GM Silbeg's Age of Ashes AP (Inactive)

Game Master Silbeg

Gideon shrugs "They swarmed out of the woods say east by northeast."

Looking at the bodies, half seem to be half-orc women… in fact the same ones you fought before. There is the hobgoblin woman as well among them, but the rest seem to be a mix of humans and goblins.

"Well, that's disturbing. Did someone do this to them or do you think it's an effect of the environment?"

Aragelda patches up her wounds.

Medicine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (11) + 11 = 22
heal!: 2d8 ⇒ (5, 7) = 12

Medicine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (15) + 11 = 26
heal!: 4d8 ⇒ (6, 1, 2, 1) = 10

Shen then looks at Edjarha's injuries.

Medicine: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (8) + 11 = 19
heal!: 2d8 ⇒ (4, 8) = 12

The party bandages their wounds, and returns to sleep. Morning comes without any new issues, and everyone is able to perform their morning preparations. There is a cave entrance behind the cabin...

Do you enter? Are there special preparations you need to do?

Gideon stretches and works on sewing up the holes in his shirt.

Shall we?" he asks his allies, looking towards the cave.

In the morning a couple of Davian's runes seem to react on their own to the danger.

Mage Armor and False Life (10 Temp Hp.

If anyone would like Longstrider (+10 movement) for 1 hour please let me know. I will cast that as well.

"Davian gulps as one of the runes on the back of his hand begins to illuminate, casting shadows all around the cavern. [b]"Ready."

Cast light on his dagger.

Aragelda peers into the darkness, curious what lays ahead.

"Let's go. Someone is doing awful things around here."

"I suppose it's better to go in than to wait for more of those things to come out. Let's go." With that, Edjarha pulls a torch from his pack and lights it.

Slide #3
This cavern has a layer of dirt strewn about its floor, soaked muddy in places by moisture and disturbed, it would appear, by the passage of feet. Two tunnels lead farther in—one to the north, and another to the south.

What are you doing about light?

Survival check on the tracks if you'd like

Edjarha lit a torch and Davian cast light, so at least a few of us have sources going already.

Edjarha holds his torch down low by the ground so he can examine the tracks.

Survival: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (11) + 7 = 18

Edjarha figures that the tracks were made by a medium humanoid, and lead to the southern exit. They seem pretty fresh, too.

Aragelda has darkvision.

Which way, then?

"Let's head to the left."

Aragelda leads the way, her shield raised.

Moved us all up to the north passage.

"That way looks good!" as Gideon points.

Opened the map, and moved you all forward a bit

The corners of this cavern are filled with thick strands of spider webs. In the center of the western wall, a pouch of thick webbing trembles in occasional vibration. A thin stream of minerals drips slowly from the center of the ceiling, slicking the floor here and creating treacherous footing.

You hear something moving in the room.

This place could really use a housekeeper!
Edjarha, Aragelda, Gideon, Davian is/are up.
Conditions:

"Look! Up by the ceiling in the center! There's something in the webs!" Edjarha points out the danger he spotted, then casts a pair of defensive spells. ◆Point Out, ◆Cast shield, ◆Cast protective ward (everyone within 5ft of me gets a +1 status bonus to AC. Edjarha's AC currently 21. ↺Will use Shield Block if hit.

Aragelda Raises her Shield and readies an attack with her hammer, in case a creature draws near.

Gideon inspires his allies.

lingering?: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (13) + 13 = 26

Then fires an electric arc at the target Edjarha pointed out.

DC 10 flat to target hidden: 1d20 ⇒ 5
arc damage: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (2, 2) + 4 + 1 = 9
Basic reflex DC 20

+1 Courage Lingers!!!

Davaian scream a shrill scream as his body splits apart into four mirrored images. "What is it, more zombies?"

Mirror Image.

What you all see, dropping down from the ceiling, is somewhat horrific! As it does, Aragelda swings, but misses.

The creature then tries to bite Aragelda, but misses.

jaws vs AC24: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19

It then skitters back into the webs at the back of the room, near the swelling.

Don’t forget about Recall Knowledge!!
Edjarha, Aragelda, Gideon, Davian is/are up.
Conditions:

[spoiler=C7 ??? Lair rd2]

• => Gideon
  
• => Davian
  
• => Edjarha
  
• => Aragelda
  
• Nasty Spider Thing
  

Conditions:
Aragelda: 54/54
Davian: 36/36
Edjarha: 50/50
Gideon: 52/52

Davian rushes to the south and snaps off a quick jolt of electricity into the strange creature.

Electric Arc: 2d4 + 4 ⇒ (1, 2) + 4 = 7 DC 20 Basic Reflex.

◆ Stride
◆◆ Electric Arc

Edjarha, wary of venturing too quickly ahead towad the webbing, maintains his defensive aura as he fires off an icy beam at the nasty spider thing.

◆Sustain protective ward (everyone within 10 ft. now gets a +1 status bonus to AC), ◆◆Cast ray of frost while he has a clear shot.

Ray of frost, IC: 1d20 + 9 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 9 + 1 = 20
Cold damage, IC: 2d4 + 3 + 1 ⇒ (2, 3) + 3 + 1 = 9

After Edjarha casts his ray of frost, Aragelda, Raises her Shield, steps forward, and swings.

+1 striking Warhammer: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26
ouch!: 2d8 + 3 ⇒ (8, 4) + 3 = 15 B (Shove)

Gideon moves up and joins Davian in firing electricity.

zot: 2d4 + 4 + 1 ⇒ (4, 3) + 4 + 1 = 12
Basic reflex DC 20

+1 Courage Lingers!!!

Reflex DC20: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30

The spider-thing nimbly dodges out of the way of Davian's electricity, but Edjarha's frost ray hits! Then, Aragelda moves in and hits!

I need a reflex save from Aragelda!

Prior to Gideon attacking, in a chittering, definitely female voice, the creature says, "Please don't kill Balka!" She drops into what appears to be a submissive pose, "Balka only defending lair! Please don't kill me. I won't release the babies on you if you let me live!"

Gideon holds off on electrocuting their enemies.

Reflex: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24

Aragelda avoids getting tangled up in the webbing, as Gideon holds off his spell.

"Thank you for not killing me. Balka is very sorry, but Balka is also very hungry. Please let Balka go. Balka will find food outside maybe? Balka heard lots of fighting, though you were coming here to kill Balka.

"Balka get the spider eggs with creepy pointy-eared two-legger sneak out of cave last night. Balka stay away when she around. Things smell bad in her cave."

There looks to be a lot of detritus in the cave, and a couple of glints of metal around. Will probably take some time to search.

10 minutes and a perception check. Plus, you can continue to talk to Balka.

"Do you mind if we look around for a bit Balka?" Davian asks as his images begin to poof out of existence one at a time. He nervously keeps an eye on the strange creature. "How long have you been here?"

Davian will do a recall knowledge to ID Balka.

Perception: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12

"Yes. You can look. Balka be here long time."

"I'm sorry for striking you, Balka." Aragelda sheaths her hammer to show she won't do it again.

"Balka is sorry, too. Who is you?"

"My name is Aragelda. I am a dwarf. My people also like to live in caves. Can you tell us more about the strange spider lady?"

Gideon gets lost scribbling down notes.

Then the mighty 16 legged gigga-spider finally surrendered before the goblin onslaught. If you not burn more of my web, I will provide your tribe many ferocious spider mounts. But the goblins were not fooled by the treacherous spider and burned everything in sight!

"Me Balka. Me herd spiders. What more you need?" says Balka. "Hello Aragelda. Aragelda have any food? Me very hungry. Maybe me just eat little one?"

She looks at Gideon, expectantly.

Gideon looks up "Oh, yes, forgive my manners, it's not much but we're happy to share."

Gideon pulls out some rations to share.

make an impression?: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (7) + 13 = 20

"Oh, Balka sorry. Little one not food either." She tastes the rations, but the don't seem to suit her needs. "No juices. Hard to eat."

She does seem to be very calm, and friendly now.

"Can Balka stay here? Balka promise not to attack nice people. Maybe go find food outside and come back."

"That's fine! We won't hurt your babies."

Aragelda takes a look around.

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (3) + 9 = 12

"Not a problem, we are just going further in to clear out this area. Anything we should be worried of?" Davian asks, though he is slightly worried of anything they find in there.

"Just the nasty lady. I avoid her." says Balka. "She does wrong things."

Edjarha finds something interesting in the webbing. There is a half-chewed small humanoid corpse wrapped up in some webbing. Appears to have been a gnome. Still on his body is an untarnished suit of splint mail and a very nice looking starknife.

The armor is enchanted with a +1 fundamental rune, while the starknife has is +1 striking returning!

"The poor soul." Aragelda says a prayer over the body.

"These runes, at least, should be put to use."

Gideon nods "Starknife is beyond me but we can sort these out later, lets keep exploring for now."

A bedroll, a small fire, a stack of books and papers, and a curious array of equipment covered in a tarp mark this as a spot where someone has been camping for several days.

A half-elven woman, that Davian recognizes as Voz Lirayne, waits, with a pair of skeletal guards. "I thought my zombies would have taken care of you, when those fool mercenaries failed. Why do you persist on following me? You can't be blaming me for that fool of an apprentice, Calmont.

"Just turn around, leave me alone, and all will be forgotten. No harm, no foul."

Gideon shakes his head "We've come a long way, just to turn around. Lets start with a chat perhaps?"

"What do you want to chat about? How you are going to go back to Breachill and not worry about what I am doing here?"

She looks obviously annoyed.

Davian cringes at her undead guards. "What is going on Voz? What are you doing raising the dead. Those were Breachill's loved ones, friends, family."

"It is my right. A gutter snipe such as yourself would never understand. They served me in life, they can serve me in death!" she screams. "Begone, or I will send my minons after you."