Figaro winced at the drow's heavy patting his current condition enhancing the feeling. He seized up on the horse, barely holding the reins before righting himself once more. He was glad so many of his friends were here, ready to adventure.
' Ouch-Qiu-I-Am-sore-all-over. I-Am-not-sure-why. My-head-is-better-Not-very-drunk. '
Qiu rolls his eyes and signs back, "Glad-you-are-feeling-'better.' Try-not-to-over-work-yourself. Here-drink-some-water." He hands over his cup from his mess kit, pats Figaro on the back slightly harder and points him to the well nearby.
A quartet of rather large spiders ambushes the party, two in front and one off to each side. Surprisingly, or not considering his state, only the hungover Figaro was able to hear their skittering.
Figaro is hit on the back and tumbles off the Horse. Looking up he hears too many things from too many places making a pained face. Upon seeing the creatures his face becomes serious and grim. He leapt up in a flourish and grabbed the meteor hammer along his back becoming a Whirlwind of might. The Hangover seemed to disappear as his calling to protect appeared.
Syntriani is not a morning person. She gets up to the party's call, glares at anyone who tries to talk to her, but gets ready and departs along with the rest. The appearance of danger snaps her out of her stupor, but she takes a moment to get oriented.
Sanobi laughs, and douses water on the enemy most likely to atk her.
Qiu, intent on torturing teasing his old friend completely misses the large spiders until they are upon the group. He gives a jump of surprise and nearly tumbles from his horse.
With this he goes and gets a cup of water from the nearby well, moves his blanket and bedroll off the horse and makes a comfortable spot to lie down. He then starts reading his book before shortly dropping off to sleep.
Two spiders move in to try and bite Qiu, both of which will draw AoO from our intrepidly hungover hero.
The other two try and web Poppy and Syn.
Poppy
Syn
Both young ladies are now webbed
Figaro spis the hammer in top gear before letting it fall upon both spiders with neck-crushing force.
As webbing suddenly appears over her , the groggy blue woman snaps to attention in time to see Wisk playing whack-a-spider.
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Both spiders are crunched quiet nicely by the raging air kin, though neither are quite yet dead.
Bite 1 for
Bite 2 for
Both spiders manage to bite the Drow, heedless it would seem to his race, though neither wound is too deep. However, it is not the fangs of a spider that is dangerous, but rather its poison.
Qiu is having a bad morning. First he overslept, then his friend pulled an about face with wanting to come with the group, and now spiders drop out of nowhere, biting him. He hated spiders, they had always made his skin crawl, and while his sister had insisted he learned how to use posions, he never really liked them...
...they were to easily turned against one.
Figaro sees the spiders continue to attack poor Qiu, his important friend. In a fit of silent anger and hungover frustration Figaro begins to spin his Meteor hammer rapidly quickly pulling one orb inward and up, leaping slightly in the air to crash down upon a spider, following up with a wild horizontal swing with the momentum built from the first swing.
"Sting my companions will you? Well, anything you can do, I can do better, try my sting!" Sanobi laughs as she strikes with her sharp whip.
If both spiders are down, Qiu will take out a wand and cast mage armor with it. If one is down, he will withdraw to near Poppy. If neither is down... total defense!
Seeing Qui get bitten by both spiders causes the barbarian to fly into a rage, spinning his meteor hammer in whirlwind of death. The first blow easily crushes the already injured spider while the second one catches its fellow in the midsection. The momentum of such a mighty blow causes the head of the meteor to fully wrap around the body of the spider, allowing Figaro to hoist the arachnid up into the air. What comes up, must come down and this time is no different, as the Slyph smashes his foe into the ground, with a loud, wet crunch.
Each of the two remaining spiders rushes at their webbed prey, and attempts to bite them.
Poppy
Syn
Poppy, thanks to Spot's quick reaction time, is able to avoid the bite. Meanwhile, Syn easily twists out of the way, her superior agility no match for the clumsy spider.
In a battle of arachnids, Sanobi's scorpion whip slices a gash into the spider trying to bite poor Poppy, opening up a nice wound.
Sadly, the little Gnome is unable to break free of the webbing.
Having effectively disassembled the two spiders who harmed Qiu, now it was Syntriani who was in need of some help. Figaro slackened the chain somewhat returning the weapon to it's overreaching state. He rushed over to the Undine's aid, leaping into the air and twisting his body. In mid-air the Meteor Hammer makes 4 revolutions before coming down upon the spider's body.
Syn wriggles, but can't quite get free.
Sanobi strikes again with her whip and it looks almost like she is dancing with the long tassels of her clothes blending in with the whip as they swing around in graceful arcs, "What a whiptasticly sharp start to the day, don't you agree Whiskey?" Sanobi yells as she laughs joyfully.
Poppy and Spot still work to break free
Just when it looks like Syn isn't going to manage to get free, she finds herself web-free. As her hands start moving toward her daggers, Syntriani glances over to see if the monsters are still a danger, or if her barbarian has crushed them yet.
Round 2 (probably too early)
Having set up mage armor last round, Qiu finally feels safe enough to try helping others. After a moment staring at a spider and a quick incantation, he highlights one of the weak spots on the spiders thorax.
"Look, it should be easier to hit him there. Good luck..." with this it seems obvious he is not getting closer...
Once more the air kin displays his deadly fighting prowess, this time taking to the element he is born from and delivering an devastating blow to the spider attacking Syn.
The last spider tries once more to bite Poppy but utterly fails to do so.
Figaro heaves heavily, though normally such acrobatics would be easy to cope with, the only thing keeping him from throwing up with much fervor was his urge to protect them. Biting through the massive headache, Wisk smiled at Syn, seeing she was fine and then rushed lover to Poppy. He spun the large weight above his head in a high speed revolution before coming down and arching upwards. Much like a baseball swing it scrapes against the ground of the stable tossing up debris as the hammer aimed for the spider's underbelly.
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...seeing she was fine and then rushed lover to Poppy...
:P
Poppy had broken the binds of the webbing finally, the intial attack that bound her caught her by surprise, but she will stive to not let that happen again.
atop her mount and faithful friend, Spot, Poppy wheels around twirling her hammer abover her head she brings it down on the spider.
Spot, not wanting to be left out, attempts to snap at the spider, but the fangs at face level with spot detered him, and the bite was repulsed before it even had a chance.
Syntriani slides off her horse, drawing her daggers as she goes, then tries to skewer a spider.
Edit: Wrong avatar. 8^)
Between the duel attacks of both Poppy and Syn, the last spider falls. The group wipes off any remaining webbing, and mounts back up.
Poor Qui still has a bit of spider venom coursing through his veins however.
Figaro calms down the adrenaline fading and to his dismay the Hangover striking.. with a vengeance! He holds his head becoming dizzy from all the acrobatics, falling to the ground. Eventually the ground becomes less noisy and he crawls himself to a well with the cup Qiu had given him earlier;taking long swigs. Eventually it is enough to stabilize him but he could only mount up as good as a child.
Sheathing her daggers after wiping them down, Syntriani helps Wisk back up on his horse, then climbs back on her own.
"HA silly spiders can't beat us. What chance would they have against any group with Sanobi in it! Let all see how stupid an attack it was! HAhahaha" Sanobi's clothes go all gold and white and glittering with blood red bubble pattern along the bottom.
She gets Chancy from the stables and mounts up.
Wisk groaned as he held on to the horse and rode the hangover out.. Now he was sore, hungover AND tired. Eventually if the horse began to act up, queasy might have been added. Sadly he was a durable one and the effects would not be quick. He smiled to the rest especially Syn and Sanobi, as he basically straddled the horse until their destination.
Qiu striggles to get back onto his horse, something he had found easy earlier. The effort starts his spider bites to start bleeding more freely unintentionally flushing the worst of the venom from the wounds. He half-heartedly joins Sanobi in her laughter, "Yeah, Stupid spiders..." as he works on binding his injuries. Still feeling weak and slightly nauseous, Qiu stays intent on being above the horse. He occasionally, reflexively, responds though he adds little to the conversation.
Lunch time brings the party to an old, small, trading outpost that has long since been abandoned. The building is mostly intact, save for the rickety stairs leading up to it, and the lack of window panes. This would serve as a good spot to stop and eat, and perhaps even spend the night, if that was so desired.
"Lets see what is in store here." Sanobi goes sneaking around, outside surroundings first, then outside of the structure (noting entrances, exits, peep holes, etc), then starts looking inside, all very methodical and thorough and sneaky.
The blue-skinned woman gives the building a quick once-over before the others settle in.
"Seems clear and safe to me."
Though a bit slogged Figaro wasnt going to let his two maiden friends adventure without much protection, so he calmed the winds around him and tried his best to assist them as well.. If he could find them!