The little drake opens his mouth, to shout, and and then says "yes yes, why are yous yelling? They couldn't get mes out. Locked cage. Wait are yous here to free mes?" His ears perk up, and the mournful expression is gone, "theys said some girlses would come in! A bandana girl and um tooth girl!" He points a little claw at Vera and Magda, "youses came before! Oh gracious! I am called Majenko! Please let mes out!" He chirps happily and grins.
The little drake flexes his wings and thanks Shi, "thank yous very much fox girl!" he approaches Shi and hugs her, before and flying up to Vera and Magda "Oh yes! I am in your debt tooth girl and bandana girl. I will stay with yous for one year please, and help yous with yours problems!" He chirps happily, then hovers in front of them. "What are wes doing now? Yous squish spider king I bet?"
He looks at anyone that is injured, "does yous or the big smelly ones need a healing?" He cocks his head at the gaggle of more martially oriented adults.
"" Magda says but gives him a grin, and hopefully, he'll repeat all that when they can.
As Magda shouts out to the drake Shi will explain what happened, that they killed Devargo, let his men leave and they are going to clear out the rest of the place, but Magda and Vera wanted to make sure he was rescued first.
Shi will look around up here just to make sure there isn't any other loot of Devargo's they can take before leading the group back downstairs and starting to go room to room checking for supplies until she reaches the one that Magda notes is where the large spider creature is at.
Magda, after finally noticing or being gestured at, heals Marcus with her wand.
The drake heals Marcus up then flies to float near Vera and Magda.
The party moves downstairs, still deaf. The drug lab and two rooms remain unexplored, but the party approaches the door with the spider on it.
Marcus points at the other rooms first, indicating he would like to search those before dealing with the spider. Hopefully the deafness would wear off by the time it takes to search everything.
Crates and barrels, and furniture in need of repair are scattered around this cramped hold.
These are restrooms.
Two large wood-burning stoves are built into the curving wall of the ship’s hull here. Each is fitted with an iron bar on which dangle several cauldrons. Firewood is stacked to the north in a haphazard mound. Dozens of empty glass vials sit atop the mantle of each stove.
Marcus frowns over Krovax's shoulder, nodding and hiding the drugs away, without showing them to anybody else. Once the room is searched he points to the room with the spider, raising his shield.
With a bit of magic and some time, Vera conjures a message to Majenko to say "Thank you."
She then tries another message, in case it might work. "Hidden gold?"
She feels certain the party's bribe must be somewhere and starts to search. Susan, Vera's trusty snake, slips out and starts licking the air.
Majenko shrugs his tiny dragon shoulders ”mes doesn’t know. Maybe with the spider?”
Susan can’t smell any gold other than what the party’s already found. She smells tasty spider behind the spider door, however.
Kali aggressively searches the facility along with her companions, disappointed she is unable to find any special items of interest here.
Once they get to the spider room after searching the rest of the place Shi holds her hand up to signal for the others to wait and then points to her ear then nods to the others as she mouths "Let's wait until your hearing returns."
Once they all can hear again she asks Magda "So, do you know anything more about this room from your bug buddy, do we need to make any preparations?"
"Nope, not really, Clemintine didn't say much about the who's in the place. Sorry." Magda frowns, and shrugs. "I got a fire spell, I can step in and blast the room as best I can, especially if it has little ones with it?" she suggests to the fox lady
In the time the group waited for their hearing to come back, Vera takes out the puzzling dagger once more, hoping to unlock its mysteries. Once again, she studies its aura.
The party puts itself back at the entrance to the spider lair, and Shi checks for traps. Finding none, Marcus opens the door.
This dark chamber is riddled with dizzying tunnels and twisting corridors formed by thick cobwebs. The floor is a sticky, lumpy mass of webbing and dozens, if not hundreds, of bones—many of which appear to be from humanoid bodies. Some of the webs seem to shimmer and dance, almost as if reflecting rainbows in their silken forms.
Everyone but Vera can hear the skittering sounds of at least something moving in the room, but Kaliyah, Marcus, Magda, and Shi get the sense that there is more than just one creature in the webbed area.
Finally able to hear, Marcus raises his shield and says to the others. "There's more than one, let Krovax and I hold the door and let them come to us."
Marcus waits a moment, and it doesn't seem like any monsters approach after a few minutes.
Magda knows nothing of spiders or bugs or much of anything thought of as knowledge, so she just goes into the other room for loose things that don't look like they matter much and chuck them into the open room to hope to make the skittering things skitter into the open.
Magda, knowledgeable about garbage, throws the choicest pieces into the web-filled room in an effort to entice or harass the spiders. All of the efforts are in vain. Whatever is in the room is not taking the bait.
Majenko salivates ”ooh, Is smell tasty dream spider. Yum!”
Shi pulls out a torch and looks to the others "Maybe we can just burn the webbing down?"
"Hmm, we are on a wooden boat, perhaps not." Marcus moves into the room slowly, starting to inspect it.
Marcus holds his shield up and enters the room, but the sticky webs are a distraction.
He's only able to get a few feet in before the light fails him. It's too dark in the western part of the room to see clearly for his human eyes. He does notice that as he moves through the room, it isn't especially easy to get around the shimmering, rainbow webs.
Marcus is able to determine that there are at least five creatures of different sizes in the dark western part of the webbed room.
As Marcus moves in and then stops, unable to see further, Shi asks "Are we worried about not burning the boat down? I mean unless one of us plans on taking over and running things here, would it not be better to wipe this taint off the face of Korvosa once and for all? The ship burns up, it ends whatever may be lurking in here as well yes?"
When Vera shunts the lights into the room with Marcus, Marcus can see clearly. Through the webs, he sees six creatures: three small spiders, two spiders the size of a wolf, and a bloated, creature. This last hideous purple creature walks upright like a man, but its face is that of a spider, and its hands are sickle-shaped claws.
Much like Magda's fortune during the fight with Barvasi, Vera now feels fortunate, she hears a whisper in her ear.
"Be safe, and have my blessing, my love. You and your friend are so clever to have gotten this far."
It becomes clear to Marcus that there will be spider time soon.
"See, Bones! Clementine was right!" Magda agrees, fire is a good thing right now, and steps in to deliver her personally favorite spell.
The fattest wolf-sized spider and the purple monster dodge out of the way, but the two smaller spiders are burned to a crisp.
However, when the webs are ignited, a sweet smelling gas erupts from their areas, filling that part of the room.
Magda feels some of her normally iron will sapped away, but not enough to affect her for the moment.
"Whatever that is, it's ugggg-ly." Kali says, firing two shots off at the ugly, bloated, purple people eater.
Kaliyah manages to avoid touching the webs.
"I don't mind burning the ship, but I mind burning the ship while we're in it." Marcus remarks dryly. They weren't done looting, after all.
Marcus takes out his greatsword and begins slashing away at the webs, seeing if they can be cut down.
Marcus clears some webs in the space in front of him, however, his greatsword now has a fair number of iridescent webs on it.
Shi moves into the room with the others and seeing the spiders and other monster just feet away from Magda, Shi moves to put herself between the creatures and her younger companion. Holding her blade at the ready to attack if they draw closer.
Vera moves forward so she can get a look at the spiders. Yep, she definitely had no idea what these things were.
But they probably weren't immune to magic missiles!
Skittering forward, the spiders and the bloaded creatures make clicking noises with their mandibles and pedipalps, salivating at the fluids inside of each of you.
One of the spiders successfully tosses a net at Shi, and then moves forward. The other attacks Krovax.
But misses.
The bloated creature, with a wet, wheezing voice says, "whatb, whatb areb you doingb hereb!" it shambles up to Shi as well, and tries to bite and claw Shi Ni. It shouts desperately, "father, where are you? Father!"
The last little spider tries to bite Marcus.
By pure luck Marcus is crit by the spider and takes damage!
Kaliyah steps into the room and takes a shot, missing.
Marcus frowns in disgust at the creature's words.
Oh. He f*$+ed a spider. He definitely f&#&ed a spider.
Time to commit familicide.
Marcus slashes his greatsword down on the one attacking him.
Marcus tries to move, but with his focus now on the enemy he goes too brashly through the webs and starts getting caught.
Magda winces at the creature calling out for its dad. In its own way, it is truly heart wrenching. Then it tries to gut fox lady, and the moment is over.
Magda pulls out her whip and tries to trip the thing so Shi can get away.
But utterly fails
Shi strikes out at the spider directly in front of her before stepping back behind their walls after the nasty injuries she just sustained.
Now at the front and providing a layer of protection to the others, Krovax slashes our at the humanoid thing, but is more focused on maintaining his defenses to land a solid blow.
Vera sends off another magic missile!
At the ettercap's gesture, both of the spiders skitter away and toss webbing at Krovax and Marcus.
One web splashes harmlessly on the pillar, but the other entangles Marcus. Seeing his chance, the bloated creature attacks Marcus.
The purple creature then steps lithely for it's bloated plump form to stand in front of Marcus.
Kali studies the plump thing trying to ID it, but can't place it. She figures it needs to die though, firing two arrows between Marcus's legs at it.