Conner continues on the beetle before him.
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Aric climbs out of the pit leaving Valghaz there with the dead beetle and then quickly finds a target for his great sword in the beetle engaged with Conner and the injured Mistra. Aric's blow is enough to turn the attention of the beetle allowing Conner to smash his flail against the beetle's hard exterior. As the flail hits you watch the beetle spit up some blood.
Behind the group Aladair lets an arrow fly and it strikes the humanoid spider in the leg.
Valghaz likewise climbed out of the hole, and proceeded to call more fire down upon the last remaining foe.
Mistra stumbles towards the spiderlike figure, swinging her staff wildly.
The cocoon entrapping Penance wiggles fervently for a moment, then stills...
...
...and catches on fire from within!
Penance burns away the webbing restraining her not worried whether her own fire burns her due in part to her diabolical heritage.
Mistra manages to jam her quarterstaff in between the carapace shell of the head and thorax. The beetle snaps it pincers in pain.
Valghaz quickly follows Aric out of the pit and sends another column of fire down on the beetle this time catching it's abdomen. The beetle continues to cling to it's life.
Surrounded the beetle strikes at the half orc. The pincer's crush Aric and hold him tight.
The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Throws.
The runs up to Penance just as she frees herself from the webbing and then bites her sinking it's fangs into her shoulder. It then grabs Penance with its claw and looks to be ready to drag her away from the party.
Conner continues attacking the beetle that now has Aric in its grasp.
Seeing the odd creature attempting to make off with Penance, Aladair once again fires on the beast.
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Aric lets out a roar and swings his sword at the beetle.
Conner bashes his trusty flail against the carapace of the beetle causing a crack but it maintains it's hold on Aric.
The half orc struggling in the beetle's pincers tries to stab down, but the blade is turned away by the beetle's armor.
At the back of the party Aladair lodges another arrow into the creature as it begins to drag away Penance.
Mistra attacks the beetle once again, trying to free Aric.
She hears Penance's cry for help, but cannot reach her while the beetle is pinning Aric.
Mistra finally puts an end to the beetle as it releases Aric!
More fire came down, as Valghaz found it too hard to manouever in the right confines of the tunnel.
Mistra shouts in triumph as the beetle falls, and starts limping towards Penance. Hold on! I'm on my way! Mistra has the inane thought - possibly a side effect of being poisoned - that Penance cannot really hold on to anything since she is not in control of her movement at the moment.
The beetle now dead the party turns to save their unconscious companion from the grip of the spider-man. The passage is tight and Valghaz calls down more fire while Mistra finds herself snug against the wall with quarterstaff ready to lash out. You hear creature's shriek echoing all over the cave as the radiant fire sears the creature across the back.
One claw still gripping Penance the spider-man bites at Mistra who is able to fend the blow off with her outstretched staff. The creature hisses at her in frustration and continues dragging Penance away into the darkness. From the edge of the light provided by Penance's dropped candle Mistra sees a brown haired spider scurry into view.
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As the brown spider scurries into view, Mistra makes one last attack at the spider...thing... as it drags Penance out of the light.
She's being dragged left! Come on, everyone! Mistra does not want to lose the Tiefling. Quite aside from the assistance in combat, she seems to be an interesting person. Plus, there's no telling what Aric's reaction would be to losing his boss... Let's not go there. We'll get her back.
With his dark vision, Aladair is able to see the spider creature dragging poor Penance off. He moves forward to give others the chance to get to her as he fires another arrow at the strange beast.
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Throwing himself into a rage, Aric lunges over the pit and charges the spider that stands between him and the man-spider thing that is dragging Penance away. Whipping his greatsword around, he aims for the offending arachnid.
Conner moves quickly to the nearest spider and attacks.
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The spider jumps back as flail and blade come crashing down on the vermin's last location. But doing so leaves it open for the angered half orc to hack at its abdomen. The blade cuts a deep gash across it and you watch as it re-balances itself the spider turns to face Aric.
Aladair lets another arrow loose at the creature hauling away Penance. The shot takes it in the back, but it does not relinquish its grip on Penance.
Mistra takes heart from the successful attacks and steps forward to attack the spider, spinning her staff about to gain momentum.
Mistra once again makes quick work of the vermin crushing it's skull with a firm thrust of her quarterstaff.
Mistra moves to follow Penance after crushing the spider-skull, but she slows as she nears the edge of the light. Does anyone have a light?! It's too dark for me to follow further! She yells to the rest of the party.
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Valghaz comes running down the hall picking up Penance's fallen lamp in the process. "Don't be letting her out of yer sight!"
The wounded creature turns around, still with Penance in claw, and now seeing the whole group chasing after it shoots a stream of sticky filament from its abdomen at Mistra. You watch within seconds as her whole body gets encased in the sticky web. It then disappears into the darkness of the cave.
Aladair moves forward past his comrades and once again fires on the fleeing beast.
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Growling, Aric hurries down the tunnel, throwing an axe after the fleeing monstrosity.
Conner moves forward to the edge of the darkness.
Somebody give me some light!
Aladair does his best to slow the creature down, but the creature ducks causing the arrow to fly over it's head. Aric then tosses an axe as he rushes forward unaffected by the darkness, but his frustration throws off his aim watching.
Conner moves as far as he can calling for some more light! Valghaz yells back, "Follow me and sink that blade into that thing!" and rushes into the cave bringing more illumination to it. Spider webs can be seen everywhere from the ceiling to the floor to the walls. Another tunnel can be seen in the southwest portion and it is clear that the creature is about to drag Penance down into it.
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A column of fire comes down on the humanoid singing its shoulder. The impact of the fire causes the creature to falter a little as its wounds begin to mount up.
Taken by surprise when the creature snarls her in webbing, Mistra fights against the sticky filaments.
"She's bleeding out! Get that blasted thing off her!" Summoning the last of his blessings Valghaz runs up to Penance and let's the divine magic close Penance's wounds. As it does so he raises his shield doing his best to protect himself.
The creature feels Penance move and affixes itseyes on Valghaz. Arrows still sticking out of it and it's dinner now awake the creature charges at the dwarf. One claw strikes Valghaz's shield as the sound of bone on metal echoes in the cavern the blow is strong enough to throw off Valghaz's balance allowing the creature to sink it's fangs into the dwarf's shoulder.
Aric steps forward and with a roar, swings his sword at the monstrosity, aiming his blade for the beast's neck.
Conner moves in and attacks the remaining enemy.
Like two gladiators born out of the arena Aric and Conner rush forward. Conner bludgeons the creature with his flail and drives it to the ground with his sword. There unable to move it looks up with it's deep black pupils at the group's mercy.
Aric gives it the final answer as he raises his great sword high above his and brings it down upon the creature. The head goes rolling as the steel blade cuts through flesh, tendon and bone. The creature topples over and you watch as black blood sprays from the headless neck.
"You look paler than usual, Penance. Here let me look at the wound."
Whatever Valghaz does it seems to work as you feel fever slowly subside.
Moving into the lair of the strange spider-creature, Aladair looks around the cavern, as well as searching the creature.
Aric reaches a hand down to help Penance up. "Come on boss. Still a lot of cave left to get through."
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Hearing the sounds of battle grow quiet, Mistra speaks. Ummm... Guys? Penance? A bit of help here? I don't feel so good...
Mistra is still stuck in the spider webbing, and not liking her chances of breaking free anytime soon...