/'blocking' type weapon: +1 AC w/FD or TD
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Combat Round 2
The spider prepare to strike the halfling, venom dripping from its fangs. A spear and and arrow strikes it in the back, causing it to bleed. It flinches for a minute, but driven by hunger, follows through on its strike.
The halfling moves out the way, despite the strands tangling her arms and legs. She deftly dodges the spider's strike.
(No statuses have changed from last round)
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I've had enough of this!! Telurion will not sit idly by while Sharan faces such danger
Throwing a few rolls around - since I don't even know what to roll I'm going to throw some unmodified rolls :D
This would be a Bull's Rush sort of maneuver [my first option to push the spider away]:
This would be an attack with the shield if the above is not available:
This would be my attempt at acrobatics (with -4 for shield and +2 for Dex):
To me!!
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Telurion falls upon the spider with his shield. It tries to jump out the way.
It jumps, but does not get completely out of the way as the fighter lands on one of its legs, tearing it off.
Unfortunately, the fighter finds himself worse off for the exercise than the spider, taking a nasty bruise on the shins. He also finds himself entangled up in the sticky threads.
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The maneuver did not go well for Telurion, but then again he did not expect it to pan out to perfection - he's not much for jumping and tumbling around, but at least it got him close to the threat FAST, and hopefully getting Sharan out of harm's way.
Now I am here monstrous creature. AVAST!
Attack Roll: +2 for a miserable 12 if i am flanking
Damage if it hits:
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The inspired Marisan finds a clear shot,and throws her spear. It finds its mark in the spider's back. It hisses, than instantly flips over with it's leg curling up in a sick manner, as all spiders do when they die.
Combat concluded
This sewer room continues to the east. There's a 10' wide sewer pool surrounded by walk ways to the north and south. Further to the east, a hallway to the south is available.
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With combat over, Marisan crouches by the sewer entrance and extends a hand to Sharan and Telurion to help them up. She casts guidance on the two as they attempt to climb out of the sewer. "Oh, and hand me those two spears, if you can," she says, smiling. She wipes the gore from their tips with grim satisfaction, and clears them of any clinging webbing.
She moves over to where she had landed and grabs her wayfinder, dusting it off. "Looks like we know where to head next, unless there's something else here to be found."
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Sharan passes from sight behind the spider, perhaps in search of an arrow or spear?
<shing!> is heard, then <chop chop chucthing>
<sniff sniff><slurp><lipsmack>
She reappears with 3 retrieved arrows (1 crossbow bolt), two Mwangi spears, and a spider's leg that's just been chopped free. Moving to where Marisan waits, Sharan carefully passes her the spears, one at a time, butt end toward the Druid, with evident care. The arrows are thrown onto the edge of the hole, and then the offered hand is taken, the spider leg held crosswise in the halfling's mouth, in the manner of a cat's prize.
Sharan looks wistfully at her finely-worked staff and plumb-bob-and-rope, hanging from the opening above the pit, still eight feet above the floor of the larger room. She works a joint of the spider leg free while she ponders the gently swinging plumb bob a moment. "Fallsth Wif Shthield", she calls to Telurien past a mouthful of white meat. Gulping, the sewage-splashed survivor asks, "Sharan can climb?"
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Thank you my friend - Telurion bows his head at Kyle - though there was still a lot of life in these bones I welcome your healing powers.
At Sharan's suggestion to climb over him to retrieve her gear, he offers a huge smile - Tough as a nail aren't you? Of course you can climb over to go get your stick, I'll give you a boost. As for the spider leg, no thank you - I will let you keep it all, as you seem to be enjoying it quite a lot
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"More leg. Many leg.", Sharan says as she prepares to climb Telurion. Needing her hands to climb, she next speaks around the spider leg, something like, "Thpiderth Kuud". Once atop Telurion, Sharan catches plumb bob, and with a toss of the rope, brings the staff over the hole above, where it naturally falls. Unable to rush to it from atop her coworker tower (she should call him 'Derrick'), she instead jerks the rope so it falls to the higher level, outside the spider's grave. Jumping down, she has shortly retrieved all her gear, and rushed about bringing arrows and bolts to their supposed owners, always with an offer of pale, white, raw, somewhat gelatinous, "Thpider?"
<slurp>
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"You're quite welcome my friend, but I prefer you stay in good condition if you're taking point," Kyle looks at Sharan with a smile. "Or, at least attempt to take point."
He turns his attention to the corridor to the east to see if he can spot any traps.
He casts light on the crossbow bolt Sharan retrieves for him. "Thank you my kind lady, may Sarenrae bless you." He winks at her before reloading the crossbow with the bolt.
"I haven't forgotten about you," he speaks to Harboth. "I hate to be frugal, but I fear we'll all need a little more healing before we're done here. I'll make sure you're yourself again before long."
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"You're quite welcome my friend, but I prefer you stay in good condition if you're taking point," Kyle looks at Sharan with a smile. "Or, at least attempt to take point."
"Sharan goes first.", the halfling confirms, nodding emphatically. "Not afraid, Sharan." Warming to the topic (and fresh out of lobst-, ah, spider), she continues a sort of narrated pantomime. Crouching into a slow advance, her staff held before her, she says, "Quiet, Sharan. Small, Sharan. Sharan fight..." She brandishes her staff at imagined attackers, "...and bigs shoot arrow!", she says, tracing the flight of imagined arrows over her head. Suddenly pensive, she stops. "Dark Lady, throw spear."
Is good?
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These further rumors of the derro involvement in Cassomir are troubling. Though we care not that Taldor citizens are possibly being hurt, we’d be remiss in our service to freedom to allow slavery of any kind go unpunished. If you find a derro beneath Cassomir, see to it that he is destroyed and then bring some proof of his existence back to me—his entire body if necessary. Taldor can no longer ignore the problem beneath its second largest city. In my studies of the derros, I’ve
read that they often drive their slaves before them as guards and soldiers—should you find some poor Darklands denizen in slavish servitude to the derros, give him the option of freedom before you strike him down. Even evil creatures do not deserve the shackles of tyranny.
Sincerely,
Captain Colson Maldris
I must admit a small amount of embarrassment—I’ve lost a necklace, a very important necklace of ivory and gold that I believe made its way into the hands of Andoran smugglers who we think are supplying the kidnappers beneath Cassomir. I’ve had a diviner look into its hereabouts—when you’re in a strange city below the city,
you should search through some of the supplies there to see if you can find it. I can’t have certain transgressions be known. Your discretion will be rewarded by pleasure. And since you’re going to be below Cassomir, I’ve heard these derros sometimes use magic traps—should you find one, carefully document and diagram how it works and
send that information to me. Paracountess Zarta Dralneen
Honored Subject of the Ruby Prince,
This tale of a shiny black artifact that turns normal rats into large, violent rats sounds disturbingly like
an old artifact of Osirion, lost a thousand years ago. Known as the jet rat, this artifact enabled some depraved
individuals to create armies of vermin. Should this be the very same artifact, be sure it’s returned to the
safe-keeping of the Pathfinder Society Grand Lodge in Absalom. This item is very dangerous and shouldn’t be
floating about in the general marketplace. If you happen to find a rat that has been altered by the artifact,
take a sample from its body—but do so carefully. Remove the patch of skin and fur on the back of the neck.
These must be taken together. Return a sample to me so that we may further understand how this artifact
works.
Sincerely,
In service to our Ruby Prince,
Amenopheus, The Sapphire Sage
Servant of the Satrap,
An agent of mine, Wafid Sadaqat, is missing in Cassomir. He was captured a year ago
on board the Prancing Prince, a slave galleon the Taldans commandeered. He was
imprisoned in the vile Swift Prison in Old Cassomir and recently disappeared from his
bunk. We do not believe he escaped. Rumors have reached my ears that unscrupulous
guards may have sold him to derro slavers beneath Cassomir. If you find him down there,
return him to me—quietly. Additionally, we are concerned about the proliferation of
supplies throughout the Darklands beneath Cassomir that seem to originate from an
Andoren smuggling operations. These uncreative louts mark their boxes with a giant red
X—count the number of boxes thusly marked as you wander beneath Cassomir so that I
may compare that number to these recently acquired shipping manifests from the Taldan
Imperial Navy. If they match, we have a weapon to use against those Andoren dogs.
May your coffers run deep,
Pasha Muhlia Al-Jakri
When will the empire be rid of the Teppish family? Strike down one of them,
and another sprouts like a weed. Pluck that weed, and another materializes from
thin air. I have reason to believe that Grench Teppish, the twin brother of Dalirio
Teppish, is behind the Countess’s kidnapping. If you find him, ensure he dies
and bring me his head. Though it will be a small consolation for the Patrizia family, mounting
his head on the gates of their family estate should hopefully keep the Teppish clan quiet for a
while. Lastly, while below, should you find any source of poison—natural or otherwise—recover
it in perfect condition and return it to me. My supplies seem to be running low and poison is so
dreadfully expensive here in Taldor. Be a dear and get me some more.
In the Emperor’s Name,
Baron Jacquo Dalsine
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Elwyn thanks Sharan for her offer of spider but politely declines.
Seeing her quietly, almost soundlessly take her few steps Elwyn offers, "Sharan, why go it alone, Harboth and I are surprisingly stealthy, as a group we gould investigate what's next before getting out of Telurion's way for a big attack?
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"I haven't forgotten about you," he speaks to Harboth. "I hate to be frugal, but I fear we'll all need a little more healing before we're done here. I'll make sure you're yourself again before long."
Harboth nods at Kyle. Pah, 's just a scratch. Been done a lot worse, as you well know, friend.
He nods in agreement with Elwyn as well.
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I do not know if I agree with that plan Elwyn, seems you will be putting yourselves in danger before I get to arrive to save the day - he winks at the rogue - but I do trust your skills, and if they allow us to know beforehand what lies ahead we can sure try it - do lead the way, but if it goes wrong we change tactics. Now let's go.