Gniffles feels his hex move out towards the spider... and then he feels nothing. Not just no resistance to his magic--he senses that this spider is totally unaffected by the supernatural mind-bending of the Evil Eye.
Despite the intimidating sight of the monstrous creatures, Marrowdown charges towards the spider ripping into Um and launches at it with his mouth agape.
Zoog yells, "Burn Lotslegs with fire!!!" wile doing so he draws the ingredients for, and throws a bomb.
Long-Legs-Eats-Goblin-Babies-Many!
& Mate!!
Aka remains consumed by fear.
"Ooolally Ooolally" Aka begins a rather peculiar incantation none of you have ever seen before.
With speed and precision, Um Horsecutta launched an arrow into the leg of the larger of the two spiders descending on the group. The first spider came down to attack the goblin archer, viciously biting him and inflicting poisonous wrath upon his body. Meanwhile, its mate remained on a strand of webbing, just above the group, and attempted to encase the bugbear in web, to no avail. Zurk, in turn, waved his axe and screamed at the giant arachnid, clearly making it back off. Gniffles attempted to hex one of the spiders, and inadvertently realized that the thing was unaffected by the mental attack. Spug cast a spell on Zurk to prepare the bugbear to smite the spiders with the Hungry Lady's wrath. The fearsome Marrowdown charged the ground spider despite his fear and took a chunk out of its midsection. Zoog threw a bomb into the air, and while it didn't connect directly with the spider, it explodes beside it. The vermin is clearly caught with fire and bits of glass, though the goblins remain safe. The magic-using Aka raises some sort of barrier between the spiders, a force effect that sits in midair. And Ziki, clearly shaken by the spiders' appearance, cowers in the center of the group.
Round 2 Begins!
Still Horsecutta, then spiders, then everyone else.
"Ahhhhh no no no kill dem not me. I not tasty." Um rolls back avoiding the gnashing mandibles. Venom drips around him as he narrowly avoids being a spider snack. He lets off two shots directly into the bugs open jaws.
Horsecutta steps back and shoots the bow rapidly. One arrow plunks into the ground, but the other slices into the spider's mandible, causing it to shriek in pain.
In return the spider shoots a web at him, attempting to entangle the poor little gobo.
The silken strands latch onto Um, wrapping around him. He is now entangled in the spider's webbing.
The spider in the air drops hideously toward Zoog, biting at him from its webbing.
Spug moves off to the side, away from the spiders and channels the Hungry Lady's wrath at them.
Spug grumbles, knowing that he should have tortured Squeally Nord to gain his patron's favor.
Marrowdown continues his assault on the ground spider, briefly pausing to spit out bits of spider-y unpleasantness.
Zurk howls loudly. "You gonna get squishy!" The bugbear's axe comes down in an overhead arc towards the ghastly spider.
Gniffles squeels in frustration. "Spiderses is too stupid to cloud!" he realizes. Which is unfortunate as nearly all the power he has been granted thus far clouds the mind. Dropping his staff into the mud, he removes the sling that's been covering his gibblets.
Hanging free in the humid swamp breeze beneath the tattered robes, he loads a small gallstone into the thong and looses it at the hanging spider.
Zoog yelps in pain when the spider bites him, and feels his strength begin to wane. He takes a five-foot step back away from the spider, and drinks his mutagen (Strength).
New stats for next ten minutes: Str 16, Int 16, AC 21, touch 18, FF 16
Um cowers on the ground in his web. Not being able to make an escape artist check till his turn he at least tries not to die of poison.
And promptly screams as the venom burns through his veins.
Sighing, Aka resigns herself to the possibility of failure. "Yooo Hoo!..." She cries at the less damaged spider, once more gyrating & waving her hands wildly as she calls out gobledy-g&%%.)
Stepping back and releasing two arrows, Horsecutta managed to hit the large spider on the ground a second time. In return, the larger spider trapped the archer in webbing; meanwhile, its mate swung down and bit into Zoog the alchemist. After moving into position, Spug channeled the wrath of Venkelvore and damaged the spiders. Marrowdown took another chunk of flesh out of the larger spider's side, and it clearly is on its last legs . The bugbear Zurk valiantly swung his axe at the hanging spider, but missed; Gniffles, however, launched a beautiful shot into its body. Feeling poison coursing through his veins, Zoog drank a mutagen to counter its effects. And Aka launched a mental assault...
...That failed to take control of the hanging spider.
Round 3 Begins!
Horsecutta, Spiders, Every Other Gobo.
Gniffles reaches for another gallstone, loading it into the sling. He licks it for good luck this time, then whips it at the hanging pinata. He doubts there will be candy inside, but there's likely to be something delicious in there!
Um wriggles out of his bond as a full round action and whimpers in his spot hoping the others can kill the nasty bugs.
Seeing its prey escaping from the strands, the spider moves forward and attempts to grab at Um. This does leave an opening for attacks; Um Horsecutta and Marrowdown both get attacks of opportunity against the hideous creature.
Even if the strikes of the goblins haven't brought it down, the spider is unable to grab the goblin archer.
Meanwhile, the spider's mate chitters and slings a web at the goblin who hurt it badly--Zoog.
The goblin alchemist is entangled by the sticky webbing!
Marrowdown leaps at the passing spider and attempts to seize it around the head with his teeth.
Latching on viciously, Marrowdown rips the head from the spider and tosses it to the ground as the massive vermin collapses.
Aka chants one more time, this time hurtling a bolt of queer, eldritch energy at the spider still up in the trees.
Zoog struggles to get free of his bonds, growling and cursing at the Lotslegs. "Stupid Lotslegs! Zoog kill you!"
He feels the poison still in his veins, and is unable to shrug off the webbing that binds him.
Zurk growls low at the spider that the others can't reach, knowing this is the moment to show why the Hungry Lady chose him to further her goals and promote fear. Seeing the overhead swing doesn't work, he tries a more focused forward arc.
"You gonna be spider skewers soon!"
Sensing an end coming soon, Spug advances towards the spider releasing some of his dark infectious magic into it's hide.
Traumatized by the whole event Um attempts to kick the spider, as his misses he is sprayed in gore from the chunk Marrowdown chewed out of the bug.
and yet more failure ensues.
Zurk's swings go wider as he yells in frustration at the spider. "Scaredey spider gonna be minced when Zurk gets you!"